4 posts tagged ‘law’
Judge won't let Giuliani keep his witness list sealed
Boing Boing,
Rudy Giuliani—formerly America's Mayor and lately Donald Trump's startlingly disgraced lawyer—will not be able to keep a list of witnesses hidden until a legal hearing next month that could strip him of his Florida condo. Giuliani is on the hook for a $148m defamation verdict after lying about two election workers, but has been doing his best to avoid compensating them. — Read the rest The post Judge won't let Giuliani keep his witness list sealed appeared first on Boing Boing.
Judge allows California’s ban on addictive feeds for minors to go into effect
TechCrunch,
Late Tuesday evening, a federal judge blocked tech lobbying group NetChoice’s challenge to California’s recently enacted law, SB 976, which prohibits companies from serving “addictive feeds” to minors. The effect of this decision is that beginning Wednesday, companies will be prohibited from serving an addictive feed to a California-based user they know to be a […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
190 years in jail for Texas doctor who poisoned IV bags with anesthetics, killing one and hurting 11
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! Raynaldo Ortiz was found guilty in April of injecting IV bags with anesthetics, leading to the death of one person and poisoning 11 more. A judge yesterday sentenced him to 190 years in jail, the maximum possible, with no chance of release within his lifetime. — Read the rest The post 190 years in jail for Texas doctor who poisoned IV bags with anesthetics, killing one and hurting 11 appeared first on Boing Boing.
Sandy Hook families offer Alex Jones settlement deal
Alex Jones lied about the families of victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, dared the courts to convict him of defamation, and ended up owing $1.48bn. He now has a settlement offer on the table to get out of bankruptcy: pay $8.5 million per year, plus 50 percent of any income over $9 million per year, for ten years. — Read the rest