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Live Nation Gets Win in Antitrust Fight Against Ticket Purchasers
The order turned on whether terms of use for its website, which included an arbitration agreement, is enforceable.
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Alec Baldwin Disputes New Mexico Prosecutors’ Addition of Gun Enhancement Charge
Following the fatal shooting, New Mexico lawmakers lowered the standards to apply the added penalty and increased potential prison time from three to five years. Baldwin's lawyers say the inclusion of the firearm enhancement is an "unconstitutional and elementary legal error."
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Harvey Weinstein’s Legal Battles Expand on Both Coasts
Weinstein is appealing a jury verdict in New York and fighting for a new trial in L.A., while also facing a new civil complaint from one of the women who testified against him.
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Live Nation Gets Win in Antitrust Fight Against Ticket Purchasers
Live Nation — fighting legal battles on multiple fronts amid renewed scrutiny of its 2010 merger with Ticketmaster stemming from the company’s botched sale of tickets to Taylor Swift’s latest tour — has won a skirmish in an antitrust suit from consumers with a federal appeals court ruling that the case belongs in arbitration rather […]
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Alec Baldwin Disputes New Mexico Prosecutors’ Addition of Gun Enhancement Charge
Alec Baldwin is arguing that New Mexico prosecutors are unconstitutionally charging him with violating a statute that didn’t exist at the time of the Rust shooting. The actor and producer of the low-budget Western faces up to six-and-a-half years in prison under a recently-amended firearm enhancement statute. But that enhancement was enacted seven months after […]
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Harvey Weinstein’s Legal Battles Expand on Both Coasts
As Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing looms and his attorneys argue for a new trial, a civil battle in New York moves forward and another is filed in Los Angeles. On Thursday one of the four Jane Does who testified during Weinstein’s L.A. trial filed a lawsuit against him alleging rape and false imprisonment, among other claims. […]
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Halyna Hutchins’ Family Files New Suit Against Alec Baldwin Over ‘Rust’ Shooting
Alec Baldwin is facing another lawsuit in connection with his role in the October 2021 fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust, this time from her parents and sister, lawyers for the family said on Thursday. Rust Movie Productions and other production companies — including El Dorado Pictures, Thomasville Pictures, Brittany […]
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Hermès Wins Trademark Suit Over MetaBirkins in Verdict Finding NFTs Aren’t Art
An artist’s nonfungible tokens of Hermès’ iconic Birkin bags violated the luxury fashion house’s trademark rights, a federal jury found on Wednesday. In one of the first trials examining the exploitation of digital assets, the case asked whether Mason Rothschild’s NFTs are more akin to commercial goods or artistic appropriations shielded by the First Amendment. […]
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Disney to Keep Perks Under Florida Bill Allowing Gov. Ron DeSantis to Assume Control of Special Tax District
Despite a Florida bill empowering Gov. Ron DeSantis to take control of its special tax district, Disney will get to keep most of the perks that’s allowed the company to self-govern the land on its theme park resort for over 50 years. Legislation introduced on Monday by Republicans in Florida’s Legislature would reshape the leadership […]
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Megadeth Album ‘The Sick, the Dying … and the Dead!’ Draws Lawsuit Over Cover Art
The cover of heavy metal band Megadeth’s latest album, The Sick, the Dying … and the Dead!, has drawn a lawsuit from an artist who says he hasn’t received pay or credit for his work. New York-based illustrator and designer Brent Elliott White says he has “created artwork and characters over time for Megadeth that […]
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Meta Won Approval to Buy a Virtual Reality App, But FTC Laid Groundwork to Halt Big Tech’s Next Deal
The Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit to block Facebook parent company Meta’s acquisition of virtual reality app developer Within presented the court with a legal question that used to exist on the periphery of antitrust law and is now critical to the government’s efforts to rein in big tech: How to assess proposed deals by dominant […]
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Elon Musk and Tesla Beat Investor Lawsuit Over “Funding Secured” Tweets
Elon Musk and Tesla are not on the hook for losses investors suffered when he posted messages on Twitter in 2018 indicating that he had secured the funding to take Tesla private, a jury found Friday. The trial in San Francisco federal court stemmed from a series of tweets Musk posted saying that he had […]
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Apple Privacy Suits Claim App Changes Were Guise to Boost Ad Revenue
Apple is being taken to court over allegations that it lies to consumers about privacy measures to gain an edge on competitors while actually harvesting massive amounts of data to grow advertising revenue. Despite representations in a campaign touting its privacy features, Apple continues to collect user data and “facilitates interception by third parties,” according […]
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Power Lawyers 2023: Nominations Are Open for The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Attorneys List
The Hollywood Reporter is now accepting nominations for its 17th annual Power Lawyers feature, which spotlights the 100 most influential attorneys in the entertainment industry. Each year, THR’s editors research and extensively vet candidates to create a list of the lawyers Hollywood relies on for negotiating top-dollar deals and arguing high-stakes legal battles. As part of that process, THR accepts nominations […]
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Apple and Google Called Upon to Oust TikTok From App Stores
A member of the Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores because of national security concerns as the Chinese-owned company faces escalating prospects of a national ban amid bipartisan scrutiny of its data-sharing practices. In a letter addressed to the chief executives of Apple and Alphabet, Sen. […]
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In Court, Elon Musk Is a Case Study in How Not to Use Twitter
Long before Elon Musk became the self- described “chief twit,” he was a prolific Twitter user. Among his 22,000-and-counting tweets, there’s one thread that has given him financial and legal headaches for years. On Aug. 7, 2018, Musk posted this message on Twitter: “Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured.” That tweet, and […]
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‘Rust’ Charges: Prosecutors Say Alec Baldwin Shouldn’t Have Pointed Gun
Alec Baldwin has officially been charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Charges were formally filed against Baldwin and armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, who both face two counts of involuntary manslaughter, on Tuesday after Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies announced criminal charges against both on Jan. 19. Notably, prosecutors […]
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Priscilla Presley Moves to Invalidate Daughter Lisa Marie Presley’s Will
A Presley estate battle is brewing. In a petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Thursday, Priscilla Presley challenges the will of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. She questions the “authenticity and validity” of a 2016 amendment that replaced her and former business manager Barry Siegel as co-trustees with Lisa Marie Presley’s daughter Riley […]
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Marilyn Manson Sued Over Alleged Sexual Assault of a Minor
Marilyn Manson is facing another lawsuit for sex crimes, this time from a woman who says she was groomed and sexually assaulted when she was underage in the 1990s. Manson allegedly targeted the Jane Doe plaintiff when she was 16 using his celebrity to “groom, manipulate and exploit” her, resulting in multiple sexual assaults over […]
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