A district court in Sweden ruled on Friday that it could not force a local postal company to resume deliveries to Tesla that had stopped nearly a year ago as part of a wider labor dispute aimed at getting the U.S. automaker to sign a collective bargaining agreement. Tesla filed …
Read More »In a First, a Gas Utility Is Sued Over Global Warming Deception
Oregon officials have added the state’s largest natural gas utility as a defendant in their $50 billion lawsuit against fossil fuel companies over their contribution to climate change. The suit — the first to make climate-related deception claims against a utility, experts said — alleges that the company, NW Natural, …
Read More »TikTok Faces Barrage of Lawsuits Around Teens and Mental Health
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia sued TikTok on Tuesday, accusing the company of creating an intentionally addictive app that harmed children and teenagers while making false claims to the public about its commitment to safety. In separate lawsuits, a bipartisan group of attorneys general cited internal company documents …
Read More »School Absences Rise as Special Education Fails Students, Suit Says
New York City “regularly fails” to provide special education services to students with disabilities, leading to chronic absences, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society. The suit seeks to confront a pervasive problem in the city’s school system, the nation’s largest. Tens of thousands of …
Read More »Judge Halts Biden Student Debt Plan Right After It Was Allowed to Proceed
A federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked a Biden administration plan to cancel student debt less than a day after another judge had allowed it to proceed, throwing into uncertainty the fate of a program that could affect more than 27 million borrowers. The decision, which came down late Thursday, …
Read More »Students Paid Thousands for a Caltech Boot Camp. Caltech Didn’t Teach It.
Raymond Sewer said he had good reason to believe that the California Institute of Technology would be deeply involved in the cloud computing “boot camp.” Caltech’s website touted the online program, and the school’s orange logo appeared on the promised certificates of completion. “I was just like, ‘Ah, man, this …
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