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The US judge hearing the defamation suit filed by Pirates Of The Caribbean star Johnny Depp against his ex-wife Amber Heard rejected a defence request to toss the case. Lawyers for the 36-year-old Aquaman actress asked Judge Penney Azcarate to dismiss the suit after Depp’s attorneys rested their case following three weeks of testimony in Fairfax County Circuit Court.…
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EU antitrust regulators charged Apple on Monday with restricting rivals’ access to its NFC chip technology in a move that could result in a hefty fine for the iPhone maker and force it to open its mobile payment system to competitors. The European Commission said it had sent a charge sheet known as a statement…
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Actor Johnny Depp told jurors Tuesday that he felt compelled to sue his ex-wife Amber Heard for libel out of an obsession for the truth after she accused him of domestic violence. “My goal is the truth because it killed me that all these people I had met over the years … that these people…
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Johnny Depp’s lawyer Camille Vasquez has told a court the Hollywood actor will go to his grave knowing some people will always “believe he abused a woman”. The “Pirates of the Caribbean” star and his ex-wife Amber Heard are facing off in court in a multi-million dollar libel trial in Fairfax, Virginia, after Johnny sued…
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Twitter investor, Marc Rasella, has accused the SpaceX founder and the world’s richest man, Elon Musk of making him lose money through “misleading statements” about his purchase of a large stake in Twitter on Tuesday. The plaintiff, who seeks class action status for his case on behalf of investors who sold their Twitter stock between late March…
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A former Apple employee, Dhirendra Prasad, has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with defrauding the iPhone maker for more than $10 million through a series of schemes. According to filings with the federal court in San Jose, Califronia, Prasad faces five criminal counts after exploiting his “position of trust” as a buyer in Apple’s global…
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Brad Pitt is suing Angelina Jolie for selling her share of the French vineyard where they got married in 2014. Superstars Pitt and Jolie, who were once Hollywood’s highest profile couple, bought a controlling stake of Chateau Miraval in southern France in 2008, and tied the knot there six years later. But they filed to dissolve…
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A woman who allegedly used to work as an onstage dancer for Snoop Dogg accused the rapper and his associate Bishop Don “Magic” Juan of sexually assaulting her in 2013. The woman claimed in a lawsuit filed Wednesday under the pseudonym Jane Doe that she was assaulted by both men after accepting a ride home from…
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Chipmaker Intel scored a decisive legal victory Wednesday in a long-running battle against European Union competition watchdogs after a court reversed itself and threw out a billion-euro antitrust fine issued more than a decade ago. The EU’s General Court annulled the 1.06 billion euro fine ($1.43 billion at current exchange rates) that competition regulators issued…
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Once-prominent California attorney Michael Avenatti took over representation of himself Tuesday at his latest criminal trial, setting the stage for him to directly confront former client and porn star Stormy Daniels over her claims that he stole some of the money she was owed for her autobiography. U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman granted Avenatti’s…
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In a historic settlement, Steve Easterbrook, former chief executive of McDonald’s, returned $105 million in cash and stock to the fast-food company. The nine-digit settlement comes two years after Easterbrook was given severance to leave the company in November 2019 after a sexual relationship with a junior staff colleague was revealed. The case arose because…
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The United States division of Volkswagen reached an agreement, totaling $42 million, due to defective Takata air bag inflators, as per a filing at a Miami-based United States District Court. The agreement emerges as the most recent one by key automobile manufacturers, with the majority of the funds channeled into paying for completed recalls. Until…
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France’s competition regulator on Tuesday slapped Google with a 500-million-euro ($593-million) fine for failing to negotiate “in good faith” with media companies over the use of their content under EU copyright rules. It is “the biggest ever fine” imposed by the Competition Authority for a company’s failure to adhere to one of its rulings, the…
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A High Court judge has criticised Prince Harry at the end of his successful legal action against the Mail on Sunday. The Duke of Sussex’s legal team was granted permission to make a personal statement in court but the judge ruled the costs they demanded were too high and the original draft statement they submitted was…
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Key figure in Donald Trump’s impeachment saga was aware aware of Burisma corruption. Findings have confirmed that the Democrats’ star witnesses in their sham impeachment of President Trump – former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch – seemed to have been shading the truth. Are you at all surprised? We just received 210 pages of records…
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An Arizona judge Friday dismissed the last election-related case pending in the state, saying that because only two voters were involved, its outcome would not have changed Joe Biden’s win. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Margaret Mahoney did not provide further details on her ruling but said she’d be issuing an order in writing, reports The…
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