Cryptocurrency
Cryptocurrency exchange company Crypto.com is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, claiming it unlawfully expanded its jurisdiction to cover secondary-market sales of some network tokens sold...
View ArticleLoud sex interrupts Bible study, spurs $2.2 million bust of San Diego ‘spa’
SAN DIEGO (CN) — The owners of a San Diego spa where the groans and moans of sex workers engaged in their trade where so loud that they disrupted a nearby church will pay $600,000 each to settle civil...
View ArticlePromises to prisoners
CHICAGO — Cook County district attorney Kim Foxx will be deposed by a man who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1996, ruled an Illinois federal court. The formerly incarcerated man says Chicago...
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JD Vance urges early voting in Tucson speech
TUCSON, Ariz. (CN) — Under the blistering Tucson sun, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance rallied a crowd of at least 250 to cast their votes on Nov. 5 — or earlier. In a 25-minute speech...
View ArticleNo ‘injury’ in losing tenure
DALLAS — Three professors at Dallas College lost their First Amendment, due process and property deprivation claims against the school after it abandoned a “rolling three-year contracts scheme” in...
View ArticleThird Circuit warms to gun ownership by nonviolent felons
PHILADELPHIA (CN) — Third time may be the charm. Counsel for a Delaware man and the U.S. Justice Department presented oral arguments at the Third Circuit on Wednesday for the third time in as many...
View ArticleDiligence in advertising
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit asked a Delaware federal court to explain itself after a ruling in this dispute over 10 allegedly false advertisements in a marketing campaign for diagnostic tests for...
View ArticleMontana Supreme Court upholds block on abortion restriction laws
(CN) — In two opinions issued Wednesday, the Montana Supreme Court sided with Planned Parenthood and other healthcare providers to affirm blocks on four pieces of legislation and a public health...
View ArticleTikTok famous Rep. Jeff Jackson sued for defamation
RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — U.S. Representative Jeff Jackson’s campaign is being sued for defamation by his opponent for the office of North Carolina attorney general. Dan Bishop and his campaign filed suit...
View ArticleSpaceX pollution
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — Local environmentalists sued Elon Musk's SpaceX, claiming the company's rocket launch site in southern Texas has been discharging hundreds of thousands of gallons of untreated...
View ArticleBikini barista tax fraud
SEATTLE — Rajesh Mathew, the owner of bikini barista coffee stands, was sentenced to 30 days in prison after pleading guilty to underreporting a substantial amount of income over several years, the...
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Rep. Boebert’s son pleads guilty to felony after spending spree
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (CN) — A Colorado judge issued a deferred sentence to the 19-year-old son of Republican U.S. Representative Lauren Boebert on Thursday after he pleaded guilty to a single...
View ArticleMaryland candidates debate abortion rights in widely watched US Senate race
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Democrat Angela Alsobrooks highlighted former Gov. Larry Hogan’s actions in office as evidence he fell short on standing up for abortion rights as he now claims he would,...
View ArticleIndependent in key House race suspends campaign, saying he was ‘pawn’ in...
(AP) — A congressional candidate who said he was tricked by Democrats into running as a spoiler in a competitive House race in Minnesota suspended his campaign Thursday and endorsed his Republican...
View ArticleSan Francisco Superior Court clerks authorize strike
(CN) — A nearly unanimous vote by San Francisco Superior Court clerks authorized the union contract negotiators to call a strike unless management returns to the table and addresses their concerns...
View ArticleSan Francisco urges dismissal of Tenderloin residents’ lawsuit over public...
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — The City of San Francisco argued Thursday afternoon that Tenderloin residents have not claimed the city took affirmative action causing a public health crisis in their lawsuit...
View ArticleIsraeli-American drugmaker settles kickback, price-fixing claims for $450...
(CN) — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday it has reached two settlement agreements worth $450 million with Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, one of the country’s largest generic drug...
View ArticleYe accused of retaliation in lawsuit by former ‘director of intelligence’
LOS ANGELES (CN) — A former fixer and purported “director of intelligence” for Ye, previously known as Kanye West, sued the rapper for retaliation and unpaid wages, spicing up his labor-law claims...
View ArticleSocial media giants hope to pare down massive suit over harm done to minors
LOS ANGELES (CN) — Some of the top social media platforms in the world — including Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube — returned to a downtown Los Angeles courthouse, on Thursday, to...
View ArticleEnvironmental settlement to close two Washington fish hatchery programs
TACOMA, Wash. (CN) — An environmental lawsuit accusing federally-funded fish hatchery programs of contributing to the decline of threatened salmon and steelhead and endangering the orcas that prey on...
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