Public Policy & Legal
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Paramount Is Prepared to Solve ‘Legitimate Antitrust Issues’ If State AGs Sue to Block WBD Merger
David Ellison’s advisers have reportedly discussed relocating their headquarters as California reviews the proposed $110 billion deal
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Paramount-WBD Merger: Oregon AG Withdraws Records Request, Motion to Delay to ‘Consider Next Steps’
ODOJ tells TheWrap that the David Ellison-led media giant thinks they’re “above the law” after refusing to comply and that it won’t “let them waste Oregonians’ resources on these games”
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‘Top Boy’ Actor Micheal Ward Found Not Guilty of Rape, Sexual Assault
The BAFTA-winning actor, who also features in “Eddington” and “Small Axe,” denied the allegations through the London trial
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NY Times and Other Publishers Accuse OpenAI of Obstructing Evidence, Seek Sanctions
“This is a case about copying. There is no question that it happened,” the publishers’ filing states
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Paramount Says Oregon DOJ Motion Should Be Denied, Citing Antitrust Law
The company insists it has presented over 822,000 documents related to the state’s merger review, in addition to 1.2 million documents provided by WBD
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Justin Baldoni Reflects on ‘Painful’ Blake Lively Legal Fight After Nearly 2 Years of Silence
“We didn’t want to add to the noise. So we just wanted to let the justice system run its course,” the “It Ends With Us” director adds
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Paramount Won’t Close Warner Bros. Merger Before July 22
Oregon AG Dan Rayfield is seeking a court order that would delay the $110 billion deal’s closing further as it seeks records from the media giant
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Nexstar Urges Appeals Court to Narrow Nationwide TEGNA Merger Injunction
“This lawsuit is rooted in an outdated view of the media space and wastes precious taxpayer dollars to protect private equity-owned DIRECTV,” a Nexstar spokesperson says
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Trump Ordered to Pay E. Jean Carroll More Than $5.8 Million
The order follows the Supreme Court’s decision not to hear Trump’s appeal of the 2023 civil verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation
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Trump Loses Another Appeal to Get His Name Back on the Kennedy Center
The president was ordered to remove his name from the building in May and lost his initial appeal in June
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Oregon AG to Ask Court to Pause Paramount-Warner Bros. Deal for 60 Days Amid Records Dispute
“[The information] has nothing to do with whether this transaction complies with Oregon’s antitrust laws and is not a legitimate basis to delay a plainly lawful, pro-competitive transaction,” a Paramount spokesperson responds
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Judge Throws Out Trump Media’s $3.8 Billion Suit Against Washington Post
“[Trump Media] has failed to present evidence that would allow a jury to find … that [The Washington Post] published the allegedly defamatory statements with actual malice,” Judge Thomas Barber writes
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ABC Says the Government Can’t ‘Sit in an Editor’s Chair’ in Fiery Response to FCC Over ‘The View’
“That is the seat the Commission now proposes to take, deciding which broadcast programs qualify as legitimate news,” the company says in a new regulatory filing
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Prince Harry, Elton John Lose UK Tabloid Privacy Invasion Case
A U.K. High Court judge has dismissed all hacking and bugging claims against the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday publisher
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Taylor Swift Wins Plagiarism Lawsuit Against Florida Poet
Judge Aileen Cannon ruled Kimberly Marasco’s poems “do not contain protectable expression” and “failed to plausibly plead copying”
