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Latest News in California
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March 23, 2026
Cosby Liable For '72 Sex Assault, Accuser Awarded $59M
A California jury Monday awarded $59.25 million in damages, including $40 million in punitive damages, to an 84-year-old woman who accused Bill Cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting her in 1972 after taking her to one of his comedy shows.
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March 23, 2026
Teens Are Meta's 'Collateral Damage,' Jury Hears In Closings
New Mexico on Monday closed out its trial against Meta over allegedly undisclosed mental health harms, telling a jury the social media giant openly committed to "move fast and break things" but hid that minors "are the collateral damage, what's broken when Meta moved fast."
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March 23, 2026
Meta Ends WhatsApp Security Head's Retaliation Suit For Now
A California federal judge dismissed, for now, a retaliation claim by a former Meta employee who claimed he was fired after reporting cybersecurity shortfalls concerning WhatsApp, finding the plaintiff's complaints aren't protected under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act since his cybersecurity violation reports don't relate to internal accounting controls.
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March 23, 2026
Anthropic Says DOD Security Risk Label Is Unconstitutional
Anthropic PBC has doubled down on its push for an order blocking the Trump administration from labeling it a supply chain risk to national security, telling a California federal court the executive branch was punishing "a major company for the sin of expressing its views on a matter of profound public significance."
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March 23, 2026
High Court Won't Review Mortgage Firm's $8M CFPB Fine
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a now-shuttered mortgage services firm's yearslong fight against a nearly $8 million Consumer Financial Protection Bureau judgment, rebuffing an appeal tied in part to the agency's past leadership structure.
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