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Latest News in California

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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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