A lawsuit or (very rarely) "suit in law" is a civil action brought in a court of law in which a plaintiff, a party who claims to have incurred loss as a result of a defendant's actions, demands a legal or equitable remedy. The defendant is required to respond to the plaintiff's complaint.
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Why your website's lack of accessibility options is opening you up to lawsuits
Throughout this pandemic, we’ve all experienced a dramatic shift in our relationships with our devices. For a world that’s ...
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The $2.6B Escobar vs. Apple lawsuit — here’s what the experts have to say
The $2.6 billion Escobar vs. Apple lawsuit seems like it's full of shit, so we asked some people in the know. And, yeah, ...
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YouTube sued for using AI to racially profile content creators
A group of black content creators has sued YouTube for allegedly using AI to censor their videos based “wholly or in part” ...
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You could get sued for embedding Instagram posts without permission
If you have a news site or blog, with articles that have embedded Instagram posts, the post owner can sue you for breaching ...
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Google faces $5 billion lawsuit over tracking users in incognito mode
Google is facing a $5 billion class action lawsuit over tracking Chrome users' activity and browsing habits — even in incognito ...
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Apple ‘begs’ Escobar for extension on $2.6B lawsuit — Escobar DENIES
The $2.6-billion legal saga between Escobar Inc and Apple (which is most likely an elaborate publicity stunt on the former's ...
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Pablo Escobar’s brother is suing Apple for $2.6B
Yep, it appears that Pablo Escobar's brother — Roberto Escobar — is suing Apple for $2.6 billion. Why? Well, it's all ...
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Judge rules Musk's 'Tesla stock too high imo' tweet troublesome, but not enough to sue
Lawyers for disgruntled shareholders argued that “no rational Tesla lawyer or director could have approved" Musk's 'stock ...
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The crazy story how self-driving's biggest star stole Google secrets, joined Uber, and became bankrupt
Anthony Levandowski was one of the self-driving industry's brightest and most influential minds. But his passion for progress ...
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Zoom sued by shareholder after security issues tanked its stock price
Just when it looked like Zoom's getting its act together, the company's troubles got bad to worse. Yesterday, one of its ...
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WeWork sues SoftBank for scrapping its $3 billion rescue deal
It's really happening: WeWork is suing its biggest investor for going back on a $3 billion plan to rescue the company from ...
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Sprint stocks up 75% after judge approves $26.5 billion T-Mobile merger
A federal judge has approved a T-Mobile and Sprint deal that will see the US telecommunications field shrink from four big ...
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Yep, T-Mobile and Sprint's $26.5 billion mega-merger is really happening
More than two years after being stuck in litigation limbo, T-Mobile's $26.5 billion acquistion of strugging telecoms provider ...
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Quibi's not even here yet and it's already being sued
Quibi, the fledgling streaming service most famous for showing different video depending on how your phone is oriented, is ...
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Facial recognition company CEO says he doesn't need permission to use your face
The CEO of facial recognition company Clearview AI, Hoan Ton-That, today gave his first network television interview on “CBS ...
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XRP Q4 2019: Crypto traders had one shot to make 20% profit
Let's take a look back at how Ripple (XRP) performed in the fourth quarter of 2019, as the company itself continued to invest ...
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Craig Wright claims he's received keys to 'Satoshi' Bitcoin stash worth $8.6B
The bonded courier holding the private keys to Craig Wright's Bitcoin stash has allegedly arrived, according to Craig Wright. ...
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Sonos says Google stole its speaker tech, asks for product ban in court
Sonos has brought two lawsuits against Google for alleged copyright infringement, claiming Google used five of its patents ...
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5 times regulators revealed their raging boners for crypto justice in 2019
Financial watchdogs in the US went after cryptocurrency peddlers again and again this year. Here are some of the juicy highlights. ...
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Visual accessibility will be a priority in 2020 — here’s how to adapt your site
Law suits are becoming more common, and US and many EU countries are more rigorously enforcing their by-laws applying to ...
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Craig 'Faketoshi' Wright calls judge in $10B Bitcoin case 'silly'
Craig Wright, the man desperate to convince the world that he is Bitcoin's mysterious creator Satoshi Nakamoto, has insulted ...
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Nvidia lawyer pushes court to dismiss cryptocurrency mining chip lawsuit
Graphics card manufacturer Nvidia is fighting to have a lawsuit dropped that alleges it misled investors over its failed ...
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Elon Musk testifies he wasn't calling the person he accused of marrying a preteen a pedophile
“I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, ...
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Riot Games resolves to pay $10M to settle gender discrimination lawsuit
Riot Games has agreed to pay $10 million to its former and current female employees who alleged they'd been subjected to ...
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OneCoin lawyer found guilty in $4B cryptocurrency scam
The US lawyer who made $50 million after routing $400 million on behalf of the OneCoin cryptocurrency scam has been found ...
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SIM-swap victim sues Bittrex over $1M Bitcoin theft, claims inside job at AT&T
Another SIM-swap victim wants to take their case to court. This time, it's over 100 Bitcoin stolen earlier this year, worth ...
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A single cryptocurrency whale caused Bitcoin's 2017 bull run, research claims
The same academic who, last year claimed that Bitcoin's 2017 bull run was sparked by market manipulation, is now saying that ...
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Moonday Mornings: Bitcoin isn’t money, says UK tax authority
It’s time for Hard Fork’s wrap-up of this weekend's cryptocurrency and blockchain news that you can’t afford to miss, ...
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Moonday Morning: China goes crazy over blockchain
Hello, happy Monday and welcome to another Moonday Morning – Hard Fork's roundup of the weekend’s top cryptocurrency ...
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Crypto Capital boss nabbed after allegedly laundering $390M
The head of payment processor Crypto Capital has reportedly been arrested by Polish authorities on money laundering charges. ...
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Class action lawsuit alleges Bitfinex' Tether cost crypto market $1.4T
A brand new lawsuit alleges that cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its sister company Tether manipulated the digital currency ...
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Supreme Court rejects Amazon's appeal against labor lawsuit
The US Supreme Court today officially declined an appeal from Amazon that would've protected the company from facing a Nevada ...
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Ripple Labs wants the US to forget it's being sued for selling Ripple (XRP) illegally
Ripple Labs has filed a motion to dismiss a class action lawsuit that claims it's been illegally selling its Ripple (XRP) ...
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Satoshi Nakamoto 'wannabe' Craig Wright in talks to settle multi-billion dollar Bitcoin suit
Craig Steven Wright, the man who’s claimed to be Bitcoin’s anonymous creator countless times, is down to his last hope ...
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Twitter's refusal to dox a cow stymies Republican's $250M lawsuit
US Rep. Devin Nunes can't seem to catch a break. First, despite his memo blaming Obama and the FBI for all the evils in the ...
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Cryptography startup sues Black Hat conference after getting booed and heckled
A cryptography startup is taking things up a notch and is suing organizers of security conference Black Hat USA after being ...
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Robert De Niro’s firm sues employee for $6M for binging 55 eps of Friends at work
We need a new category for this sort of Netflix activity: Robert De Niro's company sues an ex employee for binging 55 episodes ...
