Tag Archives: Lawsuits

A growing number of workers hesitant about taking the COVID-19 vaccine are taking their bosses to court. The swift adoption of synthetic biological cocktails to combat the pandemic, developed and scaled for human injection at record pace, is at the heart of an increasing number of lawsuits from workers. They argue that submitting to a novel drug to combat a still-mysterious virus shouldn’t be a condition of keeping their jobs. In one of the latest lawsuits, 117 unvaccinated Texas hospital… Source link

House Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) — the chair of the Committee on Homeland Security — filed a lawsuit on Tuesday accusing former President Donald Trump of conspiring to incite the deadly attack on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The filing marks the latest in a slew of lawsuits and probes that center on a range of allegations, including efforts to influence election officials in Georgia, defame women who accused him of sexual assault, and manipulate the value of his assets for tax and loan… Source link

If Google loses the recent antitrust lawsuits that have been filed against the search engine giant, Google may decrease its ad placement frequency, advertisers may lose access to scalable advertising, while on the other hand, there may be new digital marketing opportunities, better user experiences, and more affordable advertising. What are the antitrust lawsuits about, and what could the outcome of the lawsuits mean for marketers? The State Antitrust Lawsuits The state antitrust… Source link

BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – Many of us use Facebook and Google every day, but those two entities control more of our digital space than we realize. Both media giants are now involved in anti-competition lawsuits, claiming they’re monopolizing the market. Facebook and Google have been hit with a string of antitrust lawsuits recently, and North Dakota’s Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem, R-N.D., has specifically signed onto two of them: one against Google with nine other attorneys general and… Source link

Applico CEO Alex Moazed on the DOJ’s lawsuit against Google as the company calls it ‘deeply flawed.’ Several private publishers filed two antitrust lawsuits against Google this week as the company comes under increasing scrutiny over its advertising and search practices. Dozens of state attorneys general and the Justice Department also filed two separate antitrust complaints, led by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, respectively, against the… Source link

(Courtesy of Getty) getty Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days except for the fact that “Big Tech” has gotten too big.  Now comes word from the Wall Street Journal that the sector’s day of reckoning may be coming. According to the Journal, as many as four cases against Facebook and Alphabet’s Google GOOG alleging that their behavior harmed consumers could be filed in the coming weeks by federal and state regulators…. Source link

The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general are gearing up to hit Google and Facebook with new antitrust lawsuits in the coming weeks, per a Monday report from The Wall Street Journal. The probes will focus on whether the companies have had unfair advantages in their domination of the search and ad market and social media. The DOJ and state attorneys generals have been probing aspects of Google’s business, including its search, online advertising, and… Source link

GlobeNewswire Brooge Energy Reports Revenue of $23 million for the Six Months Ending June 30, 2020 Management hosted a conference call on Monday, November 30, 2020 at 8 a.m. ETNEW YORK, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Brooge Energy Limited (“Brooge Energy” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: BROG), a midstream oil storage and service provider strategically located outside the Strait of Hormuz, adjacent to the Port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates (“UAE”), today announced its… Source link

In a set of new lawsuits, two Illinois residents argue that three tech giants violated state laws prohibiting the use of personal biometric data without permission. Illinois residents Steven Vance and Tim Janecyk allege that images of their faces appeared in IBM’s “Diversity in Faces” database without their consent and were used to train facial recognition systems at Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s parent company Alphabet. While all three companies are based on the West Coast,… Source link