Legal

Tesla is getting sued by several counties in the state of California for grossly and repeatedly mishandling hazardous waste materials, mislabelling them , and often dumping hazardous waste in landfills that were not equipped to handle them…

The Walt Disney Company faced a legal defeat today after its lawsuit alleging retaliation was dismissed in a Florida court. The claim focused on the state’s violation of the company’s First Amendment rights for standing against Governor Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” bill, a homophobic law that endangers the human rights of LGBTQIA+ communities and their families. Twitter Is Shifting Right | Future TechAfter Disney spoke out against the bill, DeSantis and the state of Florida removed Disney’s control of a special district…

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A Microsoft manager claims OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 has security vulnerabilities that could allow users to generate violent or explicit images (similar to those that recently targeted Taylor Swift). GeekWire reported Tuesday the company’s legal team blocked Microsoft engineering leader Shane Jones’ attempts to alert the public about the exploit. The self-described whistleblower is now taking his message to Capitol Hill.“I reached the conclusion that DALL·E 3 posed a public safety risk and should be removed from public use until…

The former president’s PAC are operating as slush funds to help him fight off a mountain of civil and criminal cases   Donald Trump’s PACs spent a staggering $50 million on the former president’s legal defense in 2023, according to a report from The New York Times.  According to two sources who spoke to the Times, the former president’s massive legal bills were paid out through funds from the Save America PAC and the Make America Great Again PAC, his two primary political action committees. The…

Marilyn Manson has been ordered to pay Evan Rachel Wood a whopping $326,956 to cover the legal fees the Westworld actress racked up defending against the defamation and emotional distress claims previously struck from Manson’s still-pending lawsuit against her. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Teresa A. Beaudet ordered the hefty reimbursement at a court hearing Monday. It was last May that the same judge dismissed the claims from Manson’s lawsuit on the grounds that Wood was protected by the First Amendment…

New Delhi-based legal technology startup LegalPay launches a zero-interest credit line for enterprises, startups, individual business owners and freelancers to settle legal disputes while preserving their working capital. The firm plans to disburse about Rs 200 crore in 2024 through its own non-banking finance company (NBFC) Padmalaya Finserve and other partner NBFCs. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIM KozhikodeIIMK Advanced Data Science For ManagersVisitIndian School…

A pianist slammed bizarre demands from a group of Chinese tourists who asked not to be filmed as he performed at a busy London train station, claiming they tried to get his video taken down, and police got involved.Brendan Kavanagh was filming a livestream session of himself playing the piano at London’s St Pancras train station on Saturday (January 20) when his impressive performance was cut short by what appeared to be a group of Chinese tourists, as observed from their Chinese flags and red and yellow colored…

The former chief legal officer of The Pokémon Company has called Palworld “ripoff nonsense”. Speaking to Stephen Totilo at Game File, Don McGowan, former chief legal officer at The Pokémon Company, said that he’s surprised the game got this far. “This looks like the usual ripoff nonsense that I would see a thousand times a year when I was chief legal officer of Pokémon. I’m just surprised it got this far,” McGowan said. The early access release of Palworld has been met with controversy, with several people discussing…

“Not that you lied to me but that I no longer believe you has shaken me.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and EvilImagine you’re a litigation partner at a law firm. You have a brand-new associate who seems to surpass all expectations: works 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year; reads and absorbs millions of pages of material in a fraction of a second.What’s the catch? The associate is subject to random hallucinations and occasionally making things up out of whole cloth that are extremely convincing—but…