[ad_1] Filmmaker Charlie Kessler filed the lawsuit against the Duffer brothers last April, accusing them of stealing the popular Netflix show’s premise — a secret government operation near an abandoned military base — from his 2011 film Montauk. In the lawsuit, Kessler claims that he met the Duffler brothers at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival […]
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Google and Huawei will pay Nexus 6P owners for battery woes
[ad_1] This isn’t the first such lawsuit in recent memory. As The Verge pointed out, LG faced a similar lawsuit after multiple phone models (including the Nexus 5X) suffered from their own boot loop troubles. In January 2018, it paid $425 (or $700 via rebate) per person for the fault. While incidents like this are […]
California sues EPA, NHTSA over data used for car emissions rollback
[ad_1] The move would theoretically provide ammunition for lawsuits challenging the rollback, which would also nullify California’s ability to set more stringent emissions rules. Another 12 states follow California’s lead on tougher regulations. Neither the EPA nor the NHTSA had responded to the lawsuit as of this writing, but it’s expected that they’ll fight the […]
Facebook limits ad targeting following discrimination settlement
[ad_1] The changes should take effect before the end of 2019. The settlement also includes payouts under $5 million to the groups that filed the lawsuit, $2.5 million of which is going to the National Fair Housing Alliance to both train advertisers on compliance and run ads for fair housing. Facebook had culled some ad […]
Rep. Devin Nunes sues Twitter for $250 million over ‘@DevinNunesMom’
[ad_1] His targets, beyond twitter itself, are Liz Mair, a former RNC Online comms director and political strategist, as well as the @DevinNunesMom and @DevinCow accounts. Other accounts that he took issue with, but are not named as defendants in the suit, include “Devin Nunes Grapes” (@DevinGrapes) and @FireDevinNunes. Nunes claims that Twitter should be […]
Jury decides Apple violated three Qualcomm patents in iPhones
[ad_1] Qualcomm filed suit over the issue in 2017. The patents relate to allowing phones to quickly connect to the internet after they’re switched on; battery efficiency and graphics processing; and a traffic management function that allows apps to download data faster. According to CNET, Apple argued an engineer named Arjuna Siva made vital contributions […]
Uber will pay $20 million to settle drivers’ lawsuit
[ad_1] The settlement amount is considerably lower than the $100 million offer Uber proposed in 2016, but which US District Judge Edward Chen ruled to be inadequate. However, the original lawsuit involved some 385,000 drivers across California and Massachusetts. Following Chen’s rejection of the deal, Uber won an appeals court ruling that forced many drivers […]
Lawsuit accuses Google of hefty payouts to execs accused of misconduct
[ad_1] The same suit also revealed that Google paid $45 million to Amit Singhal when he resigned from the tech giant after he was accused of groping a worker. The plaintiff’s lead attorney, Louise Renne, saw the lawsuit as “confirmation” that Google was not only aware of apparent sexual misconduct, but gave departing executives “heavy […]
Facebook sues two Ukranians over data-stealing browser add-ons
[ad_1] Gorbachov and Sluchevsky have been accused of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse act by accessing data without permission, as well as breach of contract and fraud for misleading Facebook into believing they were above-board. The two reportedly used fake names, and were caught in October 2018 after Facebook conducted a deeper look into […]
Tesla investors sue to stop Elon Musk’s ‘unchecked’ use of Twitter
[ad_1] The SEC has already asked a judge to find Musk in contempt of his settlement after he didn’t appear to have cleared the “500k” tweet with the attorney responsible for vetting his tweets. We’ve asked Tesla for comment. This isn’t the greatest threat Musk faces, since the SEC could suspend him from running Tesla, […]