The creators of Cards Against Humanity filed a $15 million lawsuit against Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, on Thursday, accusing it of damaging land in Texas that the card game company bought in 2017 to impede then-President Donald Trump’s border wall. Cards Against Humanity bought a plot of vacant land in Cameron County through a … Read more
Representatives of Wendy Williams are claiming the creators of a devastating television documentary about the talk show host “viciously and shamelessly exploited” her with the project, which chronicles Williams’ physical and mental decline after being diagnosed with dementia and aphasia. On Tuesday, Williams’ legal team filed an amended complaint in New York County Supreme Court. … Read more
Apple has been ordered to pay €13 billion ($14.4bn) of unpaid taxes to the Irish state, in a court ruling that ended a decade-long fight between Europe and the big tech company. In a judgment handed down on Tuesday, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) agreed with a European Commission ruling in 2016, which found … Read more
The White Stripes are suing former President Donald Trump for “significant monetary damages” for using their 2003 hit song, “Seven Nation Army,” for campaigning purposes without permission. In a 13-page complaint filed on Monday, the rock duo comprised of Jack and Meg White said that Trump used the Grammy award-winning song “to burnish Defendant Trump’s … Read more
The Internet Archive has lost a major legal battle—in a decision that could have a significant impact on the future of internet history. Today, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled against the long-running digital archive, upholding an earlier ruling in Hachette v. Internet Archive that found that one of the Internet … Read more
Sean “Diddy” Combs filed a motion Monday seeking to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a former employee, music producer Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones, which accuses Combs of sexual harassment and drugging and threatening Jones. According to Combs’ motion, Jones’ lawsuit, which was filed in February and seeks $30 million in damages, was meant to “generate … Read more
The essence of the case, Frye adds, is about NFT art writ large and “using NFTs the way most people are—to sell them.” The point is to get SEC regulators to have a “long, hard think” about what’s in their purview, he says. Security vs. Art In 1946, a US Supreme Court ruling about the … Read more
A Georgia man who underwent surgery two years ago for a brain bleed and had to have part of his skull temporarily removed was then charged thousands of dollars after medical staff lost the bone and had to use synthetic materials to replace it, his attorneys said. Fernando Cluster, 62, was initially admitted to Emory … Read more
The 27-year-old was a guest at the hotel in 2022. A woman from Brooklyn, United States, who fell from a golf cart is suing Hard Rock Cafe & Hotel in the Dominican Republic for $500,000 (Rs 4 crore). Taylor O’Leary claimed in the complaint that she suffered several injuries after she fell out of her … Read more
“Ensuring that a stablecoin retains its peg even under stressed market conditions is a solvable problem,” Catalini says. In an optimal scenario, he says, reserves would be made up of exclusively “high-quality, liquid assets,” like short-term US government bonds, and providers would maintain an “adequate capital buffer.” In the two years since Celsius filed for … Read more
