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Eriq Gardner November 5, 2024
Courtside seating for C.E.O. Andy Jassy is just the cherry atop a highly redacted 35-page contract that gives Amazon the right to adopt future technologies for broadcasting basketball games—a mistake similar to the one the league made with TNT in failing to anticipate streaming. Isn’t that what the lawyers are for?
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Eriq Gardner October 29, 2024
Thanks to Ryan Murphy and a Netflix docuseries, everyone is reconsidering the fate of the infamous brothers—including L.A. District Attorney George Gascón, who is in danger of being deposed in next Tuesday’s election.
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Eriq Gardner October 22, 2024
Unexpected legal developments, each with a uniquely political twist, have emerged in David Ellison’s deal to take over CBS, as part of his $8.4 billion Paramount acquisition, and Fox, Disney, and WBD’s struggle to launch their sports streamer, Venu.
In the copyright infringement case, A&E is preparing to argue that there was no final episode of “Live PD,” per se, because the show was never really “canceled” in the first place.
Eriq Gardner October 15, 2024
A&E thought its Summer of Floyd decision to drop its top-earning police reality show was good governance. Then Mark Burnett and MGM started shopping a strikingly similar version.


Jack Nicklaus
Eriq Gardner October 8, 2024
Fifteen years after signing away his life rights to a business partner, golfing legend Jack Nicklaus is fighting a messy, potentially precedent-setting legal war to reclaim his name and image—including from an A.I. double.
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Eriq Gardner September 25, 2024
Meta executives were bracing for the porn trial of the century, with thousands of adult actresses slated to testify to a bizarre bribery scheme. On Monday, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence, but not before raising some uncomfortable questions.
Shou Zi Chew
Eriq Gardner September 18, 2024
Up close and in-person at the blockbuster trial—the First Amendment angle, the NatSec concerns, the creators’ pleas, the lawyers’ moxie, and Hollywood’s reticence to get involved.
Mark Thompson
Eriq Gardner September 11, 2024
Republican-appointed judges are greenlighting a surge of defamation cases against the likes of CNN, Netflix, ABC News, and Media Matters, revealing everything from private communications to the most sensitive internal documents.


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Eriq Gardner September 3, 2024
Barricaded doors and records kept secret? Inside the Nevada battle for control of the Fox News empire—and whether the whole drama should be sealed off from public view.
Eriq Gardner August 27, 2024
Live Nation’s fight to keep its C.E.O. from being deposed over the 2021 Astroworld concert tragedy appears to have backfired. Meanwhile, after a setback in the Gina Carano case, Disney is grappling with a deposition headache of its own.
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