A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was filed for an improper purpose, finding that the president and the agencies he sued lacked the opposing interests required for a federal court case.U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams imposed nonmonetary sanctions, referred... Read More »
California and 11 other states sued Monday to block Paramount Skydance Corp.’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the deal would reduce competition across major parts of the film and television business.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims the... Read More »
Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the artificial intelligence company of using stolen trade secrets to speed the development of its first consumer hardware product.The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims OpenAI encouraged Apple workers it was recruiting... Read More »
A federal judge in California has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Google of quietly monitoring users' private emails, chats, and video calls through its Gemini AI assistant, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to spell out what information Google actually accessed or what concrete harm they suffered as a result.... Read More »
A London-based businessman has become the first person in the United Kingdom to be convicted under the country's post-invasion sanctions regime governing shipments to Russia, after he attempted to send four paintings out of Heathrow Airport bound for the country.Jonathan Hornby entered a guilty plea at Westminster Magistrates' Court on... Read More »
Sam Smith and Normani are pushing a federal judge to rule in their favor in a long-running copyright dispute over their 2019 hit "Dancing With a Stranger," arguing that the songwriters who accuse them of copying an earlier track have never been able to show how the pair could have... Read More »
A federal judge has delivered a mixed ruling in a lawsuit brought by actress Catherine Corcoran against the team behind the 2016 independent horror hit "Terrifier," dismissing her claims that nude images of her were illegally leaked while allowing her core financial and contractual grievances to move forward toward trial.U.S.... Read More »
The criminal case against a woman charged with felony stalking of Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham has been put on hold after a Los Angeles judge ordered her to undergo a formal mental health evaluation. The ruling, handed down Tuesday, will determine whether 55-year-old Michelle Dick is competent to stand trial... Read More »
Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri has filed a lawsuit against Sony Music Entertainment, accusing the label of systematically underpaying him and hiding royalties earned from his work with some of the biggest names in music, including Mariah Carey, Usher, Kris Kross, Xscape, Bow Wow, and Da Brat. Filed in federal court in... Read More »
An insurer has gone to federal court in California to argue that it bears no responsibility for defending or paying out claims against Sama, the data annotation company accused of using recordings captured by Meta's smart glasses to help train artificial intelligence systems. In a complaint filed Monday, the insurer contends... Read More »
Massachusetts-based movie content website Screendollars has taken Sirius XM Radio to court, accusing the satellite radio company and its advertising unit, Pandora Media, of infringing on its trademarked logo, a stylized design featuring a five-pointed star centered inside the letter "S." Screendollars LLC filed the trademark infringement and unfair competition... Read More »
Apple Inc. is facing a proposed class action in federal court in Illinois over claims that its Face ID system secretly captures detailed scans of users' irises and retinas without the written consent required under the state's biometric privacy law.The complaint, filed Saturday, was brought by Samantha Mettler, an Illinois... Read More »
The creative history behind one of the toy industry's most famous brands is now the subject of a federal lawsuit, with a graphic designer and former licensing executive arguing that he, not Xavier Roberts, the man long credited as the creator of Cabbage Patch Kids, is responsible for turning a... Read More »
A federal judge in New York has ruled that an exhibition bout between former boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and kickboxer Mike Zambidis can move forward, rejecting a broadcasting company's argument that the fight violated Mayweather's contractual commitments tied to an upcoming match against Mike Tyson. In a ruling issued last... Read More »
Live Nation is doubling down on its effort to reverse a jury verdict that found the company had monopolized significant portions of the live entertainment business, arguing in new court filings this week that state enforcers never proved the kind of harm antitrust law actually requires. In a filing submitted last... Read More »
