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On Thursday, Sterling Jewelers-owner Signet Jewelers Ltd announced a $175 million settlement of a long-running gender bias lawsuit in which 68,000 female Sterling Jewelers employees claimed the retailer had paid women less and promoted them less often than their male counterparts. Sterling was originally sued in 2008, accused of violating Title VII of the Civil […]
On Monday, the family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 film “Top Gun” sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s sequel and biggest box office hit “Top Gun: Maverick.” The complaint by Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay — the author’s widow and son — claims that the Paramount Global unit failed […]
International law firm Brown Rudnick has promoted its associate Camille Vasquez to partner after she helped American actor Johnny Depp secure a $15 million jury verdict in his defamation trial against his former wife Amber Heard. The televised defamation trial, which lasted several weeks, saw Vasquez become the public face of Depp’s legal team. The […]
The world’s richest man is represented by US law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who wrote to Twitter on June 6 accusing it of refusing to provide sufficient information on its number of false accounts. In a letter to Twitter’s chief legal officer, Vijaya Gadde, Musk’s Skadden legal team said: “Mr Musk does […]
Elliott Investment Management is suing the London Metal Exchange (LME) for $456 million over its March decision to cancel nickel trades following a massive short squeeze. The claim was filed by two Elliott vehicles against LME and its clearing house in the English High Court on June 1. The LME management has since said that […]
On Wednesday, US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc compared searches by EU antitrust regulators to a fishing trawler amid investigations into the Facebook owner’s data and online marketplace. Meta says it has already given the European Commission access to over one million documents since 2019 when it first made a request regarding Meta’s Facebook Marketplace, […]
David “Dave” Johnston, a Charleston-based attorney formerly with George Sink P.A., a personal injury law firm, is facing federal charges related to the January 6 Capitol riot. On Tuesday, Johnston announced his intention to contest these charges, disclosing that his employment had been terminated by George Sink’s firm immediately after his court appearance. The 69-year-old […]
Thai employees who were laid off last year from a factory supplying global lingerie brands, including Victoria’s Secret, are set to receive $8.3 million in one of the largest settlements of its kind. Approximately 1,200 employees were sacked by Brilliance Alliance Thai (BAT) Global Co Ltd, which let them go without the wages owed to […]
Elon Musk has been sued by Twitter investors who claim the Tesla billionaire manipulated the company’s stock price downward as he ascends a $44 billion takeover of the social media giant. The investors, who have been asked to be recognised as a class, allege that Musk saved himself $156 million by not disclosing that he […]
Social media giant Twitter has agreed to pay $150 million to settle claims it misused private information to target advertising after telling users the data would be used for security reasons only. The $150 million settlement covers claims that Twitter misrepresented the “security and privacy” of user data between May 2013 and September 2019. In […]
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