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Judge Rules Against Users Suing Google and Apple Over ‘Annoying’ Search Results
In an order (PDF) granting the tech companies’ motion to dismiss, US District Judge Rita Lin said that users did not present enough evidence to support claims for relief. Lin dismissed some claims with prejudice but gave leave to amend others, allowing users another chance to keep their case — now twice-dismissed — at least partially alive. Under Lin’s order, users will not be able to amend claims that Google and Apple executives allegedly sealed the default search deal on the condition that Apple would not create its own general search engine through “private, secret, and clandestine personal meetings.” Because plaintiffs showed no evidence pinpointing exactly when Apple allegedly agreed to stay out of the general search market, these meetings, Lin reasoned, could just as easily indicate “rational, legal business behavior,” rather than an “illegal conspiracy.”
Users attempted to argue that Google and Apple intentionally hid these facts from the public, but Lin wrote that their “conclusory and vague allegations that defendants ‘secretly conducted meetings’ and ‘engaged in conduct to obfuscate internal communications’ are plainly insufficient.” Sharing bystander photos documenting Google’s Sundar Pichai and Apple’s Tim Cook meeting at a restaurant with a manila folder tucked under Pichai’s elbow did not help users’ case. Lin was also not moved by users demonstrating that Google has a history of destroying evidence, because “they put forth no specific factual allegations that defendants did so in this case.” However, users will have 30 days to amend currently “inadequately” alleged claims that “Google’s exclusive default agreement, under which Apple set Google as the default search engine for its Safari web browser, foreclosed competition in the general search services market in the United States,” Lin wrote. If users miss that deadline, the case will be tossed with no opportunities to further amend claims.
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GlobalFoundries is suing IBM for IP and trade secret violation
GlobalFoundries recently filed a lawsuit against IBM, saying the company illegally shared trade secrets and confidential intellectual property with Rapidus. Big Blue is working with the Japanese consortium to develop cutting-edge microchip technology on a two-nanometer manufacturing process. GlobalFoundries says IBM is infringing its IP.
Rescue dog owner who lost an arm after the pet bit her is suing RSPCA for £200,000
The balls on this guy: An author is suing Amazon and JRR Tolkien’s grandson claiming they infringed on his Lord of the Rings fanfiction
Nexon is suing Dark and Darker developer Ironmace Games over “copyright infringement”
Dark and Darker developer Ironmace is now being sued by Nexon over “copyright infringement,” in the latest update of this bumpy journey.
This comes from Escape from Tarkov streamer and content creator Onepeg, who shared that the lawsuit had been filed by Nexon last Friday (April 14), alleging copyright infringement over Dark and Darker. To catch you up to speed quickly, Dark and Darker was pulled from Steam last month due to a cease and desist from Nexon, as it believes that Ironmace Games has been using stolen assets and code to developer Dark and Darker. This belief comes from the fact that Ironmace’s founder Terence Park, and another developer Ju-Hyun Choi previously worked at Nexon on an apparently similar fantasy game codenamed P3 between 2020-2021.
Nexon has accused Choi of stealing assets while working there, and that in turn Dark and Darker was developed with them. Now, thanks to Onepeg, it has become apparent that this has escalated to Nexon filing a lawsuit against Ironmace. According to the lawsuit, both Choi and Park would have signed a “one-year-non-compete clause,” with Nexon as part of their employee agreement, which “prevents employees from working in the same line of business that could potentially infringe on Nexon’s trade secrets, without Nexon’s prior consent.”
Nexon are suing Dark And Darker developers over copyright infringement
Publisher Nexon have filed a lawsuit against Ironmace Games, the developers behind the multiplayer looter Dark And Darker, accusing the studio and two individual developers of copyright infringement. The two Korean companies recently went public with their dispute, but now their beef has extended to the US legal system where Nexon is demanding a trial by jury.
Rotherham grooming survivor awarded £425k after suing rapist
Relative of skier suing Gwyneth Paltrow over collision on slopes claims it was like ‘a hit and run’
A RELATIVE of the skier suing Gwyneth Paltrow over a collision on the slopes has told a court it was like “a hit and run”.
But Mark Herath was ticked off by a judge who said his remark would be struck from the record.
A relative of the skier suing Gwyneth Paltrow over a collision on the slopes has told a court it was like ‘a hit and run’[/caption]
Terry Sanderson, who alleges the film star left him with brain injuries by crashing into him[/caption]
Mr Herath was giving evidence on behalf of Terry Sanderson, 76, who alleges the film star left him with brain injuries by crashing into him.
He said: “She and whoever was with her left the scene of the accident, that’s what surprised me.
“It’s like a hit and run. It’s a serious offence.”
After a discussion with both side’s lawyers, Judge Kent Holmberg told the jury: “There’s no claim based on a so-called hit and run and the witness should refrain from using that terminology.
“The term is stricken from the record and the jury should ignore the witness’s use of that term.”
Before the trial the judge lowered the claim from £2.5m to £245,000 and ruled that the accident was not a hit and run crash.
Ms Paltrow, 50, denies liability and is counter-suing, saying the retired eye specialist caused the accident.
The case in Utah, US, continues.
Meta is suing Freenom, cybercriminals’ favorite domain registrar
Meta is suing Freenom, a Netherlands-based registry service managing five of the most infamous top-level domains in the phishing business. Mark Zuckerberg’s corporation said that Freenom has repeatedly ignored its abuse complaints, becoming a safe haven for phishers, cyber-squatters and other cybercriminals while collecting money through traffic monetization to the…