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Uber cannot sue the tech giant because they agreed to binding arbitration in Uber’s terms of service. The couple is pushing back, claiming that their daughter, who is under 18, was the one who agreed to the terms of service while ordering on Uber Eats.Georgia and John McGinty were sitting in the rear passenger seats of an Uber when their driver ran through a red light and T-boned another vehicle on March 31, 2022.

pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil. The payment of the fines, which X lawyers argued that the company had paid correctly, is the only outstanding measure demanded by the court in order to authorize X to operate again in Brazil. X has been suspended since late August in Brazil, one of its largest and most coveted markets, after not complying with court orders related to hate speech moderation and failing to name a legal representative in the country, as required by law.

Airlines must compensate travellers for international flight disruptions based on the Canadian Transportation Agency’s rules, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in a landmark decision for air passengers.

Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita's (BNS) Section 63 — are noteworthy. One, it doesn't apply to rape of a man or transgender (the scrapped IPC Section 377 treated any sexual act, consensual or not, between men or with a transgender as criminal).

Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on Friday urged the BJP-led central government to be realistic and restart the dialogue process for the resolution of Kashmir issue and follow the path set by former prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh. The authorities allowed Mirwaiz to address Friday congregation at historic Jama Masjid after a month-long house arrest for which he has approached J&K High Court as well. The court on Friday directed senior additional advocate general to file response as to whether the petitioner has been put under undeclared house arrest. The case will now be heard in November. «BJP govt should take a realistic approach and accept that we have to resolve this (Kashmir) issue. A precedent in this regard is available with us, like when we spoke with Atalji, Advaniji and Manmohan Singhji, to look for options and a way forward. We need to revisit the same policy if the government wants to resolve this issue,» said Mirwaiz during the Friday congregation. Mirwaiz said that Hurriyat as an organisation may be in disarray after 2019 as several people were arrested and summoned, but it still represents sentiments and emotions of the people of J&K. He said that as long as a part of J&K is in India, a part in Pakistan and some parts in China, especially after 2019, the future of the region is uncertain.

The Supreme Court said Friday it will decide whether to block a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against leading U.S. gun manufacturers over allegations their commercial practices have helped caused much bloodshed there

The chief operating officer of Truth Social’s parent company has resigned and the company must hand over almost 800,000 shares to one of its investors as part of a court ruling, according to a regulatory filing

The European Union’s top court has said that social media company Meta can’t use public information about a user’s sexual orientation obtained outside its platforms for personalized advertising under the bloc’s strict data privacy rules

IronNet, a cybersecurity startup, had promised it would combat hackers using a unique blend of expertise and software

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Supreme Court has dismissed a batch of pleas seeking review of its judgment which held that states are constitutionally empowered to make sub-classifications within the Scheduled Castes for granting reservation. A seven-judge Constitution bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices B R Gavai, Vikram Nath, Bela Trivedi, Pankaj Mithal, Manoj Misra and Satish Chandra Sharma said there is no error apparent on the face of the record. The top court also rejected applications for listing the review petitions in open court. Justice Trivedi, who had written a separate dissenting judgment in the case, was also part of seven-judge bench which dismissed the pleas seeking review of the majority verdict.

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Two U.S. senators have asked the Department of Justice to take tougher action against Boeing executives for safety issues that have impacted its airplanes

Andhra Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Pawan Kalyan has said that the laddu adulteration issue is just a tip of the iceberg and there are many more decisions taken during the previous regime that have to be investigated. Addressing a rally here on Thursday, he said he was not blaming the YSRCP chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy personally for the laddu adulteration, but the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) board, which was constituted during the previous regime. A day before the Supreme Court is expected to hear the case on the allegation of using animal fat in making Tirupati laddu, Kalyan said he wanted to communicate to the judiciary that Jagan was facing several charges including corruption allegations and it has to consider before giving a decision (in laddu adulteration case). «Laddu prasadam adulteration is a tip of the iceberg. We don't know how many crores of rupees they collected during the tenure of (the last) five years. That has to be investigated,» the Deputy CM said.

Joe Biden will move forward with to forgive students' loans as the new rule of a federal judge has let a temporary order expire on it. Joe Biden may move forward with the plan of forgiving student debt just weeks before the US presidential election, and it will also deliver relief to the millions of Americans. As per an estimate by the Center for American Progress, the plan of the Biden administration could benefit many students as well as every four federal student loan holders when it is aligned to the administration's previous effort, as per CNBC. Republican former president George W. Bush has appointed U.S. District Judge Randal Hall in Georgia, who has given rule in favor of Biden administration on late Wednesday. The declaration came as an important win for the current administration to forgive the debts of students. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, North Dakota, and Ohio have challenged the Biden administration's plan of forgiving students' loans by filing a lawsuit.

President Joe Biden’s latest attempt at student loan cancellation is free to move ahead, at least temporarily, after a judge in Georgia sent a legal challenge to Missouri

The Competition Bureau is using new powers granted by the federal government to compel information from Air Canada and WestJet as part of a probe into the Canadian airline sector.

fertiliser prices, shipping through the Straits of Hormuz in addition to the current disruptions in the Red Sea, the peace and tranquillity in the Gulf and West Asia, and even the US presidential elections. The conflict has seen a step-bystep escalation, starting with the Hamas attack of October 7 last year. Israel, in response, has continued with its air and ground operations in Gaza. More than 40,000 have died from this action, nearly two million displaced and property and infrastructure severely damaged. The population there is suffering from food shortages and break down of health care. Intense multi-country efforts for ceasefire, led by the US, Egypt and Qatar, have floundered, buffeted by Israeli desire for a permanent end or irreplaceable degradation of Hamas military and governance structures, and countervailing Hamas’ demands for the ceasefire to be ‘permanent’. Around 100 Israelis remain hostages since October 7with no clarity on how many may still be alive. Anger against Israel and criticism of its actions in many countries has only grown.

The price of the XRP token fell by as much as 11% Thursday following the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) decision to appeal a federal court ruling last year that found XRP (XRPUSD) is not a security when algorithmically sold to retail investors via exchanges.XRP has since given up some of those losses and was trading roughly 3% lower at 52 cents in recent trading.

Supreme Court on Thursday hauled up the Punjab and Haryana governments for not proceeding against farmers indulging in stubble burning, a major cause for pollution and declining air standards in the Delhi-NCR region. A bench, comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Augustine George Masih, also reprimanded the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) for not launching a single prosecution against incidents of stubble burning in Delhi-NCR and adjoining areas. The top court observed that Punjab and Haryana have only exacted nominal compensation from farmers found burning stubble.

Supreme Court on Thursday put an end to caste-based discrimination in prisons dubbing it unconstitutional. A bench, headed by CJI DY Chandrachud, directed the central government to make changes in the jail manuals that perpetuate such practices. The bench ordered that the caste column and any reference to caste in undertrial and/or convicts /prisoners/ registers inside the prisons shall be removed. The bench ruled that such a jail manual, which discriminates by assigning cleaning and sweeping tasks to lower castes and cooking to higher castes, is in violation of Article 15 (which prohibits discrimination against citizens). SC directed the Centre to make necessary changes to address caste-based discrimination in the Model Prison Manual 2016 and Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act 2023. The Centre has been given three months' time to make the said changes.