California Supreme Court justices doubted Tuesday Chrysler's arguments that a consumer who traded her lemon vehicle with a third party must deduct its trade-in value from restitution she's entitled to under the Song-Beverly Act, noting Chrysler repeatedly refused to buy back her Jeep, with one justice asking, "What's the consumer to do?"
The Ninth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a woman's sexual assault suit against soccer megastar Cristiano Ronaldo, finding that the lower court got it right in finding that the woman's counsel acted in bad faith by relying on privileged documents that were leaked after Ronaldo's former counsel's computers were hacked.
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Tuesday of keeping alive a proposed securities class action alleging Robinhood Markets Inc. hid how a "meme stock" and crypto trading frenzy overstated its financial outlook in the lead-up to its $2.1 billion initial public offering, saying those trends "were no secret" at the time.
Consumers urged a California federal judge Friday to keep alive their proposed antitrust class action alleging Google and Apple conspired not to compete in the search engine market, arguing that the companies were "forced to admit" Google shared its revenues with Apple and that's a categorical violation of antitrust law.
An Arizona federal jury convicted two former Backpage.com executives of multiple criminal charges while acquitting two others and finding Backpage's co-founder guilty of one count of money laundering, ending a monthslong retrial in a sprawling criminal case over charges they facilitated the now-defunct classifieds website's $500 million prostitution scheme.