The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Texas and Lambda Legal are suing to stop Texas from banning child gender modification hormones and surgery. The lawsuit, filed July 12 in state district court in liberal Travis County, aims to block Senate Bill 14 before it can go into effect on Sept. 1. “This law would ban necessary…

One week after Google updated its user privacy policy to allow data scraping from millions of users for artificial intelligence (AI) training purposes, the tech giant is now facing a class-action lawsuit. Google, its parent company Alphabet, and Google’s AI subsidiary DeepMind, were accused in a July 11 filing in a federal court in San…

In January, the results of a long-term study on the effects of minors using cross-sex hormones were made public. The hormones prescribed to the participants were described as “gender-affirming hormones”—with such treatment regimens also referred to in the literature as “gender-affirming care” or “transgender medicine.” Some 315 people between the ages of 12 and 20 were…

A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean Cruises by the parents of an 18-month-old girl who died after slipping through her grandfather’s hands and falling through an open cruise ship window. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta restored two negligence claims over the July 2019 death of…

Republican Utah governor Spencer Cox said on Sunday that he’s preparing to sue social media companies for causing harm to young children in the state. During an interview with the CBS program “Face The Nation,” on July 9, Mr. Cox said that “when you look at the new research that’s coming out, there’s not just…

Elon Musk has sued the elite law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz to recover most of a $90 million fee it received from Twitter for defeating his bid to walk away from his $44 billion buyout of the social media company. The complaint by Mr. Musk’s X Corp., which owns Twitter, was filed on…

A Canadian mother of three who says she suffered “permanent, significant physical, psychological, and emotional harms, and other damages” after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine has filed a $10.5 million lawsuit against the federal government, Alberta Health Services, and CBC News. According to a July 3 media release by the groups Empowered Canadians and The Institute for…

SYDNEY—An Australian project management firm has filed a lawsuit against Twitter Inc. in a U.S. court seeking cumulative payments of about A$1 million ($665,000) over alleged non-payment of bills for work done in four countries, court filings showed. Sydney-based private company Facilitate Corp. on June 29 filed the suit in the United States District Court…

Former President Donald Trump’s effort to dismiss one of the two lawsuits filed against him by writer E. Jean Carroll was rejected by a federal judge on June 29. Trump had attempted to have the court dismiss a lawsuit filed by Carroll in 2019 accusing the then-president of defaming her when he denied having raped her in a…

The Walt Disney Company in April filed a lawsuit against Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and seven other officials alleging harm to its business (pdf). In May, the governor announced his intention to run for president. The lawyers met on June 15 via videoconference and on Tuesday filed a joint report (pdf). Disney’s team proposed a…