lawsuits

The proposed acquisition of Meredith Corp. By Media General will land company executives and majority shareholders a cushy payday, while leaving minority shareholders in the dust, according to a lawsuit filed in federal district court. The lawsuit claims Meredith’s executives, board members and majority shareholders conspired and had conflicts of interest when orchestrating the company’s acquisition.

The same day that the premium cabler revealed 3Q numbers below expectations, Starz has been hit with a wide-ranging and potentially explosive multi-claim lawsuit by its former SVP of Sales and Affiliate Marketing Keno V. Thomas. Pink slipped a year ago by Starz after a decade at the cable net, Thomas’ unspecified but sprawling damages and jury trial seeking wrongful termination and retaliation complaint alleges all sorts of shell games and scams by Starz.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Hasbro Inc. wants a federal judge to dismiss a $5 million lawsuit filed by a Fox News anchor who says a toy hamster shares her name […]

The companies said in a joint statement Friday they had resolved the legal fight over carriage of channels and were “entering into mutually beneficial business arrangements.”

The move, which Trump announced via Twitter on Friday morning, gives him full ownership of the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants and completes a divorce begun in June when NBC announced it was ending its business relationship with Trump, who had starred on the network as host of The Celebrity Apprentice.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An anchor for Fox News is suing Hasbro for more than $5 million over a toy hamster that shares her name – and possibly even her […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lawsuits over a 2013 helicopter crash that killed three men during the filming of a reality television show for the Discovery Channel have been settled, court […]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A jury rejected a lawsuit filed by a white former TV anchor who said a Philadelphia Fox-owned station let black employees use a racial epithet with impunity […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of “60 Minutes” correspondent Bob Simon has sued the driver of a town car that crashed and killed her husband. The New York Post […]

The FCC’s net neutrality rules came under a new legal assault Tuesday, as AT&T and the major wireless and cable industry groups sued to overturn the order. AT&T and its trade group CTIA — The Wireless Association, which also represents Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile, filed lawsuits in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, as did the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, whose members include Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Cablevision. The American Cable Association, which represents smaller cable operators, went to the same court.

The movement to compensate college athletes took a twist recently when a group of 10 collegiate football and basketball players sued not just athletic conferences, but ESPN and the broadcasters that reap a growing windfall from televising their games. A key hearing is scheduled in a federal court in Nashville on April 13, when a judge will hear arguments on whether to dismiss the class action suit brought by the athletes, or to allow the case to proceed.

The broadcaster takes preemptive action after being sent multimillion-dollar demands from Empire Distribution Inc.

On Monday, USTelecom — a group that includes some of the nation’s largest Internet providers — filed suit in Washington, while Alamo Broadband sued the FCC in New Orleans. The court filings kick-start a legal effort to overturn the FCC’s regulations, passed in February, that aim to keep Internet providers from speeding up, slowing down or blocking Web traffic.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, comes a day after Hillary Clinton broke her silence about her use of a private email account while secretary of state. The FOIA requests and lawsuit seek materials related to her public and private calendars, correspondence involving longtime aides likely to play key roles in her expected campaign for president, and Clinton-related emails about the Osama bin Laden raid and National Security Agency surveillance practices.

The FCC will be sued by companies seeking to overturn net neutrality rules the agency passed last week, Chairman Tom Wheeler said. “The big dogs have promised that they’re going to litigate,” he said at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona today.

Two minority-stake owners of low-power WMNT-CA  Toledo, Ohio, filed suit in U.S. District Court alleging the majority owner has attempted to sell the station — and its potentially valuable FCC license — without their knowledge.

Less than 6-months after it was slapped with a very very shorted lived class action by a former The Late Show With David Letterman intern, CBS is feeling the legal sting again. Earlier this week, ex-intern Camille Demere and her lawyers filed a complaint demanding a jury trial against CBS Corp. and CBS Radio.

NEW YORK (AP) — While Joan Rivers lay sedated in a Manhattan clinic, her doctors performed unauthorized medical procedures, snapped a selfie with the comedian and failed to act as […]

A federal judge said Dish Network’s offering of features that automatically skip ads and another that allows subscribers to watch live broadcasts remotely do not violate copyright law. But U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee’s ruling, unsealed on Tuesday, came just days after Dish and the network challenging its features, Fox, said that a settlement of their litigation was “highly likely.” Their litigation was put on hold until October, when a retransmission contract between the companies is set to expire.

Months after her husband was hit by a truck, Anita Chanko watched him die again on NY Med, an ABC medical series. But she hadn’t given permission for those moments to be aired and she’s suing the network, doctor and hospital.