The Justice Department has asked a Washington, D.C., judge to dismiss the felony case against a former U.S. Olympian accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying newly obtained records show the pool’s coating failed because of a rushed and flawed installation rather than vandalism.Prosecutors filed the motion July... Read More »
Texas’s law requiring Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms faces a new state court challenge, with three Houston parents arguing that the mandate violates Texas religious freedom law and a voter-approved constitutional protection for parental rights.Emily Roth, Audrey Rosa Nath and Sanjam Kaur Sohal filed the case in Harris... Read More »
New York has sued prediction market operator Kalshi, accusing the company of running an unlicensed gambling business that allows users to wager on sports, elections, television shows and other events through its website and mobile app.Attorney General Letitia James filed the petition July 31 in New York County Supreme Court.... Read More »
Fender's claim to own the Stratocaster's iconic body shape is now facing its most serious legal test in nearly two decades, as a wave of cease-and-desist letters sent this past May has fractured the global guitar industry into camps of companies settling quietly and others preparing to fight in a... Read More »
A London judge has ordered Mitch Winehouse, the father of late singer Amy Winehouse, to pay more than $1.3 million to two of his daughter's closest friends after a High Court judge tore apart the lawsuit he brought against them over auctioned memorabilia. Justice Sarah Clarke handed down the costs... Read More »
Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has settled a lawsuit brought by former assistant Lauren Pisciotta, who accused him of sexual harassment, sexual assault, sex trafficking and wrongful termination.A filing submitted Tuesday in Los Angeles court states that the parties reached an unconditional settlement resolving the case. The... Read More »
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a class action lawsuit accusing Drake of misleadingly promoting the online gambling platform Stake must instead be resolved through individual arbitration, delivering at least a temporary win for the rapper and the company. The order, issued Thursday, found that Stake's terms and... Read More »
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state’s first-in-the-nation ban on tools that create realistic nude images of identifiable people, arguing the law restricts protected expression along with abusive content.The company filed the case July 27 in federal court, days before the measure took effect Aug.... Read More »
A Munich court has dealt a significant legal setback to Suno, ruling on Friday that the AI music company violated German copyright law by training its model on songs without securing licenses from the rights holders. The decision, issued by the Munich Regional Court, hands a major victory to GEMA,... Read More »
A federal appeals court has revived a proposed class action accusing several Atlantic City casino hotels of using shared, AI-assisted pricing software to coordinate room rates and charge guests more than they would have paid in a competitive market.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled Wednesday that... Read More »
