Author: Errica Jensen

There is a version of this story that remains in the corners of the internet where it originated. It is a long-standing conspiracy theory that has been circulated through fringe forums and anonymous accounts, asserting that France’s first lady was born a man. No Delaware courtroom ever sees that version. Like most such theories, that version fades without any repercussions. However, in early 2024, Candace Owens made the decision that the theory was worth risking her career for. She spent the better part of a year promoting it to a nearly seven million-person audience on X, releasing a multi-part video…

Imagine a warm July afternoon in 2019 at a Trader Joe’s in Palm Beach, Florida. After using his Visa debit card to complete a transaction and receiving his receipt, a customer named Brian Keim notices something strange. The first six and last four digits of his card number—ten of the sixteen digits—are printed in black ink on standard thermal paper, making them visible to any store employee who handed it over as well as anybody else who happened to look at it. Businesses are only allowed to print a customer’s last five card numbers under federal law. Something that wasn’t…

A tiny circular gadget with a glowing screen and flawless internal hardware is mounted on a wall somewhere in an Illinois home. The room temperature can still be read by it. The heat can still be turned on. However, the features that made it worth $250—the smartphone app, the Wi-Fi connection, and the flexibility to adjust it from a car, a couch, or an airport gate—are no longer there. It was taken by Google. Google’s authority to do so is currently being questioned in a federal class action lawsuit. Alphabet Inc. and Google LLC are being sued in the U.S.…

The Renaissance Hotel, located on 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale, is the type of establishment that frequently accommodates airline crews on layovers. It is a refined Marriott-brand hotel just a short distance from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and has the kind of quiet hallways and well-lit lobbies that pilots and flight attendants pass through dozens of times a year without any problems. A year after something went wrong in one of those hallways on February 1, 2025, Southwest Airlines was named in a $215,576 federal lawsuit alleging that a flight attendant had “negligently interfered” with a fire sprinkler system, according…

In Pendleton, Indiana, a school board meeting that attracts hundreds of community members is genuinely uncommon, graduation programs consistently feature the same names, and everyone knows which teachers have been at the high school for decades. A legal dispute over school transparency, religious freedom, and what a public employee is allowed to say on her own time took place in a familiar and locally rooted setting. That disagreement was formally resolved this week with a $195,000 settlement. It’s another matter entirely whether it ended well. Kathy McCord worked in Indiana schools for 37 years, the final 25 of those years…

After leaving Barstow, head east on Interstate 40, past the solar farms, outlet stores, and long, flat nothing, and eventually the terrain begins to rise. The Clark Mountains, dark volcanic ridgelines that are abrupt and steep and contain pockets of moisture that support plant life found almost nowhere else in California, rise out of the Mojave floor like something that wasn’t supposed to be there. Early in the morning, bighorn sheep travel through those canyons. Botanical surveys show that the rare plant density in those mountains is second only to one other range in the entire state. It is an…

A 60-page lawsuit has been sitting quietly since April somewhere in Bengaluru, inside the kind of district court building where ceiling fans turn slowly and files pile up in yellowing bundles on wooden benches. One of the most reputable names in mobile technology is the company that filed it. Reddit threads, X accounts, Instagram creators, and YouTubers are the targets. And the content in question includes everything from videos purportedly showing phones catching fire to negative product reviews that, depending on who you ask, are either dangerous false information or precisely the kind of frank criticism that Indian consumers on…

Outside of the legal community, the Madras High Court does not frequently make headlines. With its colonial-era hallways and leisurely dockets, it is located in Chennai and manages thousands of cases at various phases of their protracted, leisurely existence. However, a celebrity lawsuit that had been dragging through the Indian legal system for more than ten years was quietly closed on April 16, 2026, by a Division Bench. The decision has lessons that go far beyond a single actress and a single soap opera brand. The case concerns Power Soaps Private Limited, a business that most people outside of Tamil…

Watching the most famous football player in the world settle into a corporate suite far above the field while tens of thousands of fans below paid a substantial sum of money to watch him play has an almost cinematic quality. That occurred at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium on October 10 of last year, and if a recent lawsuit is to be believed, what transpired that night was not only disappointing but also fraudulent. Lionel Messi and the Argentine Football Association are being sued in Miami-Dade circuit court by VID Music Group, a Miami-based event promoter that specializes in large-scale sporting…

After four days of jury deliberations in a federal courthouse in Manhattan, the verdict was delivered on a Wednesday afternoon. After weeks of presenting their case against Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, thirty-three states and the District of Columbia returned with a clear verdict: Live Nation was an unlawful monopoly that hurt customers, overcharged ticket purchasers, and locked out rivals by controlling venues, marketing, and ticketing. Those who paid $25 in service fees for a $40 ticket had been waiting a long time for this kind of verdict. The case stems from a number of complaints that had…