Sports:
- A state judge on Monday declared Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby eligible to play in the 2026 college football season, finding that the player was unjustly harmed by the NCAA's decision to ban him after he admitted to sports betting. Brendan Sorsby granted 2026 eligibility: Texas Tech QB wins injunction vs. NCAA - CBS Sports
- Two D.C.-area residents sued the National Park Service on Saturday in a bid to halt the UFC mixed martial arts event scheduled for the White House South Lawn on June 14, arguing that the Trump administration illegally authorized the private event by ...
Sports:
- A Disney+ user must arbitrate his claim that ESPN Inc. gave his viewing data to Facebook's parent company Meta without his permission, a Pennsylvania federal judge has ruled, saying federal arbitration law preempts a Pennsylvania Superior Court decision that applied higher standards to private dispute resolution contracts. ESPN Wins Arbitration Of Disney+ User's Meta Privacy Claims - Law360
- The Chicago Bears on Monday kept the door open to staying in Illinois instead of moving to Indiana, hours after the state's Senate failed to act on a tax incentive bill for a proposed ...
Sports:
- A federal judge in Manhattan declined Thursday to order the Wimbledon and French Open tennis tournaments to grant access to representatives from a players group, after the group claimed its representatives are being denied access in retaliation for its antitrust lawsuit. Tennis Lawsuit Sparks Courtroom Fight Over Grand Slam Credentials
- A deluge of litigation targeting the NCAA's eligibility bylaws for allegedly limiting athletes' compensation has resulted in conflicting rulings from different courts, teeing up the possibility of a U.S. Supreme Court intervention ...
Entertainment:
LAWSUITS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS
- Blake Lively has settled her claims accusing Justin Baldoni's production company of orchestrating a smear campaign after she accused her It Ends With Us co-star of sexually harassing her, the actors announced in a joint statement, just two weeks before the case was set to go to trial in NY federal court. Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni got no money in lawsuit settlement
FILM & TELEVISION
- Photographer Annie Leibovitz’s licensing agency wrongly lost its copyright lawsuit over an online magazine’s use of her picture of the Star Wars movie ...
Sports:
- Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres announced that control of the franchise will be passed to an ownership group led by investor couple Kwanza Jones and José E. Feliciano, a few months after the family of the team's late owner largely resolved an internal dispute over control of the team. San Diego Padres Sale to José E. Feliciano, Kwanza Jones Sets MLB Record | Hypebeast
- The Saudi government's decision to cease funding for LIV Golf is a sea change both for the PGA Tour and the upstart league that once plunged the sport into a legal free-for-all that put the game's power ...
Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications for two voice clips and one image that may be specifically designed to provide additional protection from artificial intelligence impersonation.
Swift’s applications were filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). Usually, trademarks cover names and logos. The sound marks filed by Swift cover a lesser-known category of trademarks called “sensory marks;” in some cases, smells and sounds can be trademarked, meaning that they can be protected as designating a particular source of goods or services. A ...
Entertainment:
MUSIC
- Anthropic PBC has asked a CA federal judge to find that its use of copyrighted materials to train its tool Claude is "transformative" fair use under copyright law, comparing Claude's learning to how humans learn from reading and internalizing the themes of various works. Anthropic Claude AI Music Lawsuit: Company Argues for Fair Use Finding
- Singer Mariah Carey's bid for $600,000 in attorney fees after her Davis Wright Tremaine LLP attorneys defeated a copyright infringement ahead of trial is "absurd," the plaintiff's counsel told a CA federal judge, arguing ...
Sports:
- Though antitrust charges are in play in the U.S. Department of Justice's investigation into the NFL's deals with services like Amazon Prime and Netflix, experts say they don't see a strong federal case against the league's broadcasting practices, as focus may shift to updating a decades-old law governing how sports leagues negotiate television deals. What the DOJ's NFL investigation could mean for networks, fans - ESPN
- A federal judge threw out most of a former Pennsylvania State University trustee's lawsuit against the university and its board Friday but let his First ...
Is LIV Golf Facing a Funding Cliff? The Sports Law Stakes if Saudi PIF Pulls Back
This week’s reports that Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) may be reconsidering its financial commitment to LIV Golf have once again put the future of the breakaway tour under a legal and commercial spotlight. LIV has responded by insisting that its operations are continuing as planned, but the episode itself is revealing. Whether the rumors prove accurate, overstated, or simply premature, the discussion highlights a basic truth about challenger leagues: when a competition model depends ...
Entertainment:
LAWSUITS OF THE RICH & FAMOUS
- The woman known as the "Ketamine Queen" of North Hollywood was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a CA federal judge for several drug dealing-related crimes, including her role in providing the ketamine that led to the 2023 death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry. Matthew Perry’s Overdose Death: ‘Ketamine Queen’ Sentenced to Years in Prison
- Patty Apollonia Kotero, Prince’s co-star in his 1984 film “Purple Rain,” dropped her lawsuit against the late music star’s estate seeking a declaration she owned the name ...
