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Shou Zi Chew
SILICON VALLEY September 17, 2024
Up close and in-person at the blockbuster trial—the First Amendment angle, the NatSec concerns, the creators’ pleas, the lawyers’ moxie, and Hollywood’s reticence to get involved.
Mark Thompson
MEDIA September 10, 2024
Republican-appointed judges are greenlighting a surge of defamation cases against the likes of CNN, Netflix, ABC News, and Media Matters, revealing everything from private communications to the most sensitive internal documents.
lachlan murdoch james murdoch rupert murdoch
MEDIA September 3, 2024
Barricaded doors and records kept secret? Inside the Nevada battle for control of the Fox News empire—and whether the whole drama should be sealed off from public view.
HOLLYWOOD August 27, 2024
Live Nation’s fight to keep its C.E.O. from being deposed over the 2021 Astroworld concert tragedy appears to have backfired. Meanwhile, after a setback in the Gina Carano case, Disney is grappling with a deposition headache of its own.


bryan lourd
HOLLYWOOD August 21, 2024
Bryan Lourd’s CAA is lobbing serious allegations at its former employees, accusing them of contract breaches, loyalty breaches, and tortious interference by coaxing clients and at-will employees to jump ship.
david zaslav
SPORTS August 13, 2024
After days of withering scrutiny in court, a judge is seriously considering an injunction against Venu, the joint venture from WBD, Fox, and Disney, over alleged antitrust violations.
taylor swift
SILICON VALLEY August 6, 2024
A pair of well-capitalized A.I. music startups have found themselves in the middle of a gnarly lawsuit against the industry’s biggest labels in a case that may set precedents across numerous creative industries. These suits will either be remembered as a power play, or a devastating blow to their own assets and their relevance to artists.
roger goodell
SPORTS August 1, 2024
A secret arbitration has ordered the NFL union to pay $7.8 million to Fanatics’ rival for breach of contract. Meanwhile, the league has prevailed in a major counteroffensive in the Sunday Ticket case.


fanatics michael rubin
SPORTS July 23, 2024
For years, Fanatics C.E.O. Michael Rubin has created a nouveau riche fantasy life, best encapsulated by his Hamptons summer “all-white” party, based on his sports merchandising juggernaut. Now, a series of legal headaches threaten Fanatics’ I.P.O., and the industry, itself.
Mario Gabelli
HOLLYWOOD July 16, 2024
David Ellison’s $8 billion takeover of Paramount is already facing legal challenges, including a new suit from Mario Gabelli, the long-suffering Paramount shareholder who is now questioning whether Shari’s sweetheart deal was just a little too rich. Here, Gabelli explains his beef. Plus: there’s another unexpected wrinkle in the deal.
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