Taylor Swift is urging a federal judge to dismiss a trademark lawsuit over “The Life of a Showgirl” as “nonsensical,” even after the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office previously refused an application for the title based on Maren Wade’s existing “Confessions of a Showgirl” registration.In new court filings, Swift’s attorneys... Read More »
Betr, the betting platform co-founded by Jake Paul, is refusing HBO’s demand to pull a commercial reuniting former “Entourage” stars Jeremy Piven and Adrian Grenier, arguing that the network is trying to claim ownership over elements it previously persuaded courts were too generic to protect.HBO sent the company a cease-and-desist... Read More »
Anthropic lost its bid to overturn the Pentagon’s national security “supply chain risk” designation Friday after a federal appeals court upheld the government’s decision to exclude the artificial intelligence company’s Claude models from military systems and contracts.In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia... Read More »
Former North Carolina State University sports medicine director Robert Michael Murphy Jr. has been indicted on 32 criminal charges accusing him of sexually abusing male student-athletes while providing medical treatment, adding a criminal prosecution to years of civil litigation over allegations involving the Wolfpack athletic program.A Wake County grand jury... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Friday revived the Trump administration’s expanded voter citizenship-check system, allowing state and local election officials to again use Social Security numbers and other federal records to verify people on voter rolls weeks before the November midterm elections.The justices granted the administration’s emergency request to block a... Read More »
A Tennessee grandmother who spent nearly six months in jail after an AI facial recognition search linked her to bank thefts in North Dakota, a state she says she had never visited, is suing the City of Fargo and a police detective for $10 million.Angela Robin Lipps, 50, filed the... Read More »
A new documentary will chronicle the murder trial that ended with Duane “Keffe D” Davis being convicted in Tupac Shakur’s killing, pairing footage from the Las Vegas courtroom with never-before-seen material provided by the rapper’s family and inner circle.The untitled feature, directed by Marian Mohamed, will follow the case from... Read More »
Vice Media is facing a $20.43 million dispute with the founders of Pulse Films, who allege former company executives misled them about Vice's finances and an expected sale after payments tied to its 2021 buyout of their remaining stake stopped.Thomas Benski and Marisa Clifford, founders of the production company behind... Read More »
Nine states have sued the Trump administration over deals that would use more than $1.5 billion in federal funds to reimburse energy companies for giving up offshore wind projects and investing comparable amounts in natural gas and geothermal development.The three lawsuits, filed Sept. 22, target Interior Department agreements with Bluepoint... Read More »
A former Cornell University student has sued the school after alleging seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped her at a fraternity house, accusing Cornell of responding inadequately after some of the men allegedly received disciplinary options that included writing essays.The former student, identified as Jane Doe, filed the... Read More »