The US Supreme Court on Monday stayed a district court order that would have reinstated Federal Trade Commission (FTC) commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter to her former position. The stay order halts enforcement of the district court’s July 17 ruling. Former FTC commissioners Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya were dismissed from their roles by President Donald Trump [...]
Thailand’s Constitutional Court dismissed Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra on Friday in a 6-3 ruling, finding that she had acted in violation of constitutional ethics provisions. The court’s final ruling, which is not subject to appeal under Thai law, immediately terminated Shinawatra’s position under Section 170 of the Constitution. The ruling results in the immediate dissolution [...]
X Corp. and X.AI LLC filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that Apple and OpenAI’s exclusive ChatGPT integration violates federal competition law. Plaintiffs accused the two companies of violating antitrust laws by establishing effective monopolies in their respective markets. The lawsuit stated that Apple currently owns a 65 percent US market share for smartphones, [...]
Manhattan District Attorney (DA) Alvin Bragg on Thursday announced a series of conspiracy and bribery charges against Ingrid Lewis-Martin, the former chief advisor to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The charges allege systematic corruption spanning a period of nearly three years. Four separate indictments charge Lewis-Martin with conspiracy in the fourth degree and bribery [...]
US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced Monday on X (formerly Twitter) that the UK has agreed to drop its mandate that Apple provide a “back door” to access encrypted data from American users. The controversial Technical Capability Notice (TCN) was issued to Apple in January under Section 253 of the UK’s 2016 Investigatory [...]
New York Attorney General (AG) Letitia James on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against the company behind the electronic payment platform Zelle for failing to protect its users from fraud. The lawsuit accuses Early Warning Services, LLC (EWS) of rushing its platform Zelle to market in 2017 to compete with Venmo and PayPal, prioritizing speed and [...]
A US federal appellate court on Monday vacated an order of summary judgment against a Federal Reserve Bank employee’s religious accommodation claim arising from the institution’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. The suit was filed by executive assistants Jeanette Diaz and Lori Gardner-Alfred. The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued a mixed ruling, allowing [...]
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday upheld a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) policy prohibiting settlement defendants from publicly denying enforcement allegations. The court found that the SEC rule is constitutionally permissible despite free speech concerns. The court applied the “voluntary waiver” framework established in the 1987 Supreme Court ruling, [...]
A US federal court on Wednesday reinstated a lawsuit filed by a New York state court clerk who claims she was fired for complying with an investigation into her boss. Samantha Long, a former court clerk for the town of New Lebanon, New York, contended that she was fired for cooperating with a New York [...]
A judge found former Colombian president Álvaro Uribe guilty of bribery and witness tampering on Monday. This marks the first time that a Colombian ex-president has been convicted in a criminal trial. The landmark ruling follows a long legal battle that dates back more than a decade. In 2012, Uribe levied allegations against Senator Iván [...]
