MIAMI (AP) — Another man on Monday sued the former Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid sex abuse allegations, claiming the voice actor befriended him in Miami and promised to be […]
George Zimmerman sued NBC Thursday over an edited 911 call from the night he shot Trayvon Martin that made him sound like a racist. The suit didn’t name a dollar amount and requested a jury trial.
Murdochs Want U.S. Hacking Suit Dismissed
Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch want an American class action lawsuit against them and News International over the U.K. phone hacking scandal dismissed. Not because they may have acted badly but, in a motion filed late last week, because they believe they didn’t break the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
On Friday, the major TV broadcasters made their second attempt to shut down Aereo, the digital TV service that was funded in great part by Barry Diller and launched this past March. Arguing before a 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals panel, the challenge for the broadcasters was clear: They needed to convince the judges that a technology that has already been judicially certified as likely to irreparably harm the broadcasters also ran afoul of copyright laws.
Exclusives
NEW YORK (AP) – A Florida man has sued the ex-Elmo puppeteer who resigned amid a sex scandal, saying the voice actor met him in New York after trolling gay […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash resigned Tuesday from “Sesame Street” amid a second allegation that he sexually abused underage boys. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in New […]
Lawyer Wants To Depose WESH, WFTV Reporters
Cablevision Systems Corp has been accused in a $250 million lawsuit of continuing to bill and failing to offer rebates to more than 1 million customers who lost TV, Internet or phone service because of Hurricane Sandy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A widow of a U.S. Army soldier killed in a blast in Afghanistan has sued Fox Cable Networks and the National Geographic Society over a documentary […]
A group of major networks has filed suit against billionaire Alki David’s Aereokiller, requesting an injunction on the TV streaming service in federal court in California. The networks claim that the service disrupts their ability to negotiate retrans contracts and earn ad revenue from the shows that are rebroadcast online.
A group of major networks reopened their suit Friday against billionaire Barry Diller’s Aereo, requesting an injunction on the service in a California court.
Judge Dolly Gee of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Monday struck down the request by Fox, according to a statement from Dish. A Fox spokesman confirmed the ruling but said the network would appeal.
Ex-KCOY Meteorologist Settles Suit With Cowles
The legal battle between broadcast networks and TV startup Aereo continues to unwind, as Aereo has filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. According to the 84-page briefing filed on Oct. 19, Aereo’s position in this case is identical to Cablevision’s in the mid-2000s, when the cable provider won a case against broadcast networks after being sued for a cloud-based remote DVR system.
Dish Network programming boss Carolyn Crawford yesterday stormed out of the courtroom sobbing after being insulted by the judge — only to return and launch into a finger-wagging verbal assault on a Cablevision lawyer.
KLKN Sues Former Reporter Over Contract
The citadel-owned ABC affiliate in Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney, Neb., is suing Melina Matthes, saying she broke her two-year contract to take a job with an Omaha station.
Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman is suing NBC over the network’s botched editing of his 911 tape. Zimmerman’s attorneys are about to file a complaint against NBC and its top executives, naming news president Steve Capus and correspondent Ron Allen, who was the reporter on the scene for the broadcast on Today on March 27.
A federal court judge’s decision to side with Comcast and not enforce a tentative settlement in a class-action lawsuit will set the stage for arguments before the Supreme Court. Behrend v. Comcast, originally filed in 2003, alleges that Comcast’s “clustering” of systems through swaps with other cable operators had given the media giant too much power to increase cable rates and exclude competitors in the Philadelphia area.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A divided appellate court on Monday upheld Don Johnson’s multimillion jury award over profits from the series “Nash Bridges” but significantly reduced the amount the actor […]
Robert Freedman claims that Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone, CEO Philippe Dauman and COO Thomas Dooley were overpaid $36.6 million and the shareholder is taking the trio to court to get the money back.
New Delhi Television Ltd., India’s oldest and largest news network, filed a 194-page lawsuit in New York court late last week. NDTV accuses the Nielsen Co. of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by manipulating viewership data in favor of channels that are willing to provide bribes to its officials.
A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that Netflix violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to provide closed captioning on Web video streams.
A federal jury awarded $956 million to Liberty Media in a deal involving the USA Networks, saying Vivendi deceived it with rosy statements.
