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US Judge Says Google Must Face Some Advertisers’ Antitrust Claims, Dismisses Others
Mar 4 2024 // Alphabet’s Google must face advertisers’ proposed class action lawsuit claiming that it monopolizes the ad exchange market, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday. But U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel dismissed some...
Texas Court Rules to Cut Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals
Mar 4 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees. The...
EU Lawmakers ‘Outraged’ After States Block Landmark ESG Law
Feb 29 2024 // A European Union law designed to clean up corporate supply chains has been derailed by the bloc’s biggest member states, forcing negotiators back to the drawing board on one of the most consequential pieces of ESG...
IVF Clinic Insurance Affected by Ruling as Alabama Lawmakers Look for a Fix
Feb 27 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Lawmakers began scrambling for ways to protect Alabama in vitro fertilization services after multiple providers paused treatment in the wake of a state Supreme Court ruling that frozen embryos...
EU Lawmakers Approve Tougher Penalties for Environmental Crimes
Feb 27 2024 // The European Parliament on Tuesday approved tougher penalties for environmental crimes such as illegal timber trade, with offenses punishable by up to 10 years in prison and company directors prosecuted for corporate...
Trump Asks Judge to Suspend $83M Defamation Verdict, Arguing It Won’t Stand
Feb 26 2024 // Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict against the former president, saying there was a “strong probability” that it would be reduced on...
Louisiana Lawmakers Push for Tougher Penalties in Response to Surge in Carjackings
Feb 22 2024 // BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In the moments before Linda Frickey was dragged to her death during a fatal carjacking, the 73-year-old had been sitting in her parked vehicle in New Orleans when she was surrounded by four...
‘AI Godfather’, Others Urge More Deepfake Regulation in Open Letter
Feb 21 2024 // Artificial intelligence experts and industry executives, including one of the technology’s trailblazers Yoshua Bengio, have signed an open letter calling for more regulation around the creation of deepfakes, citing...
Long-Serving Delaware Chancery Court Judge to Retire at Year’s End
Feb 21 2024 // Delaware’s nationally important Court of Chancery, which has come under criticism from Elon Musk this month, is losing its second-longest-serving judge. Sam Glasscock, who has served on the go-to venue for U.S....
South Carolina Lawmakers Mulling Liquor Liability Fund to Ease Coverage Crisis
Feb 20 2024 // Businesses and homeowners will be familiar with insurers of last resort – the state-created, quasi-governmental organizations that provide property and liability coverage when the primary market won’t. These...
Proposed Cybersecurity Legislation Seeks to Protect America’s Food Supply Chain
Feb 19 2024 // U.S. Representatives Brad Finstad (MN-01) and Elissa Slotkin (MI-07) have introduced HR 7062, the Farm and Food Cybersecurity Act, designed to strengthen cybersecurity protections within the food and agriculture critical...
New Bill Would Still Permit Smoking in Atlantic City Casinos But With More Restrictions
Feb 16 2024 // Atlantic City casinos would be able to continue to allow gamblers to smoke on the casino floor under a new bill that would impose additional restrictions on lighting up. New Jersey state Sen. John Burzichelli introduced a...
Bankruptcy Judge Permits Insurance Payments for Bed Bath & Beyond Executives
Feb 15 2024 // The directors and officers of Bed Bath & Beyond will have their legal costs related to the retailer’s bankruptcy covered under a Zurich American Insurance policy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Vincent F. Papalia has...
California Lawmakers Call for Stricter Regulation of Autonomous Vehicles
Feb 14 2024 // California lawmakers and labor unions rallied to call for laws to not allow autonomous trucks without human drivers, amid rising safety concerns after accidents involving self-driving taxis from General Motors and...
Citing Immunity Law, Judge Tosses Body Parts Theft Claims Against Harvard
Feb 13 2024 // A Massachusetts Superior Court judge has dismissed negligence, infliction of emotional distress and other claims against Harvard and the operators of its medical school’s anatomical gift program by relatives of...
EU Lawmakers Ratify Provisional Deal on Artificial Intelligence Rules
Feb 13 2024 // Two key groups of lawmakers at the European Parliament on Tuesday ratified a provisional agreement on landmark artificial intelligence rules ahead of a vote by the legislative assembly in April that will pave the way for...
Judge Orders Elon Musk to Testify in SEC’s Twitter Probe
Feb 12 2024 // A federal judge ordered Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s probe of his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, giving the regulator and the billionaire a week to agree on a date and...
Texas Supreme Court Rules to Cut Out Attorney’s Fees in First-Party Appraisals
Feb 12 2024 // The Texas Supreme Court recently ruled that when an insurance company pays an appraisal award plus any statutory interest in a weather-related first-party property case, there is no liability for attorney’s fees. The...
Alabama Lawmakers Push Sweeping Bill That Would Allow Lottery and Casinos
Feb 9 2024 // MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A group of Alabama lawmakers unveiled a sweeping gambling bill Wednesday that could authorize a state lottery and 10 casinos across the conservative Deep South state as some Republicans look to...
Judge Tosses Suit by Estate of Employee Killed in Crash After Mandatory Wine Tasting
Feb 9 2024 // A Connecticut judge has tossed a lawsuit by the estate of a woman who was killed in a crash while driving intoxicated following a mandatory wine tasting at the restaurant that employed her. The estate brought claims of...
