Tech Lawsuit Discussions

Users share links to Hacker News threads and articles about various lawsuits, particularly defamation cases involving tech companies, journalists, and data breaches.

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gnabgib Oct 23, 2024 View on HN

There's a lawsuit (8 points, 3 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925296

gnabgib Oct 24, 2024 View on HN

There's a lawsuit (9 points, 9 hours ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41925296

nickburns Feb 14, 2025 View on HN

Actual lawsuit itself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43044377

kebman Jul 4, 2020 View on HN

Haven't news sites pushed law suits over this?

mikejb Feb 16, 2018 View on HN

They got sued, and this was one of the consequencessee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16388833

minimaxir May 8, 2023 View on HN

Discussion on the lawsuit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35852364This tweet...explains a lot.

SkyMarshal Dec 15, 2010 View on HN

This vaguely rings a bell. Did you post about it on HN or Reddit at the time? I seem to recall someone posting scanned letters from some attorney trying to sue them for something spurious.

theginger Sep 19, 2021 View on HN

anyone have a link to a story or details of what the lawsuit is about.

gnabgib Dec 19, 2024 View on HN

And they're suing (18 points, 1 day ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42451135

riffic Aug 31, 2022 View on HN

this reads like he got out-lawyered here.context for the unaware:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/ubiquiti-sues-jo...