Kanye West is facing another lawsuit accusing him of mistreating a fellow musician. A freelance producer, suing as a John Doe, claims in the new lawsuit that West, now known as Ye, hired him on “an emergency basis” to help finish the album Vultures 2, then failed to pay him for that work or…
New York makes an unusual promise to its residents: Its constitution says the state must provide “aid, care and support for the needy.” But for at least the fourth time in almost 40 years, the state is being sued for failing to live up to this commitment by putting impoverished families at risk of homelessness….
In an unusually aggressive move, the Justice Department told a federal court in Mississippi that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has the right to run dozens of polluting gas-burning turbines in the state despite not having permits for them. The Justice Department late on Monday said that the court should throw out a lawsuit…
Note: View motion for intervention and dismissal here. Yesterday, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) filed a motion to intervene and to dismiss a private citizen lawsuit seeking to power down a large artificial intelligence (AI) facility in Southaven, Mississippi. The filings concern a case where private litigants sued xAI and its…
A former engineer at Elon Musk’s xAI has filed suit against the company and its parent SpaceX claiming he was fired for raising concerns about AI safety. Devin Kim, who left xAI in September 2025, filed the suit in a California state court on Tuesday. The complaint comes days before SpaceX is set to join…
Judge withdraws $1 million breach of contract lawsuit against Chuck Redd, citing Washington, D.C.’s anti-SLAPP protections The Trump administration’s lawsuit against a jazz musician who canceled his annual Christmas concert at the Kennedy Center amid changes at the performing arts center has been dismissed. In December, Chuck Redd, the bandleader of the Christmas Eve Jazz…
For some, Pride Month is all about LGBTQIA+ rights, celebration, and acceptance. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT This year, however, it has become associated with a major lawsuit involving a multimillion-dollar clothing company. The American clothing brand Patagonia has filed a lawsuit for trademark infringement against the 33-year-old drag queen, environmental activist and advocate for social causes Pattie…
A Dutch court ruled on Wednesday that Greenpeace International could proceed with its unusual countersuit against the pipeline company Energy Transfer in the Netherlands. The environmental group is suing under Dutch law, accusing the American company of using a yearslong legal battle in North Dakota as a bullying tactic. Greenpeace International, which is based in…
ABKCO Music & Records has reached a settlement with Behr Paint over an in Instagram advertisement that allegedly featured an unlicensed version of The Rolling Stones’ 1966 chart-topper “Paint It, Black.” Lawyers for Behr and ABKCO, which owns The Rolling Stones’ early catalog, filed a joint notice of settlement ending the lawsuit on Monday (May…
The Securities and Exchange Commission reached a $1.5 million settlement with Elon Musk on Monday in a lawsuit that accused the world’s richest person of breaking securities law during his purchase of Twitter, now called X. The S.E.C. had said Mr. Musk hid purchases of the social media company’s stock in 2022 and did not…
