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What’s in a name? Nothing really, if you’re Judge Mike Cummins of California. In an attempt to try and appeal to voters in his bid for a seat on the Superior Court in the Los Angeles County Democratic Primary, Cummins legally changed his first name to “Judge Mike.” The problem is Judge Mike hasn’t been a judge in over […]
Ja Rule scored another major legal victory last week, when a judge dismissed an appeal filed by the disgruntled Fyre Festival attendees through the law firm of Geragos & Geragos. It was an effort to rope the rapper back into a $100 million class-action lawsuit against Fyre Festival co-founder Billy McFarland and those responsible for the botched 2017 event. Earlier this month, Judge […]
Kanye West and EMI Publishing have come to an agreement to settle their legal battle over his record deal, The Blast reports. West filed a lawsuit against EMI in January in an effort to get out what he called an unfair and illegal publishing deal that should’ve ended in October 2010. Through the suit, ‘Ye was seeking ownership over all the songs […]
An Oklahoma judge has ruled that Johnson & Johnson must pay more than $572 million for the role they played in Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic, which officials say has killed over 6,000 Oklahomans over nearly 20 years. The state’s Attorney General, Mike Hunter, stated that Johnson & Johnson, as well as their pharmaceutical subsidiary (Janssen) pushed […]
An Alabama district attorney announced Wednesday that Marshae Jones, 28, will not face charges over the death of her unborn fetus who was killed when she was shot in the stomach during a dispute last year, The New York Times reports. “After viewing the facts of this case and the applicable state law I have determined that it […]
On Monday, a jury awarded $59+ million in damages to an ex-Manhattan high school student, Alonzo Yanes, who was suffered severe burns after a chemistry class experiment went wrong back in January 2014. Yanes is now 21-years-old, and he is set to have that judgment paid out by the city of New York. His attorney, Ben […]
It’s a good day to be Erik Brunetti, as the Supreme Court has handed the FUCT founder a major win in a perplexing trademark dispute case. “The clothing line is pronounced as four letters, one after the other: F-U-C-T,” Justice Elena Kagan said Monday of the 6-3 majority ruling, per NBC News‘ report. “But you might […]
Manhattan judge Barry Ostrager ruled Wednesday that Woodstock 50’s former investor Dentsu Aegis Network did not have the right to announce the cancellation of the festival after pulling their financial backing, Pitchfork reports. The ruling means that Woodstock 50 is back on, barring any other unforeseen circumstances. The judge determined that Dentsu will not be required to return the $17.8 million put […]
A police officer in Germany was found guilty of sexual assault after stealthing (removing his condom without his partner’s knowledge) a woman without her consent. This occurrence is particularly noteworthy because the case is thought to be the first instance of stealthing being prosecuted in Germany, which was only made possible after the country reformed […]
If you’ve been patiently waiting to pull the trigger on nunchucks stocks, now may just be the right time. We say that because a federal court has ruled that New York’s 1974 ban on the Michelangelo-favorite (which, though it sounds like a joke, was originally enacted out of fear that martial-arts-movie inspired youths would buy them) […]
