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Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states
The state’s high court heard arguments Monday in the dispute over whether Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco had the authority to seize more than 600,000 ballots in last year’s special election in what he claimed was an investigation into potential voter fraud.
A federal judge in Los Angeles appointed an independent monitor and “special master” to oversee the Trump administration’s compliance with the Flores settlement, an agreement that sets the rules for how migrant children can be detained.
A trial got underway Tuesday in California’s multibillion-dollar lawsuit against Meta, a case that experts say could have major implications for how social media companies operate and target young users.
A federal judge dealt a blow to Meta just days before a blockbuster trial where the company is accused of developing products that are addictive to children.
Nick Reiner has renewed his demand for access to a trust fund established by parents Michelle and Rob Reiner to cover legal fees ahead of his trial in their deaths.
Law enforcement has released the identity of an elderly man shot and killed by San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies Friday after he opened fire on tree trimmers who’d been working near his home, county officials said.
Prosecutors this week unveiled a new indictment against Jonathan Rinderknecht, the man accused of sparking last year’s deadly fire in the Palisades, nixing one of the three original charges and revising the other two after a mistrial in federal court earlier this summer.
California’s Supreme Court ruled that proceedings in some civil cases can be electronically recorded to create transcripts, settling a dispute that has pitted attorneys for domestic violence victims and others against court reporters, who argue only humans can be trusted to do the work.
Attorneys for Meta and other companies have argued that because social media addiction has not been formally recognized by the medical community, they cannot be held liable when sued over it. But the standard for a diagnosis is changing, and judges have been skeptical of those arguments.
