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“The Temu app is designed to collect sensitive user data without the user’s knowledge or consent, and it’s purposely designed to evade detection of this type of data collection,” the attorney general’s office said.
In a press conference, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said that the lawsuit, filed earlier this week in California Superior Court, is intended to hold the companies “accountable for their unfair and deceptive practices, for violating California’s unfair competition law and public nuisance laws.”
“Title VII is unquestionably constitutional,” said Nemer’s attorneys, Nathaniel Zelinsky and James Eisenmann. “The government cannot discriminate against its employees. Full stop. We look forward to pursuing Tania’s case in court.”
In court documents, attorneys for Costco indicated that the company is seeking a “full fund” for all duties paid in accordance with Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.
The filing provides additional evidence from discovery, the evidence-sharing stage of litigation that precedes trial. Meta’s own researchers, for instance, seemed to concede that the company’s policies were bad for young users, with one worker likening Instagram’s algorithmic practices to street-level drug dealing.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit, said that the Trump administration and Department of Agriculture are clearly circumventing the law.
“Acting under color of state law, the government-official defendants either have directed or authorized the State’s contractor to make devastating changes to the administration of the … program,” the lawsuit claims.
“OpenAI continues to assert that it did not willfully infringe class plaintiffs’ copyrighted works. A jury is entitled to know the basis for OpenAI’s purported good faith,” Wang wrote. “What matters is that OpenAI has put its state of mind at issue, and OpenAI may not selectively use attorney-client privilege to restrict class plaintiffs’ inquiry into evidence concerning OpenAI’s purported good faith in this way.”
“Who buys our voice?” the executive allegedly asked. “I don’t buy Campbell’s products barely any more. It’s not healthy and I know what the f-ck’s in it… bioengineered meat.”
The court found that President Donald Trump and attorney Alina Habba “give us no reason to reverse the district court’s ruling that these claims were frivolous.” It also heldthat the lawsuit constitutes little more than an “abuse of judicial resources.”