Starr Manufacturing is seeking more than $25,000 in a defamation lawsuit against an Ohio woman over a one-star Google review that the company claims contained false allegations about its manufacturing and quality record.The family-owned industrial equipment maker, based in Vienna, sued Columbus resident Julie Watson in Trumbull County Common Pleas... Read More »
Zillow and Redfin have agreed to settle an FTC antitrust case over their $100 million rental listings deal, with Redfin required to reenter the rental advertising market and compete independently with Zillow under a proposed federal court order.The settlement would keep the companies' rental listings partnership in place while removing... Read More »
Rapper BigXthaPlug was arrested Friday in Texas on DWI, marijuana, and firearm charges, exactly one year after a separate arrest on similar drug and gun allegations in Dallas.The musician, whose legal name is Xavier Landum, was arrested by Allen police and booked into the Collin County Jail on charges of... Read More »
Kenny Chesney cannot be held liable for a fan’s $310,000 loss to an online impersonator, a California appeals court has ruled, rejecting claims that the country star had a legal duty to warn followers that scammers were using his identity.The California Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of Patricia Linson’s... Read More »
Jay-Z’s effort to revive his extortion and defamation lawsuit against attorney Tony Buzbee faced skepticism from a California appeals court Thursday, with a three-judge panel tentatively siding with the lower court decision that dismissed the case.The dispute stems from a since-withdrawn lawsuit filed by an anonymous woman who accused Jay-Z,... Read More »
Hailey Bieber’s sister Alaia Baldwin Aronow has entered a pretrial diversion program on four misdemeanor charges stemming from a 2024 confrontation with employees at a Savannah, Georgia, nightclub. The program gives her a path to resolve the case outside the usual prosecution process if she completes its requirements.Aronow, 33, faces... Read More »
President Donald Trump pressed for the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case against Live Nation after meeting with company CEO Michael Rapino in the Oval Office on Feb. 27, a sequence newly detailed by The Wall Street Journal. The intervention came days before trial and preceded a federal settlement... Read More »
Hayden Panettiere’s 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, remains the likely heir to the actor’s estate even though she has lived in Europe with her father, Wladimir Klitschko, since Panettiere transferred full custody to him in 2018.Panettiere’s mother, Lesley Vogel, recently said she does not believe her daughter left a will and expects... Read More »
A coalition representing hundreds of New York City grocers and bodegas has filed two lawsuits seeking to block Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million plan for five city-owned grocery stores, arguing that public support for the program will place immigrant and minority-owned businesses at an unlawful disadvantage.The Multicultural Business Coalition filed... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a lower court order blocking parts of President Donald Trump’s election executive order, allowing the administration to move forward with measures affecting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.The ruling focused on whether the states had shown enough immediate harm to bring... Read More »
Former child actress Raquel Lee Bolleau has sued The Walt Disney Company, alleging the company failed to protect her from repeated sexual assault by an employee while she was 14 and filming the 2001 Disney Channel movie The Poof Point.Bolleau, who performed under the name Raquel Lee, filed the civil... Read More »
A Twitch streamer has sued Twitch and Amazon in a proposed class action, claiming the companies used creators’ videos, chats and other content to train generative artificial intelligence models without their consent or compensation.Warren Pandiscia, a Connecticut creator who has streamed on Twitch for nearly a decade, filed the lawsuit... Read More »
Nevada sued the U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday over a Colorado River plan that state officials say could eventually cut its annual water allocation by more than 70 percent, opening the first state challenge to the federal government’s new rules for the shrinking river.The state filed the case... Read More »
San Francisco 49ers principal owner Jed York pleaded no contest Monday to two misdemeanor charges in Ohio after prosecutors reduced an original charge of engaging in prostitution to disorderly conduct following his weekend arrest.York, 46, pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and possessing criminal tools in Columbiana County. He was... Read More »
Hemp-derived THC gummies and beverages legally sold under state law in parts of the country could lose their status as hemp under federal law this fall under a new definition Congress adopted last year.The change is scheduled to take effect Nov. 12 and would exclude finished hemp-derived cannabinoid products containing... Read More »
