The Verge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

It also started out as a secret, with the police department paying for it not with city funds, which would be subject to public scrutiny, but with funding from two Texas billionaires. In April, the ACLU filed a lawsuit in an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the program.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Work to create a fairer judicial environment for nonprofits NIA has been working for several years to help pass common-sense laws in the most problematic states to help level the playing field so that nonprofits are not being held accountable for things over which they have no control.

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government and states like Texas. DAISY Audio and MP3 formats offer Bookshare members more choices to read on the go In this case, we upgraded the Bookshare website to allow direct downloads of accessible MP3 files for a small number of Bookshare ebooks. The Lavelle Fund also supports programs benefiting the developing world.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2020

The group’s California chapter is joined on the suit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP. The company, which filed its own lawsuit earlier this year, was leaning on an analysis by California’s Legislative Counsel to make its argument.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various Greenpeace entities coordinated delays and disruptions of a controversial oil pipeline’s construction in North Dakota , and defamed the company to its lenders. Energy Transfer subsequently filed the lawsuit now at trial in state court.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2022

Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology — and that the company’s competitors are infringing on intellectual property rights with their implementation of network security software.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

During the hearing titled “Protecting Kids Online: Testimony from a Facebook Whistleblower,” Haugen walked senators through most of The Wall Street Journal ’s Facebook Files , touching on ethnic violence, national security, polarization, and more during her testimony. For their part, senators sought to paint the hearing in historic terms.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

Kodiak Robotics completed a commercial run between Texas, California and Florida for 10 Roads Express , as part of a pilot program with the USPS mail carrier. The company said in a regulatory filing that it has delayed production of its FF91 flagship electric vehicle due to lack of money and supply chain issues. The big three U.S.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Netflix has been indicted in Texas on charges that the film Cuties contains lewd depictions of children. A grand jury in Tyler County, Texas, is charging Netflix with “Promotion Of Lewd Visual Material Depicting A Child,” a criminal act in Texas that was introduced into state law in 2018, Reuters reported. Netflix, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Family law attorney Erin Levine founded the company in 2018 so that couples getting a divorce could access “affordable meaningful legal counsel” and resources beyond online forms. With this seed round, the company plans on rapidly scaling legal filing options across the U.S.,

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Hackers were able to access files containing personal information for hundreds of thousands of Planned Parenthood Los Angeles patients with a ransomware attack that occurred in October, according to a report by The Washington Post. Wade ), and earlier this year Texas made it illegal to get an abortion after just six weeks of pregnancy.

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Achieve

MARCH 4, 2022

From fundraising legal requirements to digital privacy laws, it’s important to understand the rules to which your nonprofit can be held accountable. Regulation #1: The CAN-SPAM Act The CAN-SPAM Act was passed into US law in 2003, and it protects consumers from receiving emails that they never agreed to receive.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Four Democratic members of Congress are calling for an investigation into whether an alleged secret 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook concerning digital advertising violated federal antitrust law. Still, the specific allegations in the Texas case have been enough to spark further action. the Sherman Antitrust Act”.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 5, 2025

The controversial App Store Accountability Act , which will now head to the desk of Utah Governor Spencer Cox, has pitted app store giants Google and Apple against social media companies like Meta and is part of a wave of similar proposals that have been introduced in a number of states, including Texas and Alabama.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

Over $1 billion in refunds still to be claimed The refunds are due to people who have yet to file their 2021 tax return. The 2021 tax season was an especially chaotic one , as the COVID-19 pandemic had hindered both IRS operations and people’s ability file their taxes on time. million taxpayers still need to file that return.

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The Verge

JULY 13, 2020

Police departments in Ohio and Texas have refused to enforce statewide mandates, and West Virginia’s mask rule leaves enforcement up to businesses, which are often paralyzed by the bizarre politics of the issue. A group of citizens in Washington state filed a lawsui t claiming Gov. The union, which represents 1.3

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

A Texas pipeline company’s lawsuit accusing Greenpeace of defamation, disruptions and attacks during protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline goes to trial in North Dakota on Monday, in a case the environmental advocacy organization says threatens free speech rights and its very future. What does Energy Transfer say?

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2020

On Monday afternoon, Musk confirmed in a tweet that Tesla was restarting production “against Alameda County rules,” said that he would be “on the line” at the factory, and asked that only he be arrested if law enforcement officials try to shut down operations.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

The order, which had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist TdA aliens had already been removed from U.S. In a court filing Sunday, the Department of Justice, which has appealed Boasberg’s decision, said it would not use the Trump proclamation he blocked for further deportations if his decision is not overturned.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The firing of immigration judges when we need more judges to enforce our immigration laws by this administration is a perfect example of hypocrisy, said Matt Biggs, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, in an emailed statement to Beyond the Border. But the letters went to immigration judges anyway.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan sent an urgent email this month to its more than 1,000 lawyers: Artificial intelligence can invent fake case law, and using made-up information in a court filing could get you fired. The Walmart case stands out because it involves a well-known law firm and a big corporate defendant.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

May 30, 2023 Texas judge orders all AI-generated content must be declared and checked The Texas federal judge has added a requirement that any attorney appearing in his court must attest that “no portion of the filing was drafted by generative artificial intelligence,” or if it was, that it was checked “by a human being.”

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 19, 2025

Backers say it’ll modernize the law and maintain balance between corporate officers and shareholders in a state where the courts, for a century, have settled all sorts of business disputes as the legal home of more than two million corporate entities, including two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies. What did Musk and others do?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

Mia Francis, a 22-year-old barista from Boston, filed her taxes on her own this year for the first time, using a free government tax filing program that made it easy because it did most of the work for her. But one Republican tax expert says the IRS never got congressional authorization to create Direct File.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 25, 2025

Alabamas was the first application for a state-run coal ash program that the EPA has denied; so far , only Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma have been approved. But to Nick Torrey, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, it has little to do with energy productionand more to do with utilities bottom line.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Pantex Plant, the primary nuclear weapons facility in the United States, in Carson County, Texas, was the target of 30% of the cuts. There have been at least 73 lawsuits filed over Trump’s executive orders since he took office. “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” the president wrote.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

The US Department of Justice is investigating Google’s massive digital advertising business, and is expected to file a lawsuit against the search giant this summer. The company is also ensnared in another probe by a coalition of state attorneys general, led by Texas AG Ken Paxton. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his governing A.K.P.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 12, 2025

While challenging, in some cases, labor laws have protected some unauthorized immigrants from deportation, at least temporarily. Legal protections Federal and state laws guarantee some basic protections for all workers , regardless of their immigration status. have labor rights and how those workers can defend them.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

The company’s home was conspicuously absent from the list of 48 states — along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia — that are taking part in a separate investigation led by Texas. In an amicus brief filed Monday, the U.S. Stylistically, they’re laws. David McCabe / New York Times ). government.” The Hill ).

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

McKinnon : Both the Justice Department and a group of state attorneys general are likely to file antitrust lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s At least some state attorneys general—led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican—are likely to file a case, probably in the fall, people familiar with the matter said.

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