Four human rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging the Trump administration’s sanctions against the International Criminal Court, arguing President Donald Trump exceeded his emergency economic powers and violated constitutional protections for speech and due process.The lawsuit, filed Aug. 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District... Read More »
A Delaware judge has handed a major legal victory to Wayne Barrow, the Notorious B.I.G.'s longtime manager, ruling that he was rightfully named successor to Voletta Wallace's stake in her late son's music catalog, a decision that forces Biggie's widow, Faith Evans, to share proceeds from a lucrative Primary Wave... Read More »
A Cook County lawsuit accuses Gibsons Bar and Steakhouse and several seafood companies of selling contaminated raw oysters that allegedly caused a customer to develop multiple bacterial infections, suffer cardiac arrest and sustain permanent brain damage.Joseph Belgio, 44, a retired Cicero firefighter and Marine veteran, filed the lawsuit Monday in... Read More »
Amanda Knox is pushing back against a petition demanding the cancellation of her Edinburgh Fringe show "Cartwheel," calling the effort misinformed and accusing its organizer of mischaracterizing a production no one behind the campaign has actually seen.The petition, posted on Change.org, was launched by Sally Alington, a former coworker of... Read More »
Amy Helm, the singer-songwriter daughter of the late Levon Helm, is facing a new lawsuit accusing her of causing at least $2 million in damages to Levon Helm Studios, escalating a bitter legal battle over control of the famed Woodstock music venue known as the Barn.The suit, filed Monday in... Read More »
A federal appeals court has cleared the way for more than 3,000 lawsuits accusing Meta, TikTok, Google and Snap of deliberately engineering their platforms to hook young users, dealing the tech giants a significant legal setback as they continue to fight a wave of litigation over the mental health effects... Read More »
A Staten Island judge temporarily blocked parts of New York City’s rollout of its new pied-à-terre surcharge after three homeowners argued that the city failed to follow state law before warning thousands of residents that their properties could be taxed.Justice Wayne Ozzi of the New York State Supreme Court in... Read More »
The family of actor Robert Carradine is suing the University of California over his death, alleging UCLA staff failed to follow suicide prevention safeguards after he voluntarily entered a locked psychiatric unit while experiencing suicidal thoughts.Carradine’s children filed the lawsuit Aug. 7 against the Regents of the University of California,... Read More »
More than six months after Nancy Guthrie disappeared from her Tucson area home, scrutiny of the investigation has raised a separate legal question over whether Savannah Guthrie and her family could hold Pima County responsible if mistakes by law enforcement hindered efforts to find her.The Guthrie family has not announced... Read More »
Taylor Swift has succeeded in getting her music pulled from a Trump-affiliated TikTok account after her song "August" was used in a video without her permission.The Team Trump account, which was created during the 2024 presidential campaign, posted a clip earlier this week showing Donald and Melania Trump watching fireworks... Read More »
A federal judge has ordered Megan Thee Stallion and Roc Nation to stand trial in a lawsuit brought by a former tour cameraman who alleges he was forced to witness the rapper having sex in a car while working a European tour date in 2022. Judge Gregory H. Woods issued... Read More »
A Virginia woman is seeking more than $10 million from Tesla after alleging she was sent on her first electric vehicle test drive alone in a Model Y that had been set to its high-performance “Insane” acceleration mode without her knowledge.Alemzewd Lawgalet sued Tesla Inc. and two employees over the... Read More »
Mercedes-Benz USA is facing a proposed class action from two California drivers who claim raised metal AMG logos built into the front seats of certain vehicles become hot enough to cause burns after the cars are parked in the sun.Gabriel Lahijani and Karendeep “Karina” Bath filed the lawsuit August 5... Read More »
Two of the world's biggest record labels are moving to shut down an unauthorized streaming app that's continued operating in Canada despite being pulled from Apple's App Store. Sony Music Group and Universal Music Group are initiating legal proceedings against the developers of Musi, an app that pulls music directly... Read More »
Three New York City homeowners have sued Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city finance officials over the rollout of a new tax on high-value secondary residences, claiming their primary homes were wrongly included among properties being reviewed for the surcharge.The lawsuit, filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court in Richmond... Read More »
