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September 22, 2017
Cop’s Dallas Shooting Suit Against Twitter On Thin Ice
A California federal judge seem poised Friday to toss a Dallas police sergeant's suit alleging Twitter, Facebook and Google gave a platform to the terrorist organizations that radicalized the gunman who ambushed and killed five officers in July 2016, saying the causal link between social media posts and the shooting is tenuous.
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September 22, 2017
9th Circ. Affirms Narrowed Fishing Area For Wash. Tribe
A Ninth Circuit panel Friday said that the Suquamish tribe does not have the right to fish in an area on the eastern side of Washington's Puget Sound, upholding a ruling that there was no evidence presented in a key 1975 hearing that the tribe ever fished or traveled through the area.
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September 22, 2017
Attys Want $1.6M Cut Of App Privacy Deal With Tech Giants
The attorneys who worked out a $5.3 million deal with tech companies including Twitter, Instagram and Yelp in a consolidated proposed class action over alleged user privacy violations asked a California federal judge Friday to award $1.6 million in fees for their work.
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September 22, 2017
Dignity Health Escapes Indemnity Co.'s Med Mal Claims
A longshore mutual insurance company on Thursday lost its suit against a hospital that performed surgery on one of its member’s workers who then died, with the California federal court saying an insurer doesn’t have standing to bring wrongful death claims.
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September 22, 2017
Exide, Tort Trustee Clash Over Post-Bankruptcy Relief
The trustee responsible for pursuing more than $1 billion worth of environmental negligence claims against recently reorganized Exide Technologies Inc. has hit back against the battery recycler’s bid to undo those claims in Delaware bankruptcy court, saying the court has no jurisdiction now that Exide has emerged from bankruptcy.
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