Netflix is facing a $105 million lawsuit after an unreleased World War II thriller starring Nicolas Cage vanished amid a theft at the streamer's Los Angeles offices, with the filmmakers accusing the company of jeopardizing the movie's entire commercial future. The suit, filed Thursday in California federal court by producer... Read More »
Musician Afroman has turned the tables on the officers who raided his Ohio home, filing suit against one of the deputies involved in the 2022 search and the subsequent legal fight that followed. The rapper, whose legal name is Joseph Edgar Foreman, is coming off a win in a high-profile... Read More »
Chobani must face a proposed class action accusing the company of misleading consumers by marketing yogurt as sugar-free even though each serving allegedly contains four grams of allulose, a sweetener that a federal appeals court found qualifies as sugar under federal labeling rules.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in... Read More »
Kroger has settled a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of longtime employee Evan Seyfried, who claimed harassment by managers at an Ohio store contributed to his death by suicide in 2021.Seyfried, 40, worked for the grocery chain for 19 years and managed the dairy department at its Milford... Read More »
Macy’s and the company that administers its WorryNoMore furniture protection plan are facing a proposed class action alleging customers were sold coverage for furniture damage and mechanical failures, then subjected to a claims process designed to steer valid requests toward exclusions.Los Angeles resident Iman Shaw sued Macy’s Inc. and Tarmo... Read More »
Jason Cloth, a Canadian financier whose executive producer credits include "Joker," "Licorice Pizza" and "House of Gucci," was indicted this week on charges he orchestrated a scheme that bilked investors out of more than $100 million.Federal prosecutors in Chicago unsealed the indictment after Cloth was taken into custody Tuesday in... Read More »
Jared Leto is facing a wave of new allegations after four women told a BBC documentary that he engaged in criminal sexual conduct with them when they were teenagers. The claims surfaced in "Jared Leto: Hollywood's Dark Secret," which premiered Wednesday and marks the most extensive public accounting yet of... Read More »
Novo Nordisk must face part of a securities fraud lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of misleading investors about dosing and tolerability in a late-stage clinical trial for CagriSema, after a federal judge allowed a narrower set of shareholder claims to move forward.U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch in New Jersey ruled Tuesday... Read More »
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against Penske Media on Tuesday, accusing the media conglomerate of orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to seize control of the Golden Globe Awards as part of a broader effort to dominate Hollywood's awards and advertising ecosystem. The suit, filed in California... Read More »
Olga Solovey, the mother of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, has died at the age of 67. Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of the Western film "Rust" in October 2021, a death that set off years of criminal and civil litigation still working its way through the courts.Solovey's death was... Read More »
