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Microsoft is ready to fight for its $69 billion Activision deal

Microsoft Corp. is ready to fight for its $69 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard Inc. if the US Federal Trade Commission files a lawsuit seeking to block the deal, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Tribune News Service

Balenciaga says it will drop lawsuit against production company in new statement

The brand has issued three statements since the backlash

The Independent UK

Challenge to California Fee-Shifting Statute That Targets Gun Lawsuit Plaintiffs (and Lawyers) Can Proceed

The case is not rendered moot or unripe, the court says, by the California AG's "commitment not to seek attorney's fees or costs under this provision 'unless and until a court ultimately holds that the fee-shifting provision in [a similar Texas law provision related to abortion] is constitutional and enforceable....'"

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Judge sanctions Lake lawyers over claim

Sanctions were imposed as "a message to those who might file similarly baseless suits in the future"

Salon

Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch to testify in $1.6bn Dominion lawsuit

Murdoch and his media company accused of allowing Fox News to spread lies that voting machine company rigged 2020 election

The Guardian - US

Uvalde survivors file a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against police and others

Parents, teachers, school staff and students who were on scene the day of the shooting are demanding redress for "the indelible and forever-lasting trauma" caused by the failures of law enforcement.

WEKU

Uvalde school shooting victims' parents file lawsuit — but what other legal actions have families taken after US gun attacks?

Families of those killed in the May school shooting begin a $US27 billion class action lawsuit against officials, a legal pathway taken by victims' relatives in other US mass shootings.

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Uvalde sues local prosecutor over school shooting records

The city of Uvalde has sued the local prosecutor’s office seeking access to records and other investigative materials on the May shooting at Robb Elementary School that left 19 children and two teachers dead

The Independent UK

Lawsuit blames Fauci and federal agencies for Kansas City musician’s COVID-19 death

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The widow of a popular Kansas City-area musician has filed a lawsuit accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci and the National Institutes of Health of indirectly causing her husband’s death from COVID-19 by funding coronavirus experimentation at a lab in China.

Tribune News Service

Chief of staff for Florida prosecutor Andrew Warren undercuts argument in DeSantis lawsuit

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Former Hillsborough County State Attorney Andrew Warren’s chief of staff told Warren not to sign a pledge that he wouldn’t prosecute abortions, according to testimony Thursday, the third day of trial in Warren’s lawsuit challenging Gov. Ron DeSantis’ decision to remove him from office.

Tribune News Service

Cheerleading abuse accusations increase to 20 with new Ohio case

The latest lawsuit alleging widespread misconduct across competitive cheerleading says officials permitted two choregraphers to continue working with young athletes after they were investigated for sexual abuse

The Independent UK

Appeals court wipes out Trump lawsuit over Mar-a-Lago search - Roll Call

A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out Donald Trump’s lawsuit to keep federal prosecutors from using documents seized at his club.

Roll Call

Cheerleading abuse accusations increase to 20 with Ohio case

The Independent UK

Cain Velasquez family lawsuit allowed to proceed after judge denies Paul Bender’s motion to stay

The lawsuit filed against accused child molester Harry Goularte and family will proceed even as criminal cases are pending.

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Late Sacramento priest newly accused of child sex abuse as Catholic Church lawsuits pile up

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A late clergyman who served the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento for four decades has been accused for the first time of sexually assaulting a child, joining dozens of Sacramento clergy previously implicated in the Catholic Church’s decades-old abuse scandal.

The Texas Tribune

Migrants flown from Texas to Massachusetts sue “Perla,” who recruited them for flights

The flights, financed by Florida at the direction of Gov. Ron DeSantis, were filled by Perla Huerta of San Antonio, who was added to a lawsuit against DeSantis and others on Tuesday.

The Independent UK

In Arizona, losing candidate points to perceived conflict

Republican Kari Lake and supporters of her failed campaign for Arizona governor are attacking Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs as having a conflict of interest for overseeing the election she won

The Independent UK

Yale University sued over student mental health policies

Yale University is being accused of discriminating against students with mental health disabilities, including pressuring some to withdraw from the prestigious institution and then placing “unreasonable burdens” on those who seek to be reinstated

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The Independent UK

Top Florida officials added to lawsuit over Martha’s Vineyard migrant flights

A civil rights group that has sued Florida governor Ron DeSantis for tricking two planeloads of South and Central American asylum seekers into boarding charter flights bound for the liberal Massachusetts community of Martha’s Vineyard has added two top Sunshine State officials as defendants in their lawsuit.

The Guardian - US

Survivor of Walmart mass shooting in Virginia files $50m lawsuit

Donya Prioleau says company should have acted on the shooter’s pattern of disturbing behavior in the Virginia store

Axios

The lawsuit against Leon Black is just the beginning

A new law opens up a one-year window for survivors to file suit over older claims.

Fortune

A new lawsuit accusing Apollo co-founder Leon Black of rape underscores his connection to Jeffrey Epstein

A woman alleges that the prominent private equity investor had violently raped her in 2002 in Jeffrey Epstein’s Upper East Side townhome.

The Guardian - US

Arizona set for legal battles after county refuses to certify midterm results

Republican officials face two lawsuits, likely court intervention to force their vote and potential criminal penalties

Tribune News Service

Billionaire investor Leon Black accused of rape in new Adult Survivor’s Act lawsuit

NEW YORK — A billionaire investor with ties to the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been accused of raping a young mother at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion under New York’s new Adult Survivor’s Act.

Tribune News Service

Walmart employee sues for $50 million, says company knew about gunman’s troubling behavior

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A Walmart employee who says she narrowly missed being shot as another employee opened fire inside a Chesapeake store last week filed a $50 million lawsuit against the company Tuesday, alleging it ignored her complaints about his troubling behavior in the months prior to the deadly…

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