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In September 2021, Georgian chess master Nona Gaprindashvili filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix, claiming that its allegedly sexist portrayal of her in the hit show "The Queen's Gambit" misrepresented her achievements and tarnished her reputation. Earlier this week, a federal judge denied a Motion to Dismiss filed by Netflix on First Amendment grounds.

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Disney has always proven to be exceptional at protecting its intellectual property rights, but it may be out of options to protect its enforcement rights in the highly valuable copyrights associated with Winnie the Pooh.

Most of college football went off without a hitch, but the omicron variant may derail the College Football National Championship game in Indianapolis. Event organizers (surely including lawyers) are grappling with how guidelines and forfeitures should be handled.

Coca-Cola bought a 15 percent stake in Bodyarmor in 2018, becoming its second-largest shareholder. At the time, basketball legend Kobe Bryant was its third-largest shareholder after investing in Bodyarmor in 2013, just two years after its founding.

Five Major League Baseball teams urged the Ninth Circuit recently to reserve a key ruling and let California state courts define "physical loss or damage" in a COVID-19 insurance dispute that threatens to undermine their own coverage-denial lawsuits.

The NCAA is setting the stage for a dramatic restructuring of college sports that will give each of its three divisions the power to govern itself.

Something shocking and horrifying happened earlier this month in Texas, where hip-hop superstar Jacques Bermon Webster II, who performs under the stage name Travis Scott, appeared at a music festival. Upwards of 50,000 people attended. Is Scott to blame for the deaths of now 10 concertgoers crushed under the weight of a frenetic crowd that rushed toward the stage?

With the rise of video game “loot boxes” being offered as an additional revenue steam for video game development companies, a new debate has emerged regarding the fine line between loot boxes and gambling.