I am not now, nor have I ever been, a lawyer. No interest. But I do have a love for words and language, so I’m sure I know what the phrase “without merit” means. Does the NFL? Within moments of Brian Flores filing his civil lawsuit against the league and its teams alleging years of racial discrimination in hiring practices, the NFL sent an email blast to every media member in its address book, a three-sentence statement that ended by claiming Flores’ suit is “without merit.” I’m a firm believer… Source link
Read More »Google ‘private browsing’ mode not really private, Texas lawsuit says
WASHINGTON, May 19 (Reuters) – The Google search engine collects data on users who think they can be anonymous if they use a “private browsing” mode, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton claimed on Thursday, filing an amended privacy lawsuit against the Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) unit. Texas, Indiana, Washington State and the District of Columbia filed separate suits against Google in January in state courts over what they called deceptive location-tracking practices that invade users’ privacy.
Read More »Yahoo Lawsuit Alleges Employee Stole Trade Secrets Upon Receiving Trade Desk Job Offer
A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link
Read More »Yahoo Lawsuit Alleges Employee Stole Trade Secrets Upon Receiving Trade Desk Job Offer
A civil lawsuit alleges that a former Yahoo employee stole valuable intellectual property when he downloaded approximately 570,000 pages of proprietary source code, ad placement algorithms, internal strategy documents and more upon securing a job offer from The Trade Desk, a direct competitor of Yahoo’s advertising technology arm. A civil suit indicates that Yahoo Ad Tech, together with Oath Holdings – a financial subsidiary of Yahoo Inc – are suing Qian Sang, who previously served as… Source link
Read More »Brett Favre named in $24M Mississippi welfare funds lawsuit
The Mississippi Department of Human Services has named Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre in a lawsuit seeking to recoup roughly $24 million in misspent welfare funds intended to combat poverty in one of the nation’s poorest states. The lawsuit filed on Monday seeks $3.2 million combined from Favre and Favre Enterprises, Inc. Favre is one of 38 defendants in the lawsuit that also names former pro wrestlers Brett and Ted DiBiase and their father Ted DiBiase Sr. aka “The Million Dollar… Source link
Read More »Google faces antitrust lawsuit from dating app owner Match over Play store fees
OAKLAND, Calif., May 9 (Reuters) – Dating apps maker Match Group Inc (MTCH.O) sued Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday, calling the action a “last resort” to prevent Tinder and its other apps from being booted off the Play store for refusing to share up to 30% of their sales. Match’s lawsuit is the latest to target Google’s allegedly anticompetitive conduct with the Play store, joining ongoing cases brought by “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, dozens of U.S. state attorneys general and… Source link
Read More »Musk’s $44 billion Twitter buyout challenged in shareholder lawsuit
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Elon Musk and Twitter Inc were sued on Friday by a Florida pension fund seeking to stop Musk from completing his $44 billion takeover of the social media company before 2025. In a proposed class action filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Orlando Police Pension Fund said Delaware law forbade a quick merger because Musk had agreements with other big Twitter shareholders, including his financial adviser Morgan Stanley and Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, to support… Source link
Read More »Brian Flores should stay strong in lawsuit
To Brian Flores, Steve Wilks and Ray Horton: Stay strong. Please stay strong. On Thursday, as part of documents submitted in the Flores class-action lawsuit against the league alleging racial discrimination, the NFL and the individual teams named in the lawsuit expressed their intention to file a motion to compel arbitration or alternatively, a motion to have the case dismissed entirely on the grounds that it is “without merit.” It’s to be expected that the league and teams would go this route… Source link
Read More »In lawsuit against Google involving ISIS recruitment videos, a chance for the court to take up Section 230
Petitions of the week By Andrew Hamm on Apr 22, 2022 at 11:19 am … Source link
Read More »Hitting the Books: Raytheon, Yahoo Finance and the world’s first ‘cybersmear’ lawsuit
A company’s public image is arguably even more important to its bottom line than the product they produce and very much not something to be trifled with. Would Disney be the entertainment behemoth it is today if not for its family-friendly facade, would Google have garnered so much goodwill if not for its “don’t be evil” motto? Nobody’s going to buy your cars if they think the company is run by some “pedo guy.” With the scale of business that modern tech giants operate at and the amounts of… Source link
Read More »