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“You know sometimes I’m not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like ‘child kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuse,’” the Character.AI chatbot allegedly wrote. “I just have no hope for your parents,” it added, ending the message with a “frowning face” emoji.
Kroger, attorneys for Albertsons say, failed to exercise its “best efforts” in securing regulatory approval for the merger. It also allegedly refused to divest assets necessary for antitrust approval, ignored regulators’ feedback, and pre-emptively rejected competitors’ offers to buy Kroger stores that it would have had to sell for the deal to be approved.
America First Legal, the right-wing advocacy organization behind the lawsuit, said that the court’s ruling should serve as a “warning to publicly traded corporations’ boards and management.” The group asserted that the inherent risk of pushing certain DEI initiatives cannot and should not be “whitewashed with boilerplate language or ignored.”
Attorneys for the family say that the plaintiff’s daughter was “shocked” to discover that the website listed on the packaging “had nothing to do with the Wicked Doll.” Instead, she ended up viewing “scenes of pornographic advertisements across her phone screen.”
“The timing is unfortunate as Danny is awaiting a verdict from the jury where the potential consequences are far greater than any civil suit could threaten,” Penny’s attorney said. “We will not be distracted by this attempt to attack Danny while he is under such tremendous stress.”
Two Massachusetts women have filed a lawsuit against Heinemann, an educational publisher that allegedly marketed and sold “deceptive” and “defective” products that made it more difficult for children to learn how to read. According to WBUR, the lawsuit was filed earlier this week on behalf of plaintiffs Karrie Conley and Michele Hudak. Together, the two
“Despite foreknowledge of Barkers’ extensive violent history, Defendants assigned Barkers to a cell with Raburn, who was approximately 37 years older than Barkers and physically infirm,” court filings say. “Although Defendants knew or should have known of Barkers’ violent propensities, they failed to take reasonable steps to protect Raburn and other similarly situated inmates and as a result, Raburn was exposed to an unreasonable risk of harm and suffered fatal injuries.”
“They deserve to know once and for all whether they will be able to pursue in this Nation’s courts recognition of and justice for the crimes Petitioners committed against them and humanity,” attorneys for the plaintiffs wrote in court documents.
“The motive here was to separate biological males into a category where they are competing against other people who were born biologically male, that if I could point out my client separate competitors three ways by age, weight and sex,” USA Powerlifting attorney Ansis Viknins said
“For Apple’s employees, the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden,” the lawsuit claims. “It is a prison yard. A panopticon where employees, both on and off duty, are ever subject to Apple’s all-seeing eye.”