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…
The federal government is suing Minnesota to try to stop that state’s own lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, the American Petroleum Institute, Koch Industries and its subsidiary, Flint Hills Resources. The state accused the industry players of violating Minnesota consumer protection laws by misleading the public about the dangers of climate change. That lawsuit, filed six…
The stepbrother of the rapper Tupac Shakur filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Duane Keith Davis, who was charged with Mr. Shakur’s murder in 2023 after a decades-long investigation failed to make meaningful progress. The stepbrother, Maurice Shakur, whose stage name is Mopreme, filed the complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday, seeking…
The Justice Department announced today that Joseph E. Johnson, the owner and manager of residential rental properties in Lexington, Kentucky, agreed to pay $510,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging that he sexually harassed female tenants in violation of the Fair Housing Act. “The Justice Department will not tolerate violations of our federal fair housing laws, including…
Lawyers for President Trump on Friday asked a judge to extend a key deadline in his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, an attempt to give the Justice Department more time to figure out how to respond to the conflict-laden case. The Justice Department has yet to respond to Mr. Trump’s suit, which…
A federal judge has dismissed a highly unusual lawsuit, filed last year by the Trump administration, that sought to pre-emptively block Hawaii from filing its own lawsuit against oil companies over their role in climate change. Hawaii went ahead with its lawsuit the very next day. And at the time, a range of legal experts…
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Judge William Alsup has rejected the record-breaking $1.5 billion settlement Anthropic has agreed to for a piracy lawsuit filed by writers. According to Bloomberg Law, the federal judge is concerned that the class lawyers struck a deal that will be forced “down the throat of authors.” Alsup reportedly felt misled by the deal and said…
