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Realtors are being deluged with class-action lawsuits threatening to upend the traditional real estate compensation system, with 16 “copycat” cases filed in the wake of a mammoth $1.78 billion verdict handed down last October against top industry groups. Two California lawsuits filed this month — one in Los Angeles and one in Sacramento — brought to 20 the number of federal court cases seeking to end requirements that home sellers pay agents for the buyers. The lawsuits name the National Association of Realtors and more…

Vince McMahon attends a press conference at MetLife Stadium on February 16, 2012 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.Michael N. Todaro | Getty ImagesWWE boss Vince McMahon was accused Thursday of sexual assault, trafficking, and physical and emotional abuse in a graphic lawsuit by a woman who previously worked for the pro wrestling giant.The suit by Janel Grant — which alleges McMahon directed her to have sex with a WWE "superstar" and other men — seeks to void a nondisclosure agreement that Grant said she reached with McMahon…

Following a lengthy investigation, the United States Justice Department is set to file a lawsuit against Apple for potentially breaching antitrust laws. The department alleges Apple is using hardware and software limitations that make it harder for rival companies to compete with iPhones and iPads. If the filing goes ahead, it will mean each of the "big four" tech companies - Amazon, Meta, Google and Apple - will have been sued by the US federal government within the past five years for monopolistic business practices.…

Kat Marie sometimes meets her adult clients in private places, where she swaddles them in baby blankets, fixes bowls of cereal, plays Saturday morning cartoons and even changes their diapers. It’s all in a day’s work as a Denver-based lifestyle model, and building trust and confidence among her clientele is essential. Without it, they won’t pay Kat Marie for her attention as an adult baby caregiver or for her work satisfying other sexual fetishes. But when a fraudulent website in the United Kingdom stole her photograph…

A crackdown by the IRS has sparked disputes between one big adviser on the employee-retention credit and many of its small-business clients. A crackdown by the IRS has sparked disputes between one big adviser on the employee-retention credit and many of its small-business clients. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks…

Denver restauranteur Frank Schultz testified emotionally Thursday that his mother, who is also his business partner, has purloined hundreds of thousands of dollars from their bars and restaurants, seriously jeopardizing the financial future of once-thriving companies. “My mom and I started this in 1997 and we always had our differences, but we each had a role to play and we fed off each other,” Schultz said of the Tavern Hospitality Group’s origins as he pushed back tears on the witness stand. “I think we were a pretty…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Polluting companies could be liable for trillions in damages from climate lawsuits. But few investors and regulators are taking these risks into account when evaluating companies' climate-related financial risks, according to new Oxford Sustainable Law program research published Jan. 11 in Science. The research calls for an overhaul in how climate litigation risks are assessed and provides a…

A barrage of high-profile lawsuits in a New York federal court will test the future of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products that wouldn't be so eloquent had they not ingested huge troves of copyrighted human works.But are AI chatbots — in this case, widely commercialized products made by OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft — breaking copyright and fair competition laws? Professional writers and media outlets will face a difficult fight to win that argument in court. “I would like to be optimistic on…

Republican lawmakers in Florida are pushing a bill that would revise the state’s wrongful death law, allowing individuals to sue — and recover monetary damages — over the loss of an “unborn child.” Critics say the legislation would allow individuals to bring wrongful death lawsuits against doctors who provide abortion care and even friends or relatives who help a woman obtain an abortion — something men have already tried doing in several states that have banned abortion or passed laws granting “personhood” rights…

Today, a federal judge ruled Alphabet’s Google must defend itself against antitrust charges brought by 16 states sooner than it had hoped.Five days ago, Google settled a separate lawsuit—a $5 billion class-action privacy lawsuit claiming the company had secretly tracked consumers in “incognito” mode.Ten days before that, Google announced it would pay $700 million to settle a lawsuit in which all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands argued that Google’s app store was an illegal…