The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction and life sentence Wednesday, ruling that improper conduct by a court official undermined the fairness of the widely watched trial and requiring prosecutors to retry the case. In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest court found... Read More »
Netflix is facing a lawsuit from Texas accusing the streaming company of misleading consumers for years about how it collects, analyzes, and profits from subscriber data, including information tied to children using the platform’s Kids profiles. The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Collin County district court,... Read More »
A royalty dispute tied to one of hip-hop’s most influential albums has landed in court, with Death Row Records producer Daz Dillinger accusing Tupac Shakur’s estate of failing to properly compensate him for his work on some of the rapper’s most recognizable songs. Dillinger, born Delmar Arnaud, filed a lawsuit... Read More »
The family of a man killed during the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot of helping the gunman plan and carry out the attack. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, was brought by... Read More »
A cyberattack targeting Instructure, the parent company of Canvas LMS, disrupted access to the learning platform earlier this month after hackers claimed to have stolen roughly 3.65 terabytes of data tied to the company’s educational systems. Canvas is used by more than 8,000 schools and educational institutions across the United... Read More »
Dua Lipa has filed a $15 million lawsuit against Samsung, accusing the electronics giant of using her image on television packaging without permission in what her legal team describes as a deliberate attempt to commercially benefit from her public profile. The complaint, filed Friday in federal court in California, alleges... Read More »
Google has agreed to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit brought by a group of Black employees who accused the company of maintaining disparities in hiring, pay, and promotions. Former Google employee April Curley filed the lawsuit in 2022, alleging the technology company engaged in a “pattern and practice” of discrimination... Read More »
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California lawsuit accusing the automaker of improperly collecting and selling sensitive driver data gathered through its OnStar connected-vehicle system. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the settlement on Friday, alleging GM and OnStar disclosed drivers’ names, contact information, geolocation... Read More »
Jason Derulo has prevailed in the legal fight over authorship rights to one of his biggest hits, with a jury unanimously rejecting claims that session musician Matthew Spatola deserved songwriting credit and royalties for Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat). The verdict, delivered Thursday after an 11-day trial, ends a... Read More »
Q'orianka Kilcher has filed a lawsuit against James Cameron and The Walt Disney Company, alleging that the filmmaker and studio used her facial features without permission as the visual foundation for Neytiri, the central Na’vi character in the blockbuster Avatar franchise. The complaint, filed Tuesday in California, centers on a... Read More »
Taylor Swift’s legal team is taking an aggressive stance against the trademark lawsuit challenging her use of The Life of a Showgirl, arguing in newly filed court papers that the case is fundamentally baseless and driven less by legitimate intellectual property concerns than by an attempt to capitalize on the... Read More »
Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit against Character Technologies, Inc., the company behind Character.AI, alleging that one of its chatbots falsely posed as a licensed healthcare professional and provided medical advice to users. The lawsuit accuses the AI platform, which is widely used by teens and young adults, of violating Pennsylvania’s... Read More »
Cento Fine Foods is facing a proposed class action lawsuit in California accusing the company of misleading consumers by marketing some of its canned tomato products as “Certified San Marzano” tomatoes without certification from the Italian consortium tied to the protected designation. The lawsuit, filed by two California consumers, alleges... Read More »
A federal appeals court in Atlanta has rejected a Trump administration immigration policy that denied bond hearings to many undocumented immigrants facing deportation proceedings. In a 2-1 ruling issued Wednesday, a panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Department of Homeland Security’s interpretation of federal... Read More »
A group of South Texas residents has filed a lawsuit against SpaceX, alleging that repeated rocket launches and sonic booms from the company’s Starbase facility damaged nearby homes over the past two years. The 80 plaintiffs, who live near the company’s launch site in Cameron County, accuse Elon Musk’s aerospace... Read More »
