Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected two proposed constitutional amendments Tuesday that would have raised the approval threshold for citizen-led amendments and required lawmakers to phase out the state’s individual income tax.Amendment 4 failed by about 80 percent to 20 percent, while Amendment 5 received about 16 percent support in the August... Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed Alex Murdaugh’s lawsuit seeking $600,000 from former Colleton County Clerk of Court Becky Hill, ruling that her interference with his murder trial did not cause the legal expenses he sought to recover.U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel found Wednesday that Murdaugh lacked standing to pursue the... Read More »
A federal judge has reluctantly dismissed the final prosecution arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol after the Justice Department obtained the removal of eight Oath Keepers’ convictions and asked to abandon the charges.U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta granted the government’s request on August 4 and... Read More »
New Mexico sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to intervene after the agency refused to provide unredacted records sought for the state’s renewed criminal investigation into alleged sexual abuse at Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro Ranch.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More »
The Pokémon Company International and its former director of engineering are facing a proposed class action alleging the company failed to protect women and girls from hidden cameras placed inside bathrooms at its Bellevue, Washington, headquarters.The lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court by an anonymous woman and names... Read More »
Four professors and the American Association of University Professors have sued the Texas A&M University System, claiming its restrictions on classroom discussions of race, gender and sexuality violate the First Amendment and allow administrators to limit course material based on viewpoint.The lawsuit, filed Monday in federal court in Houston, asks... Read More »
An Atlanta-area woman has sued Kaiser Permanente, alleging employees mishandled a uterine tissue sample and caused her to receive a false diagnosis of aggressive cancer before undergoing surgery that removed her reproductive organs.The lawsuit, filed in Clayton County, Georgia, by Cassandra Barksdale, 43, names Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia,... Read More »
Kanye West is facing yet another lawsuit accusing him of mistreating a musician who worked with him, this time from a freelance producer suing anonymously as a John Doe. The producer alleges that West, who now goes by Ye, brought him on for emergency work to help finish the album... Read More »
A New York court has ruled against Howard Stern's former executive assistant in her bid to void a nondisclosure agreement that would have allowed her to publicly discuss her time working for the SiriusXM host and his wife. Justice Melissa Crane dismissed the lawsuit filed by Leslie Kuhn, who had... Read More »
Paramount will have to wait until March 2027 to defend its proposed $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery at trial, a schedule that could expose the company to as much as $1.5 billion in additional costs if the deal remains unfinished.A federal judge set the antitrust trial to begin... Read More »
Buc-ee’s has sued the company behind Beaver’s Mini Mart in Beavercreek, Ohio, claiming the neighborhood store’s name, cartoon beaver, and red signs are likely to be mistaken for the travel center chain’s protected branding.Buc-ee’s filed the complaint July 28 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio... Read More »
Warner Bros. could lose the right to develop a sequel to its 2023 hit “Barbie” unless it reaches new agreements with stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and director Greta Gerwig by December, when the studio’s rights are set to revert to Mattel.The studio did not secure sequel commitments from... Read More »
California’s Delete Act entered a major new phase on August 1, requiring registered data brokers to begin processing residents’ requests to erase personal information collected about them.The law created the Delete Request and Opt-out Platform, known as DROP, which allows a California resident to send one deletion request to more... Read More »
A nationwide preliminary injunction covers qualifying Division I athletes who began competing in college during the 2022-23 school year, although transfer, roster, and professional-status rules remain in place.A federal judge in Colorado has temporarily ordered the NCAA to allow a nationwide group of Division I athletes to compete for a... Read More »
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty are now facing formal ethics complaints from two separate government watchdog groups over gifts they accepted from Paramount, adding fresh scrutiny to the agency's handling of the company's pending merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.The Democracy Defenders Fund and Citizens for... Read More »
