Mike LaSusa
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Prosecutors opposing the release of a former Green Beret and his son while they battle extradition to Japan have said the son of former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn paid the pair $500,000 through the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, in addition to $862,500 in wire transfers already disclosed, in the months leading up to Ghosn’s brazen escape… Read…
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A Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday upended a California federal court’s dismissal of claims that Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” film franchise copied two screenwriters’ script, saying the lower court wrongly concluded the two works were not sufficiently similar for the suit to go ahead… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is leading a lawsuit against YouTube and its parent company Google, accusing the tech giants of allowing the spread of a scam that has fleeced Bitcoin investors by using Wozniak’s image to convince them to send cryptocurrency to online crooks… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of companies that run Yum Brands Inc. franchises in a dozen states deny workers overtime by adjusting time clocks and misclassifying certain employees, according to a pair of proposed class actions lodged in Tennessee federal court on Tuesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Burger King has escaped a proposed class action claiming the fast-food chain misled vegan patrons into thinking its Impossible Whoppers are meat-free, with a Florida federal judge ruling Burger King “promised a non-meat patty and delivered”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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