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As a widower takes Disney to court over his wife’s death at Walt Disney World and Resorts, the company is using its Disney+ streaming terms to attempt blocking the lawsuit. In a recent filing, Disney’s attorneys requested Jeffrey Piccolo’s $50,000 case be dismissed and settled out of court after…

A lawsuit over the rights to the intellectual property of the 1985 horror-comedy The Return of the Living Dead has been filed today in Los Angeles Superior Court. Living Dead Media LLC is the plaintiff, and claims it owns the copyright in the original screenplay and the underlying script for the…

Fubo CEO David Gandler traded jabs Tuesday with attorneys Disney and Fox Corp., two of the three media companies behind streaming joint venture Venu Sports. Last February, Fubo filed an antitrust lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New York against Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery. The suit…

Irv Gotti, who cofounded Murder Inc. Records and has delivered hits for rappers Ja-Rule and Jay-Z, is being sued by an ex-companion for alleged sexual assault and battery. In a lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade on July 11, a woman identified only as Jane Doe accuses 54-year-old Gotti (born Irving Domingo…

Kanye West is being sued by a group of former employees, who accuse him and former chief of staff Milo Yiannopoulos of “fostering a racist environment” and forcing employees to work “insanely long hours.” According to TMZ, the filing was by developers hired to work on West’s YZYVSN streaming service…

UPDATED, with comment from CMG: Baseball legend Roberto Clemente is at the center of a new lawsuit over the rights to his life story. More than 50 years after his death, the Pittsburgh Pirates icon generated renewed interest in the entertainment industry. But a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior…

Fubo CEO David Gandler blasted away again at a planned sports bundle backed by Disney, Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery, calling the companies a “sports cartel” engaging in “borderline racketeering.” His comments came during a conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss fourth-quarter results…

Former President Donald Trump was ordered to pay nearly $400,000 in legal fees and other costs to The New York Times and three reporters he had sued after they published a piece on his tax schemes. New York Supreme Court judge Robert R. Reed ordered the former president to pay $392,638.69 to the…

Fresh off a landmark legal defeat last week, Google has now agreed to settle a separate suit by a coalition state attorneys general – co-led by New York AG Letitia James — accusing the tech giant of monopolistic conduct in its app store that increases costs for consumer and developers. Google will…

The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences and its former CEO and president were sued today by a woman who alleges she was sexually harassed in a culture that permitted him and others to abuse, exploit and silence victims for years. Read the lawsuit here. Plaintiff Terri McIntyre states in her…

A former Fox News employee claims in a new civil lawsuit that Tucker Carlson’s top producer Justin Wells sexually assaulted him in 2008. The lawsuit was filed in federal court on Monday and cited New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which gave a one-year window for plaintiffs to file civil sexual abuse…

UPDATED 11/23 with Foxx’s statement and 11/25 with plaintiff’s attorney’s response: Jamie Foxx has hit back at a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York, in which he is accused of a sexual assault that allegedly happened in 2015. “The alleged incident never happened. In 2020, this individual filed a…