Category: Court
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Judge agrees to move wildfire settlement questions to Hawaii Supreme Court
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My Photographer Friend/iStock via Getty Images A Maui judge on Friday ruled to allow the Hawaii Supreme Court to rule on a matter holding up a $4 billion wildfire settlement that was first reached a little over a month ago. Judge Peter Cahill in Maui agreed. to ask the state…
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Brazil watchdog moves to block access to Elon Musk’s X after court order By Reuters
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Written by Lisandra Paraguaso, Luana Maria Benedetto and Ricardo Brito SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s telecommunications regulator said on Friday it will continue to suspend access to Elon Musk’s social media network X in the country in compliance with an order from a judge embroiled in a months-long dispute with…
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Moscow court orders arrest of Russian-Israeli businessman
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Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Russian-Israeli Oleg Kiselev, who between 2008 and 2019 was vice president of Rusnano, a Russian state-owned nanotechnology company. Kiselev, who is not in Russia, faces charges of “embezzlement of particularly large sums of money,” which prompted Russia to issue…
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Court Deals Double Blow To Kraken: SEC Lawsuit Moves Forward
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In a major legal setback for one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, a California judge has ruled to revoke its license. to rule Cryptocurrency platform Kraken is set to face a lawsuit filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kraken faces uphill legal battle The SEC alleges that…
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US appeals court scraps Biden tipped wages rule By Reuters
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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday rejected a rule adopted by President Joe Biden’s administration aimed at increasing wages for tipped workers, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that limited the ability of federal agencies to issue regulations. A three-judge panel of the New…
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Greenpeace files supreme court case accusing Finland of climate inaction
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A group of environmental and human rights organizations said Thursday they are suing the Finnish government for violating the country’s climate legislation by not taking enough action to meet climate targets. In a statement, the six organizations noted that in 2022, Finland adopted “one of the strongest net-zero climate targets…
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Court issues stay-of-proceedings for Landa’s diamond co
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The District Court today issued an order to halt the proceedings of Benny Lando’s lab-grown diamond product for 14 days. LucixJudge Irit Weinberg Notowitz has appointed attorney Shai Bar-Nir to submit a report on the company’s status within ten days. “It appears that there is a need to appoint an…
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Duty Free Americas petitions court on IAA tenders
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Duty Free Americas, which operates the largest duty-free chain in the United States, is trying to make a deeper push into the Israeli market. In May, the company, owned by the Falic family, which is close to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, submitted a bid to operate duty-free stores at the…
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Court blocks key part of California law on children’s online safety By Reuters
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld a key part of a court order blocking enforcement of a California law aimed at protecting children from online content that could harm them mentally or physically. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San…
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Celsius Drags Tether To Court In $3.5 Billion Legal Showdown
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Celsius, a cryptocurrency lender, has filed a lawsuit against Tether, accusing it of misappropriating assets. The move comes amid the cryptocurrency company, which filed for bankruptcy in 2022,’s latest attempt to recover billions of dollars in funds for creditors. Why is Celsius asking for over $3.5 billion from Tether? Bankrupt…
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Win for Moi estate as Supreme Court overturns Sh1 billion payout
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The Supreme Court has overturned a Court of Appeal ruling that ordered the estate of former President Daniel Moi and businessman Jaswant Rai to pay more than Sh1 billion to an Eldoret family for allegedly seizing their land in 1983. The family of Noah Chilugwe, the former leader who died…
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Petitioner in court to scuttle proposed JKIA expansion deal
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Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) and the government have been taken to court over contracts with an Indian company for a proposed $1.85 billion (Sh238 billion) concession to build a new passenger terminal and refurbish existing facilities at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Mr Isaac Lango Gayo wants the proposed deal for…
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Court stops Joho family firm Sh5.9bn grain facility at Mombasa port
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The High Court has temporarily halted the construction of a second bulk grain handling facility at the Port of Mombasa, which was awarded to companies linked to mining cabinet secretary nominee and former Mombasa governor Hassan Joho. The High Court, headed by Deputy Chief Justice Philomena Mwilu, ruled that the…
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USDOJ tells court to reject TikTok challenge to crackdown law By Reuters
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By David Shepardson The U.S. Justice Department late Friday asked a U.S. appeals court to dismiss legal challenges to a law requiring Chinese company ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. “The serious national security threat posed by TikTok is real,” the department said.…
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Trump lawyers push New York appeals court to overturn $500m verdict
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Following our victories in other legal cases, Donald Trump On Monday, Trump pressed a New York appeals court to overturn a judgment in a nearly $500 million New York civil fraud case that threatens to drain his personal cash reserves as he continues his campaign to reclaim the White House.…
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Bangladesh extends curfew ahead of court hearing on controversial job quotas By Reuters
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Written by Muhammad Bonir Hussein and Sam Jahan DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh extended a curfew on Sunday to control violent student-led protests that have killed at least 114 people as authorities prepared for a Supreme Court hearing later in the day on government job quotas that have sparked anger. Military…
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U.S. court rules against Booking.com in Ryanair screen-scraping case By Reuters
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – A U.S. court has ruled that Booking.com violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act by accessing part of Ryanair’s website without permission, court documents showed. The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passenger numbers, said the ruling would help end unauthorised manipulation of passenger data by booking sites.…
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Win for St Bakhita parents as court suspends school fees hike
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Parents and guardians of St. Bakhita Schools in Nairobi have been granted amnesty after the High Court temporarily barred the management from increasing school fees and other charges. In her ruling, Judge Janet Molwa said parents and their children would suffer if the notice issued by the administration in March…
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No Bail For Tornado Cash Dev Alexey Pertsev, Dutch Court Rules
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The ongoing legal dispute over the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer has put the blockchain sector on alert as developers consider the troubling consequences of assigning programmers responsibility for the use of their software by others. Pertsev’s Dilemma At the center of the storm is Alexei Pertsev, a 31-year-old Russian developer…
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US court temporarily puts net neutrality rules reinstatement on hold By Reuters
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court said on Friday it has temporarily halted the Federal Communications Commission’s reinstatement of landmark net neutrality rules until Aug. 5 while it considers legal challenges from the broadband industry. The Federal Communications Commission voted in April along party lines to…