Kat Black

October 11, 2024 | The Recorder

The appeal questions whether liability under §1202(b) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act is limited to the "removal or alteration of Copyright Management Information from an identical copy of a work."

By Kat Black

4 minute read

October 11, 2024 | The Recorder

The plaintiff was represented by a team from Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery in Santa Rosa, California. The court awarded the plaintiff $20 million in past noneconomic damages; $25 million in future noneconomic damages; $262,000 for future medical expenses; and $780,000 for future lost earning capacity.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

October 09, 2024 | The Recorder

The policy, enacted by the federal securities markets regulator in 1972, prohibits individuals and companies settling with the SEC from publicly admitting or denying the SEC's allegations against them. According to the NCLA, the rule is a First Amendment violation.

By Kat Black

7 minute read

October 07, 2024 | The Recorder

Shareholders filed the class action in San Jose federal court. Class counsel from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Labaton Keller Sucharow included he company's CEO and CFO as co-defendants.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

October 04, 2024 | The Recorder

Jennifer A. Golinveaux and Samantha K. Looker, attorneys at Winston & Strawn's San Francisco office, filed a complaint on behalf of Musi on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose. The suit alleged breach of contract and breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

October 03, 2024 | The Recorder

A news release published by the Department of Justice revealed that it had worked in collaboration with Microsoft to expose a "spear-phishing campaign" by Russian state-sponsored threat actors affiliated with the "Callisto Group," an operational unit in Center 18 of the Russian Federal Security Service.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

October 02, 2024 | The Recorder

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard filed a class action on behalf of lead plaintiff Christopher Farnsworth, author of the "Nathaniel Cade" fiction series, against Meta on Tuesday, claiming that it stole "hundreds of thousands" of copyrighted books from a pirated online collection to build its large language model set, "Llama."

By Kat Black

4 minute read

October 01, 2024 | The Recorder

Epic's complaint was filed on Monday by Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff and Cravath, Swaine & Moore in San Francisco federal court and alleged violations of the Sherman Act and California law.

By Kat Black

4 minute read

September 27, 2024 | The Recorder

The lawsuit, which accused Google of abusing its "monopoly power" to exert unchecked control over the "quantity of ad inventory," alleged violations of California's Cartwright Act, unfair business practices and unfair competition.

By Kat Black

3 minute read

September 26, 2024 | The Recorder

The complaint, filed on Aug. 5, is one of a national wave of class actions targeting Snowflake after a series of high-profile cyberattacks on the company compromised consumer data at over 165 businesses that implement its data storage services, including Ticketmaster and AT&T.

By Kat Black

3 minute read