Attorneys for author Truman Capote’s trust want a state court to resolve what they frame as a contract dispute — but they’ve already claimed copyright infringement in federal court.
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GOP congressional candidate Ronda Baldwin-Kennedy — trounced in her bid for California’s District 26 seat in November — sued her political consultants Tuesday, accusing them of doing nothing to help her win the election.
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A minor league baseball team is suing the New York Yankees and Major League Baseball after being stripped of its affiliation with the major league ballclub.
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Defending a $9.9 million fundraising campaign to promote justice for George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, Change.org argued in court Tuesday that it cannot be sued over how it chose to spend the donated funds.
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A federal judge late Tuesday dismissed two counterclaims by Apple against Fortnite maker Epic Games, in the popular online game maker’s antitrust lawsuit challenging Apple’s practice of taking a 30% cut on all in-app purchases.
Read moreAn art collector accused the owner of the Banksy piece “Flowers” of agreeing to sell the artwork to a London gallery so the collector could buy it — a deal the owner now says he never agreed to.
Read moreFilmmaker Cheryl Dunye accuses her onetime business partner of pocketing the revenue generated from a 20th anniversary restoration of her queer cinema classic “The Watermelon Woman” and also claim to have rights to future works Dunye might complete.
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Details of a contract between TV network AMC and the creators of the hit zombie series “The Walking Dead” took center stage in a Los Angeles courtroom Monday in a legal spat over profits that could spill over into a multimillion-dollar trial.
Read moreA woman who shot at least 15 porn videos for GirlsDoPorn affiliate website MomPOV.com said Thursday she knew the videos would be posted online to a members-only website.
Read moreGirlsDoPorn made more than $1 million on videos it produced of 22 Jane Does who accuse the porn company of lying to them to get them to appear in the videos while its owner stands to make $4 million more from over 200 unpublished videos, a financial expert testified Monday.
Read moreThe ex-girlfriend of a porn producer for GirlsDoPorn testified Tuesday she was paid $300 a week to harass the attorneys representing the 22 Jane Does accusing the online porn purveyor of a bait-and-switch scheme to get them to appear in its videos.
Read moreThe last of 22 Jane Does to testify against GirlsDoPorn on claims of a bait-and-switch scheme involving the online distribution of pornography videos wept Monday as a deposition was played in which she recounted sex so violent it made her bleed.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit will not revisit its decision in a long-running copyright feud between family and heirs of renowned author John Steinbeck.
Read moreThe day after an online porn purveyor removed GirlsDoPorn’s videos and less than a week after federal prosecutors filed sex trafficking charges against its owners and operators, GirlsDoPorn lost a bid to stay the months-long civil trial brought by women who say they were duped to appear in its videos.
Read moreA Planned Parenthood doctor who was surreptitiously recorded by anti-abortion activists David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt at a National Abortion Federation conference in San Francisco said her sense of security was shaken after a video of what she thought was a private conversation about fetal tissue donation was released online.
Read moreA business owner has sued the Judicial Council of California and one of its former staff supervisors for $1 million, claiming the ex-employee’s unscrupulous dealings in a project to replace courthouse lighting with energy-saving lightbulbs left her financially ruined.
Read moreDownplaying his role in an alleged conspiracy to infiltrate abortion industry meetings and secretly videotape doctors, a longtime abortion foe testified Tuesday he did not know his colleagues planned to use fake IDs and other deceptive means to gain access.
Read moreShining a light on GirlsDoPorn’s alleged practice of underpaying women who appear in its porn videos over supposed physical flaws, Jane Doe 10 testified Monday she was paid thousands less than promised in 2015 because she was told she “looks old.”
Read moreOn the first day of trial over abortion foe David Daleiden’s campaign to infiltrate industry meetings and covertly videotape Planned Parenthood doctors, a jury was bombarded with conflicting messages on what the case is about.
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