Articles by Mike Scarcella

Tesla Settles Wrongful Death Lawsuit Claiming Sudden Acceleration in Ohio Crash

Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla has agreed to settle a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a man who was killed in 2021 after his Tesla crashed and caught fire near Dayton, Ohio. Tesla and lawyers for …

Target Must Face Shareholder Lawsuit Over Pride Backlash, Judge Rules

Target has failed to persuade a judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the retailer of deceiving shareholders after its sales of LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride Month sparked a backlash and a customer boycott. U.S. District Judge John …

Judge Tells ‘Monopolist’ Google It Can’t Avoid ‘Paying to Make the World Right’

A U.S. judge on Wednesday said he was planning to issue an order forcing Alphabet’s Google to give Android users more ways to download apps, but would not micromanage the tech giant’s business, following a jury verdict last year for …

Musk’s X Accuses Advertisers of Boycotting Platform in New Lawsuit

Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday sued a global advertising alliance and several major companies, including Mars and CVS Health, accusing them of unlawfully conspiring to boycott the site and causing it to lose revenue. X filed the …

Meta Platforms to Pay $1.4B to Settle Texas Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Data

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent. The terms of the settlement, …

Law Firms Smell Opportunity as Supreme Court Guts Agency Powers

Law firms are capitalizing on client uncertainty sparked by a flurry of new U.S. Supreme Court rulings that favored opponents of federal agency powers, even as lawyers themselves differ on the decisions’ immediate and long-term effects. Within hours of the …

Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss his lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman of abandoning the startup’s original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit. Attorneys …

Uber Loses Challenge to California Gig Work Law in Appeals Court

A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a California law that could force the companies to treat drivers as employees rather than independent contractors who are typically less …

Live Nation Ticket Buyers Sue in Wake of US Justice Department Case

Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit have been hit with the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class …

US Sues to Break Up Live Nation-Ticketmaster

The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists. “It …