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WASHINGTON : The Supreme Court on Thursday sidestepped a case…

When the US Supreme Court decides in the coming months whether to weaken a powerful shield protecting internet companies, the ruling also could have implications for rapidly developing technologies like artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. The justices are due to rule by the end of June whether Alphabet Inc's YouTube can be sued over its video recommendations to users. That case tests whether a US law that protects technology platforms from legal responsibility for content posted online by their users also applies…

The US Supreme Court, exploring free speech rights in the social media era, on Monday agreed to consider whether the Constitution's First Amendment bars government officials from blocking their critics on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The justices took up an appeal by two members of a public school board from the city of Poway in Southern California of a lower court's ruling in favour of school parents who sued after being blocked from Facebook pages and a Twitter account maintained by the officials. The justices…

A box containing a Mifepristone tablet is seen at Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana, U.S. February 28, 2023. REUTERS/Callaghan O'HareCallaghan O'hare | ReutersA pharmaceutical company that distributes the majority of the U.S. supply of the abortion pill mifepristone sued the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday in an effort to keep its generic version of the drug on the market as a chaotic legal battle over the medication plays out in multiple federal courts.GenBioPro asked the U.S. District Court for…

The MOL Maneuver container ship sails into port under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the lower bay of New York Harbor on March 25, 2021, in New York City.Gary Hershorn | Corbis News | Getty ImagesThe Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey can unilaterally withdraw from the longstanding Waterfront Commission Compact it has with New York to police corruption in the shipping industry in the major port the two states share.All nine of the Supreme Court's justices voted in favor of the ruling, which dismissed arguments…

US Supreme Court justices on Monday weighed a bid by Salesforce Inc's Slack Technologies to avoid a lawsuit over its 2019 direct listing in a case that could undermine the ability of shareholders to sue companies for alleged misstatements when they go public. The justices heard arguments in an appeal by Slack, which makes workplace communications software, of a lower court ruling that let the proposed class action lawsuit filed by shareholder Fiyyaz Pirani for alleged violations of a federal investor protection law…

The US Supreme Court will consider a bid to weaken a legal shield that protects internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in Paris. The justices are due to hear arguments in an appeal by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old student at California State University, Long Beach who was studying in France, of a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against Google LLC-owned YouTube. Google and YouTube are part of…

Poring over family photographs, Jessica Watt Dougherty voices anguish over her father's death -- which she attributes to misinformation on an online platform, an issue at the heart of a knotty US debate over tech regulation. The US Supreme Court will this week hear high-stakes cases that will determine the fate of Section 230, a decades-old legal provision that shields platforms from lawsuits over content posted by their users. The cases, which are among several legal battles nationwide to regulate…

Islamic State gunmen killed American college student Nohemi Gonzalez as she sat with friends in a Paris bistro in 2015, one of several attacks on a Friday night in the French capital that left 130 people dead.Her family's lawsuit claiming YouTube's recommendations helped the Islamic State group's recruitment is at the centre of a closely watched Supreme Court case being argued Tuesday about how broadly a law written in 1996 shields tech companies from liability. The law, known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency…

Anti-abortion demonstrators take part in the annual "March for Life" for the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade abortion decision, in Washington, January 20, 2023.Evelyn Hockstein | ReutersEach of the Supreme Court's justices were questioned — some multiple times — as part of an investigation into last year's leak of a draft opinion of the ruling that ended up overturning the court's landmark Roe v. Wade abortion decision, the head of that probe revealed Friday.The statement came a day after the…