#Lawsuit

#Lawsuit

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A senior executive at quantitative trading firm Vatic Labs resigned last month and sued the company, alleging it failed to pay most of a contractually guaranteed $1.5 million bonus, according to a complaint filed in Delaware Superior Court. Rosen Kralev, the former director of trading at the high-frequency trading firm, alleges in court papers that Vatic for months blamed the missed payments on difficulties raising funds. It is the second instance in the past year of a former Vatic executive suing the firm over alleged nonpayment.

The Meta researcher's tone was alarmed. "Oh my gosh yall IG is a drug," the user experience specialist allegedly wrote to a colleague, referring to the social media platform Instagram. "We're basically pushers... We are causing Reward Deficit Disorder bc people are binging on IG so much they can't feel reward anymore." The researcher concluded that users' addiction was "biological and psychological" and that company management was keen to exploit the dynamic.

Amid the Trump administration's attack on universities, Harvard has emerged as a particular target. Early on, the administration put $2.2 billion in research money on hold and shortly thereafter blocked all future funding while demanding intrusive control over Harvard's hiring and admissions. Unlike many of its peer institutions, Harvard fought back, filing and ultimately winning a lawsuit that restored the cut funds.

Spotify and the Big 3 record labels - Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group - have filed a lawsuit against Anna's Archive, alleging the pirate platform scraped 86 million music files, and claiming an eye-popping $13 trillion in damages. Anna's Archive, formerly known as the Pirate Library Mirror, is accused of "brazen theft of millions of files containing nearly all of the world's commercial sound recordings," according to the full complaint.

The lawsuit, shared in advance with the Guardian, says that Chad Joseph, 26, and Rishi Samaroo, 41, both of Las Cuevas, Trinidad, were returning to Trinidad from Venezuela when they and four other people were killed in the strike. It was the fifth attack announced by the White House under Donald Trump's campaign against the small go-fast boats the administration claims are connected to cartels and gangs.

"Williams engaged in self-dealing, concealed material information, and...diverted revenues owed to plaintiff," wrote Hugo's attorney, Brent J. Lehman, in the suit. "Such willful, fraudulent, and malicious conduct warrants the imposition of punitive damages." In a subsequent email to , Lehman claims that "Mr. Hugo had no choice but to seek substantial compensation and accountability in court."

Meta is being sued by Solos, a rival smart glasses maker, for infringing on its patents, Bloomberg reports. Solos is seeking "multiple billions of dollars" in damages and an injunction that could prevent Meta from selling its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses as part of the lawsuit. Solos claims that Meta's Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer Gen 1 smart glasses violate multiple patents covering "core technologies in the field of smart eyewear."

After the longest-operating cafe in L.A. County announced in late December that it would shut down after 139 years, customers of the Original Saugus Cafe began buying up its branded hats, T-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. When the merch sold out, some took to filching from the tables: glassware, salt and pepper shakers, and even utensils. To Jessie Mercado, 31, and her father, Alfredo - who has owned the beloved cafe in Santa Clarita for 30 years - it was amusing and sweet that many held the establishment so close to their hearts that they wanted to take pieces of it home with them.

Eric Melvin is not here today with us because of the following reason: at 8 a.m. on Monday morning, after the final NOFX show ever, Eric Melvin's lawyers served Fat Mike legal papers accusing him of financial malfeasance. Ten hours earlier we finished playing the final show of our 42-year career. It was the most amazing and emotional send-off ever, nothing but love, family, tears and love.

This week's high court hearings between Sting and his former bandmates in the Police, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers, are the latest chapter in the life of a song whose negative energy seems to have seeped out into real life. Every Breath You Take is the subject of a lawsuit filed by Copeland and Summers against Sting, alleging that he owes them royalties linked to their contributions to the hugely popular song, particularly from streaming earnings, estimated at $2m (1.5m) in total.

Jose Juan Rangel and his wife, Maria Vargas Luna, pulled up to a McDonald's drive-through nearly two years ago to order some food when they were approached by a person asking for change. What is a common and usually uneventful interaction in Los Angeles turned into a bloody confrontation with tragic results. According to a lawsuit filed by Rangel against McDonald's last week, he and his wife were attacked by the man and McDonald's employees failed to intervene or call for help.