The Pomona Unified School District must pay $35 million to a woman who sued the district and accused a Pomona High School coach of raping her in the 1990s, a jury ruled. “Jane Doe 4” said in the lawsuit she entered the 10th grade at the school in 1995 and joined the track and field...
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Sweet Lady Jane bakery faced class-action lawsuit for wage theft
Sweet Lady Jane, a bakery beloved by Angelenos and a celebrity clientele, unexpectedly shuttered six locations on New Year’s Day, citing a lack of sales that prevented it from paying its “treasured employees.” But for some former workers at the dessert chain, the message rang hollow. For...
New York Times Lawsuit Based On Misuse Of ChatGPT
OpenAI published a response to The New York Times’ lawsuit by alleging that The NYTimes used manipulative prompting techniques in order to induce ChatGPT to regurgitate lengthy excerpts, stating that the lawsuit is based on misuse of ChatGPT in order to “cherry pick” examples for the...
California Civil Rights Department lawsuit alleges Ralphs denied jobs to formerly incarcerated people
Grocery company Ralphs illegally denied jobs to hundreds of people based on their criminal history, California’s Civil Rights Department alleges in a new lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, is the first of its kind under California’s Fair Chance Act,...
‘Real Housewives’ broker Mauricio Umansky settles mansion lawsuit
Celebrity real estate agent Mauricio Umansky will not face a civil trial for allegedly violating his duties as a broker in the sale of a prominent Malibu hilltop mansion that he flipped for nearly $70 million. Real estate investor Sam Hakim and his agent dropped their consolidated Superior...