Media & Entertainment

  • October 09, 2025

    Tort Report: Nuked 'Nuclear Verdict' Stays, Texas Justices Say

    The fate of a "nuclear verdict" that was used to jump-start tort reform campaigns across the country and a settlement of a suit over a Kiss guitar technician's death lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

  • October 09, 2025

    Q3 Notches Biggest Megadeal Quarter In Three Years

    The value of global mergers and acquisitions worth $10 billion or more hit $289.5 billion in the third quarter, the highest since the second quarter of 2022, according to a report provided by S&P Global Market Intelligence on Thursday.

  • October 09, 2025

    Megan Thee Stallion Wins Sanctions Over Deleted Messages

    A Florida magistrate judge Thursday sanctioned online personality Milagro "Mobz World" Cooper for deleting thousands of text messages and WhatsApp data after being told to preserve evidence in rapper Megan Thee Stallion's defamation and cyberstalking suit against her.

  • October 09, 2025

    FCC Looks To Scale Down Broadband 'Nutrition' Label Reg

    The Federal Communications Commission will consider making broadband "nutrition" labels a little leaner after the agency during the Biden administration imposed what the industry sees as overly burdensome requirements.

  • October 09, 2025

    Paramount Eyes $60B Warner Bid, And Other Rumors

    Paramount Skydance is in talks with private equity firms including Apollo Global Management as it mulls a potential $60 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Another mega-deal that's further along its path to closing — Mars' $36 billion bid to acquire Kellanova — is set to win European antitrust approval. And Armani has approached potential buyers to sell a minority stake in the first phase of late designer Giorgio Armani's wishes.

  • October 09, 2025

    NCAA Considers Relaxing Gambling Restrictions For Athletes

    The NCAA seems poised to allow student-athletes and staff to bet on professional sports in an attempt to promote responsible gambling, with the Division I Administrative Committee adopting a proposal that would no longer prohibit such wagers.

  • October 09, 2025

    Kentucky AG Enters Roblox Fray, Says App Attracts Predators

    The Kentucky attorney general has filed his own suit against Roblox, joining other plaintiffs alleging that the popular gaming platform fails to safeguard against adult sexual predators seeking to target and exploit minors despite assurances to parents that its platform is safe for their children.

  • October 09, 2025

    Mobile Game Co. To Pay $25M To End Chancery Investor Suit

    A China-based mobile gaming company has agreed to pay $24.75 million to settle a Delaware Chancery Court class action accusing it of engineering a $600 million share buyback that unfairly cemented its control of the company.

  • October 09, 2025

    Baldoni Atty Faces LA Malpractice Suit Over Client 'Betrayal'

    Entertainment attorney Bryan Freedman has been accused in Los Angeles County Superior Court of turning his back on a former client, allegedly convincing him to sign an unfavorable settlement on trademark claims against "It Ends With Us" star Justin Baldoni, only to later begin representing the actor and director.

  • October 09, 2025

    False-Statement Case Puts Comey In Rare Company

    Former FBI director James Comey is the latest addition to the relatively short list of government officials who have been criminally charged over the past several decades with making false statements to Congress.

  • October 09, 2025

    Clearview AI's £7.5M GDPR Fine Faces Renewed Scrutiny

    A London tribunal has decided that a lower court was wrong to find that the U.K.'s data protection regulator lacked the power to fine Clearview AI Inc. £7.5 million ($10 million) over its collection of images of U.K. citizens from social media without their knowledge.

  • October 08, 2025

    NYC Takes Social Media Youth Addiction Suit To Federal Court

    New York City has withdrawn from coordinated litigation against social media companies in California and filed a largely identical suit in federal court, a move the city determined was in its "best interest" for holding the companies accountable for purposefully getting youth hooked on their addictive platforms, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

  • October 08, 2025

    GoPro Owes $174M For Infringing Video Camera IP, Jury Hears

    GoPro Inc. infringed Contour IP Holding LLC's patented video camera technology and should pay $174 million in damages, Contour's counsel told a California federal jury during closing trial arguments Wednesday, while GoPro's attorney countered that the action cam maker didn't infringe because it actually invented the technology first.

  • October 08, 2025

    GOP Sens. Talk Big Tech Censorship While Dems Talk Kimmel

    Senate Republicans convened a committee hearing Wednesday morning to discuss "how Uncle Sam jawboned Big Tech into silencing Americans," but Democrats wanted to talk about censorship of a different stripe and kept pulling the conversation back to Jimmy Kimmel and the Federal Communications Commission.

  • October 08, 2025

    Meta Sued Over Financial Scam Impersonation Ads

    Meta Platforms Inc. is knowingly publishing and profiting from scam advertisements that unlawfully impersonate licensed financial professionals to ensnare social media users in fraudulent investment schemes involving thinly traded China-based securities, two financial professionals allege in a proposed class action in California federal court.

  • October 08, 2025

    OpenAI Says Copyright Case Isn't About AI Outputs

    OpenAI told a Manhattan federal judge Wednesday that a group of authors should not be allowed to argue that ChatGPT spits out summaries or verbatim portions of their books in a copyright infringement case, saying this is an additional theory of infringement that would make discovery more onerous than it already is.

  • October 08, 2025

    Ga. Panel Upholds $250K Award Over False Murder Claims

    The Georgia Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's denial of a new trial for a man hit with a $250,000 verdict after falsely claiming that an attorney murdered his own wife, rejecting the man's claims that damages weren't properly pled in the complaint filed against him.

  • October 08, 2025

    ICE Can't Use Force Vs. Ill. Press, Peaceful Protesters, Judge Says

    An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that she will temporarily restrain federal agents from using allegedly violent silencing tactics against press and peaceful protesters, and she won't limit her order to the detention facility U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates in the Chicago suburb of Broadview.

  • October 08, 2025

    Mark Sanchez, Fox Hit With Civil Suit Over Alleged Assault

    Former NFL quarterback and Fox Sports announcer Mark Sanchez has been sued for civil battery over an alleged drunken altercation that left a 69-year-old truck driver with serious injuries, while Fox Corp. was hit with a negligent hiring claim, according to a suit filed in Indiana state court.

  • October 08, 2025

    'I Don't Want To Be A Referee,' Google Search Judge Says

    A D.C. federal judge faced the prospect Wednesday of years more involvement in the U.S. Justice Department's case against Google's search monopoly, saying during a hearing that he's trying to balance avoiding being a "referee" for his remedies decision while preventing "misuses" of data sharing and search syndication mandates.

  • October 08, 2025

    Calif. Mandates Browser Ad Tracking Opt-Out In US First

    California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday that requires browser developers to offer a digital tool enabling consumers to more easily opt out of online behavioral advertising throughout the web, making the Golden State the first in the nation to enact the regulations.

  • October 08, 2025

    The Legal Advocacy Behind Fan Fiction's Biggest Site

    A nonprofit that appears on the docket as a friend of the court in some of the most important copyright cases at the U.S. Supreme Court and federal appeals courts is also responsible for running one of the largest fan fiction sites on the internet.

  • October 08, 2025

    11th Circ. Urged To Keep Ga.'s E-Commerce Regs On Ice

    Internet trade group NetChoice urged the Eleventh Circuit Wednesday to leave in place an injunction that for more than a year has kept Georgia from enforcing new requirements on e-commerce platforms, arguing the state's law tries to push past a regulatory "ceiling" already imposed by federal law.

  • October 08, 2025

    Teen Owes $50K In Video Game Hacking Case

    A Canadian teenager who was accused of hacking the online video game Rec Room, harassing other users and thwarting bans has agreed to stay off the game and pay $50,000 to end a civil suit in Washington federal court brought by the game's developers.

  • October 08, 2025

    Fox Wins $5.8M Judgment In Mexican Media Co. IP Dispute

    A New York federal judge on Wednesday awarded Fox Corp. $5.8 million from the leader of a Mexican media company as part of a lawsuit alleging that Fox's trademarks were wrongly being used in the country.

Expert Analysis

  • Anthropic Ruling Creates Fair Use Framework For AI Training

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    A California federal court’s recent ruling that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train its large language model qualified as fair use provides important guidance for both artificial intelligence developers and copyright holders because it distinguishes between transformative uses and unauthorized uses involving pirated or format-shifted works, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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    Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Skillful Persuasion

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    In many ways, law school teaches us how to argue, but when the ultimate goal is to get your client what they want, being persuasive through preparation and humility is the more likely key to success, says Michael Friedland at Friedland Cianfrani.

  • A Look At Trump 2.0 Antitrust Enforcement So Far

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    The first six months of President Donald Trump's second administration were marked by aggressive antitrust enforcement tempered by traditional structural remedies for mergers, but other unprecedented actions, like the firing of Federal Trade Commission Democrats, will likely stoke heated discussion ahead, says Richard Dagen at Axinn.

  • Breaking Down Novel Va. Social Media Law For Minors

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    While a Virginia bill passed in May is notable for setting a one-hour daily limit on minors' use of social media, other provisions create compliance burdens for social media operators and app store providers, and increase privacy and security risks associated with the collection of sensitive information to prove identity, says Jenna Rode at Hunton.

  • Litigation Inspiration: How To Respond After A Loss

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    Every litigator loses a case now and then, and the sting of that loss can become a medicine that strengthens or a poison that corrodes, depending on how the attorney responds, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine

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    The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

  • 'Loss' Policy Definition Is Key For Noncash Settlements

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    A recent Delaware decision in AMC Entertainment v. XL Specialty Insurance, holding that the definition of loss includes noncash settlement payments, is important to note for policyholders considering other settlement options — like two other class actions that recently settled for vouchers, say attorneys at Reed Smith.

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    Playing Mah-Jongg Makes Me A Better Mediator

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    Mah-jongg rewards patience, pattern recognition, adaptability and keen observation, all skills that are invaluable to my role as a mediator, and to all mediating parties, says Marina Corodemus.

  • Tips For Business Users After 2 Key AI Copyright Decisions

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    Because two recent artificial intelligence copyright decisions from the Northern District of California — Bartz v. Anthropic and Kadrey v. Meta — came out mostly in favor of the developers using the plaintiffs' works to train large language models, business users should proceed with care, says Chris Wlach at Acxiom.

  • Lively-Baldoni Saga Highlights Insurance Coverage Gaps

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    The ongoing legal dispute involving "It Ends With Us" co-stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively raises coverage questions across various insurance lines, showing that effective coordination between policies and a clear understanding of potential gaps are essential to minimizing unexpected exposures, says Katie Pope at Liberty Co.

  • FTC Staff Cuts Unlikely To Curb Antitrust Enforcement Agenda

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    While Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson's recent commitment to reducing agency staff may seem at odds with the Trump administration's commitment to antitrust enforcement, a closer analysis shows that such reductions have little chance of derailing the president's efforts, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Navigating Client Trauma

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    Law schools don't train students to handle repeated exposure to clients' traumatic experiences, but for litigators practicing in areas like civil rights and personal injury, success depends on the ability to view cases clinically and to recognize when you may need to seek help, says Katie Bennett at Robins Kaplan.

  • Copyright Takeaways From 2 Calif. GenAI Rulings

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    Two California federal court decisions suggest that the fair use defense may protect generative artificial intelligence output, but given the ongoing war between copyright holders and AI platforms, developers should still consider taking steps to reduce legal risk, says Lincoln Essig at Knobbe Martens.

  • Challenging A Class Representative's Adequacy And Typicality

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    Recent cases highlight that a named plaintiff cannot certify a putative class action unless they can meet all the applicable requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so defendants should consider challenging a plaintiff's ability to meet typicality and adequacy requirements early and often, say attorneys at Womble Bond.

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