Articles Tagged with federal court

Senior United States District Judge Jack D. Weinstein of the New York Eastern District Court ruled on March 6th that virtual currencies, such as Bitcoin, are commodities, and that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has authority along with other state and federal administrative agencies and civil and criminal courts over dealings in virtual currency.

Uber has found itself in yet another legal battle. On Monday, March 12, 2018, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a lawsuit against the ride-sharing company based in San Francisco, California after it took over a year to notify its users about a major data breach. Hackers compromised the company’s data back in October 2016;…

The US Department of Justice has sued the state of California, as well as its governor and secretary of state, in a federal court in California over the state's recently passed "sanctuary state" laws that clash with the Trump administration's immigration policy. The complaint and filings are available on Justia.

Attorneys behind the lawsuit believe the detentions are part of an effort by the Trump administration to pressure Vietnam into abandoning a repatriation agreement prohibiting the return of Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the U.S. before the two countries reestablished diplomatic relations in 1995. Read the complaint on Justia.

The Ninth Circuit denied AT&T's motion to dismiss an action brought by the FTC to hold the communications company accountable for allegedly "throttling" consumer data. This practice may have affected 3.5 million consumers on 25 million different occasions.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in an opinion issued February 15, 2018, found President Trump's travel ban (Proclamation No. 9645) to be unconstitutional.

On Monday, February 12, US District Judge Frederic Block ruled in Castillo v. G&M Realty LP that 45 works of graffiti art on the 5Pointz warehouses in Queens were protected under the federal Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), and that the building owner violated the law by painting over the graffiti. The judge's decision is available on Justia Dockets.