Former Olympic canoeist David Hearn has been indicted in Washington, D.C., on a felony destruction of property charge tied to alleged damage at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a case that will turn on whether prosecutors can prove he maliciously damaged newly installed pool material and caused more than $1,000... Read More »
As reports of the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce wedding draw national attention, another question has moved to the center of public discussion: what would a prenuptial agreement look like when one partner owns one of the most valuable music catalogs in the world and the other has built a... Read More »
Federal and local authorities arrested 10 people Wednesday in a new sweep targeting alleged sex trafficking along Los Angeles’ Figueroa Corridor, including several alleged members or associates of the Hoover Criminal Gang and the manager of a South Los Angeles motel.The arrests followed the unsealing of a 65-count superseding indictment... Read More »
California’s ban on consumer-facing “sell by” food labels took effect July 1, making the state the first in the nation to require standardized date language on most food products sold to consumers.The new law, Assembly Bill 660, requires food manufacturers, processors and retailers that use date labels on food manufactured... Read More »
Justin Baldoni is now facing the financial consequences of a court ruling issued earlier this month, after a judge determined that he must cover Blake Lively's legal fees following the dismissal of the lawsuits the two It Ends With Us stars had filed against each other. A newly obtained legal... Read More »
Coach and its parent company, Tapestry, have ended a federal lawsuit accusing Quince of selling lower-priced handbags that allegedly copied the look of two Coach designs.The companies filed a joint stipulation on June 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, agreeing to dismiss all claims... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Texas’s ban on paid voter assistance, leaving in place an appeals court ruling that allows the state to enforce the restriction.The dispute centered on a provision of Texas Senate Bill 1, the state’s 2021 election law. The provision makes... Read More »
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was supposed to help finish an unreleased science fiction series.A Manhattan jury convicted Rinsch in December of wire fraud, money laundering, and five counts of... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected President Donald Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship, ruling that children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully or temporarily present in the country are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment.The decision in Trump v. Barbara blocks Executive Order... Read More »
Mississippi will authorize its top law enforcement agency to identify people living in the state without legal status under a new immigration law taking effect July 1, a measure that expands the state’s role in immigration enforcement through data collection, cooperation with federal authorities, and state criminal penalties.Senate Bill 2114... Read More »
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained a robbery suspect’s Google Location History data through a geofence warrant, a decision that strengthens privacy protections for cell-phone location records while leaving key questions about the warrant itself unresolved.In a 5-4 decision, the Court... Read More »
A California jury ruled Tuesday that Chris Brown owes more than $13 million in damages stemming from a December 2020 incident in which a housekeeper working at his Los Angeles-area home was severely injured by one of his security dogs.According to court records, Brown and his company, Black Pyramid LLC,... Read More »
Pfizer has been dismissed from a broad antitrust lawsuit accusing dozens of drugmakers and executives of fixing prices in the generic drug industry, a ruling that removes the company from one part of a larger case brought by most U.S. states.Chief Judge Michael Shea of the U.S. District Court in... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a Mississippi mail ballot law Monday, ruling that federal election statutes do not bar the state from counting absentee ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive within five business days.The 5-to-4 decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed a ruling from the... Read More »
The Supreme Court declined to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal of a $5 million civil verdict awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, leaving in place a jury finding that he sexually abused her in the mid-1990s and later defamed her when he denied the allegation.The justices issued a brief order... Read More »
