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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican-led state of Missouri asked a judge on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending lawyers to St. Louis on Election Day to monitor for compliance with federal voting rights laws, even after the city’s election board agreed to permit…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A Florida mother has sued artificial intelligence chatbot startup Character.AI accusing it of causing her 14-year-old son’s suicide in February, saying he became addicted to the company’s service and deeply attached to a chatbot it created. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Orlando, Florida federal court,…
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – Eli Lilly (NYSE:) said on Monday it sued three medical spas and online vendors for selling products claiming to contain tirzepatide, the main ingredient in its popular weight-loss medicine Zepbound, including in the form of dissolvable tablets. The new lawsuits, which name Pivotal Peptides, MangoRx…
By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX has sued a California commission in federal court, accusing panel members of political bias in blocking the space venture company from increasing the number of rockets it launches from a U.S. air base in the state. SpaceX sued the…
By Valerie Volcovici NEW YORK (Reuters) -California has filed a lawsuit against oil giant Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) over its alleged role in global plastic waste pollution, its attorney general announced on Monday. Speaking at an event during Climate Week in New York City, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the…
By Jody Godoy and Ahmed Aboulenein (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued the country’s three largest pharmacy benefit managers on Friday, accusing them of steering diabetes patients towards higher priced insulin in order to reap millions of dollars in rebates from pharmaceutical companies. The case accuses UnitedHealth Group Inc…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Royal Bank of Canada’s former CFO Nadine Ahn has filed a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the bank, and alleged that “gender-based stereotyping” was at play in her dismissal. In April, RBC, Canada’s biggest bank, said it had terminated Ahn after its investigation found she was in an undisclosed…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden sued conservative news outlet Fox News on Monday for publishing nude photos and videos of him in a fictionalized “mock trial” show focused on his foreign business dealings. Hunter Biden alleges Fox violated New York state’s so-called revenge porn…
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -The nation’s largest oil trade group, which includes Exxon Mobil (NYSE:) and Chevron (NYSE:) , filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block the Biden administration’s efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions from cars and light trucks and encourage electric vehicle manufacturing, the group said. The…
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -Elon Musk made billions of dollars by selling Tesla (NASDAQ:) stock using insider information, an institutional shareholder accused in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, asking the court to direct the Tesla CEO to return “unlawful profits.” The lawsuit comes two days before a critical vote by Tesla…
