Analisa Torres

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals blocked New York City's 2021 law requiring food delivery apps to share customer data with restaurants, ruling it violates the First Amendment. The law, aimed at helping restaurants recover from the pandemic, was criticized for inadequate opt-out options and compelling apps to disclose personal customer information. The decision upheld a lower court's finding that the law imposes unconstitutional speech restrictions.

A self-exiled Chinese billionaire, Guo Wengui, was sentenced to 30 years in a US prison for a financial fraud conviction that cost over 1,000 people worldwide hundreds of millions of dollars. He fled China a decade ago and positioned himself as a US-based critic of the Communist Party.