lawsuits

Jessica Miles, a KSTP Minneapolis midday anchor and reporter, filed a federal lawsuit claiming that her private driver’s license information was illegally searched about 1,380 times. Miles is one of about 20 people who have sued a slew of local and state government agencies after obtaining information from the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that public employees had illegally accessed their private records.

Online video company FilmOn X is asking U.S. District Court Judge Rosemary Collyer to reconsider her order prohibiting the company from streaming TV shows in all but three states.

On Tuesday, a judge in New York City agreed with a July 29 request from CBS and ordered that David’s free-TV-over-the-Internet service pay up what it still owes on a $1.6 million copyright infringement and injunction settlement reached last July.

“AT&T’s decision to unilaterally delete Al Jazeera America presented us with circumstances that were untenable — an affiliate that has willfully and knowingly breached its contractual obligations,” the news channel says.

Sinclair Broadcast Group is suing Time Warner Cable, claiming Time Warner breached a contract between the two companies by moving the Syracuse, N.Y., MNT affiliate that’s managed by Sinclair to a less favorable tier on Time Warner’s cable lineup.

NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City resident has sued the Food Network, saying its reality show “Giving You the Business” wronged him by failing to award him a […]

Asiana Airlines has decided not to sue Cox’s San Francisco Fox affiliate over a broadcast in which the station falsely reported racist and offensive names for the pilots in the the airline’s crash landing in San Francisco, according to reports today.

There’s little question that the KTVU report disparaged Asians and conveyed false information. That’s unfortunate. It doesn’t, however, give Asiana Airlines a cause of action against KTVU. To win a judgment against the television station, the airline must prove that the false report so injured its reputation that it resulted in the loss of business. That, it will never be able to do.

After a court hearing on Thursday, a big ruling is looming that could eventually shatter the status quo of amateur athletes getting no compensation for appearing on television.

A federal judge resists the network’s urging to analyze the merits of claims and instead throws it to a state court for further examination.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in DC just shot down the FCC’s ruling last year that would have required Comcast to take Tennis Channel off of an extra-fee sports tier so it could compete more equally with the cable giant’s Golf Channel and NBC Sports Network.

Aereokiller, embroiled in litigation with the TV networks, is putting at least one legal dispute behind it. Founder Alki David agreed to stop calling his online video company Aereokiller, in order to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by its Barry-Diller backed rival, Aereo.

ABC responded to the lawsuit filed last week by studio Prospect Park seeking $25 million in damages — which alleged the network maliciously killed three One Life to Live characters to sabotage its online resurrection of the show — terming the legal action “baseless.”

An investor who holds shares of Fisher Communications Inc. has filed a lawsuit against directors of Fisher in effort to halt the proposed takeover of Fisher by Sinclair Broadcast Group for $41 per share.The plaintiff alleges that the defendants breached their fiduciary duties by agreeing to sell the company too cheaply via an unfair process to Sinclair.

TV broadcasters have petitioned the Second Circuit Court of Appeals for an “en banc” review in the Aereo case. The move comes after the appellate circuit agreed with a lower district court judge in denying an injunction against the digital TV upstart.

A Fox News reporter who could face jail time if she refuses to testify about her sources in the Aurora theater shooting case has won a reprieve. Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. ruled Monday that he won’t decide whether to order reporter Jana Winter to testify until he first decides whether the key clue in the case she was to testify about will be allowed as evidence. In doing so, Samour sided with an argument by Winter’s lawyers that the testimony issue isn’t “ripe” for ruling.

Dish Network is looking to quash a subpoena. In a court filing, the company says that TV networks aren’t entitled to learn whether it has plans to incorporate Aereo technology.

At a hearing to determine the fate of a man accused of extorting Stevie Wonder, the judge, district attorney and defense lawyer were shocked to find they were being surreptitiously recorded.

NEW YORK (AP) — A New Jersey man claims an insomnia cure promoted on “The Dr. Oz Show” left third-degree burns on his feet. Frank Dietl, of Southampton, N.J., filed […]

The corporate owners of four Seattle TV stations separately have sued Click Cable TV to keep records containing their financial agreements with the city-owned cable network from being released to the Tacoma News Tribune. Belo Corp., Cox Media Group, CBS Corp. and Tribune Co. are prepared to contend the retransmission consent records that detail how much they charge Click to carry KING, KIRO, KCPQ and KSTW contain protected trade secrets that are exempt from public disclosure. Fisher Communications, owner of KOMO, has also intervened in the case.