Damages

A rights campaigner, Olukoya Ogungbeje, on Monday, filed a suit before a Federal High Court Lagos, against telecommunications companies in Nigeria, challenging the recent barring of phone lines of citizens. NAN reports that the applicant joined as respondents to his suit, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Aminu Mada, and MTN Nigeria Communications Plc. Other respondents are Airtel Networks Nigeria Ltd., Globacom Ltd. and Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services…

A rights campaigner, Olukoya Ogungbeje, on Monday, filed a suit before a Federal High Court Lagos, against telecommunications companies in Nigeria, challenging the recent barring of phone lines of citizens. NAN reports that the applicant joined as respondents to his suit, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Chief Executive Officer of NCC, Aminu Mada, and MTN Nigeria Communications Plc. Other respondents are Airtel Networks Nigeria Ltd., Globacom Ltd. and Emerging Markets Telecommunication Services…

A Canadian tribunal has ruled that Air Canada must pay damages to one of its passengers for misleading advice given by its customer service chatbot, which resulted in the passenger paying nearly double for their plane tickets.No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” The case centered on the experience of Jake Moffatt, who flew round-trip from Vancouver to Toronto after his grandmother died in 2022. At the time, Moffatt visited Air Canada’s website to book a flight using the company’s…

A jury on Thursday awarded $1 million US to climate scientist Michael Mann, who sued a pair of conservative writers 12 years ago after they compared his depictions of global warming to a convicted child molester.Mann, a professor of climate science at the University of Pennsylvania, rose to fame for a graph first published in 1998 in the journal Nature that was dubbed the "hockey stick" for its dramatic illustration of a warming planet.The work brought Mann wide exposure but also many skeptics, including the two writers…

A massive class action lawsuit filed against Apple could see millions of App Store customers share a payout in a case worth “billions of dollars.”A class action lawsuit first filed back in March 2022 has finally been approved by the same judge that oversaw the Apple vs Epic Games Free Fortnite saga, after the class was narrowed to include only Apple account holders who had spent more than $10 on its App Store. As reported by Reuters, Apple is being sued in the Northern District of California over claims that Apple has a…

Bayer shares slumped after the German pharmaceutical and agricultural company was ordered to pay $2.25 billion in damages in the latest setback in its legal battle over its Roundup weed killer. Bayer shares slumped after the German pharmaceutical and agricultural company was ordered to pay $2.25 billion in damages in the latest setback in its legal battle over its Roundup weed killer. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the…

A New York jury ruled on Friday that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in total damages for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. Trump, the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination for president, must pay the author $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in reputation repair damages, and $65 million in putative damages. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in a separate defamation ruling last May. Carroll has now twice successfully sued Trump…

On Wednesday, Google reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit concerning the chips powering the company’s AI technology. The resolution was disclosed in a filing at a federal court in Massachusetts on the same day that closing arguments were scheduled to commence in the trial brought by Singular Computing. The lawsuit sought $1.67 billion in damages, accusing Google of misusing computer-processing innovations. Details of the settlement were not immediately disclosed, and both Google…

Alphabet's Google went before a federal jury in Boston on Tuesday to argue against a computer scientist's claims that it should pay his company $1.67 billion for infringing patents that allegedly cover the processors used to power artificial intelligence technology in Google products.A lawyer for Singular Computing, founded by Massachusetts-based computer scientist Joseph Bates, told jurors that Google copied Bates' technology after repeatedly meeting with him to discuss his ideas to solve a problem central to developing…

IT major Wipro has claimed damages of Rs 25.15 crore along with an annual interest payout at the rate of 18% per annum from September 29 from its former chief financial officer (CFO) Jatin Dalal, who the company says has violated the non-compete clause in his employment contract, according to a lawsuit filed in November.As part of the non-compete agreement, one of the clauses barred Dalal from joining any other rival company for a period of 12 months from the date of his resignation. After a stint of 21 years at Wipro,…