Pennsylvania Attorney General David Sunday has sued Snap Inc., accusing the company of misleading parents about Snapchat’s 13+ age rating while using design features the state claims encourage compulsive use among young people.Filed Tuesday, Aug. 25, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, the lawsuit relies on Pennsylvania’s Unfair Trade... Read More »
A federal judge has again struck down Texas’ drag performance law, ruling that Senate Bill 12 violates the First Amendment and citing Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley and Miley Cyrus to show how broadly the restrictions could reach.U.S. District Judge David Hittner permanently blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from enforcing... Read More »
Meta Platforms has agreed to impose daily time limits and overnight restrictions on Instagram and Facebook users under 18 as part of a proposed multistate settlement worth up to $17.1 billion. The agreement would resolve claims that the company used harmful design features, misled families about youth safety and violated... Read More »
Sony Music has sued Kroger, accusing the grocery giant and its affiliates of using its recordings at least 392 times without permission in social media advertising, including songs by Harry Styles, Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus and Beyoncé.The copyright lawsuit, filed Aug. 21 in federal court in Los Angeles, targets videos... Read More »
Russell Simmons will recover an undisclosed portion of nearly 10 million shares in energy drink maker Celsius Holdings under a federal settlement resolving a years-long ownership fight tied to the 1MDB corruption case against former Goldman Sachs banker Tim Leissner.The disputed Celsius stake was worth more than $350 million at... Read More »
Hayden Panettiere’s representative says there is “much more to this story” than has been publicly discussed as authorities continue investigating the actress’s death and await toxicology results.In a statement shared Tuesday, Panettiere’s team criticized speculation surrounding her death and said people without firsthand knowledge of the circumstances were spreading rumors... Read More »
A Los Angeles judge has ordered qualifying tour and entertainment payments owed to Chris Brown redirected to his former housekeeper as she seeks to collect the nearly $13 million judgment she won after being mauled by one of his dogs.Judge Huey P. Cotton on Aug. 20 granted Maria Avila an... Read More »
President Donald Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion in Canadian imports under a 96-year-old trade law, six months after the Supreme Court rejected his use of emergency economic powers for sweeping duties on foreign goods.The new tariffs rely on Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930,... Read More »
A new peer-reviewed study found confirmed chronic traumatic encephalopathy in at least 24.5% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021, substantially expanding the scientific record a decade after federal courts upheld the league's concussion settlement and its cutoff for new Death with CTE awards.The study, published Tuesday... Read More »
A federal judge has denied Bad Bunny’s request to recover more than $465,000 in legal fees after a copyright lawsuit over an allegedly unauthorized sample on Un Verano Sin Ti was dismissed earlier this year.Bad Bunny, whose legal name is Benito Martínez Ocasio, asked Empawa Africa Music Services to pay... Read More »
A federal judge has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s bid to overturn her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, finding that her constitutional claims and evidence from newly released Jeffrey Epstein files did not provide grounds to set aside the verdict.U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer denied Maxwell’s habeas corpus petition... Read More »
Starr Manufacturing is seeking more than $25,000 in a defamation lawsuit against an Ohio woman over a one-star Google review that the company claims contained false allegations about its manufacturing and quality record.The family-owned industrial equipment maker, based in Vienna, sued Columbus resident Julie Watson in Trumbull County Common Pleas... Read More »
Zillow and Redfin have agreed to settle an FTC antitrust case over their $100 million rental listings deal, with Redfin required to reenter the rental advertising market and compete independently with Zillow under a proposed federal court order.The settlement would keep the companies' rental listings partnership in place while removing... Read More »
Rapper BigXthaPlug was arrested Friday in Texas on DWI, marijuana, and firearm charges, exactly one year after a separate arrest on similar drug and gun allegations in Dallas.The musician, whose legal name is Xavier Landum, was arrested by Allen police and booked into the Collin County Jail on charges of... Read More »
Kenny Chesney cannot be held liable for a fan’s $310,000 loss to an online impersonator, a California appeals court has ruled, rejecting claims that the country star had a legal duty to warn followers that scammers were using his identity.The California Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of Patricia Linson’s... Read More »
