Carter Holland

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$18m FaceTime Class Action Settlement Submitted for Approval

On April 27, an $18 million settlement was submitted for preliminary approval in a three-year property damage suit between plaintiffs Christina Grace and Ken Potter, and defendant Apple, Inc....

USPTO Rules That AI Cannot Invent Patents

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) ruled last week that artificial intelligence systems cannot be credited as an inventor in a patent. This decision was in response to...

Case Against Baltimore Surveillance Program Heads to 4th Circuit

Judge Richard D. Bennet filed a memorandum opinion on April 24 in regards to an ongoing surveillance case between Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS) and the Baltimore Police...

FCC Proposes Rule on “One-Ring” Scams

The Federal Communications Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on April, 28, designed to protect Americans from “one-ring” phone scams. These scams occur when a consumer’s phone...

TCPA Class Action Filed Against MIT

Plaintiff David James Fister filed a class action complaint against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on April, 22, alleging that it violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...

Delivery Scheduling App Shuts Down After Cease-and-Desist

Delivery scheduling tool Cartdash shut down last Thursday after its developer Devon Koch received a cease-and-desist letter from Instacart, an online grocery shopping service. Similarly to Amazon Fresh and...