Category: Decisions and Verdicts

On TikTok, Users Thumb Their Noses at Looming Ban

Ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, they are mocking U.S. national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.
TikTok Says U.S. Employees Will Have Jobs Even if the App Is Banned

The company is awaiting a decision over the constitutionality of a new law that aims to force a sale of the app to a non-Chinese owner under the threat of a ban.
Google Proposes Fix to Solve Search Monopoly

The search giant’s proposals included allowing flexibility for companies and consumers in choosing a search engine.
Gisèle Pelicot: What Courage Looks Like

The French rape trial is over. The verdicts have been levied. And Gisèle Pelicot’s image has become a symbol of female strength around the world.
Megan Thee Stallion Seeks Restraining Order Against Tory Lanez

Her lawyers said Mr. Lanez had facilitated a “campaign of harassment” from prison, where he is serving a 10-year sentence after being convicted of shooting her.
Inside Disney’s Decision to Settle the Trump Suit Against ABC News

Talks started and finished on the same day, after Disney decided that fighting the lawsuit could potentially hurt the company and protections for the press.
TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations

The company and its Chinese parent invoked the First Amendment in urging the justices to step in before a Jan. 19 deadline to sell or be shut down.
Carlos Watson, Ozy Media Co-Founder, Is Sentenced to Almost 10 Years in Prison

A federal jury in July found Mr. Watson, who started the digital media company in 2013, guilty of trying to defraud investors and lenders.
U.S. Court Denies TikTok’s Request to Freeze Sale-or-Ban Law

TikTok had sought to temporarily freeze a law that requires its Chinese parent to sell the app or face a U.S. ban next month. The case may now head to the Supreme Court.
Morgan Wallen Pleads to Reduced Charges in Chair-Throwing Incident

The country superstar agreed to misdemeanor reckless endangerment charges and a week at a D.U.I. education center.
YoungBoy Never Broke Again Sentenced to 23 Months in Prison For Gun Possession

The rapper, whose real name is Kentrell Gaulden, admitted to possessing guns as a felon in Louisiana. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years.
Supreme Court Won’t Decide Nvidia Securities Fraud Case After All

In an unsigned order, the justices dismissed the case against the tech giant as “improvidently granted,” meaning they had concluded that it had been a mistake to take it up.