A House panel on Tuesday accused the Federal Trade Commission of orchestrating “an aggressive campaign to harass Twitter”. The panel says it’s part of the agency’s “unusual response” to Elon Musk’s acquisition of the social network. A study on the potential harm of fluoride is scheduled to be released soon, as part of a years-long…
NTD News Today (March 8): House Panel Says FTC Harassing Twitter; Lawsuit Prompts Release of Study on Fluoride
Reps. Jordan, Massie Ask ATF Director to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee
March 7, 2023
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Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) of the House Judiciary Committee have requested that the director and employees of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) testify regarding the agency’s firearms policies. In a March 6 letter to ATF Director Steven Dettelbach, the congressmen invited Dettelbach to testify at a 10…
Kobe Bryant’s Family Awarded $29 Million in Invasion of Privacy Lawsuit
Los Angeles County will pay late Kobe Bryant’s wife nearly $29 million in a settlement of a lawsuit over the inappropriate sharing of gruesome photographs of the crash that killed Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter. Members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office and firefighters were accused in the lawsuit of sharing close-up gruesome pictures of…
LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (March 2): NYC to Pay BLM Protesters for Arrest Tactics; House Passes Act to Rein in Executive Orders
New York City is paying hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters over $20,000 dollars each. That’s to settle a lawsuit over crowd control tactics used during the George Floyd protests. The U.S. House passed a bill yesterday focused on inflation. The aim of the legislation is to get presidential executive actions under control. The Senate is…
NTD News Today (Mar. 2): NYC to Pay BLM Protesters for Arrest Tactics; House Passes Act to Rein in Executive Orders
New York City is paying hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters over $20,000 each to settle a lawsuit over crowd control tactics used during the George Floyd protests. The House on Mar. 1 passed the REIN IN Inflation Act, which requires the president to publish the inflationary impact of executive actions exceeding $1 billion before…
US Judge Permits Lawsuit Claiming NBA Top Shot NFTs Are Securities
NEW YORK—The creator of a marketplace for National Basketball Association Top Shot non-fungible tokens must face a lawsuit claiming that the tokens are securities, a U.S. judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in Manhattan rejected Dapper Labs Inc.’s bid to dismiss a proposed class action by purchasers of NBA Top Shot Moments,…
Volkswagen Faces Possible Recalls After Environmental NGO Wins Emissions Software Lawsuit
HAMBURG—A German court on Monday ruled in favour of an environmental NGO’s lawsuit against the federal motor authority for releasing cars with software on exhaust gas recirculation it argues is illegal, in a judgement which could lead to a wave of recalls. The NGO, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, is calling for Volkswagen Golf vehicles to be recalled…
Judge Indicates Intention to Dismiss J&J Talc Unit Bankruptcy
The bankruptcy case filed by Johnson & Johnson’s subsidiary shouldering talc-related lawsuits will soon be dismissed unless a U.S appeals court agrees to reconsider its decision to nix the company’s attempt to offload the litigation into Chapter 11 proceedings, a federal judge said on Tuesday. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said during a hearing in…
Robinhood Wins Dismissal of Shareholder Lawsuit Over 2021 IPO
A U.S. judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit accusing Robinhood Markets Inc. of misleading investors about the online brokerage’s financials and growth prospects when conducting its 2021 initial public offering. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco found no proof that disclosures in Robinhood’s IPO materials were false or misleading, or that declines in…
Corporate Lawsuit Dodge Imperiled After Court Rejects J&J Bankruptcy Tactic
Attorney Greg Gordon, a partner at the Jones Day law firm, offered an innovative solution to Johnson & Johnson and other major companies that faced mountains of lawsuits alleging their products sickened or killed people: They could use the bankruptcy system to force all plaintiffs into one settlement. It required fancy legal footwork—creating a subsidiary…
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