Luxury fashion label Chrome Hearts has withdrawn its copyright infringement lawsuit against Neil Young and his backing band over the use of the name Chrome Hearts, ending a legal dispute that raised questions about trademark rights, artist branding, and the increasingly crowded overlap between fashion and music merchandising. According to... Read More »
Former employees of Spirit Airlines have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the airline of violating the federal WARN Act by abruptly shutting down operations and laying off thousands of workers without advance notice. The lawsuit, filed May 12 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,... Read More »
Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial ended in a mistrial Friday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict on a rape charge involving hairstylist and aspiring actor Jessica Mann, whose allegations were part of Weinstein’s 2020 Manhattan conviction. Judge Curtis Farber declared the mistrial after the Manhattan jury twice... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Thursday kept current nationwide access to the abortion medication mifepristone in place, blocking lower court limits that would have required in-person doctor visits and halted distribution through the mail while the case moves forward. Louisiana initially filed a lawsuit seeking to roll back Food and Drug... Read More »
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges tied to the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as Maryland finalized a $2.25 billion settlement with the owner and operator of the cargo ship involved in the disaster. The charges announced Tuesday accuse Singapore-based Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., its affiliated maritime... Read More »
The South Carolina Supreme Court overturned former South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh’s murder conviction and life sentence Wednesday, ruling that improper conduct by a court official undermined the fairness of the widely watched trial and requiring prosecutors to retry the case. In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest court found... Read More »
Netflix is facing a lawsuit from Texas accusing the streaming company of misleading consumers for years about how it collects, analyzes, and profits from subscriber data, including information tied to children using the platform’s Kids profiles. The lawsuit, filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in Collin County district court,... Read More »
A royalty dispute tied to one of hip-hop’s most influential albums has landed in court, with Death Row Records producer Daz Dillinger accusing Tupac Shakur’s estate of failing to properly compensate him for his work on some of the rapper’s most recognizable songs. Dillinger, born Delmar Arnaud, filed a lawsuit... Read More »
The family of a man killed during the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot of helping the gunman plan and carry out the attack. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, was brought by... Read More »
A cyberattack targeting Instructure, the parent company of Canvas LMS, disrupted access to the learning platform earlier this month after hackers claimed to have stolen roughly 3.65 terabytes of data tied to the company’s educational systems. Canvas is used by more than 8,000 schools and educational institutions across the United... Read More »
