Shweta Watwe

A game company’s request to cancel a children’s entertainment company’s trademark was properly dismissed because such requests don’t provide an independent basis for jurisdiction, a federal appeals court said in a summary order on Monday.

In an attempt to dismiss a high-profile copyright infringement class action, Meta Platforms Inc. said its Large Language Model Meta AI doesn’t infringe a group of authors’ copyrights because its outputs aren’t substantially similar to the authors’ works.

Salt & Straw, the Portland-based ice cream chain known for its eclectic flavors, was sued for trademark infringement by the owner of a small batch bakery in Los Angeles over the ice cream chain’s flower-themed flavor collection.

A former cheerleader for Northwestern University who says her coach intentionally put her in situations where she was sexually harassed and assaulted can proceed with her sex trafficking and forced labor claims against the school, the coach, and several school officials, a federal judge said.

An Albany County correctional facility lost its summary judgment motion on an officer’s disability discrimination complaint because there were material factual issues about, among other things, whether the officer’s requested accommodation would have caused the facility an undue burden, a federal judge said.

A Massachusetts school district agreed to settle claims over its alleged indifference to reports of a former student’s sexual assaults against three female students at North Andover High School.

A welder who says the company he did contract work for lost his bid to certify a class of similar workers who allegedly worked over forty hours a week but weren’t paid overtime due to their classification as independent contractors.

Northrop Grumman is facing a suit from a Long Island town over contamination and cleanup of a local park that is adjacent to a manufacturing site the company used between 1949 and 1962.

A federal judge denied the founding partners of a securities litigation firm summary judgment on a female former partner’s sex discrimination claims against them, but granted their motion on her equal pay claims.

The franchisor of a doggie ice cream shop has accused another store and its operators of infringing its trademarks and violating a franchise agreement that barred opening a competing shop.