DETROIT—Tesla CEO Elon Musk is appealing a federal court ruling that upheld a securities fraud settlement over Musk’s tweets claiming that he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018. Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro filed a notice of appeal Wednesday with the federal appeals court in Manhattan. No grounds were stated, and a full…
Bearing Witness to a Historic Appeal, Campaign of Terror in Communist China
April 25, 2022
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NEW YORK—Fears of police harassment and arrests have plagued 23-year-old Zhang Minghui ever since she turned one, the year Chinese police officers beat her father with wooden planks until his feet swelled up and turned a dark purple color, and burned his arm with a lighter. When she was not yet two years old, police…
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Georgia Death-Penalty Appeal
March 2, 2022
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By Bill Rankin From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider Georgia’s standard that lawyers contend makes it all but impossible for intellectually disabled capital defendants to prove they are intellectually disabled. Georgia is the nation’s only state with the death penalty that requires defendants to clear the highest legal…
BC Appeal Court Extends Injunction Against Protests at Fairy Creek Until September
VANCOUVER—British Columbia’s Court of Appeal has overturned a lower-court ruling and extended an injunction against old-growth logging protests until September on Vancouver Island. A panel of three judges granted the appeal by forestry company Teal Cedar Products Ltd. of an earlier B.C. Supreme Court decision that denied the company’s application to extend the injunction by…
Google Launches Fresh Appeal to Overturn $2.8 Billion Fine at Top EU Court
January 22, 2022
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Google is filing an appeal at the European Union’s top court against an earlier decision to uphold a $2.8 billion (2.47 billion euros) antitrust fine, a spokesperson for the Alphabet unit said late on Thursday, the company’s second bid to overturn the penalty. EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager fined the world’s most popular internet search engine…
Facebook Appeals UK Ruling That It Must Sell Giphy
LONDON—Facebook-owner Meta is appealing Britain’s ruling that it must sell animated images platform Giphy, saying the evidence does not support the finding that the deal is a threat to its rivals or could impact competition in display advertising. Britain’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) ordered Meta to sell Giphy, which it acquired for a reported…
Apple Wins Last-Minute Reprieve From App Store Changes While ‘Fortnite’ Appeal Plays Out
Apple Inc. on Wednesday won a reprieve from having to make major changes to its lucrative App Store while it appeals an antitrust lawsuit brought by “Fortnite” creator Epic Games. In September, a judge ordered Apple to change its App Store rules, which ban developers from including links in buttons to outside payment systems rather…
Netflix Loses Fox Lawsuit Appeal
Netflix Inc. lost its appeal to a court decision that the company stops poaching fixed-term staff from Fox Corp., Bloomberg reports, citing a California appellate court. Fox’s agreements provided “stability and predictability” for employees, Justice Dorothy C. Kim said. She also rejected Netflix’s argument that Fox pressed employees into extending their contracts, thereby holding them…
London Policeman Who Murdered Sarah Everard Appeals Against Whole-Life Sentence
The police officer who murdered Sarah Everard has lodged an appeal to reduce the length of his jail sentence. Wayne Couzens was handed a whole-life tariff in September after kidnapping, raping and murdering the 33-year-old. The Metropolitan Police firearms officer used his warrant card and handcuffs to snatch the marketing executive off the street, using…
Swiss Court Rejects Google Appeal Over Cloud Contract
October 20, 2021
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ZURICH—A Swiss court has dismissed Google’s bid to block the award of a government cloud computing contract worth up to 110 million Swiss francs ($119 million) to rival bidders. “In an interim decision, the Federal Administrative Court rejects Google’s request to grant suspensive effect to its appeal. The Federal Office for Buildings and Logistics may…
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