Articles by Rachel Graf

Zuckerberg Avoids Personal Liability in Meta Addiction Suits

Mark Zuckerberg won his bid to avoid personal liability in about two dozen lawsuits accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies of addicting children to their products. US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the cases, …

Apple Must Face Suit Claiming AirTags Are Weapon of Stalkers

Apple Inc. lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its AirTag devices help stalkers track their victims. US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco ruled Friday that three plaintiffs in the class-action suit had made sufficient claims …

Xcel Texas Wildfire Legal Reckoning to Take Years to Play Out

(Xcel Energy Inc. will likely be wrangling for years with the legal fallout from the wildfires burning through the Texas Panhandle. The experience of utility companies in California and Oregon sued over massive blazes sparked by downed power lines shows …

Zuckerberg to Be Deposed by Texas Over Meta Facial Scanning

Mark Zuckerberg can’t avoid being called for a deposition in Texas’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc. profits from facial recognition technology without user consent, a state appeals court ruled. Tuesday’s decision left in place a lower-court order compelling …