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Google Appeals Antitrust Ruling, Says Apple Chose Its Search Engine ‘Fair and Square’

Google Appeals Antitrust Ruling, Says Apple Chose Its Search Engine ‘Fair and Square’

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Google today appealed a 2024 ruling that found it violated antitrust law by paying to be the default search engine on iPhones. In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Google said the district court made an error when concluding that Google’s search success was due to anything other than competition on merit. Google suggested it surpassed competition through better innovation, more investments, and “just working harder,” which is why Apple chose Google Search as its default search option on Apple devices. Whether or not Google has monopoly power, Google did nothing that “harm[ed] the competitive process.” It did not impede its rivals’ opportunity to make—or Apple’s and Mozilla’s ability to choose—a better offer. Indeed, there is no finding—or even any evidence—that Google’s customers would have chosen a rival, even in the absence of the challenged agreements. Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square. The filing points out that Apple was free to distribute and promote rival search engines, with Google highlighting the alternative browser options that Apple …

Verdict due in Rio-Paris plane crash appeals case

Verdict due in Rio-Paris plane crash appeals case

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A Paris appeals court will issue a verdict on Thursday on the 2009 crash of an Air France passenger jet after the airline and planemaker Airbus faced trial over ​corporate manslaughter. Relatives of ‌some of the 228 passengers and crew who died when the Airbus A330 ⁠vanished in darkness during an Atlantic storm are expected in court following a 17-year legal battle to pinpoint blame for France’s worst air disaster. Source link

Arizona sports contracts lawsuit against Kalshi paused while Ninth Circuit appeals continue

Arizona sports contracts lawsuit against Kalshi paused while Ninth Circuit appeals continue

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A legal fight over prediction markets and state gambling authority is now on hold in Arizona while federal appeals judges weigh several related cases. Kalshi, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Justice Department, and Arizona regulators jointly asked a federal judge Friday (May 15) to pause litigation involving sports-event contracts offered on federally regulated exchanges. The request was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona and asks Judge Michael T. Liburdi to freeze proceedings until the Ninth Circuit rules in at least one pending appeal tied to prediction-market platforms. NEW: Arizona, Kalshi, https://t.co/RAW130kP9Y, and federal regulators agreed to pause litigation pending key Ninth Circuit rulings. @RWW pic.twitter.com/Z8GyrLLLQ8 — Suswati Basu (@suswatibasu) May 17, 2026 The filing says “questions that bear directly on this case are pending before the Ninth Circuit.” The Arizona case involves Kalshi and North American Derivatives Exchange, which operates as Crypto.com. They are suing Arizona Attorney General Kristin K. Mayes and Arizona Department of Gaming Director Jackie Johnson over whether the state can enforce gambling laws against contracts …

Kash Patel appeals dismissal of Figliuzzi defamation suit

Kash Patel appeals dismissal of Figliuzzi defamation suit

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FBI Director Kash Patel testifies before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 18, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday filed an appeal of the recent dismissal of his defamation lawsuit against former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi. Patel had sued Figliuzzi in Houston federal court, alleging that the former FBI counterintelligence assistant director defamed him in a May 2, 2025, interview on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” by saying Patel had “been visible at nightclubs far more than he has been on the seventh floor of” FBI headquarters. U.S. District Court Judge George Hanks Jr., in his April 21 decision dismissing Patel’s lawsuit, said that Figliuzzi’s statement was “rhetorical hyperbole that cannot constitute defamation.” “Accordingly, Dir. Patel has failed to state a claim against Figliuzzi, and his lawsuit must be dismissed,” Hanks wrote. Hanks dismissed Patel’s suit a day after the FBI director filed an unrelated $250 million defamation lawsuit in D.C. federal court against The Atlantic magazine. The suit relates to an Atlantic article …

Kalshi seeks federal pause against Washington gambling lawsuit during ongoing appeals

Kalshi seeks federal pause against Washington gambling lawsuit during ongoing appeals

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Kalshi is asking a federal judge in Seattle to temporarily halt Washington state’s gambling lawsuit while the company pursues an appeal before the Ninth Circuit. In a motion filed May 8 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, the prediction market operator argued that the court should freeze its remand order after sending the dispute back to state court earlier this month. Kalshi warned that moving forward in state court during the appeal could produce conflicting rulings and weaken the company’s ability to challenge the remand decision. Kalshi asks Washington federal court to stay order remanding case to state court pending resolution of its appeal to the Ninth Circuit, says being forced to engage in state-court litigation while the appeal is pending "would render Kalshi’s appellate rights meaningless." pic.twitter.com/2koCC8iayd — Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) May 11, 2026 The company told the court that “[b]eing forced to engage in state-court litigation while the appeal is pending would render Kalshi’s appellate rights meaningless and unnecessarily burden the courts and the parties.” Washington sued Kalshi …

Appeals court rejects California tribal bid consolidating separate Kalshi prediction market disputes cases

Appeals court rejects California tribal bid consolidating separate Kalshi prediction market disputes cases

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The Ninth Circuit has turned away an effort to move a closely followed Kalshi appeal onto the same judicial track as a separate Nevada dispute involving sports event contracts. In a short order issued May 6, the appeals court denied a request to reassign the case brought by Blue Lake Rancheria and other tribal plaintiffs against Kalshi Inc. and related defendants. The appeal is pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit under case number 25-7504 after originating in federal court in San Francisco. Ninth Circuit denies California Tribes' motion to reassign their prediction markets case to the same 3-judge panel which just heard oral argument in the appeal filed by Kalshi, Robinhood and Crypto, citing "significant differences" between the two appeals (i.e., IGRA v. UIGEA). pic.twitter.com/cK0yjLNrK6 — Daniel Wallach (@WALLACHLEGAL) May 9, 2026 The court said the request failed because the California dispute differed substantially from another case already argued before a separate Ninth Circuit panel involving North American Derivatives Exchange and Nevada regulators. “Due to significant differences between this appeal …

Trump administration appeals latest court loss on tariffs

Trump administration appeals latest court loss on tariffs

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The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court ruling that a 10% global tariff imposed in February was not justified under a 1970s trade law. The U.S. Court of International Trade ruled on Thursday in a 2-1 decision that Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act was not meant to address trade deficits that occur when the U.S. imports more goods than it exports. The court, however, only blocked the tariffs for three importers that sued – two small businesses and the state of Washington. While the ruling applies to a set of levies due to expire in about two months, it marks another setback for Trump’s global tariff ambitions and comes a week before he is due to discuss trade tensions with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing. It sets the stage for another protracted legal battle over billions of dollars’ worth of tariff refunds three months after the Supreme Court struck ​down President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs imposed under a national emergencies law. Trump blamed the trade court decision on “two radical …

Ukraine appeals to Trump’s vanity in hopes of security guarantees

Ukraine appeals to Trump’s vanity in hopes of security guarantees

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When I think of Donald Trump, I envision a blimp flying overhead with huge flashing lights blazing “The world is yours!” This is his internal narrative — and he has the power to act on it. In the most recent example of his vanity project, the State Department will soon be issuing limited edition passports featuring the president’s face to commemorate the country’s 250th anniversary. When Americans travel abroad, they will have Trump’s face in their pockets. The president’s egomania is not a source of strength. It is a vulnerability that the world has learned to exploit. Foreign and domestic leaders alike know that one of the best ways to move Trump is flattery — and to present him with gifts bearing his name.  In the case of Ukraine, which is fighting an existential battle for survival against Vladimir Putin’s Russia, this reportedly means a proposal to name a 50 mile-long and 40 mile-wide portion of the Donbas, a strategic — and contested — region on the country’s Russian border, after Trump. Four people who are familiar with …

South Korea appeals court hikes ex-first lady’s graft sentence

South Korea appeals court hikes ex-first lady’s graft sentence

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SEOUL: A South Korean appeals court increased the corruption sentence for former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Tuesday (Apr 28) to four years in jail, up from 20 months, after finding her guilty of stock manipulation and bribery. The much heavier penalty came as the court overturned Kim’s prior acquittal by a lower court on stock price manipulation charges. “The court sentences the defendant to four years in prison and imposes a 50 million won (US$34,000) fine,” the Seoul High Court said in a verdict televised live. It found Kim guilty of manipulating the share price of Deutsch Motors, a South Korean car dealer, which it ruled a “collusive … trading act constituting market manipulation”. “The defendant appears to have participated in such conduct,” the court said as it overturned her initial acquittal. Kim, the wife of jailed ex-president Yoon Suk Yeol, was handed 20 months in jail in January for bribery after she accepted luxury gifts from a cult-like church. She appealed the verdict in the hope of clearing her name, while prosecutors …

Appeals court says no: Trump’s asylum restrictions hit another legal barrier

Appeals court says no: Trump’s asylum restrictions hit another legal barrier

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A federal appeals court dealt President Donald Trump a significant setback, blocking a key effort to restrict asylum at the southern border and setting the stage for a broader legal battle over immigration policy. At the center of the case is a sweeping attempt to limit who can seek asylum in the United States, particularly migrants who cross the border outside official entry points or who travel through other countries before arriving. The court ruled that those restrictions conflict with federal law, reinforcing longstanding protections that allow individuals to request asylum once they reach U.S. soil. In its decision, the panel emphasized that immigration policy — especially asylum eligibility — is ultimately governed by Congress, not unilateral executive action. That framework, laid out in the Immigration and Nationality Act, historically allowed migrants to apply for asylum regardless of how they enter the country. Efforts to narrow that definition, the court found, run up against those statutory protections. The ruling marks a significant legal constraint on the administration’s broader immigration agenda, which has increasingly relied on …