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The US Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear a challenge by Apple to a lower court's decision requiring changes to certain rules in its lucrative App Store, as the justices shunned the lengthy legal battle between the iPhone maker and Epic Games, maker of the popular video game Fortnite.The justices also turned away Epic's appeal of the lower court's ruling that Apple's App Store policies limiting how software is distributed and paid for do not violate federal antitrust laws. The justices gave no reasons for their…

The Supreme Court has denied a request to hear an antitrust dispute between Apple and Fortnite publisher Epic Games. It rejected two petitions, one from each company, this morning — leaving the case largely, but not entirely, a win for Apple.Epic v. Apple began in 2020 after Epic implemented its own payment system for Fortnite’s virtual currency, bypassing Apple’s commission on in-app purchases. Apple banned Epic from its iOS App Store and Epic filed a lawsuit in response, claiming the App Store — and Apple’s overall…

A decades-long court battle over a famous painting that was looted from a Jewish family by the Nazis at the dawn of World War II took a devastating turn for the family Tuesday, when a federal appellate court in the U.S. rejected their plea for the artwork’s return.The court’s decision means the painting — “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon. Effect of Rain,” by Camille Pissarro — will remain in the possession of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, a museum owned by the Spanish government, rather than be returned to the…

David Foster may have six kids from different relationships, but there has been “absolutely no abandonment” — despite what one Instagram user thinks. “I literally just talked to my dad five minutes ago,” Foster’s second-eldest daughter Amy Foster, 50, wrote on Instagram. Amy, whom the Grammy winner shares with Bonnie Jean “B.J.” Cook, came to her father’s defense over the weekend after one Instagram user doubted his commitment to his children. On Saturday, the 73-year-old musician shared a video of his 2-year-old son…

Jack Smith and his team filed a new brief on Saturday with the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which rejected Donald Trump’s claims that he’s immune from prosecution over his attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election on the basis he was president at the time and that he was acquitted by the Senate following being impeached over his actions. “Rather than vindicating our constitutional framework, the defendant’s sweeping immunity claim threatens to license Presidents to commit crimes to remain in office,”…

A federal judge in California has shot down Elon Musk’s attempt to invalidate a state social media law, first reported by The Verge. The state’s AB 587 requires social companies to publish their content moderation policies, something Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) claimed violated the First Amendment. US District Judge William Shubb wrote on Thursday, “It does not appear that the requirement is unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law.”X’s lawyers had argued the law was unconstitutional and…

The Special Investigator appointed by President Bola Tinubu to probe the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Jim Obazee, has rejected a request by the Chairman of Titan Trust Bank (TTB), Tunde Lemo, and the two major investors in the bank to delay their appearance before the investigator until the second week of January 2024. PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Obazee on 24 December summoned Mr Lemo, Cornelius Vink and Rahul Savara to appear before his team of investigators on Thursday over TTB’s acquisition of Union Bank…

Mexican singer and actress Mary Boquitas was shut down by a Los Angeles judge Friday after she tried to countersue two Jane Does for defamation. The women named her as a co-defendant in the blockbuster sex abuse lawsuit filed last year against pop diva Gloria Trevi and disgraced Mexican music producer Sergio Andrade. At a morning hearing, Judge Ralph C. Hofer ruled that Boquitas had no grounds to sue the Does for defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress considering their “allegedly…

Image Source : FILE Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2 Apple's request to delay an import and sales ban on its Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the US has been denied by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). The decision is part of an ongoing patent dispute related to the Watch's blood oxygen sensor technology with medical technology firm Masimo.  In…

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed an interim plea by BharatPe cofounder Shashvat Nakrani to stop the company's former managing director Ashneer Grover from selling the shares he had transferred to the latter.The court asked Grover, who is also a cofounder, to inform Nakrani if and when he planned to sell those shares.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteMITMIT Technology Leadership and InnovationVisitNorthwestern UniversityKellogg Post Graduate Certificate in Product…