Kodak Black has had two Florida criminal cases end within days, with a judge dismissing a felony fleeing charge after bodycam footage showed he was never told he was detained or ordered to remain, followed by prosecutors dropping a separate MDMA case.Broward Circuit Judge George Odom dismissed the fleeing and... Read More »

Ne-Yo is being sued by a Sri Lankan concert promoter that says the R&B singer canceled a December show in Colombo and kept $284,460 already paid toward his $325,000 performance fee.Brown Boy Presents filed the lawsuit on September 4 against Ne-Yo, whose legal name is Shaffer Chimere Smith, his company... Read More »

Rapper and Drink Champs host N.O.R.E. is facing a sexual assault lawsuit from Carmen Bryan, the former partner of Nas, who alleges he assaulted her inside a crowded Manhattan nightclub in 1999 and apologized only after realizing who she was.Bryan claims N.O.R.E., whose legal name is Victor James Santiago Jr.,... Read More »

A.B. Quintanilla III has formally sued his sister Suzette Quintanilla Arriaga, alleging he has been underpaid for years under a family agreement covering profits tied to Selena's entertainment properties.The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Nueces County, Texas, names Suzette and family businesses Q Production Inc. and Q Productions Inc. as defendants.... Read More »

AI music startup Suno has launched a new generation of music models developed with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe after settling copyright disputes with some music companies while continuing to fight others in federal court.The v6 models arrived Wednesday, months after Warner settled its copyright lawsuit against Suno and... Read More »

Lil Durk was acquitted Friday in the federal murder-for-hire case accusing him of ordering a revenge attack on rapper Quando Rondo, a major courtroom victory for the Grammy winner after prosecutors spent weeks trying to tie him to a 2022 Los Angeles shooting that killed Rondo’s cousin.The rapper, whose legal... Read More »

A federal appeals court has refused to let the Trump administration enforce new nationwide mail-ballot requirements for the November midterm elections, ruling that the U.S. Postal Service likely crossed a constitutional line by regulating how states conduct federal elections.The First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday upheld a preliminary... Read More »

A New Mexico defense lawyer has been fined $5,000 after using ChatGPT to help draft a murder appeal, failing to check what it produced and filing a brief that included four witnesses who never existed, false testimony, and misrepresented legal authority.The New Mexico Supreme Court held Santa Fe attorney Stephen... Read More »

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing Netflix for billions of dollars, accusing the streaming giant of secretly tracking children and families for years before using subscriber data to fuel an advertising business it had publicly resisted.The 66-page lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the Circuit Court of the Seventh Judicial Circuit... Read More »

Jay-Z has lost an appeal seeking to revive his extortion and defamation claims against attorney Tony Buzbee over a since-withdrawn lawsuit that accused the rapper of raping a 13-year-old girl with Sean “Diddy” Combs.A three-judge panel of California’s Second District Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of claims brought by... Read More »

The Trump administration is moving to change who counts in the 2030 census, proposing to exclude millions of noncitizens from the population totals used to divide House seats among the states. The shift could cost states with large immigrant populations representation in Congress and Electoral College votes.Under a Census Bureau... Read More »

A new documentary about Alec Baldwin offers a behind-the-scenes look at the actor’s prosecution over the fatal “Rust” shooting, including the moment he learned he had been indicted and the turmoil surrounding a manslaughter case that was ultimately dismissed during trial.The trailer for “The Trial of Alec Baldwin,” directed by... Read More »

California will bar social media platforms from offering addictive features such as infinite scroll and autoplay to users under 16, impose new safeguards on AI companion chatbots and expose some companies to damages reaching $1 million per child under a sweeping package signed Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.Signed September 10,... Read More »

Kid Cudi says the First Amendment gave him the right to remove M.I.A. from his Rebel Ragers Tour and is asking a federal judge to throw out her lawsuit seeking more than $2.8 million over the firing.M.I.A. says her contract allowed her to say what she wanted onstage. Cudi is... Read More »

A fight over whether a Christian youth ministry can open in downtown Leland, Michigan, has spilled into federal court, with a lawsuit accusing township officials of religious discrimination after they denied a special use permit for a Youth for Christ clubhouse.The dispute centers on a privately owned building in Leland’s... Read More »