Legal News

AimJunkies has suffered new setbacks in its legal battle with game developer Bungie. A jury verdict and a $4.3m arbitration award both stand.

CrowdStrike faces widespread lawsuits from a faulty software update that brought down Windows machines across the world in July.

The Texas law was passed last year.

Osom Products may be in a bind.

Convicted sex offender who was also found to have raped child’s mother was allowed contact by family court

Pirate sports streaming site Streameast plans to appeal the court order that allowed U.S. law enforcement to seize its domain names.

Elon Musk’s feud with Brazil continues.

Case file: https://static.poder360.com.br/2024/08/decisao-moraes-suspende-X.pdf (Portuguese)

Mayor said data was unusable to criminals; researcher proved otherwise.

Case file: https://www.nbc4i.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/18/2024/08/Complaint-240829.pdf

Judge says Musk critic "targeted" advertisers in Texas, denies motion to dismiss.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.383454/gov.uscourts.txnd.383454.82.0.pdf

White Stripes singer angered after Trump aide shares social media post using clip of band’s hit Seven Nation Army

Encryption alone won't save you from the feds.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.akd.74480/gov.uscourts.akd.74480.4.0.pdf

Lacey gets 5 years for one money laundering charge but was acquitted on 50 counts.

The convicted man is the son of Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre, a prominent Spanish actor.

Google says a lawsuit claiming that it profits from piracy amounts to a "kitchen-sink pleading strategy" that should be mostly dismissed.

Case file: https://torrentfreak.com/images/1-24-cv-04274-Cengage-Publishers-v-Google-doc28-motion-to-dismiss-240826.pdf

A judge has dismissed the majority of claims in a copyright lawsuit filed by developers against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

The National Football League Players Association sued DraftKings on Monday, August 26, 2024, alleging that DraftKings breached its contract related to NFL player likenesses on non-fungible tokens.

Case file: https://news.justia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Complaint-in-National-Football-League-Players-Association-et-al-v.-Draftkings-Inc.-et-al.pdf

Is this lawsuit just the first of many?

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25079961/yelp-v-google.pdf

It’s a significant data point on the potential limits of Section 230.

Australian police called it "one of the worst sextortion cases in history."

AFP: https://www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/media-release/wa-man-jailed-sextortion-286-victims

Two men have been sentenced to jail time and ordered to return well over a billion dollars to the 1MDB fund — a Malaysian government development fund whose misuse led to former Prime Minister Najib Razak being jailed.

Police close investigation into Barbara and Rosario Poma over possible manslaughter linked to Florida massacre

Robert Telles was convicted of killing a journalist who wrote unflattering stories about his time in office.