Television personality and entrepreneur Kevin O’Leary is facing a defamation lawsuit after publicly accusing critics of his proposed artificial intelligence data center project in Utah of having ties to China. The lawsuit, filed last Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, alleges that O’Leary made false... Read More »
Nicki Minaj is fighting to remove herself personally from a lawsuit alleging she owes $275,000 to a concert production company, with her attorneys arguing the case amounts to little more than an attempt to target a celebrity with deep pockets.24/7 Productions filed suit against Minaj and her company, Pink Friday... Read More »
Offset will not serve any jail time on a misdemeanor assault charge connected to a confrontation with a security guard at a Los Angeles marijuana dispensary, after a judge signed off on a diversion agreement that could ultimately wipe the case from his record.A Los Angeles judge granted the Migos... Read More »
New York City almost certainly lacks the legal authority to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu solely because he enters the city, despite an outstanding arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court.Mayor Zohran Mamdani has said the city’s Law Department is examining what authority New York officials might have... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to invalidate Minnesota laws and local policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, handing the state and several local governments a significant victory in the continuing dispute over so-called sanctuary jurisdictions.Chief U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud ruled on July... Read More »
President Donald Trump is rebuilding his tariff program around older trade laws that expressly authorize import duties, months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the sweeping tariffs he imposed under a federal emergency-powers statute.The new strategy has produced 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods under a rarely used provision... Read More »
Sony Music has significantly intensified its legal fight against AI music platform Udio, filing a new copyright infringement lawsuit that dramatically expands the scope of its claims and raises the company's potential financial exposure to an estimated $4.5 billion. The complaint, filed on July 20, marks the latest chapter in... Read More »
As the FIFA World Cup reached its final stages, billions of fans around the world are watching, discussing, and consuming content related to the tournament. Yet compared with major cultural events such as Coachella, social media can feel surprisingly restrained. There are no endless streams of influencer brand trips, creator... Read More »
A wave of major music industry mergers over the past several months has kept some of the country's top law firms busy, with corporate, antitrust, tax and intellectual property attorneys playing central roles in negotiating, drafting and pushing the deals through regulatory review.The run of consolidation began gaining momentum in... Read More »
Desiigner, the Brooklyn rapper born Sidney Selby III, was arrested Wednesday in South Carolina on a second-degree domestic violence charge, according to Horry County Sheriff's Office records. Booking records show he was taken into custody at 2:21 p.m. ET and remains held without bail.The domestic violence charge is not the... Read More »
