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Taylor Sheridan Sued by Writer for Allegedly Stealing Yellowstone Idea

Taylor Sheridan Sued by Writer for Allegedly Stealing Yellowstone Idea

Published by Daniella Wilson

Taylor Sheridan, Paramount and NBC Universal are all being sued by a writer who says Sheridan stole her idea for a TV show and used it to create Yellowstone. In the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Friday, TV writer and entertainment journalist Lauren J. Salkin claims she submitted a pilot script, show bible and pitch deck for a show called Sovereign Nation to Sheridan’s reps at his management company, Elevate Entertainment, which is also named as a defendant in the suit, in late 2016 and early 2017. Sovereign Nation, which Salkin spent more than 10 years developing, is described in the complaint, which was viewed by The Hollywood Reporter, as a “dramatic television series centered on tribal governance, casino-driven economic power and a modern war over land and development.” Salkin alleges that she received a response from Elevate on Feb. 1, 2017 saying that Sheridan was “unavailable for TV projects.” “Within months, Paramount greenlit Sheridan’s Yellowstone,” the complaint states. The show premiered on the Paramount Network …

Paramount Sued By Ex-Distribution Chief Chris Aronson Over Millions of Dollars In Pay

Paramount Sued By Ex-Distribution Chief Chris Aronson Over Millions of Dollars In Pay

Published by Daniella Wilson

Chris Aronson, former domestic distribution chief at Paramount Pictures, has sued the studio, alleging he’s owed millions of dollars in compensation after being let go last September as part of a round of layoffs shortly after its merger with Skydance Media. Aronson’s attorney, Barry Kaufman, tells The Hollywood Reporter he filed the complaint with Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Aug. 20 but it hasn’t yet been formally processed yet before the document leaked online. “I have not even received back a conformed copy of the Complaint and the associated documents from the court confirming that it was accepted for filing,” Kaufman added. Aronson did not reply for comment. In the complaint, Aronson claims that on Sept. 29 of last year — months into a new contract agreement inked in July that would have kept him at Paramount until Dec. 1, 2028 — he was summoned to a meeting with new Paramount co-chairs Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein. The duo informed him that he was terminated “without cause,” the complaint states, and that Greenstein assured …

Trump sued the BBC — now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it

Trump sued the BBC — now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it

Published by Sam Flores

In the year the United States celebrates the 250th anniversary of its break with the British crown, there is something almost painfully ironic about a broadcaster from the kingdom that once ruled us now being more willing to stand up to Donald Trump than much of the American establishment. But the irony isn’t really the story. The story is that the president filed a $10 billion lawsuit to punish the BBC, and in doing so, he may have handed the corporation a legal instrument to drag his children Ivanka and Donald Jr., and his son-in-law Jared Kushner, into a Miami courtroom to answer for what happened on Jan. 6. The lawsuit was supposed to be another exercise in the familiar Trumpian playbook: File a claim, demand an astronomical sum, bury the target in legal expenses, force a humiliating settlement that gets marketed as a political win. That strategy has worked before. In 2024, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million after network anchor George Stephanopoulos inaccurately said Trump had been found liable for rape. Paramount …

Trump sued over Truth Social advance access sale

Trump sued over Truth Social advance access sale

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump was sued on Wednesday by a media outlet and a non-profit group seeking to block a controversial new service that sells advance notifications of his posts on Truth Social. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, notes that Trump’s posts on his own social media site often move financial markets with announcements about government policy, military actions and other decisions. “President Donald Trump is charging $100,000 per month for advance access to his official government announcements on Truth Social, the social media platform he owns,” the civil suit says. “This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional, and Plaintiffs bring this case to stop it,” the suit says. “There is no legitimate interest, let alone a significant one, in permitting President Trump to profit from selling government information.” The suit was filed by The Intercept Media, a news organization, and by the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit group. Read more CNBC politics and policy coverage The complaint alleges that the new service, known as Truth API, violates the First …

Trump sued over selling faster access to Truth Social posts : NPR

Trump sued over selling faster access to Truth Social posts : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

President Donald Trump holds up a printout of one of his Truth Social posts before signing an executive order that calls for changing the childhood vaccine schedule on August 10, 2026. He is facing a lawsuit over a service offering early access to his Truth Social feed for up to $100,000 a month. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Two media organizations sued President Trump on Wednesday over his social media platform Truth Social’s new service offering faster access to his often market-moving posts, calling it “extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional.” The Intercept and the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation alleged that the Truth Social offering runs afoul of the First Amendment’s guarantee of equal public access to the president’s statements and also violates the Fifth Amendment by granting preferential access for “unreasonable sums.” The suit asks a federal court in New York to block the president from posting official government information exclusively on Truth Social. The service, called Truth API, charges up to $100,000 a month for faster access to …

Netflix sued for 5m after unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude stolen from LA office

Netflix sued for $105m after unreleased Nicolas Cage film Fortitude stolen from LA office

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Netflix has been sued for at least $105m after an unencrypted copy of an unreleased Nicolas Cage film was stolen from its Los Angeles office. Swiss writer-producer Simon Afram and his UK-based production company Op-Fortitude filed the lawsuit on Wednesday in the US district court for the Central District of California. They alleged that Netflix failed to properly secure a hard drive containing a master copy of the Second World War spy thriller Fortitude, destroying the film’s exclusivity and significantly reducing its commercial value. Afram has invested more than $45m in the project, which took seven years to complete. Directed by Simon West, Fortitude is based on Operation Fortitude, the Allied deception campaign that misled Nazi Germany before the D-day landings during the second world war. The film stars Nicolas Cage as Serbian double agent Duško Popov alongside Ben Kingsley, Matthew …

Netflix Sued After Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen

Netflix Sued After Unreleased Nicolas Cage Movie Was Stolen

Published by Daniella Wilson

A theft at Netflix‘s Los Angeles office of an unreleased film has sparked a lawsuit from makers of the movie, titled Fortitude. In a lawsuit filed on Thursday in California federal court, Afram and his company, Op-Fortitude, accuse Netflix of compromising the sale of the World War II spy thriller by losing a copy of the movie that was shared for screening. He seeks at least $105 million. An unencrypted master copy of the movie was in one of several drives that were stolen from Netflix’s office last month. In an investigation, the company concluded that the other drives were empty, according a source at Netflix. “Netflix disputes any claim that it bears the risk of loss for a film delivered without the proper industry-standard safeguards,” a company spokesperson said in a statement. “While we do not own the rights to Fortitude, we take content security seriously and have taken extra measures to support the filmmaker and his team. This includes conducting a thorough investigation and offering to monitor known piracy sites for any unauthorized distribution …

Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined .8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store

Apple Sued by Customers Who Lost Combined $1.8 Million Through Fake Bitcoin Wallet in App Store

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Apple is facing a new lawsuit from three customers who allegedly lost a combined $1.8 million after falling victim to a fake Bitcoin wallet app in the App Store, according to a complaint filed in California federal court on Friday. The complaint alleges that Apple violated California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act and other laws by failing to adequately review and monitor apps distributed through the App Store, despite marketing it as “a safe and trusted place to discover and download apps.” Due to these assurances in Apple’s marketing, the complaint said the plaintiffs trusted that a Sparrow Wallet app they downloaded from the App Store on iOS was legitimate, when in reality it was a fraudulent spoof designed to steal Bitcoin from users. Sparrow Wallet is only available on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The popular Bitcoin wallet is not available on iOS, but scammers have released fake lookalike apps in the App Store that can trick users into giving up control of their funds. “Users found their accounts had been wiped out and their cryptocurrency …

Trump sued over new tariffs, experts say courts may scrap them

Trump sued over new tariffs, experts say courts may scrap them

Published by Sam Flores

People watch as the Doris Ocean container ship departs from the Port of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, May 28, 2026. Mario Tama | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s global “liberation day” tariffs were struck down in the courts, shattering the cornerstone of his trade agenda. Some trade experts say his newest duties could meet the same fate — and they’ve already caught their first legal challenge. The Trump administration on Friday imposed broad tariffs on goods from more than 80 countries, alleging they have failed to effectively prohibit the use of forced labor practices. The latest tariffs — applying to trade partners that cover 99.4% of U.S. trade — were brought under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which enables the government to impose import levies in response to unfair trade practices. Section 301 has been used many times across presidential administrations to threaten or impose tariffs — including against China during Trump’s first administration. But Trump is “using the statute in a fundamentally different way,” Peter Harrell, visiting scholar at Georgetown …

An Ebike Company Was Sued for Misleading Info on Safety. It Points to a Big Problem

An Ebike Company Was Sued for Misleading Info on Safety. It Points to a Big Problem

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Amazon and UL, a company that tests and certifies that products meet safety standards, settled a lawsuit in July with several Chinese companies that manufacture ebikes under the Aipas brand name. The US companies accused the Chinese firms in January of claiming in Amazon listings and on Aipas’ website that the ebikes had been certified by UL, giving recognizable, brand-name assurance to online shoppers worried about risks like ebike lithium-ion battery fires. But that wasn’t true. On July 15, a federal judge signed off on a permanent injunction in which the companies agreed that they would no longer use the UL mark. It also bars them from “assisting, aiding, or abetting any other person or business” in doing the same. The filing notes that the Chinese companies didn’t admit liability or wrongdoing tied to Amazon’s and UL’s accusations of knowingly using fraudulent safety-certification marks. (The enterprises involved are Jiangmen Meijiasheng Bicycle, Hong Kong Manchester International Trading, Shenzhen Aibosi Sport Technology, Guangzhou Aierfeile Sport Technology, and the individual Tang Shuhui, who the lawsuit alleges was involved …