Legal News

A Capitol One customer with a history of threatening corporations that he felt had “wronged” him is facing up to five years in federal prison after he allegedly vowed to assassinate company executives using a machete and gasoline to accomplish his plot, according to media reports.

Defense lawyers say the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch may have dementia, and a competency hearing is necessary to determine if he can face sex charges.

Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

The CFPB is suing Walmart.

Case file: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_ea-walmart-complaint_2024-12.pdf

The case comes on the heels of other attacks on diversity and inclusion programs, partly inspired by the Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions.

The Montana Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a state law violated the youth plaintiffs’ right to a clean and healthful environment under the state constitution.

Case file: https://dailymontanan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Opinion-Published.pdf

I’ll preface this post by saying a part of me hates writing posts like this. We recently talked about a trademark lawsuit brought by KFC against Church’s Chicken centered on Church’s advertisements of a return to its “original recipe” for some of its chicken. Powering the suit was the trademark KFC has on the term “Original Recipe”. As I outlined in the original post, this trademark granted by the USPTO way back in the 1970s never should have been a thing. It’s generic, it’s descriptive, and it’s all the moreso both when you consider that it was granted for the restaurant market.

The Lithuanian Constitutional Court ruled on Wednesday that a provision of a law that prohibits the spread of information about same-sex content relationships to minors is unconstitutional.

Case file: https://lrkt.lt/lt/teismo-aktai/paieska/135/ta3089/content (Lithuanian)

UK judge issues 1-year suspended prison sentence as Wright hides in Asia.

Case file: https://www.judiciary.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/COPA-v-Wright-Approved-Judgment-on-Liability-for-Contempt-2024-EWHC-3315-Ch.pdf

“I have a fundamental right to be protected by my government, especially in times of war. My children and I deserve to return to the safety of the U.S.”

Case file: https://www.cair.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/lawsuit.pdf

A US appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s ruling that police in Phoenix, Arizona used excessive force against protesters outside a Donald Trump rally.

Case file: https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2024/12/19/22-15344.pdf

LR Trust wants Pat Gelsinger and David Zinsner to return their compensation.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.441318/gov.uscourts.cand.441318.1.0.pdf

A trial will move forward to determine damages.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25467231/whatsapp-v-nso-group-order-re-motions-for-summary-judgment-motion-for-sanctions-and-discovery-letter-briefs.pdf

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on Friday that it has filed a lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase Bank, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo Bank for allowing fraud to occur on the Zelle platform.

Case file: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_Zelle-Complaint_2024-12.pdf

The Provincial Court of Madrid on Friday sentenced Spanish politician and former Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Rodrigo Rato to four years, nine months, and one day in prison for corruption and money laundering crimes. The verdict concludes a criminal investigation that began in 2015, prompted by an alert from the Anti-Fraud Office regarding irregularities in Rato’s asset declarations.

Press release: https://www.poderjudicial.es/portal/site/cgpj/menuitem.65d2c4456b6ddb628e635fc1dc432ea0/?vgnextoid=18335fc2dc3e3910VgnVCM1000004648ac0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=57bea8dc69e7d210VgnVCM100000cb34e20aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default&vgnextlocale=es_ES

The Vaucluse criminal court in Avignon, France convicted 51 men including the main defendant Dominique Pelicot in a rape trial on Thursday. The case sparks debates on adding the consent element to the current definition of rape under the French Criminal Code.

The legal battle begins.

Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul over unlawful practices.

FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/12/ftc-illinois-attorney-general-take-action-against-grubhub-harming-diners-workers-small-businesses

Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.

"For too long, the State Department has acted as if there’s an ‘Israel exemption' from the Leahy Law,” says group supporting the lawsuit.

Case file: https://dawnmena.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/GAZA-et-al-v.-BLINKEN.pdf