A California appellate court has revived The Walt Disney Company's anti-SLAPP motion against a lawsuit claiming the entertainment giant fraudulently banned the Village People from performing at Disney Venues, saying Disney's musical act selection is conduct protected by the First Amendment.
A California appellate court has revived The Walt Disney Company's anti-SLAPP motion against a lawsuit claiming the entertainment giant fraudulently banned the Village People from performing at Disney Venues, saying Disney's musical act selection is conduct protected by the First Amendment.
Authors who struck a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with Anthropic PBC to resolve their copyright infringement class action told a California federal judge Tuesday that an Arizona law firm is tricking class members into opting out of the deal through an "aggressive social media advertising campaign."
Google has agreed to make a number of changes to the way apps are distributed on Android devices in a deal with Epic Games, potentially resolving their yearslong antitrust battle after Google asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case.
Paramount Skydance Corp. illegally disclosed to Google and Microsoft the personally identifiable information of children who viewed streaming content on their families' personal electronic devices, the kids' parents have claimed in a proposed class action in California federal court.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has initiated the reexamination of a Pokémon patent, a power no director has used since the first George W. Bush administration, leaving attorneys to question how this move fits into the agency's focus on settled expectations.
The founding bassist of the Grammy-nominated metal band Hatebreed has asked a Connecticut judge not to trim claims from a lawsuit over his sudden termination, saying a new version of the complaint will cure any legal defects identified by the group's vocalist and its business arm.
Two suits brought by a group of major Hollywood studios alleging artificial intelligence startup Midjourney used copyrighted material to train its video-generation model have been merged into a single case in California federal court.
A quartet of California-headquartered consumer law firms were behind nearly three-quarters of the website tracking and data privacy claims that both large and small businesses have reported to cyber insurer Coalition Inc. in recent years, according to a new report released Wednesday.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday named an all-woman transition team, including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who attracted the ire of tech giants and corporations by spearheading the Biden administration's aggressive antitrust enforcement.
Microsoft is urging a D.C. federal court to make sure that the limits imposed on Google in the U.S. Department of Justice's search monopolization case prevent the search giant from inking multiyear default agreements and that they reach new types of generative artificial intelligence products.
X Corp. has ended a sex bias suit from a former employee who accused the company of enacting harsh working conditions after Elon Musk's takeover of social media company Twitter in order to strategically push out women workers.
Kalshi and Robinhood have told a California federal judge that Native American tribes in the state can't bring claims that the trading platforms ran a criminal racket and flouted laws protecting tribal gaming by offering their sports event contracts, since the wagers are ultimately overseen by federal commodity laws.
The Trump administration's plan to make BEAD recipients promise they will not need federal operational subsidies if they take money from the massive broadband infrastructure program is a bad one, says a broadband advocacy group.
New York would eliminate state sales and compensating use tax and state excise tax on mobile telecommunication services and authorize local governments to eliminate their portion of sales and use tax for such services under a bill introduced in the state Assembly.
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday appeared amenable to ordering longer-term restrictions on force immigration agents can use on press and peaceful demonstrators in the Chicago area, disagreeing with a Justice Department attorney's argument that witnesses who experienced force continued to protest and report, saying their testimony suggested a "chilling effect."
A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday instructed two sports management firms to arbitrate their dispute over profits generated by representing NFL athletes through their joint comprehensive football sports agency, affirming that their agreement included a valid arbitration clause.
A California state court recently approved a $233 million settlement for thousands of Disneyland workers who were denied the minimum wage required by a city-level statute, demonstrating that local ordinances can transform historic tax or bond arrangements into wage law triggers, says Meredith Bobber Strauss at Michelman & Robinson.
Civil litigators can use artificial intelligence tools to strengthen case assessment and aid in early strategy development, as long as they address the risks and ethical considerations that accompany these uses, say attorneys at Barnes & Thornburg.
A pair of former executives at e-commerce company Volusion LLC have hit Jackson Walker LLP with the latest in a series of suits accusing the firm of legal malpractice stemming from the undisclosed romance between a former partner and a Texas bankruptcy judge.
Federal prosecutors were given just over 24 hours to hand over all of the grand jury materials and anything seized under years-old warrants in the James Comey case when a Virginia federal judge said Wednesday that the government appeared to be pursuing an "indict first, investigate last" strategy.
A California federal judge has rejected a $28 million attorney fee request from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd as part of a $150 million investor settlement with Zoom, calling it an "eye-watering figure," and saying the firm can collect about $10.4 million instead.
Federal judiciary members wrestled Wednesday with the appropriate parameters of a proposed rule that would govern machine-generated evidence, while questioning the need for another proposed rule dealing with so-called deepfake evidence.
Months of focused campaigning and an unprecedented blitz of spending on television ads helped serve to double the number of Pennsylvania voters who turned out on Tuesday to cast ballots over whether to grant new 10-year terms to three Democratic members of the state's Supreme Court.
Justices on Massachusetts' highest court grappled at a hearing Wednesday with its ability to address an ongoing shortage of attorneys willing to represent indigent defendants, after lawyers in two of the state's busiest counties stopped taking cases in May in protest over the low pay compared with other states.
