ResearchBuzz: FirehoseArs Technica: Binance sues WSJ, panicked by gov’t probes into sanctioned crypto transfers. “Binance is hoping that suing The Wall Street Journal for defamation might help shake off a fresh round of government probes into how the cryptocurrency exchange failed to detect $1.7 billion in transfers to a network that was funding Iran-backed terror groups.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/ars-technica-binance-sues-wsj-panicked-by-govt-probes-into-sanctioned-crypto-transfers/
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬The Latest Front in the Battle Over #Climate #Lawsuits: Bills Wiping Out Liability
Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major #polluters from legal accountability for #climatechange harms.
"I really think it's an un-American effort to deny Americans the traditional right of access to a jury," Inslee said. #Oil and #gas execs are "terrified" by prospect of having to stand before a jury and face evidence of their climate-change lies and deception
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/republican-legislation-shielding-polluters-from-climate-lawsuits/
Republican lawmakers are advancing legislation that would shield major #polluters from legal accountability for #climatechange harms.
"I really think it's an un-American effort to deny Americans the traditional right of access to a jury," Inslee said. #Oil and #gas execs are "terrified" by prospect of having to stand before a jury and face evidence of their climate-change lies and deception
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032026/republican-legislation-shielding-polluters-from-climate-lawsuits/
TechCrunch: The dictionary sues OpenAI. “Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging in its complaint that the AI giant has committed ‘massive copyright infringement.'”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/17/techcrunch-the-dictionary-sues-openai/
Universal HubJudge orders Bobby Brainworm to quit fucking around with vaccines
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-orders-bobby-brainworm-quit-fucking-around-vaccines
Judge orders Bobby Brainworm to quit fucking around with vaccines
A federal judge in Boston today ordered the increasingly misnamed Department of Health and Human Services to quit screwing around with vaccine schedules and do what Congress requires and let a body of actual experts have a say in recommending life-saving vaccinations, at least as long as he presides over a lawsuit brought last year by public-health and medical groups aghast at vaccine denialism promoted as official government policy. Read more.
Courthouse News Service: Media watchdog withdraws its suit against X. “A nonprofit media watchdog and the social media giant X filed to dismiss the current cases between the two entities Thursday, after a year of litigation that at one point made it to the Ninth Circuit in December.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/16/courthouse-news-service-media-watchdog-withdraws-its-suit-against-x/
If attorneys who agree to take on indigent criminal clients want to get paid more, they're going to have to convince the state legislature, court rules
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/if-attorneys-who-agree-take-indigent-criminal-clients-want-get-paid
If attorneys who agree to take on indigent criminal clients want to get paid more, they're going to have to convince the state legislature, court rules
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that a shortage of lawyers willing to take on indigent clients has yet to reach a crisis severe enough that it needs to step in and order an increase in how much the lawyers are paid. Read more.
Glorious NoiseCollections & Concerts. By Stephen Macaulay
One of the things record collectors know is that while a single album in its jacket doesn’t seem particularly substantive from a dimensional point of view—12.375 x 12.375-inch height and width; 1/8-inch thick: 8 ounces in weight—that quickly multiplies.
Records are generally, and preferably, stacked vertically....
#collectors #lawsuits #LiveNation #movies #vinyl #music #blog
TorrentFreak RSSBankruptcy Court Clears Path for $100 Million Sale of Redbox’s Piracy Lawsuit Rights
getmischWe'll hear more from this case. The non-answer from the mayor is a stall; they know they face civil #charges on this.
*Woman found using A.I.* but they jail her for >6 months (despite the #crime being non-violent #BankFraud) while waiting for Nevada to #extradite and try her. Several #LawSuits on their horizon. #Tennessee left her in #Nevada, to spend her own money to get home!
#fascist #USA #surveillance #state #jail #suspect #deny #delay #due #process #rights #violated
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/woman-wrongfully-jailed-facial-recognition-software-error-ai-angela-lipps-tennessee-grandmother-fargo-north-dakota-bank-fraud-case
*Woman found using A.I.* but they jail her for >6 months (despite the #crime being non-violent #BankFraud) while waiting for Nevada to #extradite and try her. Several #LawSuits on their horizon. #Tennessee left her in #Nevada, to spend her own money to get home!
#fascist #USA #surveillance #state #jail #suspect #deny #delay #due #process #rights #violated
https://local12.com/news/nation-world/woman-wrongfully-jailed-facial-recognition-software-error-ai-angela-lipps-tennessee-grandmother-fargo-north-dakota-bank-fraud-case
Engadget: Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement . “Axios reports that Gracenote is suing OpenAI for the unauthorized and unpaid use of both its metadata and its framework for connecting that information.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/15/engadget-metadata-company-gracenote-is-the-latest-to-sue-openai-for-copyright-infringement/
Engadget: Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
Engadget: Metadata company Gracenote is the latest to sue OpenAI for copyright infringement . “Axios reports that Gracenote is suing OpenAI for the unauthorized and unpaid use of both its met…