Hacker News with Generative AI: Lawsuits

Asian teen rejected by 16 colleges hired by Google, files discrimination lawsuit (abc7news.com)
The father of a Palo Alto teen who garnered national attention for getting rejected by 16 colleges and hired by Google as a software engineer has filed a new lawsuit on Feb. 11 against the University of California and five UC campuses -- UC Berkeley, UCLA, UCSD, UCSB and UC Davis -- as well as the U.S. Department of Education, for racial discrimination.

Education, Discrimination, Lawsuits, Technology, College Admissions

26 points by blackeyeblitzar 23 hours ago | 23 comments

Airlines Sue to Avoid Consequences for Breaking Disabled Travelers' Wheelchairs (motherjones.com)
Five major airlines—American Airlines, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest, and United—have joined an airline trade association lawsuit to overturn a Department of Transportation rule that forces airlines to treat wheelchair users and their mobility devices with dignity.

Airlines, Disability Rights, Lawsuits, Transportation, Consumer Protection

7 points by awnird 1 day ago | 1 comments

ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit. Altice, meanwhile, will receive anti-piracy information, including that related to a letter the RIAA previously sent to BitTorrent Inc., the owner of popular torrent client uTorrent.

Copyright Infringement, Lawsuits, Music Industry, Torrenting

5 points by isaacfrond 1 day ago | 0 comments

ISP Must Unmask 100 Alleged BitTorrent Pirates in RIAA Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com)
Altice, parent company of Internet provider Optimum, must disclose the personal details of a hundred alleged music pirates. The request comes from a group of prominent record labels and is part of an ongoing copyright infringement liability lawsuit. Altice, meanwhile, will receive anti-piracy information, including that related to a letter the RIAA previously sent to BitTorrent Inc., the owner of popular torrent client uTorrent.

Copyright Infringement, Lawsuits, Music Industry, Piracy, ISPs

7 points by gslin 2 days ago | 0 comments

X Prevents Research on Potential Election Interference (freiheitsrechte.org)
The social media platform X denied researchers access to public data on its platform. Together with Democracy Reporting International (DRI), we achieved a major success in summary proceedings.

Social Media, Election Interference, Research, Lawsuits

59 points by doener 3 days ago | 35 comments

Mexico will wait for Google response on Gulf of Mexico before filing lawsuit (pbs.org)
Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.

Mexico, Google Maps, Lawsuits, Geography

18 points by healsdata 4 days ago | 11 comments

The Murdochs' Succession Drama (nytimes.com)
More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.

Media, Succession, Business, Lawsuits

20 points by abe94 4 days ago | 3 comments

'You've Blown a Hole in the Family': Inside the Murdochs' Succession Drama (nytimes.com)
More than 3,000 pages of documents reveal how years of betrayals led to a messy court battle that threatens the future of Rupert’s empire.

Media, Family, Business, Lawsuits, Succession

14 points by JumpCrisscross 7 days ago | 17 comments

State of New Mexico et al. v. Elon Musk et al. [pdf] (courthousenews.com)

Lawsuits, Elon Musk, New Mexico

13 points by nickburns 8 days ago | 2 comments

Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says might sue Google (apnews.com)
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government wouldn’t rule out filing a civil lawsuit against Google if it maintains its stance of calling the stretch of sea between northeastern Mexico and the southeastern United States the “Gulf of America.”

Mexico, Geography, Lawsuits, Google, Naming Conventions

13 points by c420 8 days ago | 4 comments

DOGE's Records Could Be Sealed for Up to a Decade If Musk Gets His Way (businessinsider.com)
Elon Musk said that his Department of Government Efficiency would provide "maximum transparency." If DOGE gets its way, it will be nearly a decade before any of Musk's or his staffers' emails will be publicly available.

Elon Musk, Government Transparency, Cryptocurrencies, Lawsuits

18 points by zfg 8 days ago | 8 comments

Ploy to Trademark Hosted WordPress, Managed WordPress Derailed (theregister.com)
The WordPress Foundation's effort to trademark the terms HOSTED WORDPRESS and MANAGED WORDPRESS has been thwarted, for now, following a petition from a dissenting member of the open source WordPress community.

Trademarks, Open Source, WordPress, Community, Lawsuits

11 points by AuthorizedCust 8 days ago | 0 comments

'It's a money game to them':son takes on UnitedHealth over elderly father's care (theguardian.com)
Two years ago, Robby Martin got an unsettling call from his father, Jackie. The 82-year-old told his son that a representative of the insurance giant UnitedHealth Group had barged into his nursing home room at 2.30 in the morning, announcing that he was going to be checked out at the end of the week.

Healthcare, Insurance, Lawsuits, Elderly Care

171 points by howard941 8 days ago | 156 comments

Tesla is suing drivers who complain about their cars after accidents and winning (the-independent.com)
Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Tesla, Lawsuits, Accidents, Automobiles

20 points by speckx 8 days ago | 4 comments

X to pay Donald Trump $10M to settle lawsuit over Capitol attack – report (theguardian.com)
Elon Musk’s social media platform X will pay Donald Trump $10m to settle a lawsuit the president filed after he was banned from the platform following the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, according to a report.

Politics, Lawsuits, Social Media, Donald Trump

8 points by beardyw 8 days ago | 0 comments

"Largest data breach in US history": Three more lawsuits try to stop DOGE (arstechnica.com)
The US DOGE Service's access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week.

Data Breaches, Lawsuits, Privacy, Cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin

17 points by CharlesW 9 days ago | 2 comments

EFF Sues OPM, DOGE and Musk for Endangering the Privacy of Millions (eff.org)
NEW YORK—EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to stop the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from disclosing millions of Americans’ private, sensitive information to Elon Musk and his “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE).

Privacy, Lawsuits, Government, Elon Musk

37 points by anonymousiam 9 days ago | 19 comments

EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management (eff.org)
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.

Privacy, Lawsuits, Government, Data Security

74 points by coloneltcb 10 days ago | 40 comments

Ask HN: Who has settled disputes in court, and won economically? (ycombinator.com)
This means your legal fees and opportunity costs were outweighed by a reasonable person's valuation of what you gained.

Legal Disputes, Lawsuits, Personal Finance, Legal Fees, Opportunity Cost

8 points by doctorpangloss 10 days ago | 17 comments

UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts (fortune.com)
UnitedHealth hired a defamation law firm to go after social media posts criticizing the company

Lawsuits, Social Media, Healthcare, Business

240 points by taimurkazmi 10 days ago | 195 comments

States sue to block new NIH funding policy–court puts it on hold (arstechnica.com)
On Friday, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced a sudden change to how it handles the indirect costs of research—the money that pays for things like support services and facilities maintenance.

Lawsuits, Government, Science, Research Funding

5 points by bikenaga 10 days ago | 0 comments

I gave Matt the domain Wordpress.com for Free – he then sued me (reddit.com)
I have read some disturbing allegations going on with WordPress. I do not know about the truth, but I want to say something to the Wordpress community:

Lawsuits, Domain Names, WordPress

7 points by LLcolD 10 days ago | 8 comments

Judge temporarily blocks Musk's 'DOGE' team from accessing treasury records (theguardian.com)
A federal judge early on Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) from accessing treasury department records that contain sensitive personal data such as social security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans.

Elon Musk, Lawsuits, Government Data, Privacy

8 points by ethagnawl 13 days ago | 0 comments

Telnyx Knows Nothing (fredposner.com)
Telnyx, a US based company offering communication products, recently received a $4.5 million fine proposal from the FCC. The proposed fine relates to “government imposter robocalls made on its Telnyx’s network.”

Telecommunications, Regulation, Lawsuits

12 points by kimi 13 days ago | 4 comments

Fruit of the Poisonous Llama? (2023) (shkspr.mobi)
A group of authors are suing various vendors of Large Language Model AIs. The authors claim that the AIs are trained on material which infringes their copyright.

Copyright, Generative AI, Lawsuits

32 points by edent 14 days ago | 41 comments

Trader Who Made $1B in Single Bet Sues Deutsche Bank (bloomberg.com)
A former trader on Deutsche Bank’s distressed credit desk, known for helping the German lender net nearly $1 billion in profit from a single trade, is taking legal action against the bank over his termination last summer.

Finance, Lawsuits, Deutsche Bank

5 points by mobilio 15 days ago | 1 comments

Treasury Access by DOGE Partly Limited by Judge for Now (bloomberg.com)
A US judge temporarily limited access to the US Treasury Department’s payments system after a group of unions accused the agency of illegally sharing their members’ information with Elon Musk’s government efficiency group.

Lawsuits, Government, Cryptocurrency, Privacy

12 points by JumpCrisscross 15 days ago | 7 comments

Oracle starts laying mines in JavaScript trademark battle (theregister.com)
Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark.

Lawsuits, Trademarks, Oracle, JavaScript

12 points by Alupis 15 days ago | 0 comments

EFF Helps Defeat Meritless Lawsuit Against Journalist Jack Poulson (eff.org)
Jack Poulson is a reporter, and when a confidential source sent him the police report of a tech CEO’s arrest for felony domestic violence, he did what journalists do: reported the news.

Journalism, Lawsuits, Technology

9 points by pcvarmint 16 days ago | 0 comments

FCC Issues Robocall Cease-and-Desist Letter to Twilio (2023) (fcc.gov)
The FCC issued a cease-and-desist letter to Twilio Inc. for apparently transmitting illegal robocall traffic.

Telecommunications, Regulation, Lawsuits

7 points by kimi 16 days ago | 0 comments