Pop Culture
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Jussie Smollett said Wednesday that the city of Chicago, its police department and others participated in a malicious prosecution of the “Empire” actor after he was attacked earlier this year and then accused of staging the incident himself… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A former attorney for Mathew Knowles, the father of pop superstar Beyonce, has asked the Texas Supreme Court to upend a lower court’s ruling that kept alive Knowles’ claims that the lawyer overcharged him for poor-quality work… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge ruled Wednesday that Nirvana LLC can go forward with claims that Marc Jacobs ripped off the defunct band’s iconic “happy face” logo and that retailers Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue have sold infringing products created by the designer… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California federal judge shot down an attempt by The Weeknd to trim a suit accusing the Canadian R&B artist of ripping off a song by a trio of British songwriters to make his track “A Lonely Night,” which appeared on his Grammy Award-winning 2016 album “Starboy”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Alan Dershowitz on Thursday denied the allegations of a woman who says he defamed her by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexually molesting her as a child, and the former Harvard law professor has fired back by saying his accuser is the one who broke the law… Read this piece in
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