TikTok and its parent company ByteDance have agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million and impose new restrictions on how teenagers use the app, resolving the first state lawsuit against TikTok to reach a settlement over allegations that its platform harms young users.The agreement was announced Friday, September 25,... Read More »
Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking a Los Angeles judge for extra courtroom security after the opposing lawyer in his car crash trial posted the exact time and location of his expected testimony in a “Terminator”-style social media promotion.Attorneys for the actor and former California governor filed the request Tuesday after plaintiff’s... Read More »
Chris Brown’s former housekeeper could see more than $5 million wiped from her $12.9 million dog attack award after a Los Angeles judge signaled Thursday that he intends to sharply reduce the jury’s verdict.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Huey P. Cotton gave little indication he would retreat from a... Read More »
Apple has been hit with a $5.7 billion patent verdict after a federal jury found that haptic technology used in iPhones and Apple Watches infringed two patents owned by Taction Technology Inc.The San Diego jury returned the verdict Friday after deliberating for parts of two days, finding that Apple infringed... Read More »
The woman who accused Jay-Z of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 has recanted the allegations under oath, telling a federal court that she never met the rapper and that none of the misconduct she accused him of ever happened.In a 12-page declaration filed Thursday in Manhattan federal court,... Read More »
Taylor Swift is urging a federal judge to dismiss a trademark lawsuit over “The Life of a Showgirl” as “nonsensical,” even after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office previously refused an application for the title based on Maren Wade’s existing “Confessions of a Showgirl” registration.In new court filings, Swift’s attorneys... Read More »
Betr, the betting platform co-founded by Jake Paul, is refusing HBO’s demand to pull a commercial reuniting former “Entourage” stars Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, arguing that the network is trying to claim ownership over elements it previously persuaded courts were too generic to protect.HBO sent the company a cease-and-desist... Read More »
Anthropic lost its bid to overturn the Pentagon’s national security “supply chain risk” designation Friday after a federal appeals court upheld the government’s decision to exclude the artificial intelligence company’s Claude models from military systems and contracts.In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia... Read More »
Former North Carolina State University sports medicine director Robert Michael Murphy Jr. has been indicted on 32 criminal charges accusing him of sexually abusing male student-athletes while providing medical treatment, adding a criminal prosecution to years of civil litigation over allegations involving the Wolfpack athletic program.A Wake County grand jury... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Friday revived the Trump administration’s expanded voter citizenship-check system, allowing state and local election officials to again use Social Security numbers and other federal records to verify people on voter rolls weeks before the November midterm elections.The justices granted the administration’s emergency request to block a... Read More »
A Tennessee grandmother who spent nearly six months in jail after an AI facial recognition search linked her to bank thefts in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, is suing the City of Fargo and a police detective for $10 million.Angela Robin Lipps, 50, filed the... Read More »
A new documentary will chronicle the murder trial that ended with Duane “Keffe D” Davis being convicted in Tupac Shakur’s killing, pairing footage from the Las Vegas courtroom with never-before-seen material provided by the rapper’s family and inner circle.The untitled feature, directed by Marian Mohamed, will follow the case from... Read More »
Vice Media is facing a $20.43 million dispute with the founders of Pulse Films, who allege former company executives misled them about Vice's finances and an expected sale after payments tied to its 2021 buyout of their remaining stake stopped.Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford, founders of the production company behind... Read More »
Nine states have sued the Trump administration over deals that would use more than $1.5 billion in federal funds to reimburse energy companies for giving up offshore wind projects and investing comparable amounts in natural gas and geothermal development.The three lawsuits, filed Sept. 22, target Interior Department agreements with Bluepoint... Read More »
A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately after some of the men allegedly received disciplinary options that included writing essays.The former student, identified as Jane Doe, filed the... Read More »