/media?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Media & Entertainment Copyright 2025 Â鶹´«Ã½. en-US Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:59:15 +0000 /media/articles/2350669?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350669 The FTC on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., federal judge to reject Meta's bid to strike testimony the agency's lead economics expert gave during the antitrust trial over Meta's purchase of Instagram and WhatsApp, scoffing at the allegation the New York University School of Â鶹´«Ã½ professor is biased. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:05:36 +0000 /media/articles/2350647?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350647 Employees of the federal agency that provides grants and resources to public libraries cannot immediately get blocked President Donald Trump's executive order dismantling the agency, a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled Friday, saying there is a likelihood the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 23:01:50 +0000 /media/articles/2350395?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350395 A Texas federal judge signed off on the end of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's case against crypto promoter Ian Balina, resolving the dispute over Balina's promotion of so-called SPRK tokens amid the agency's policy pivot on digital assets. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:44:12 +0000 /media/articles/2350648?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350648 A split D.C. Circuit panel reinstated the White House's decision to ban the Associated Press from the press pool covering the Oval Office, Air Force One and Mar-a-Lago on Friday, while a dissenting judge criticized her colleagues' rationale as being nonsensical and upending longstanding First Amendment precedent and generations of tradition. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:26:26 +0000 /media/articles/2350284?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350284 President Donald Trump on Friday applauded the electromagnetic spectrum deal brokered among Senate Republicans that is included in one of the chamber's budget reconciliation bills. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:39:15 +0000 /media/articles/2350517?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350517 Clifford "T.I." Harris and Tameka "Tiny" Harris have urged a California federal judge to reject MGA Entertainment's motion to reverse a jury's $71.4 million verdict finding the company infringed the trade dress and publicity rights of the OMG Girlz pop group, saying the rehashed arguments fall flat. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 21:29:50 +0000 /media/articles/2350667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350667 The Washington Post must face Trump Media & Technology Group's suit over an article accusing it of committing securities fraud over a purported finder's fee paid to Entoro Securities to secure a loan, a Florida federal judge said Friday, ruling Trump Media's latest pleading "squarely alleges" no fee agreement existed.  Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:37:58 +0000 /media/articles/2350545?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350545 A Delaware court on Friday paused a pension fund stockholder suit seeking documents on data privacy violations made by Meta Platforms Inc. that led to a €1.2 billion ($1.4 billion) fine from European authorities. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:37:53 +0000 /media/articles/2350565?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350565 Attorneys for Fox Corp. shareholders are accusing the company of unjustifiably withholding documents sought in Delaware's Court of Chancery related to a derivative suit over the alleged defamation of vote tabulation companies in the midst of the 2020 election. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:22:14 +0000 /media/articles/2350455?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350455 OpenAI and Microsoft have urged a California federal judge to again trim Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging OpenAI's now-abandoned transition to a for-profit enterprise, arguing the billionaire and his own artificial intelligence company, xAI, have not made any changes to their previously nixed claims for contract breach and fraudulent enterprise. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:14:59 +0000 /media/articles/2350345?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350345 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday unveiled a technology-neutral approach for broadband deployment subsidies under the $42.5 billion program created during the Biden administration, which he argues will speed up the federal effort. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:04:33 +0000 /media/articles/2350564?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350564 A Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP partner's onetime landlord asked for a pretrial victory in a federal feud with his former tenants, telling a Connecticut court Friday he did not participate in his ex-attorney's leak of unflattering allegations about A. Mark Getachew and his wife to the New York Post. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:33:09 +0000 /media/articles/2350603?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350603 A Georgia federal judge signaled Friday that he may leave it up to a jury to decide whether a Peach State voter was defamed by his portrayal as an election fraud operative in the conspiracy movie "2,000 Mules," doubting whether he had enough evidence to prove the film's producers deliberately tried to slander him. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:14:50 +0000 /media/articles/2350540?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350540 New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Friday that her office has shuttered the in-state operations of 26 online sweepstakes casinos, saying they are prohibited by state law because they involve risking something of value. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:59:09 +0000 /media/articles/2350557?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350557 A copyright dispute between music publishers and X Corp. is heading toward a potential settlement, with both sides on Friday asking a Tennessee federal judge to stay proceedings for 90 days so they can participate in negotiations. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:58:27 +0000 /media/articles/2350333?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350333 The acting head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will review a decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board refusing to throw out TikTok's bids to invalidate a series of patents related to publishing multimedia content. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:04:00 +0000 /media/articles/2342370?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2342370 As the administration targets diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and law firms consider pulling back from their programs, lawyers who care about racial equity and justice can employ four strategies to create microspaces of justice, which can then be parlayed into drivers of transformational change, says Susan Sturm at Columbia Â鶹´«Ã½ School. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 15:04:06 +0000 /media/articles/2349888?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2349888 Two basketball players suing Seton Hall University with claims their injuries were minimized so they could continue playing told a New Jersey federal judge Thursday that the lawsuit is about gross negligence, not their personal injuries, in a response to a motion for summary judgment. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:49:40 +0000 /media/articles/2343509?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2343509 The U.S. Department of Justice’s new rules, making it easier for law enforcement investigating leaks to compel members of the media and third parties to disclose information, could have wide-ranging impacts, from reduced protections for journalists and organizations, to an expanded focus on nonclassified material, say attorneys at WilmerHale. Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:18:13 +0000 /media/articles/2350389?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /media/articles/2350389 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his company have said they intend to appeal a Manhattan federal court order mandating the preservation of ChatGPT logs at the request of The New York Times and other news agencies in ongoing copyright infringement litigation, saying the demand goes too far.