Sam Smith and Normani are closer to facing a jury over their hit “Dancing With a Stranger” after a federal judge signaled Friday that he plans to reject their latest attempt to end a long-running copyright lawsuit before trial.U.S. District Judge Wesley L. Hsu said his tentative ruling is to... Read More »
Kodak Black has had two Florida criminal cases end within days, with a judge dismissing a felony fleeing charge after bodycam footage showed he was never told he was detained or ordered to remain, followed by prosecutors dropping a separate MDMA case.Broward Circuit Judge George Odom dismissed the fleeing and... Read More »
Former NFL scout Blaise Taylor has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 22 years in prison for killing his pregnant girlfriend, Jade Benning, and their unborn daughter by poisoning Benning with cocaine.Davidson County Criminal Court Judge Steve Dozier imposed the sentence Wednesday in Nashville, two months after a... Read More »
Ne-Yo is being sued by a Sri Lankan concert promoter that says the R&B singer canceled a December show in Colombo and kept $284,460 already paid toward his $325,000 performance fee.Brown Boy Presents filed the lawsuit on September 4 against Ne-Yo, whose legal name is Shaffer Chimere Smith, his company... Read More »
Rapper and Drink Champs host N.O.R.E. is facing a sexual assault lawsuit from Carmen Bryan, the former partner of Nas, who alleges he assaulted her inside a crowded Manhattan nightclub in 1999 and apologized only after realizing who she was.Bryan claims N.O.R.E., whose legal name is Victor James Santiago Jr.,... Read More »
Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam has introduced a federal data center plan that would require utilities to recover the full cost of certain grid upgrades from qualifying large electricity users and put federal highway funding at risk for states that fail to implement the new standard.Subramanyam, a Democrat whose district includes... Read More »
An 86-year-old former United Farm Workers organizer has sued the estate of Cesar Chavez and two organizations tied to the late labor leader, accusing Chavez of raping her at a California farmworker compound in 1973 and alleging people within the movement helped conceal his abuse of women.The complaint, filed Sept.... Read More »
A man suspected of stalking Kris Jenner was arrested near her Los Angeles-area home after her security team detained him following what authorities say were repeated attempts to contact the reality television star.Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies arrested 25-year-old Zenwilliam Robson on Monday after security personnel stopped him near Jenner’s... Read More »
A.B. Quintanilla III has formally sued his sister Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga, alleging he has been underpaid for years under a family agreement covering profits tied to Selena's entertainment properties.The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Nueces County, Texas, names Suzette and family businesses Q Production Inc. and Q Productions Inc. as defendants.... Read More »
AI music startup Suno has launched a new generation of music models developed with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe after settling copyright disputes with some music companies while continuing to fight others in federal court.The v6 models arrived Wednesday, months after Warner settled its copyright lawsuit against Suno and... Read More »
Lil Durk was acquitted Friday in the federal murder-for-hire case accusing him of ordering a revenge attack on rapper Quando Rondo, a major courtroom victory for the Grammy winner after prosecutors spent weeks trying to tie him to a 2022 Los Angeles shooting that killed Rondo’s cousin.The rapper, whose legal... Read More »
A federal appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration enforce new nationwide mail-ballot requirements for the November midterm elections, ruling that the U.S. Postal Service likely crossed a constitutional line by regulating how states conduct federal elections.The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a preliminary... Read More »
A New Mexico defense lawyer has been fined $5,000 after using ChatGPT to help draft a murder appeal, failing to check what it produced and filing a brief that included four witnesses who never existed, false testimony, and misrepresented legal authority.The New Mexico Supreme Court held Santa Fe attorney Stephen... Read More »
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Netflix for billions of dollars, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children and families for years before using subscriber data to fuel an advertising business it had publicly resisted.The 66-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit... Read More »
Jay-Z has lost an appeal seeking to revive his extortion and defamation claims against attorney Tony Buzbee over a since-withdrawn lawsuit that accused the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs.A three-judge panel of California’s Second District Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of claims brought by... Read More »
