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Eriq Gardner June 5, 2023
The song industry successfully lobbied the Trump administration to topple the judicial regime that determined its fees. Now comes the blowback.
U.S. Supreme Court justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
Eriq Gardner May 22, 2023
Inside the titanic legal clash and Latinate trash-talk behind one of the most consequential cases to rock the art world, and Hollywood, in a generation.
“Bankman-Fried,” his lawyers stated, “has not defrauded anyone, nor intended to defraud anyone.”
Eriq Gardner May 15, 2023
Lawyers for Bankman-Fried are hoping to turn a seemingly slam-dunk prosecution into an inscrutable legalistic debate over the definition of “fraud,” itself. It might just work.
AMC’s wily C.E.O., Adam Aron.
Eriq Gardner May 8, 2023
Movie theater baron Adam Aron is struggling to settle litigation with AMC’s meme stock investor army after a dilutive $2 billion gambit caused his “apes” to go, well, apeshit.


Eriq Gardner & Jonathan Handel May 1, 2023
A candid conversation with labor expert Jonathan Handel about the most pressing issues on the table, from the mini-room contretemps to how streamers could leverage a prolonged strike to right-size their books.
Disney v. DeSantis has just been assigned to Judge Walker, who once called the Stop WOKE Act “positively dystopian.”
Eriq Gardner May 1, 2023
Disney has the upper hand, for now, but it’s rushing headfirst toward a 230-year-old legal obstacle that could force the company to try an even more extraordinary argument: DeSantis is stealing Disney World!
Eriq Gardner April 24, 2023
Gaming the Murdoch family’s Smartmatic settlement—plus, a look into a last ditch CNN legal maneuver.
In July 2020, Sean Penn’s charitable organization CORE turned Dodger Stadium into the largest testing site in the nation.
Eriq Gardner April 18, 2023
Penn, and his attorney, Mathew Rosengart, are going to war with the president’s labor board over an attempted crackdown on his charity.


Every job, in every sector, will be impacted by A.I. But the law, with high hourly rates for often straightforward and replicable tasks, seems very vulnerable.
Eriq Gardner April 17, 2023
Inside a controversial lawsuit over whether A.I. will tear the legal profession asunder.
In December, Lina Khan’s FTC seemed to put the kibosh on the Microsoft-Activision deal, but Wall Street is now growing optimistic that it might close.
Eriq Gardner April 10, 2023
An insider reading of the hottest M&A topics: Hulu, Activision, Illumina, and more.
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