A Los Angeles County judge granted a temporary restraining order against Halle Berry on Thursday after her ex-husband, Olivier Martinez, accused the actress of choking their 12-year-old son and asked the court to give him sole custody.Martinez filed the request in Los Angeles Superior Court on Oct. 1, 2026, over... Read More »
New York City’s new “Click-to-Cancel” rule took effect October 1, 2026, requiring businesses to make subscriptions as easy to end as they are to start and giving city regulators new authority to act when companies block or delay cancellation.The rule covers automatic renewals and continuous service subscriptions and requires businesses... Read More »
The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of an international anti-corruption watchdog that has monitored safeguards governing senior U.S. officials and federal law enforcement for more than two decades. Washington formally notified the Council of Europe on September 28, 2026, that it would withdraw from the Group of... Read More »
An Austrian judge has dismissed a privacy lawsuit brought by a man convicted of plotting a terrorist attack on Taylor Swift’s 2024 Eras Tour concerts in Vienna, ruling that Disney did not violate his privacy by briefly showing his parents’ home in a documentary series.The plaintiff, identified as Beran A.... Read More »
Victoria’s Secret is facing a right-of-publicity lawsuit from a model who claims the company showed roughly 95% of her face in an Instagram perfume advertisement after agreeing to show less than 30% and keep her unrecognizable.The model filed the lawsuit Tuesday, September 29, 2026, in the U.S. District Court for... Read More »
Lyft has agreed to pay $272.5 million to resolve California claims that it misclassified drivers as independent contractors and denied them wages and workplace protections available to employees, in what state officials say is the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history.The agreement, announced Thursday, October 1, 2026, covers drivers who... Read More »
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning marriage for anyone under 18, ending a system that allowed minors to marry with parental consent and court approval.Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1267 on Wednesday, September 30, making California the 18th state to prohibit child marriage without exceptions. The law takes... Read More »
A federal appeals court has refused to block sanctions against President Donald Trump and his lawyers over a judge’s finding that his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was improperly used to secure benefits through a settlement with his own administration.A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit... Read More »
New York Attorney General Letitia James’s office has opened a review into Cornell University’s handling of allegations that seven Chi Phi fraternity members drugged and gang-raped a student in 2024, as prosecutors prepare to take the underlying case before a grand jury.The Attorney General’s Office confirmed Wednesday, September 30, 2026,... Read More »
Tennessee death-row prisoner Christa Gail Pike survived a failed lethal-injection execution Wednesday after state officials administered both doses of pentobarbital permitted under the execution protocol. Her survival now creates an extraordinary legal question over whether Tennessee can attempt to execute her again.The Tennessee Department of Correction says officials followed the... Read More »
Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery has been cleared to close after a federal judge approved a settlement with 12 states and lifted the court order that had blocked the companies from completing the merger.Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery said Wednesday, September 30, 2026, that they expect... Read More »
Oasis has sued its former sound engineer to block the sale of a vast archive of unreleased material, prompting an auction house to withdraw the collection just days before it was expected to go up for sale for as much as £1.6 million.Oasis, Noel and Liam Gallagher and Sony Music... Read More »
A federal judge in Manhattan has blocked New York from enforcing a key part of its first-of-its-kind crackdown on algorithmic rent-setting, giving property management software company RealPage an early victory in its constitutional challenge.U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni granted RealPage a preliminary injunction on September 29, 2026, barring enforcement of... Read More »
A second federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, ruling that federal immigration officials bypassed required rulemaking procedures before putting the charge into effect.U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. of the Northern District of California issued the order Wednesday, September 30, blocking U.S.... Read More »
TikTok has won a temporary pause in a Texas child safety case while a state appeals court considers whether the company can immediately challenge a ruling that found it misled users about harmful content and its Restricted Mode feature.The Texas Fifteenth Court of Appeals on Tuesday halted all proceedings in... Read More »