New Mexico asked a state judge for up to $40 billion from Meta after a jury found more than 43 million violations of its Unfair Practices Act. That is seven to eight times Meta's 2019 FTC settlement, sought over public statements about privacy and hate speech.
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New Mexico jurors found Facebook broke the state's Unfair Practices Act nearly 44 million times, at up to $5,000 per violation. A judge sets the penalty in the coming weeks from findings that Facebook's public statements about data sharing misled its users.
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Meta lost a second New Mexico consumer-protection jury trial this year, on findings the state's lawyer counts as 43.9 million violations worth up to $5,000 each. A judge sets the penalty next, and that same lawyer expects Meta's appeal to hold back any cash for four or five years.
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buildOne report1 publisher A wiki catalogues 44 places where Sony's own pages say you own your games
Sony's defense turns on what a reasonable buyer takes from the word Purchase. Volunteers at the Consumer Rights Wiki are answering with Sony's own storefront copy, captured with archived snapshots and highlighted screenshots.
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Claude Max users sue over a 20x claim quoted against the five-hour window
A class action filed September 8 says Anthropic sold Max on a multiple measured inside a session that resets every five hours, while the weekly caps added months later are the ones heavy users actually hit.
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