JURIST

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Meta Platforms Inc. Meta took action by blocking internet traffic from its products, Instagram and Facebook, to Social Data’s website. The post Meta sues data analytics company over scraping of Instagram accounts appeared first on JURIST - News. It also notified the defendant of its violations and disabled their accounts.

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JURIST

MARCH 14, 2025

Council, Inc. Remarking that third time is still not a charm, NetChoice, a trade association comprised of interest companies such as Amazon, Google, Meta, and Netflix, hailed the decision as one that puts “other states on notice that censorship regimes masquerading as ‘privacy protections’ will not survive judicial review.”

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JURIST

JULY 6, 2022

Twitter, Inc. Tuesday sought judicial review from the High Court of the Indian State of Karnataka of the federal government’s online information blocking orders. The government threatened to initiate criminal proceedings against Twitter senior executives and rescind the company’s “safe harbour” immunity.

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Law 360

MAY 9, 2023

Delaware's Chancery Court on Tuesday dismissed a Block Inc. shareholder's suit against founder and CEO Jack Dorsey and company directors over Block's purchase of Norwegian music-streaming service Tidal in 2021, rejecting a shareholder's claims that Dorsey's friendship with rap mogul Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter tainted the $306 million deal.

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MARCH 8, 2023

Shareholders of multinational tech giant Block Inc. aimed a Delaware Court of Chancery derivative suit at founder and CEO Jack Dorsey and the company's board on Wednesday, seeking damages for the company arising from the sale of unregistered shares and a major data breach.

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Law 360

JUNE 16, 2023

More than a dozen stockholders of mobile software and blockchain company Phunware Inc. who sued over a disputed, six-month trading block on their newly public shares saw much of their case kept alive Friday by a Delaware vice chancellor.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

Unity Software Inc. stockholders sued directors of the video game animation platform company in Delaware Chancery Court on Monday, seeking to block a $1 billion note issuance to support a $4.4 billion merger with ironSource Ltd., pending fuller disclosures about the deal.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

An Alden Global Capital LLC affiliate lost a bid late Friday to delay or block media company Lee Enterprises Inc.'s s scheduled March 10 director election, in a Delaware Chancery Court ruling that nevertheless deemed some Alden claims possible fodder for post-vote arguments.

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MAY 2, 2022

has persuaded a New York federal judge to temporarily block a Brooklyn art collective from selling rap artist Tyga's "Wavy Baby" sneakers as the companies fight over whether the sneakers are a parody and are protected by free speech.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Directors at Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. carefully scrutinized a proposed deal to buy Norwegian music-streaming service Tidal in 2021, an attorney for the company told Delaware's Court of Chancery Tuesday, urging the court to toss a shareholder's claims that Dorsey's friendship with rap mogul Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter tainted the deal.

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The Fashion Law

APRIL 26, 2021

On the heels of the two parties filing respective trademark applications to register the word “THE” for use on apparel, OSU has initiated an opposition proceeding in an attempt to block the application that Marc Jacobs filed in May 2019 for “THE” for use on handbags and clothing, among other related goods.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

M&K Holdings, Inc. ” There is some history between Samsung and M&K’s family of companies, whose patents also originate in Korea. In its petition, Samsung suggested a second reference showing the “predetermined block” claim limitation. Cisco Systems, Inc. by Dennis Crouch.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For the tribes to receive the full amount from the companies, 95 percent of the litigating tribes must agree to settle, as well as at least 14 of the 17 non-litigating tribes of more than 5,000 members for the distributors’ deal. Doud III, former head of Rochester Drug Co-Operative Inc.,

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JURIST

JULY 28, 2021

A federal judge on Monday rejected an attempt to block enforcement of Nevada’s ban on so-called “ghost guns,” including the sale of guns without serial numbers and unfinished weapons for self-assembly. is based [in Nevada].”

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Microsoft had asked the court to pause a private antitrust lawsuit seeking to block the company's planned acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Officers and directors of Square and Cash App parent company Block Inc. face a shareholder derivative complaint over alleged anti-money laundering compliance failures weeks after the company reached an $80 million settlement of related claims with state banking regulators.

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MAY 28, 2024

A California federal judge on Friday ruled that a man who was previously instructed to arbitrate his proposed class action alleging that H&R Block shared private data must also arbitrate claims against Google and Meta Platforms Inc.,

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Law 360

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jack Dorsey's fintech company Block Inc. touted its anti-money laundering protocols designed to prevent criminals from using Cash App and Square for illicit purposes, but in reality, the company's lack of even basic protocols created a "haven for criminal and illicit activities," a California federal lawsuit alleges.

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Law 360

MARCH 21, 2025

Block & Leviton and Elsberg Baker & Maruri have won co-lead counsel roles in a consolidated proposed investor class action in Delaware's court of chancery challenging an alleged squeezeout of minority shareholders of medical equipment company Agiliti Inc.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A Colorado state judge wants to know whether two recent decisions blocking the proposed $24.6 and Albertsons Companies Inc. billion merger of The Kroger Co. has mooted Attorney General Phillip J. Weiser's challenge to the transaction, according to a briefing plan approved Tuesday.

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Law 360

JULY 5, 2024

Two H&R Block customers must arbitrate their claims that the company shared their private data with Meta Platforms Inc. and Google, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, saying they agreed to arbitrate any disputes under the tax services provider's terms of agreement.

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Law 360

MARCH 28, 2025

Oil, gas and water well developer Barnwell Industries Inc. has filed a suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking an order blocking a board slate assembled by a top shareholder from consideration at the company's annual meeting, branding the nominations as a takeover attempt.

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Law 360

APRIL 24, 2025

The Ninth Circuit unanimously affirmed Thursday a lower court's ruling blocking two Washington state couples' bid to arbitrate claims against Oppenheimer & Co.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

A Colorado state court has preliminarily blocked the former chief executive of a company acquired by industrial products giant Ingersoll Rand Inc. from working for rival Avantor, finding Ingersoll Rand will likely win its claims that the executive specifically agreed not to work for Avantor as a condition of the acquisition.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. convinced a California federal judge Wednesday to toss a securities lawsuit alleging the company painted a rosier-than-reality picture of its Cash App and failed to explain why former U.S.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2023

The Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday affirmed the Chancery Court's May decision dismissing a Block Inc.

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Law 360

MAY 9, 2024

A marine treasure hunting and salvage company stockholder urged Delaware's Court of Chancery to block a June 3 shareholder meeting called by the company's founder and purported majority shareholder, arguing in part that most of Marine Exploration Inc.'s s claimed shares are void.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Paxos, a cryptocurrency brokerage and settlement services company, said Thursday that it has appointed financial technology giant Block Inc.'s s former deputy general counsel Ben Gray to become its global general counsel.

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Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

The Fifth Circuit on Friday temporarily blocked the implementation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new emissions reporting requirements, issuing an administrative stay in a challenge brought by oil and gas company Liberty Energy Inc.

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MAY 18, 2021

Securities and Exchange Commission to give it the green light to block a shareholder proposal seeking more details on the company's diversity and inclusion efforts, arguing that it already discloses this information. has asked the U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 16, 2024

A stockholder of e-commerce auto parts supplier Carparts.com Inc. has sued for a Delaware Court of Chancery order blocking a low-threshold, shareholder rights plan takeover defense allegedly adopted by the company to corral investor unrest after three years of losses.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Stockholders who lost a bid for a Delaware Chancery Court order putting on the ballot their slate of director candidates for CytoDyn Inc. have asked the same vice chancellor to block the late-stage biopharmaceutical company's election pending a state Supreme Court appeal.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A top investor in manufacturing software venture QAD Inc. urged Delaware's Chancery Court on Friday to block a proposed $2 billion company sale to private equity firm Thoma Bravo, saying the deal grants QAD's founder and controller outsized consideration in violation of charter restrictions.

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Law 360

MAY 2, 2024

A New York federal court has scheduled a September hearing for the Federal Trade Commission's request to block luxury fashion holding company Tapestry Inc.'s s planned $8.5 billion purchase of Capri Holdings Ltd., a deal that would bring together the Coach, Kate Spade and Michael Kors brands.

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JURIST

MARCH 23, 2021

The Central Government of India has urged the Delhi High Court to restrain WhatsApp Inc. The petitioners also raise the concern of personal data being shared and used by Facebook companies and other third parties for commercial purposes.

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Law 360

APRIL 1, 2024

A former employee at Block Inc., which was founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, alleges the company fired her in retaliation for two posts she made on X, formerly known as Twitter, according to a suit filed in Missouri state court with financial backing from Elon Musk's X Corp.

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JANUARY 30, 2023

A California federal judge on Monday blocked Tesla Inc.'s s bid to exclude an expert's testimony for calculating the losses investors claim they suffered as a result of CEO Elon Musk's tweet about possibly taking the company private, saying there is "nothing so fundamentally wrong" with the methodologies to make them inadmissible.

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