Danish Health Minister Ida Auken has been summoned to explain potential legal action against pharmaceutical company Novo over its weight-loss drug Wegovy, which has caused blindness in at least 27 Danish citizens. The government has already paid over 10 million kroner in compensation, and the State Advocate's confidential assessment will determine whether Novo can be sued to cover these costs.
New York State sued Polymarket U.S. for operating an unlicensed gambling platform in violation of state laws, nearly two months after suing competitor Kalshi. The lawsuit seeks penalties including three times Polymarket's gains and $100,000 per wagering offer, citing risks to vulnerable users aged 18–24. Polymarket, regulated federally by the CFTC, defended itself and said it would fight the action.
A California federal judge finalized a settlement between LinkedIn and software companies ProAPIs and Netswift, requiring them to stop mass scraping of user data, delete scraped information, cease using fake accounts, and refrain from selling the data. LinkedIn alleged the firms created millions of bogus accounts to continuously scrape member profiles, comments, and reactions despite LinkedIn's efforts to block them.
Passengers stranded by the July 2024 CrowdStrike software outage are petitioning the Supreme Court to sue for damages, though Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike was allowed to proceed. The passengers' case was dismissed under the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act, which bars state law claims related to airline services, despite CrowdStrike not being an airline. The Supreme Court must resolve conflicting interpretations among federal appeals courts about what qualifies as an airline "service" under the preemption doctrine.
Hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against GLP-1 drug makers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk alleging their weight-loss medications, including Ozempic and Mounjaro, caused permanent vision loss through a condition called NAION. The plaintiffs claim the drugmakers failed to warn patients of this side effect, though it appears on labels in some other countries. Both companies deny a significant link between their drugs and vision loss.
More than 100 people allege brain injuries from Six Flags' X2 roller coaster in Southern California over the last two years, following a CNN investigation linking the ride to serious injuries and deaths. Civil attorneys filed three lawsuits this week against Six Flags, arguing the company knew of dangers but allowed the ride to continue operating. Injured riders report severe complications including traumatic brain injuries, hospitalizations, and life-altering disabilities.
Hundreds of Americans are suing GLP-1 drug makers after experiencing vision loss, including a Georgia nurse who lost sight in one eye while taking Wegovy. Patients report they were not adequately warned about the rare eye condition NAION, though drug companies dispute the link and claim labels contain appropriate warnings.
Automattic's entire board resigned following a failed attempt to oust CEO Matt Mullenweg with a paid leave vote. Board members Toni Schneider, Sue Decker, and Gen. Ann Dunwoody departed, while Mullenweg reasserted control; the company also lost its Chief Legal Officer and CFO. The shakeup occurred amid Automattic's ongoing trademark dispute with WordPress hosting company WP Engine.
The NEC V20 was an Intel 8088-compatible CPU that offered modest performance improvements and became popular as a cheap upgrade for 1980s computers. After NEC prevailed in a 1986 legal dispute with Intel over the chip's design, the V20 found its niche in machines where motherboard swaps were impractical, and remains sought after by retro computing enthusiasts today.
Meta has launched a legal appeal against UK regulator Ofcom over the Online Safety Act, challenging how WhatsApp and Instagram are categorized and the methodology for calculating regulatory fees. The challenge is part of broader litigation by tech companies including TikTok and X disputing aspects of Ofcom's implementation, though Meta emphasizes these are procedural challenges rather than opposition to the law itself.
Stratasys won a $27.6 million damages award against Bambu Lab in the first of two patent infringement trials, with a jury finding that Bambu Lab's X1, P1, and A1 3D printers infringed four of Stratasys's patents. The case involves allegations of infringement on ten patents total, though no sales injunction has been imposed and Bambu Lab is expected to appeal.
Raymond Love sued Wiley Book Writers, a Pakistan-connected publishing scam that promised services and distributions it never delivered, extracting over $40,000 through fake invoices, false affiliations with major publishers, and fraudulent book distribution schemes. Unlike most victims, Love won his case, exposing the elaborate network of shell companies and deceptive practices used to manipulate aspiring authors.
The New York Times and other media companies filed a court brief seeking billions in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement in AI training, citing internal emails and testimony from company executives who called the practice "astonishing theft" and acknowledged that AI products substitute for original journalism, undermining their fair use defense.
Unsealed court documents in the New York Times v. OpenAI lawsuit reveal admissions by Microsoft and OpenAI executives that large language models were trained on stolen content, creating a 'doom loop' that destroys web traffic and business models of the sources they trained on. Internal Microsoft documents acknowledge LLMs represent an 'astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions' and the 'largest theft of labor in human history,' with clicks to news sites declining over 90 percent after content was used to train AI systems.