Google pleaded with the judge on Friday not to add the penalty to the September verdict, which ordered the tech giant to pay about $425 million in damages to the plaintiffs who had filed the class-action lawsuit. The settlement is far below the $31 billion the plaintiffs sought in damages and other compensation.

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High school students can now profit off of their own name, image and likeness, or NIL. Think endorsements and autograph sessions. The Michigan High School Athletic Association announced the policy change Tuesday to expand "personal branding activities."

Michigan is the 46th state to allow NIL deals at the high school level and that Ohio was the 45th. After the first month in Ohio, only 11 student-athletes in the buckeye state signed NIL contracts.

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A Michigan federal judge is awaiting trial on drunken-driving charges following his October arrest, during which officials said his blood-alcohol content was more than twice the legal limit.

Judge Thomas L. Ludington of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan faces misdemeanor charges of operating a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content of 0.17 or more and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, according to the complaint filed by a local prosecutor

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