Tag: Legal proceedings

Philadelphia DA sues Elon Musk's America PAC over its $1 million giveaway

The district attorney of Philadelphia filed a lawsuit Monday to halt Elon Musk 's $1 million giveaways as part of his political organization's...

A pizza shop owner is sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for threatening workers with deportation

BOSTON -- The owner of two Boston-area pizza shops convicted of forced labor for using physical violence and threats of reprisal or deportation...

Former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO pleads not guilty to sex trafficking and prostitution charges

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. -- The former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch pleaded not guilty Friday to federal sex trafficking and interstate prostitution...

Hallmark exec says leading ladies Lacey Chabert, Holly Robinson Peete are 'aging out': lawsuit

Hallmark Media executive vice president of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly instructed a former employee not to cast “old people” for Hallmark roles, saying...

Brazil reaches a $23 billion settlement with mining firms over a 2015 environmental disaster

SAO PAULO -- SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal government on Friday reached a multibillion-dollar settlement with the mining companies responsible for a...

An AI chatbot pushed a teen to kill himself, a lawsuit against its creator alleges

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the final moments before he took his own life, 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III took out his phone and messaged...