The Grammy-winning composer behind the signature opening chant in the song “Circle of Life” for “The Lion King” movies is taking a comedian to court for allegedly damaging his reputation by misrepresenting the song’s meaning on a viral podcast episode. In a federal lawsuit filed this month seeking millions in damages, Lebohang Morake, known as…
This editor is no lawyer — everything he knows about the law he learns from freelancer Aaron Walker’s Legal Deep Dives™ — but he is befuddled by how people who are not U.S. citizens who entered and are living in the U.S. illegally seem to have all of the constitutional protections that citizenship provides….
Elon Musk has been found liable by a California jury for misleading Twitter shareholders amid his $44 billion acquisition of the social media platform in 2022. On Friday, the jury in the class-action case Pampena v. Musk found that the Tesla mogul’s tweet claiming the deal was “temporarily on hold” was harmful and misleading, resulting…
A group of attorneys general are taking legal action to block Nexstar Media Group’s proposed $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna’s TV stations, calling the deal bad for consumer cable bills and local journalism. A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Sacramento says the proposed deal by eight state law enforcers including California Atty….
The New York Times reports that a Manhattan judge on Friday ordered two deposition videos of DOGE bros taken down from YouTube, but nothing ever really disappears from the internet. Benjamin Weiser and Jennifer Schuessler report: The videos had been posted on YouTube by scholarly groups who are suing…
This is a new one. Erika Kirk lost her husband to an assassin’s bullet last September, and the amount of vitriol that’s been sent her way is absolutely deplorable. She was shamed for the pants she was wearing when she appeared at a Turning Point USA event as its new leader. People accused her…
It seems that Josh Shapiro isn’t a very good neighbor. The Pennsylvania Governor and 2028 presidential hopeful has got himself in a bit of a legal tussle with the folks next door to his suburban Philadelphia home. You see, Josh wants to build himself a wall, or at least a big old security barrier…
