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A judge has dismissed New York City’s lawsuit alleging that Exxon Mobil, BP and Shell were liable for misleading the public about their products, and their commitment to renewable energy and fighting climate change. In a decision Tuesday, state Supreme Court Justice Anar Patel in Manhattan rejected the city’s argument that the oil companies should…
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Leicester City’s owners have launched a landmark lawsuit against a helicopter manufacturer following the club chairman’s death in a crash in 2018. Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha’s family are suing Italian company Leonardo SpA for £2.15bn after the 60-year-old chairman and four others were killed when their helicopter crashed just outside the King Power Stadium in October 2018. The lawsuit…
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The Chief Executive Officer of Dana Air, Jacky Hathiramani, has travelled out of Nigeria without paying hundreds of Nigerians, both passengers and staff members their refund for unused tickets and wages respectively. In April 2024, Dana Air was grounded due to safety concerns after skidding runway 18L at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos. Dana had recorded a…
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Elon Musk’s X is fighting back against what his firm says in an illegal cartel of ad agencies seeking to close down key media outlets. Linda Yaccarino, the CEO of X, said in a letter to advertisers Tuesday the company has filed a lawsuit against GARM (Global Alliance for Responsible Media) and its members after…
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The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal on Thursday affirmed the decision of the Bayelsa Governorship Election Tribunal, which had upheld the November 11, 2023, re-election of Governor Douye Diri of Bayelsa State. A 3-man panel of the appellate court in a unanimous judgment dismissed an appeal seeking to set aside and dismiss the…
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Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case has been dismissed following a motion filed by his defence team accusing the prosecution of concealing ammunition evidence. After an extraordinary day in court – during which the special prosecutor called herself as a witness – the actor broke down in tears and hugged his lawyers as the judge made…
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Singer Cassie, aka Casandra Ventura, said Thursday — in her first comments since the video emerged of her being beaten by rap mogul and former partner Sean “Diddy” Combs — that domestic violence “broke” her. In an Instagram post, Ventura did not mention Combs but her comments came a week after CNN broadcast hotel security…
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh 26-count charge bordering on abuse of office & corruption against the immediate former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele will be arraigned before Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja on Monday, April 8 on counts bordering…
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Two properties owned by Sean “Diddy” Combs were raided by federal agents on Monday. It is related to an ongoing sex trafficking investigation, according to the Associated Press. 🚨 What just happened? On Monday afternoon, video and images spread showing federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement searching the music mogul’s Los Angeles and Miami properties. The…
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A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming criminal trial. Judge Juan M. Merchan cited Trump’s previous comments about him and others involved in the case, as well as a looming April 15 trial date in granting…
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A New York Appeal Court has slashed former United States President Donald Trump’s bond payment, ordering him to pay $175 million within the next 10 days. MEZIESBLOG reports that Trump had previously faced a Monday deadline to pay a $464 million bond payment that came as a result of civil fraud allegations from New York…
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Donald Trump is expected to spend his Monday morning in the courtroom of a New York judge who might soon preside over his criminal trial and, ultimately, throw him behind bars. And that’s not even the legal predicament that worries Trump most that day. The hearing in his Manhattan criminal prosecution — in which he is…
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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, again adjourned a fresh N1billion suit filed by leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, against the Federal Government until March 18 this year for hearing. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) had, on January 8, reported that Justice James Omotosho fixed the…
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OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper “hacked” its chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence systems to generate misleading evidence for the case. OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday (Feb 26) that the Times caused the technology…
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The U.S. Supreme Court will likely reach a split decision — but will reverse Colorado’s high court decision keeping former President Donald Trump off the state’s primary ballot — retired New Jersey Superior Court Judge Andrew Napolitano said on Newsmax. “Everybody was even hoping, even people that can’t stand Trump, everybody’s expecting and hoping for a…
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The Supreme Court has declared Siminalayi Fubara as the duly elected Governor of Rivers State. The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 2023 elections in Rivers State, Patrick Tonye-Cole, had challenged Fubara’s victory in the poll. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had declared Fubara as the winner of the election.…
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