A Texas appeals court has cut more than $43 million from the punitive damages Infowars founder Alex Jones was ordered to pay the parents of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, finding that most of the award exceeded limits imposed by state law.The Texas Third Court... Read More »
A federal jury in Alabama has awarded former University of Alabama basketball player Kai Spears more than $9 million after finding The New York Times liable over a 2023 article that falsely placed him at the scene of a fatal shooting involving people connected to the school's basketball program.The March... Read More »
Dane Cook is revisiting the $12 million embezzlement scheme carried out by his half-brother and former business manager, Darryl McCauley, saying in a new documentary that McCauley “disappeared” after serving his prison sentence and that questions remain about where some of the stolen money went.Funny Money: The Dane Cook Story,... Read More »
Lady Gaga has won dismissal of a trademark lawsuit brought by Lost Surfboards over her use of the name “Mayhem” for her album, tour and merchandise. U.S. District Judge Fernando M. Olguin dismissed the company’s claims with prejudice Tuesday, finding that Lost had not plausibly alleged that Gaga’s use of... Read More »
A former neighbor of Hayden Panettiere says she called 911 at least six times over disturbances involving the actress and her on-again, off-again boyfriend Brian Hickerson, describing incidents she believed were connected to domestic violence at Panettiere’s West Hollywood home.Mia Terrazzas told Inside Edition that she repeatedly contacted police because... Read More »
California has approved the nation’s first efficiency standards for replacement tires, setting new performance requirements for most tires sold for passenger cars and light-duty trucks in the state beginning in 2029.The California Energy Commission voted unanimously Aug. 17 to adopt the Replacement Tire Efficiency Program. The rules limit how much... Read More »
The family of Iryna Zarutska, the 23-year-old Ukrainian woman fatally stabbed aboard a Charlotte light rail train last year, plans to file a civil lawsuit around the first anniversary of her death as a new state audit details security and fare enforcement problems within the city's transit system.Attorney Lauren Newton,... Read More »
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration has sued the City Council to block a new law requiring up to $10,000 in payments to public school paraprofessionals, arguing lawmakers cannot set employee compensation outside the city’s collective bargaining process.The lawsuit, filed Aug. 19 in New York State Supreme Court in... Read More »
Ariana Grande has secured fast-tracked subpoena authority from a Los Angeles judge, allowing her legal team to seek records that could identify the people accused of stealing her unreleased music, photographs, and videos and selling the material on the dark web.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Mark H. Epstein granted... Read More »
Opponents of California’s plan to eliminate Catalina Island’s entire population of non-native mule deer are asking a Los Angeles County judge to stop the first shootings before they begin in September.The request comes as their lawsuit challenges the state’s approval of the eradication project and its use of an exemption... Read More »
A former Death Row Records associate refused to identify people he said were present on the night Tupac Shakur was fatally shot, repeatedly telling an attorney that he did not want his testimony to help send Duane “Keffe D” Davis to prison.James “Mob James” McDonald, a former Mob Piru Bloods... Read More »
Former Meta product design manager James Tillinghast is suing Meta Platforms, alleging the company fired him after he refused to sign an immigration support letter that he says overstated another employee's work and after he raised concerns about how Meta provided immigration assistance to workers.The lawsuit, filed Aug. 17 in... Read More »
Higher education groups and labor unions sued the Department of Homeland Security on Aug. 18 to block a new immigration rule that would end “duration of status” for international students and replace it with fixed admission periods capped at four years in many cases.Filed in the U.S. District Court for... Read More »
FKA Twigs has won a key ruling in her trademark dispute with indie band The Twigs after a federal judge dismissed the group's infringement claims because they waited too long to bring them. The Tuesday decision marks a setback for twin sisters Laura and Linda Good, who perform as The... Read More »
Minnesota sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday, asking a federal court to force him to authorize the extradition of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent charged with assault in Minneapolis. State officials argue Abbott has a mandatory constitutional duty to return the agent and warn that continued delay could... Read More »
