Relativity has gotten past the first stage in its massive lawsuit against Netflix, but not without a couple of major chops from a Santa Clara Superior Court judge. At a court hearing late last week, Relativity was permitted to move forward on a claim that Netflix breached contract, but had its fair dealing claim as well as a trade libel one stricken. The two companies go way back.
The years-long legal battle between Zenimax and Oculus drew to a close yesterday, as the court ruled in Zenimax’s favor after two days of deliberations. As a result, Zenimax is owed a total of $500 million for a variety of charges against Oculus, CTO John Carmack, and co-founders Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Now that the dust has had a chance to settle, a pair of legal experts sat down to …
Failed presidential candidate Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has settled a lawsuit alleging his campaign improperly used two copyrighted songs in political advertisements. Cruz’s campaign and the Hollywood ad agency he had hired, Madison McQueen, agreed to pay a Seattle music-licensing firm $55,000 and issued an apology for “unintentionally infringing upon the intellectual property rights” of the two …
A sexual abuse victim will continue to try to collect $1.8 million from former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, the victim’s attorney said on Tuesday, after an Illinois judge denied Hastert’s motion to dismiss a breach-of-contract lawsuit. The plaintiff, identified in court documents as James Doe, claims that Hastert agreed to pay him $3.5 million as …
Harry Shearer, increasingly the sonorous voice of protest in various contract disputes, is suing the entertainment groups Vivendi and StudioCanal for $125 million , over profits he says he was cheated out of for This Is Spinal Tap . Shearer played Derek Smalls, bassist and self-described “lukewarm water,” in the 1984 metal mockumentary, which was based on characters he, Christopher Guest, and …
A former administrator who earlier this year sued Wright State University’s research arm has submitted a filing indicating a settlement in the suit may be forthcoming. Ryan Fendley, former senior advisor to the Wright State provost, filed a motion Sept. 6 in Greene County Common Pleas Court seeking additional time to submit a final entry reflecting a settlement. Fendley sued Wright State …
A Valley Center teacher is suing the district, citing breach of contract after she was terminated without due process earlier this year. Janet Decker, who worked as a gifted-program coordinator at Valley Center High School and Valley Center Middle School for 16 years, was issued a notice in April that her contract would not be renewed for the current school year, according to a lawsuit filed …
After nearly eight months of litigation, LA Fitness and its parent company, Fitness International LLC, last Thursday reached an out-of-court settlement in a class action lawsuit in which the health club chain was accused of misrepresenting one-month membership renewals. The sum of the settlement has not been disclosed. The lawsuit was first filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District …
Ernst & Young LLP [ERNY.UL] cannot require its employees to give up their rights to pursue work-related claims together, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, giving a major boost to the U.S. National Labor Relations Board’s campaign against so-called class action waivers. Companies have increasingly included provisions in employment contracts forcing workers to arbitrate …
Pomerantz LLP announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Orbital ATK, Inc. (“Orbital” or the “Company”) (NYSE:OA) and certain of its officers. The class action, filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, and docketed under 16-cv-01031, is on behalf of a class consisting of all persons or entities who …