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As Yellowjackets fans eagerly await Season 3, Showtime has been hit with a lawsuit claiming the idea for the Emmy-nominated series was stolen from the 2015 Shyam Madiraju-helmed survival thriller Eden. Filed Nov. 14 in New York federal court, the copyright infringement lawsuit also names Lionsgate…

The NBA and Warner Bros Discovery are taking their court battle over basketball TV rights out of the courts. While nothing has been filed yet in New York, the Adam Silver-led NBA and the David Zaslav-run WBD have reached a deal to end their months-long legal dispute and spread the wealth around…

Donald Trump has selected two attorneys who defended him in his New York hush money trial to top roles in the Justice Department. Todd Blanche has been nominated to serve as deputy attorney general, while Trump selected Emil Bove as principal associate deputy attorney general. Bove also will serve as…

(Updated with more details) Just over six months before the Walt Disney company was scheduled to go to trial in a potentially $300 million pay equity class action, the parties have come to a deal. As always in these things, details are confidential with a Motion for Preliminary Approval expected to…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros TV this week filed to dismiss a lawsuit by Michael Crichton’s estate that alleged the studio cut the late ER creator out of a new series by changing the venue to an inner-city hospital in Pittsburgh called The Pitt. The new show has the same EP in John Wells, showrunner R. Scott…

Sean "Diddy" Combs is hoping to be a free man by Thanksgiving. In his third attempt at being released from Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center, the sex trafficking charged Bad Boy Records founder is betting large on a November 22 hearing. "The Government's response to defendant's motion is…

A New York judge has delayed ruling on whether Donald Trump’s hush money conviction should be overturned in light of the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity. Judge Juan Merchan granted a stay of the current deadlines until Nov. 19, when prosecutors will spell out what they see as the…

Garth Brooks wasted no time making his next move once the “We Shall Be Free” singer had the rape case from a former make-up artist and stylist for himself and Trisha Yearwood shifted from California state court to federal court. In a 17-page motion to dismiss filed late today in the U.S. District…

UPDATED, 12:40 PM: Grammy winner Lil Durk is facing more federal charges in the 2022 murder-for-hire plot against fellow rapper Quando Rondo. Prosecutors on Friday filed a superseding indictment against the “All My Life” rapper (real name Durk Banks), alleging that he orchestrated his rival’s…

Three weeks after One Direction singer Liam Payne fell to his death at a Buenos Aires hotel last month, officials in Argentina have charged three individuals in the case. “Illicit conduct was discovered from which three people were charged with the crimes of abandonment of a person followed by death…

After President Joe Biden signed legislation earlier this year that requires TikTok parent ByteDance to divest the app or face a ban on U.S. app stores, Canada has taken action to eliminate the company’s physical footprint there. The Canadian government has ordered the social video service to…

After unseating George Gascón as Los Angeles County’s new district attorney, Nathan Hochman is catching up on his predecessor’s infamous caseload. Addressing Gascón’s recent recommendation that Erik and Lyle Menéndez be resentenced for the 1989 murders of their parents José and Mary Louise ‘Kitty…