On Tuesday, US tech giant Apple and Zoom Video Communications were fined by Moscow for allegedly refusing to store the data of Russian citizens on Russian territory. According to a court in Moscow’s Tagansky district, Apple was fined 2 million roubles while Zoom was fined 1 million roubles alongside speed test website Ookla. Since Russia’s […]
US District Judge Jon Tigar has ruled that Subway can be sued for allegedly deceiving customers about its tuna products. This includes a claim that Subway uses other fish, chicken, pork, and beef instead of “100% tuna” as advertised. Subway argued that any presence of non-tuna DNA may result from eggs in mayonnaise or cross-contact […]
In April, Musk reached a $44 billion deal to take over Twitter but has now withdrawn from the transaction. In a statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), representatives for Musk claimed Twitter had breached the terms of the agreement and “appears to have made false and misleading representations.” They said Twitter also […]
The Dutch subsidiary of Air France, KLM, is being sued by various environmental groups over greenwashing allegations. The groups are suing over KLM’s advertising campaign “Fly Responsibly”, which they claim breaches European consumer law by misleading the public over how sustainable the airline’s flights are. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday by Dutch campaigners Fossielvrij […]
On Tuesday, ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s sued its parent Unilever Plc to block the sale of its Israeli business to a local licensee. Ben & Jerry’s believes the move, which would see its ice cream sold in the occupied West Bank, would be inconsistent with its values. The complaint filed in the US […]
A federal judge in Washington DC scolded Meta lawyers from Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick after it was found they had violated a court rule against “excessive footnotes” which was introduced back in 2017. The lawyers had filed a brief in Boasberg's court on Thursday that included 19 footnotes, the longest of which exceeded […]
The operator of 10 New England McDonald’s franchises is set to pay $1.6 million to settle allegations that a manager at the fast-food restaurant chain made sexual comments to employees and routinely groped them. Some of the victims were teenagers. On Thursday, US District Judge William Sessions in Burlington, Vermont, approved a consent decree that […]
Levoff pleaded guilty to six securities fraud charges at a hearing before US District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey. The former tech giant lawyer allegedly exploited his positions as corporate secretary, head of corporate law, and co-chair of Apple’s disclosure committee that reviewed drafts of Apple's results to generate approximately $604,000 of illegal […]
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