U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez ruled on Thursday that the testimony of two expert witnesses, who had presented analyses in favor of the plaintiffs, employed flawed methodologies that should have been excluded from trial.
“Unbeknownst to most Texans,” state Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote in court documents, “Meta ran facial recognition software on virtually every face contained in the photographs uploaded to Facebook, capturing records of the facial geometry of the people depicted.”
A Florida judge has rejected ABC News’ motion to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump. Attorneys for Trump filed the initial complaint against the network earlier this year, with claims centering on a series of statements made by anchor George Stephanopoulos in a March 10 airing of “This Week.” During the
While the decision resolved several of the major claims in the case, the Court will later need to decide the remaining claims, in addition to a remedy for these violations as well as damages for individual plaintiffs.
The decision is important because it upholds the freedom to contract, enforces commercial contractual terms as written, and prohibits parties from attempting to use the judicial system to re-trade or avoid a binding deal.
Although the terms of the settlement are confidential, the joint statement indicated that the university will create a new position—that of “Title VI Coordinator”—to oversee how the school responds to complaints of discrimination related to protected characteristics such as race, religion, and national origin.
The lawsuit was filed after the Marion Police Department searched the offices of a local newspaper in a raid that appeared to have been politically motivated.
Judge Mueller fines California $112M for understaffing mental health professionals in the state’s prisons.
“This case transcends football,” said Bill Carmody, an attorney for the plaintiffs.“It’s about justice. “It’s about telling the 32 team owners who collectively own all the big TV rights, the most popular content in the history of TV—that’s what they have,”
“We wanted complete accountability,” attorney Alex Arreaza told CNN. “People sit in prison and don’t have things to do. They get bored. We wanted to shut [Cruz] down completely. His story will be told by his victims—not by him.”