Report from the Luxembourg Times In Brief – More than 10,000 European hotel owners are joining together in a class action suit against the online platform Booking. com, claiming that they were financially harmed by the platform’s long-time use of price parity contract...

Report from the Wall Street Journal In Brief – Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist who has pressured companies to change their DEI practices, has settled a defamation lawsuit he brought against Meta that alleged the company’s AI tool smeared him by falsely...

Report from the Bloomberg In Brief – A New Jersey US district court judge withdrew his decision in a biopharma securities case after lawyers pointed out that his opinion contained numerous errors, including made-up quotes and misstated case outcomes. Judge Julien...

Report from the The Guardian In Brief – Justice Jeremy Johnson of the High Court in London has rejected the Wikimedia Foundation’s effort to have the court rule that Wikipedia should not be categorized as a Category 1 platform under the UK Online Safety Act (OSA),...

Report from the Reuters In Brief – A three-judge panel of the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that had fully upheld the October 2024 District Court injunction in Epic Games’ successful antitrust lawsuit against Google, halted the requirement that it implement...

Report from the >New York Times In Brief – Amidst a tariff standoff with the Trump Administration that includes accusations from President Trump and various US conservatives that critics of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his backers in the...

Report from the >New York Times In Brief – The Supreme Court denied an emergency request by digital company trade group NetChoice to halt a Mississippi law that requires social media platforms to verify all users’ ages, prohibits minors from creating social media...

Report from the Reuters In Brief – A three-judge panel of the Fourth Circuit of the US Court of Appeals has unanimously blocked a provision in Maryland’s landmark 2021 digital advertising services tax that barred companies from using a line-item on bills to inform...

Report from the Miami Times In Brief – Federal District Judge Robert Hinkle has rejected the State of Florida’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its 2021 law that regulates how social media companies engage in content moderation. Hinkle has overseen First...