Meta Platforms to Pay $1.4B to Settle Texas Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition Data July 30, 2024 By Mike Scarcella and Jody Godoy Meta Platforms has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to Texas to resolve the state’s lawsuit accusing the Facebook parent of...
Law Firms Smell Opportunity as Supreme Court Guts Agency Powers July 3, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Law firms are capitalizing on client uncertainty sparked by a flurry of new U.S. Supreme Court rulings that favored opponents...
Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI June 12, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss his lawsuit accusing ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman...
Uber Loses Challenge to California Gig Work Law in Appeals Court June 11, 2024 By Mike Scarcella A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a...
Live Nation Ticket Buyers Sue in Wake of US Justice Department Case May 28, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit have been hit with the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust...
US Sues to Break Up Live Nation-Ticketmaster May 23, 2024 By Sarah N. Lynch, David Shepardson and Mike Scarcella The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up...
Google Trial Wraps Up as Judge Weighs Landmark US Antitrust Claims May 6, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Google and the U.S. Justice Department wrapped up closing arguments on Friday over claims that the Alphabet unit has unlawfully...
Consumers Sue Apple, Taking Page From US Justice Department Lawsuit March 26, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Apple has been hit with a flurry of new consumer lawsuits accusing the iPhone maker of monopolizing the smartphone market,...
Apple Antitrust Suit Mirrors Strategy That Beat Microsoft, but Tech Industry Has Changed March 22, 2024 By Mike Scarcella The U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple draws on the watershed 1998 case that broke Microsoft’s stranglehold on desktop software,...
Universities Settle Financial-Aid Antitrust Lawsuit for $166M February 26, 2024 By Mike Scarcella Dartmouth, Northwestern, Rice and Vanderbilt universities have agreed to pay a combined $166 million to resolve claims that they favored...