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> The names and address of Manhattan jurors who convicted Trump will remain under wraps, however.

> Notorious "Kraken" lawyer Sidney Powell, who pushed false claims about Dominion Voting Systems back in 2020 based on information she received from a woman who claims she can speak with the wind, has settled a defamation lawsuit filed against her by former Dominion executive Eric Coomer.

> A former North Dakota lawmaker who was one of the most powerful members of the Legislature has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors on a charge that he traveled to Europe with the intent of paying for sex with a minor.

> A new Louisiana law requires all public schools in the state to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But civil liberties groups say this violates the First Amendment of the US constitution.

> Lawyers for president’s son say Delaware court did not have jurisdiction over case when it proceeded to trial

> The Supreme Court has rejected two appeals related to COVID-19 vaccines from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine nonprofit founded by independent presidential candidate Robert F.

> The former senator and justice minister was arrested in 2017 and spent more than six years in prison.

> A sentencing date will be set after an August trial to determine the aggravating factors of the charges.

> Musician, 33, faces retrial after being sentenced to death for ‘corruption on Earth’

> Debris was from a pallet released from space station that did not burn up in atmospheric re-entry

> A federal jury in Las Vegas convicted five men for their involvement in the operation of Jetflicks, one of the largest and most popular illegal streaming services in the United States.

> The ruling means the litigation — which began in 2020 — can continue. The case involves whether cookies collecting user information violates GDPR and whether the two companies are responsible for what web site operators do.

Case file: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI:NL:GHAMS:2024:1651

> On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its inception is a fabricated identity.

Case file: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Letter-to-Mr.-Krebs-4-19-24-1.pdf Case file: https://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Letter-to-Mr.-Krebs-w-Exhibits-6-13-24-1.pdf

> Snapchat Inc. will pay $15 million to settle a lawsuit brought by California’s civil rights agency. The California Civil Rights Department accused the company of discriminating against female employees, failing to prevent workplace sexual harassment and retaliating against women who complained.

> New Zealand's Disputes Tribunal dismissed the claim, saying the promises did not constitute a contract.

Case file: https://www.disputestribunal.govt.nz/assets/Documents/Decisions/CL-v-HG-2024-NZDT-118-7-March-2024.pdf

> Son of convicted murderer says Netflix defamed him when suggesting he was involved in death of Stephen Smith

Case file: https://www.fitsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/securepdfs/2024/06/PIImageDisplay.aspx-3.pdf

> This lawsuit might be a long shot, but it’s not completely a foregone conclusion at this point. The state of Illinois has tougher privacy laws than most states, which may factor into the judge’s decision. On the other hand, this lawsuit — filed by two Illinois residents with the assistance of the Liberty Justice Center — has been filed in federal court, where assumptions about expectations of privacy won’t necessarily be quite as affected by state law stipulations.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24763737/alpr-4th.pdf

> Meta managers are accused of retaliation and covering up mistreatment of women.

Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Smith-v-Meta-Complaint-6-18-2024.pdf

> Arjuna Capital agreed not to pursue effort to put climate science on agenda at company’s annual meetings

> Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco must poison their DNS resolvers to prevent access to around 117 domains used by pirate sport streaming sites.

> Christopher Bauer's arrest came amid a reckoning in which the FBI pledged to crack down on sexual misconduct

> In a win for Starbucks on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that the coffee chain could not be compelled to rehire fired employees who were trying to unionize.

Case file: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/602/23-367/case.pdf

A facial recognition start-up, accused of invasion of privacy in a class-action lawsuit, has agreed to a settlement, with a twist: Rather than cash payments, it would give a 23 percent stake in the company to Americans whose faces are in its database. From a report:

>Clearview AI, which is based in New York, scraped billions of photos from the web and social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram to build a facial recognition app used by thousands of police departments, the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. After The New York Times revealed the company's existence in 2020, lawsuits were filed across the country. They were consolidated in federal court in Chicago as a class action.

>The litigation has proved costly for Clearview AI, which would most likely go bankrupt before the case made it to trial, according to court documents. The company and those who sued it were "trapped together on a sinking ship," lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote in a court filing proposing the settlement. "These realities led the sides to seek a creative solution by obtaining for the class a percentage of the value Clearview could achieve in the future," added the lawyers, from Loevy + Loevy in Chicago.

>Anyone in the United States who has a photo of himself or herself posted publicly online -- so almost everybody -- could be considered a member of the class. The settlement would collectively give the members a 23 percent stake in Clearview AI, which is valued at $225 million, according to court filings. (Twenty-three percent of the company's current value would be about $52 million.) If the company goes public or is acquired, those who had submitted a claim form would get a cut of the proceeds. Alternatively, the class could sell its stake. Or the class could opt, after two years, to collect 17 percent of Clearview's revenue, which it would be required to set aside.

> Industry groups said the E.P.A. had exceeded its authority in requiring the drinking-water cleanup. The chemicals, known as PFAS, are linked to cancer and health risks.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/1w83U

> It will come as no shock to regular readers here when I remind you all that Nike is a notoriously aggressive actor when it comes to policing its intellectual property, including for trademarks it holds. The reason that reminder is important as a matter of throat-clearing in this case is that one of the worst outcomes when it comes to trademark law is when you pair an aggressive holder of a mark with a mark that is also far too broad or generic, such that it never should have been granted in the first place.

> Several immigrant advocacy groups are suing the Biden administration over President Joe Biden's directive last week to stop asylum processing at the southern border.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24742826/immigrant-advocates-lawsuit.pdf

> Louisiana's highest court is giving childhood victims of sexual abuse a renewed opportunity to file damage lawsuits.

> A former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off a jail floor.

> Nearly two years ago, we wrote about a trademark opposition conflict in the UK between macro-distillery Campari and a tiny, one-man beer brewery operation called Dark Sky Brewery. Steve White, the owner/operator for Dark Sky Brewery, filed to trademark the name of his business. On the very last possible day of the objection window, Campari filed an objection to the application, claiming that the name of the brewery was too close to the name of one of its well known brands, Skyy Vodka.

> Legal claim alleges Steam's market dominance means consumers are paying too much for video games.

> Musk ordered firings after engineers raised concerns about alleged sexual harassment and discrimination, lawsuit says

> The Oklahoma State Supreme Court has rejected the state Board of Education's attempt to determine what books are available in public school libraries.

> The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations.

> The charity was called Modest Needs but federal prosecutors who filed charges against its founder say his weren’t.

Case file: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/media/1355311/dl