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Meta Settles Lawsuit Alleging Social Media Harms to Children for $17 Billion

Meta Platforms has agreed to pay out as much as $17 billion to settle state claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to...

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Maryland Court Strikes Down Nations First State Tax on Digital Advertising

A state tax court in Maryland invalidated the nation’s first state tax on digital advertising and directed state officials to refund tax payments...

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Trade Court Upholds Trumps Shutdown of $800 De Minimis Duty Exemption

The U.S. Court of International Trade in lower Manhattan, N.Y., on May 29, 2025. Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesThe U.S. Court of International Trade on...

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Supreme Court Freezes Lower Court Action in App Store Lawsuit

The U.S. Supreme Court late on Aug. 12 temporarily paused further action in federal district court in California in Apple’s long-running App Store...

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Appeals Court Nixes Meta, TikTok Bid to Halt Youth Addiction Lawsuits

The TikTok app icon on a smartphone, in this illustration taken Oct. 27, 2025. Dado Ruvic/ReutersA federal appeals court on Aug. 10 permitted...

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Apple Suing OpenAI, 2 Ex-Employees, for Allegedly Stealing Trade Secrets

Apple sued two of its former employees and ChatGPT owner OpenAI on July 10 for allegedly stealing its trade secrets.The new legal complaint...

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Supreme Court Allows Exxon Mobil to Sue Over Assets Cuba Nationalized

The Supreme Court in Washington on May 21, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch TimesThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 23 that Exxon Mobil may...

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Supreme Court Bars Private Lawsuits to Enforce Securities Law

Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Washington on Oct. 7, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersThe U.S. Supreme Court on June 11 ruled 6–3...