A Nevada man was awarded $8 million by a jury this month after he was served chemical cleaner at Nevada’s Barley’s Casino & Brewing Company, according to the plaintiff’s law firm. The victim was expecting a beer, but leftover cleaning solution was in the tap lines. A Clark County District Court jury took two hours […]
One of the best-known pirate streaming sites says it will go to extreme lengths to prevent its latest new domain from being seized. In a response to a lawsuit filed by a coalition of major Hollywood studios and Netflix, PrimeWire claims it will ban all links to movies and TV shows hosted on cyberlocker-type sites, preemptively filter uploads, and promote legal content.
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In their lawsuit, the city's lawyers said about 30% of the transactions by HomeAway between Nov. 7 and Dec. 7 did not have a valid registration number or pending registration status number.
The Cayuga Nation in New York has announced plans to develop an adult-use cannabis enterprise, up to a year before recreational pot sales are slated to begin at state-licensed retailers.
In 2018, a court in the Netherlands ruled that companies selling access to a pirate IPTV playlist acted illegally, even though they weren't the suppliers of the infringing streams. The decision was a win for Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN, which later demanded a cash settlement from the companies' directors. They ultimately refused to pay so BREIN filed a full lawsuit and has now come out on top.
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Coinbase has been hit with a class action lawsuit that alleges that the exchange giant wrongfully sold at least 79 different cryptocurrencies as unregistered securities. The three plaintiffs, Christopher Underwood, Louis Oberlander and Henry Rodriguez, allege that Coinbase has been knowingly selling securities without registration statements under the guise of operating a cryptocurrency exchange. The […]
Paul Hansmeier, one of the convicted attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, is no longer allowed to file new copyright cases in the District of Minnesota. The court issued the restrictions and dismissed over a dozen pending cases, through which Hansmeier hoped to show that his conviction was unconstitutional.
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'Kevin McFree' recently fended off a Watch Tower DMCA subpoena after a judge found that his critical animations were protected under fair use. However, Watch Tower is aggressively pursuing a separate copyright lawsuit, one that deals with exactly the same issues. The big development is that McFree's plight has been taken on by the formidable Public Citizen Litigation Group.
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