Plaintiffs lawyers in Facebook data privacy case seek $181 million in fees

By Sara Merken (Reuters) -Plaintiffs’ lawyers have asked a San Francisco federal judge to award more than $181 million in legal fees as part of a $725 million data privacy settlement with Facebook parent company Meta Platforms resolving claims over sharing of user information with third parties. Co-lead counsel at plaintiffs law firms Keller Rohrback…

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Trump’s push for new sex abuse trial is ‘magical thinking,’ Carroll says

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s push for a new trial in the civil case in which a Manhattan jury last month found the former U.S. president had sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll is “magical thinking,” Carroll’s lawyers said on Thursday. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential…

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Recent rate hikes should also be passed on to savers – ECB’s De Guindos

MADRID (Reuters) – Recent interest rate hikes by the European Central Bank should be fully transmitted to savers and reflected in higher deposit rates, ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos said on Thursday. “A full transmission (of monetary policy) requires the remuneration of savings,” De Guindos told a financial event in the northern Spanish city of…

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US Senate advances Chile tax treaty, paving way for ratification

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to advance a tax treaty with Chile, paving the way for final approval of a pact seen as crucial for ensuring access for U.S. companies to lithium, a mineral essential for electric vehicle batteries. The agreement cleared a Senate procedural hurdle by…

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