Langham Hotels Pacific Corporation has agreed to pay $320,000 and refund at least $216,795 to guests to settle allegations that its Pasadena hotel raised room rates beyond California’s legal limit during the emergency caused by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.The agreement resolves a consumer protection lawsuit filed by the... Read More »
Twelve Division I athletes have filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging an NCAA eligibility rule that excludes them from a fifth season of college sports while extending that opportunity to other athletes.The lawsuit, filed July 8 in federal court in Colorado, claims the NCAA unlawfully restricted the athletes’ access... Read More »
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has cleared up lingering questions about who footed the bill for street closures surrounding Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding at Madison Square Garden, confirming that the pop star already paid the city more than $160,000 to cover the associated permit costs.Mamdani shared the figure... Read More »
The South African musician behind the famous opening chant in "The Lion King's" "Circle of Life" has walked away from his lawsuit against a comedian who poked fun at the song online, but the case isn't over yet. The comic's legal team now intends to go after the composer for... Read More »
Insomniac Events has put an end to a bitter legal dispute with a trio of Miami nightlife operators, striking a settlement that keeps the dance music giant tied to two of the city's marquee venues, Club Space and Factory Town.In a joint statement released on Friday, representatives for Insomniac and... Read More »
A California couple has sued Bay Club after alleging that a worker at its El Segundo childcare center dropped their 23-month-old son, causing a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss, then gave the family a false account of what happened.Matthew and Elena Kittle filed the lawsuit July 2 in Los... Read More »
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 »
Justin Baldoni has spoken publicly for the first time in almost two years, addressing the fallout from his legal battle with Blake Lively over their film "It Ends With Us" now that the case has ended in a settlement.Baldoni appeared in a video posted to social media on Wednesday alongside... 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 »
