Google accused of secretly tracking drivers with disabilities (arstechnica.com)
Google recklessly violated privacy laws to spike ad profits, lawsuit says....
Jury convicts Trump of falsifying business records in hush-money scheme (www.courthousenews.com)
Prosecutors accused Trump of falsifying business records to cover up a scheme to influence the 2016 election.
Lawsuit against American Airlines claims Black passengers were asked to deboard flight (www.theguardian.com)
Lawsuit alleges airline representative approached three Black men individually and asked them to leave without explanation
Activision is awarded $14.5 million in a Call of Duty cheating lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
Most of the defendants never responded to the lawsuit....
Lawsuit argues Call of Duty helped cause the Uvalde school shooting (arstechnica.com)
Suit: Activision is "manipulating players' brain chemistry," ignoring "use by minors."...
Idaho drag performer awarded $1.1m in defamation case against far-right blogger (www.theguardian.com)
A blogger falsely claimed Eric Posey exposed himself to a crowd, including children
A jury hands Bungie a landmark victory in a Destiny 2 cheating lawsuit (www.theverge.com)
It may be the first jury to say cheats violate copyrights....
‘Psychologically tortured’: California city pays man nearly $1m after 17-hour police interrogation (www.theguardian.com)
Officers threatened to kill the dog of Thomas Perez Jr as they pressured him to falsely confess to killing his father, who was alive
Conservative Supreme Court Justices Give “Okay” to Racial Gerrymander In South Carolina (truthout.org)
Pundits noted the "disastrous" decision "gives politicians the greenlight to racially gerrymander" elsewhere in the US....
US sues Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation, seeks breakup of monopoly (arstechnica.com)
Live Nation has monopolized "nearly all live music in America today," US says....
Judge’s blunder throws wrench into case against Paul Pelosi attacker (www.courthousenews.com)
U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley acknowledged that she failed to allow David DePape to address the court before sentencing him to 30 years in prison last week.
Kate Roughley jailed for 14 years over death of baby at Stockport nursery (www.theguardian.com)
Deputy manager of Tiny Toes nursery sentenced over manslaughter of nine-month-old Genevieve Meehan
GM’s Cruise pays more than $8 million to pedestrian run over and dragged by robotaxi (www.ocregister.com)
In the October incident, a pedestrian crossing the road was struck by another vehicle before landing in front of the Cruise taxi. The robotaxi braked hard but ran over the person.
Tokyo District Court Rules AI Cannot Be Issued Patents; Law Recognizes Only ‘Natural Persons’ as Inventors (japannews.yomiuri.co.jp)
The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.
‘Sexual predator’ teacher found guilty of grooming schoolboys (www.theguardian.com)
Rebecca Joynes, 30, convicted of engaging in sexual activity with minors while in a position of trust
MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says (arstechnica.com)
Brothers charged in novel crypto scheme potentially face decades in prison....
When ‘Lol, No’ Is Not Enough: Lawyer Explains Why Bogus Takedown Over ‘Fuck The LAPD’ Shirt Should Result In Paying Legal Fees (www.techdirt.com)
You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunforth’s response to a vexatious angry demand letter from IMG, representing the LAPD Foundation, claiming that a t-shirt with the following “Fuck the LAPD” logo violated its IP rights:
Elon Musk ordered to testify again in US SEC probe of Twitter takeover (www.reuters.com)
A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.
Man linked to viral dress pleads guilty to endangering wife’s life (www.theguardian.com)
Keir Johnston, 38, admits strangling Grace Johnston outside Scottish home on Isle of Colonsay
Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)
Section 230 immunity isn’t just for Big Tech companies, lawsuit says.
Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has prison sentence reduced again (www.theguardian.com)
Disgraced biotech company founder is now due to be released in August 2032, two years and four months before original date
Forensic reports are NOT privileged — Ontario Divisional Court (databreaches.net)
A comment by Canadian attorney David Fraser caught my eye on Infosec.Exchange:...
CEO who sold fake Cisco devices to US military gets 6 years in prison (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Onur Aksoy, the CEO of a group of companies controlling multiple online storefronts, was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for selling $100 million worth of counterfeit Cisco network equipment to government, health, education, and military organizations worldwide.
Ex-Nickelodeon producer sues makers of sex abuse docuseries for defamation (www.theguardian.com)
Dan Schneider, who worked on shows like The Amanda Show, claims the makers of Quiet on Set are responsible for a ‘hit job’...
Supreme Court decides not to block Texas law that age-gates porn websites (arstechnica.com)
Court denies application for a stay but could still hear challenge to the law.
