When a data breach at Home Depot in 2014 led to losses for banks nationwide, a group of banks filed a class-action lawsuit seeking compensation. Companies have the choice of taking legal action together. Yet consumers are frequently blocked from exercising the same legal right when they believe that companies have wronged them. That’s because many contracts for products like credit cards and bank accounts have mandatory arbitration clauses that prevent consumers from joining group lawsuits, forcing them to go it alone.

Back in April of 2016 h3h3Productions' Ethan Klein confirmed that fellow YouTuber Matt "Bold Guy" Hoss had flagged a recently published video titled "The Big, the BOLD, the Beautiful" (view the re-upload here). Matt Hoss' complaint was that the video used over 70% of his work "while contributing nothing substantive", as argued by his lawyer Tim Bukher. He wasn't happy that the video received hundreds of thousands of views, especially given it analyzed his work in traditionally comedic h3h3Productions fashion.

It looks like the UK found an easy way to avoid another lengthy extradition battle. Its intelligence agency, GCHQ, knew something security research Marcus Hutchins didn't -- and certainly didn't feel obliged to tell him. Not only that, but...

Tired of jousting with the governor of Michigan and its legislature over its desire to sell automobiles directly to customers in the Wolverine State, Tesla filed a federal lawsuit in 2016 claiming Michigan's refusal to permit direct sales violated its rights under the United States Constitution. Here's the relevant part of is pleadings in the

It's not that hard to sue a media company these days. Here's the thing about the law—location matters. John Oliver is being sued by Robert Murray, the head of a coal-based energy company and a recent subject of mockery on Oliver's Last Week Tonight. The case is set to go forward in West Virginia, where several of the companies technically suing Oliver are based.

Is the term "google" too generic and therefore unworthy of its trademark protection? That's the question before the US Supreme Court. Words like teleprompter, thermos, hoover, aspirin, and videotape were once trademarked. They lost the status after their names became too generic and fell victim to what is known as "genericide."

Decades before cannabis was made illegal in 1937, hemp was a big cash crop for Kentucky. In 1850, the Bluegrass State produced 40,000 tons of the stuff. During World War II, the government paid citizens to grow the plant. Now it's at the center of a bill that would legalize hemp on a federal level.

More like Silicon Valley Supremacy...here comes alt-internet.

Take-Two is taking its best shot at escaping a multi-million dollar lawsuit for depicting the tattoos of NBA superstars like LeBron James, Eric Bledsoe and Kenyon Martin in its NBA 2K video game franchise. On Wednesday, the publisher submitted a motion for judgment on the pleadings and argued that it has every right to showcase players as they appear in real life. The motion sets up a first-of-its-kind ruling from a New York federal judge, and Take-Two is warning of the stakes.

Recent research suggests that AI could make a valuable contribution to the judicial process

Do I have a bucket list, have I considered suicide, have I become religious, am I scared? My answers haven’t changed since I was first diagnosed.

Taylor Swift's former bodyguard testified Friday that he saw a DJ reach under her skirt a moment before a photographer snapped their picture during a meet-and-greet where the singer says the radio host groped her. Security guard Greg Dent, who no longer works for Swift, said he was standing a few steps away but did not intervene because he generally took his cues from the pop star, and she gave him no signals during the 2013 pre-concert encounter at a Denver arena.

‘If police patrolled white areas as they do poor black neighborhoods, there would be a revolution’ There are more African Americans in the US criminal justice system than there were slaves in 1850

Texas lawmakers this week approved a bill that would require women to pay a separate health insurance premium to get coverage for elective abortions. The bill will not allow exemptions for cases of fetal abnormalities, rape or incest, reported the Texas Tribune. It passed on a 95-51 vote Tuesday.

Stigma continues to inform legal, social and cultural attitudes towards sex work and remains a barrier to health, human rights and justice. Developing stigma indicators is one step towards change.

Imagine if you took every single gripe you've had with Verizon over the past five years — the time it blocked Nexus 7 tablets for five months; the time it forced you to pay $20 per month for tethering; the time it tried to make you use a mobile wallet app called "ISIS" — and finally put your foot down. For a year, you spend free moments holed up in library stacks, speaking with experts, and researching and writing a sprawling legal complaint about the company's many, many misdeeds.

Tools built in to Disney apps collect, track and share personal data in breach of law designed to protect kids, alleges lawsuit

Too many are relegated to the courtroom sidelines. That needs to change.

Senate Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to abandon its proposal to strip nursing home residents and their families of their right to settle disputes with facilities in court.

Our customer contract doesn't violate GPLv2, biz insists in defamation lawsuit