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The United States Department of Justice, together with the attorneys general of 16 states, has charged Apple Inc. in antitrust violations. According to the lawsuit, Apple restricts consumers’ ability to choose technologies by using its dominant position in the market of smartphones and iPhone applications. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that such actions of […]
The long-running lawsuit between Owen Diaz and Tesla ended in a settlement between the parties. Diaz’s lawyer, Lawrence Organ, told CNBC that “the parties have reached an amicable settlement of their differences,” but “the terms of the agreement are confidential.” Thus, the public will not know how much Diaz will receive after he was initially […]
The New York Times turned to the Federal District Court in Mangetten with a complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft. According to The Wall Street Journal, the media giant claims that tech companies used the publication’s content without permission to create their artificial intelligence products, including OpenAI’s humanoid chatbot ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot. The tools have […]
On October 5, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk to force him to testify in an investigation into his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. The investigation is looking into whether Musk violated federal securities laws in 2022 when he bought shares in Twitter, which he later renamed X, […]
Singer Grimes has filed a lawsuit against American billionaire Elon Musk over parental rights. They have three children together. The woman claims that the billionaire does not allow her to visit her younger son. The purpose of the lawsuit, filed on September 29 in the San Francisco Superior Court, is to “establish parental relations.” The […]
On September 28, the U.S. Civil Rights Agency filed a lawsuit against Tesla, accusing the company of brutal harassment of African-American employees at its factory in Fremont, California. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said in a lawsuit that since 2015, black workers at Tesla’s plant have been regularly subjected to racist insults and […]
A family in the United States has decided to file a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the company’s failure to update its maps in a timely manner led to the death of their relative who drowned. American Philip Paxson died in September 2022 after trying to drive across a bridge that had collapsed nine years […]
The largest leasing company, AerCap, has sued Russia for refusing to return aircraft and engines after economic sanctions imposed for invading Ukraine. In fact, it is a theft of property. The amount of AerCap’s insurance claim is $3.5 billion. We have already written that Russia refused to return the leased Boeing and Airbus aircraft. Now, […]