Lawsuit: Last News

Defying an executive order from President Donald Trump, a federal judge blocked the U.S. Department of Justice from transferring 12 transgender female inmates to male prisons.The Bureau of Prisons was slated to relocate the inmates to comply with a Trump executive order stating that the U.S.

Lady Gaga was hit with a $100 million lawsuit by a California surf company over claims the pop star stole their logo for her new merchandise, according to documents obtained by FOX Business.Gaga, whose full name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, launched her sixth studio album — “Mayhem” — on March 7, with merchandise featuring the Mayhem design.Lost International filed a complaint in the California district court on Tuesday, claiming the “Just Dance” singer used “substantially similar if not nearly identical” logos that the company trademarked a decade ago.The singer’s legal team denounced the attempt at litigation in a statement provided to FOX Business. “Lady Gaga’s MAYHEM soared to No.

refused to recognize as an official campus organization.In the surprise move, the Orthodox Jewish educational institution said that it would end litigation related to its refusal to recognize the group, which it initially claimed was due to religious objections.As part of the settlement, the club — formerly known as the Yeshiva University Pride Alliance — would be renamed “Hareni” and would be allowed to operate with the same rights and privileges guaranteed to other student groups. Hareni will be allowed to publicly use the term “LGBTQ+” in communications and promotional materials, access university resources, and hold events on campus, such as charitable projects, movie and discussion nights, panel discussions, and networking events.

the controversy between “It Ends With Us” stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.“Well, I can’t retire now because now I’m gonna be in the hole by 5 p.m.,” she shared. “Even if you hate me, you should go buy a piece because it’s a very, kind of, bad thing.

Justin Baldoni’s $400 million defamation lawsuit against him stemming from the “It Ends With Us” director’s feud with his wife, Blake Lively.Baldoni, 41, sued Reynolds, 48, and Lively, 37, in January following the actress’ own legal action against the “Jane the Virgin” alum, in which she accused him of sexual harassment and orchestrating a public smear campaign against her.In his defamation suit, Baldoni accused Reynolds of privately calling him a “sexual predator” and working to get his talent agency — WME — to drop him.However, Reynolds’ lawyers, Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, told The Post on Tuesday that the “Deadpool & Wolverine” star could not have defamed Baldoni because “Mr. Reynolds genuinely believes Mr. Baldoni is a predator.”“The entirety of Mr.

feud that turned legal.Mia Schachter, who has worked on the shows “Lessons in Chemistry,” “Perry Mason” and “American Crime Story: Impeachment” but didn’t work on “It Ends With Us,” shared her take in the new documentary “He Said, She Said: Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni” that aired Monday on Channel 5 in the UK.“From reading their text messages, I do get the sense that, at one point, there was genuine affection between them and what felt like a friendship,” she said about the “It Ends With Us” co-stars.Schachter also brought up that Lively, 37, allegedly refused to meet the film’s intimacy coordinator before production (a claim made by Baldoni in his $400 million January countersuit), which she claimed indicated that the star trusted Baldoni, 41, at the time.“And those texts made me think that at one point, she did feel a lot of trust with him,” she said.Lively sued Baldoni in December for sexual harassment. Baldoni later countersued and released text messages between the pair that he claims proves his innocence.In Lively’s lawsuit, she alleged Baldoni improvised kissing scenes and wanted to add sex scenes to the film.

resolution states that the Board of Regents finds that “it is inconsistent” with the university’s core values, including respect for others, to allow special event venues on the university’s campuses to host drag shows “that involve biological males dressing in women’s clothing, wearing exaggerated female make up and/or exaggerated prosthetics meant to parody the female body type, and that are: open to the public; involve sexualized, vulgar or lewd conduct; and involve conduct that demeans women.”The resolution claims that drag shows are likely to “create or contribute to a hostile environment for women” in violation of Title IX’s prohibitions on sex-based discrimination and involve “the mockery or objectification of women.”The resolution cites President Donald Trump’s executive order recognizing only two sexes, based on biology, which prohibits federal funds from being used to “promote gender ideology,” and a directive from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordering state agencies to comply with Trump’s order.It also asserts that allowing drag shows to take place on university campuses violates that order.The resolution, adopted unanimously by the board, will likely spark a First Amendment fight over whether the ban on drag shows infringes on students’ free speech and freedom of expression.Historically, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi and East Texas A&M University have hosted drag shows, with the university’s main College Station campus hosting “Draggieland,” an award-winning drag event that has been held annually.By passing the resolution, this year’s Draggieland event, initially scheduled for March 27 at the Rudder Theatre in College Station, is now imperiled.

Variety on Thursday.“I couldn’t love her more,” Feig gushed. “She’s a dream to work with.

she was the victim of “unwanted touching” by her co-star and director in the scene.Over the weekend, an X user shared a clip of Lively’s dance scene with Ryan Reynolds in their 2011 film “Green Lantern” and called out its alleged similarities to the “It Ends With Us” footage.“I noticed that about 30 mins into the film, there’s a scene where Lively and Reynolds characters dance in a bar in an almost identical way to the slow dance scene from IEWU,” the fan wrote.She said the “only difference” between the two scenes is that Lively and her husband are talking in “Green Lantern,” whereas Lively and Baldoni are nonverbal in their dance footage that was used as part of a montage in “It Ends With Us.”“Could it be possible that Lively was trying to recreate the scene to be similar to the scene she did with her husband when she fell in love with him?” the fan asked. “Did she rewrite the scene to mirror the details of the dance? Is this what she means when she says her husband is ‘all over this movie’? Did Reynolds see this and get jealous because it hit a nerve?”Other fans reacted to the alleged connection between Lively’s two movies.“Great observation!! Even down to the twirl!” one fan wrote on X.“Good detective work,” someone else said.“Wow that’s insane, great catch!” a third person wrote.The Post has reached out to reps for Lively, Reynolds and Baldoni.Reynolds and Lively met in 2010 on the set of “Green Lantern” and got married two years later.

Feb. 21 issue of the industry bible features a cartoon lampooning Lively’s lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star, Justin Baldoni.

her legal battle with Justin Baldoni after allegedly receiving “violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”Attorneys for Baldoni, 41, along with those for Lively, 37, and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, had previously agreed to a “model” protective order (PO) ahead of their March 2026 civil trial to prevent the public dissemination of sensitive documents and information as discovery gets underway.However, in a letter submitted to Judge Lewis J. Liman in the Southern District of New York on Thursday viewed by The Post, Lively and Reynolds’ lawyers claim that “good cause exists for the Court to provide additional protections” beyond those agreed to in the model PO.The letter cites Lively’s amended complaint against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director filed earlier this week, which alleges the “Gossip Girl” alum, along with “her family, other members of the [‘It Ends With Us’] cast, various fact witnesses,” along with people who have publicly voiced their support for the actress “have received violent, profane, sexist, and threatening communications.”The additional protections requested by Lively and Reynolds include “an Attorney’s Eyes Only (‘AEO’) category, which applies to ‘Confidential Discovery Material of such a highly confidential and personal, sensitive, or proprietary nature that the revelation of such is likely to cause a competitive, business, commercial, financial, personal or privacy injury,'” according to the letter.

Ryan Reynolds’ joke about his and Blake Lively’s legal battle with “It Ends With Us” director Justin Baldoni during the “SNL” 50th anniversary special was his idea, says the show’s cue card guy.The “Deadpool & Wolverine” star, 48, surprised viewers when he alluded to the ongoing drama an hour into “SNL 50: The Anniversary Special” on Sunday night in a segment where Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took questions from the star-studded audience in Studio 8H.“Ryan Reynolds, how’s it going?” Poehler, 53, asked.Reynolds retorted: “Why? What have you heard?”On Tuesday, veteran “SNL” cue card guy Wally Feresten, aka “Cue Card Wally,” revealed that the joke was entirely Reynolds’ idea.“He had a different line in rehearsal and he pitched that [line] to replace it,” Feresten said in an interview with Australian breakfast radio show “Fifi, Fev & Nick” when asked whether the quip was an improv on the “Free Guy” star’s part or if it was scripted. “So that was his idea to do it there,” Feresten continued.

her account last month.But Hoover’s profile no longer features any pictures of the film adaptation’s stars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who are currently suing each other.Hoover also deleted any traces of last year’s “It Ends With Us” promotional tour that used to be on her account.Hoover fled Instagram in January after the start of Lively and Baldoni’s hostile legal battle. The actors played the lead roles in the adaptation of Hoover’s 2016 best-selling novel.

a new website with an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against the couple, as well as a document that outlines the timeline of events before and after the movie’s filming. Baldoni filed both the amended complaint and the timeline document in court.In the filed timeline, Baldoni claimed that Lively, 37, and Reynolds, 48, tried to force him into taking the blame for the “troubled production” of “It Ends With Us” and the negative press that Lively dealt with while she promoted the flick.Lively and Reynolds allegedly wrote the draft statement in August 2024, the same month the movie came out, after they were “furious” with Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, “for positioning them as promoting the Film as a ‘Barbie film’ while elevating Baldoni to speak on the more serious messaging.”The alleged draft statement said, “IT ENDS WITH US was a troubled production which we take full accountability for.

a new website over the weekend with alleged unseen texts between himself and his co-star Blake Lively, who is suing him for sexual harassment, and her husband Ryan Reynolds.The site, titled “Lawsuit Info,” links to an amended version of his $400 million lawsuit against Lively, 37, Reynolds, 48, and their publicist Leslie Sloane. Reynolds is accusing the trio of defamation and extortion.Baldoni’s website also links to a 168-page document outlining the timeline of events before and after the filming of “It Ends With Us,” which he filed in court as an exhibit to his amended complaint.The 168-page court filing includes never-before-seen texts and emails that Baldoni allegedly exchanged with Lively and Reynolds who, according to Baldoni, streamrolled him during the making of the movie.One of the messages between Baldoni and Lively from April 2023 shows them discussing a rewrite for the film’s iconic rooftop scene.

“It Ends With Us” legal dispute.The court date for the case was scheduled by Judge Lewis J. Liman in a legal order filed on Monday, according to court documents obtained by The Post.Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, are suing each other in federal court in New York. Lively filed a $250 million lawsuit against Baldoni last month, alleging sexual harassment and a smear campaign.

sexually harass Lively, 37, on the set of “It Ends With Us.”“Justin Baldoni and team have nothing to hide,” Freedman said in a statement to The Post, noting that the raw footage from the movie that Baldoni’s team recently released “proves this.”“Justin and team have the right to defend themselves with the truth and this is what we will be continuing to show with the upcoming website containing all correspondence as well as relevant videos that directly quash her claims,” Freedman added.The on-set footage from “It Ends With Us” that is referenced in Freedman’s statement was sent to The Post on Tuesday, and shows Lively and Baldoni slow-dancing as their characters in May 2023.Baldoni’s legal counsel claimed the footage refutes Lively’s characterization of his behavior on the set of the movie.In her sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, Lively claimed that during the “slow dance scene,” Baldoni “leaned forward and slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘it smells so good.’” In the raw footage, Lively can be heard joking that she’s “probably getting spray tan on” Baldoni, who laughs and replies, “It smells good.” The video also references a charge Baldoni has leveled against Lively, namely that she implied he should get plastic surgery on his nose.Baldoni’s reps also shared a statement included on a title card at the top of the footage, saying that “both actors are clearly behaving well within the scope of the scene and with mutual respect and professionalism.”Lively’s team slammed Baldoni’s video in a statement to the Post and said the footage is “damning” and “corroborates” her allegations of sexual harassment.

obtained by TMZ.Nores argued in the court filing that he was “dear friends” with Payne — but “never agreed to be and was never the caretaker of Liam.”He also denied giving the star “any recreational drugs” or “controlled any prescribed medications” before his fatal fall.Nores and four others were hit with manslaughter and drug-related charges last month after Argentine authorities accused them of knowing Payne was extremely intoxicated the night he died — but failed to intervene and keep him away from the balcony of his CasaSur hotel room back on Oct. 16.Payne’s autopsy later determined the singer had a toxic mixture of drugs in his system, including crack and so-called “pink cocaine” — a mix of ketamine and other drugs.The energy tycoon argued in his suit that Payne struggled for years with addiction, and claimed to have repeatedly warned the star’s dad that he couldn’t “support” the crooner in the way he needed in the months before his death.Nores allegedly sent an email to the Payne’s father last August, saying he “could not further as a friend devote the same time to support Liam,” according to the filing.

feud with Kendrick Lamar to federal court. The “One Dance” rapper, 38, filed a defamation lawsuit in Manhattan on Wednesday against Universal Music Group — which reps both stars — for releasing Lamar’s diss track “Not Like Us.”In the court documents obtained by The Post, Drake accused the record label of spreading the “false and malicious narrative” that he’s “a pedophile.”The lawsuit states that on May 4, 2024, the day “Not Like Us” came out, “UMG approved, published, and launched a campaign to create a viral hit out of a rap track that falsely accuses Drake of being a pedophile and calls for violent retribution against him.”“Even though UMG enriched itself and its shareholders by exploiting Drake’s music for years, and knew that the salacious allegations against Drake were false, UMG chose corporate greed over the safety and well-being of its artists,” the suit added.Drake is signed to UMG subsidiary Republic Records, while Lamar, 37, is signed to UMG’s Interscope Records.In the court docs, Drake claimed that Lamar’s diss track — which is nominated for five Grammy Awards, including Song of the Year — conveyed the “false factual allegation that Drake is a criminal pedophile.”Lamar isn’t named in the lawsuit.

been accused in a new lawsuit of raping a 16-year-old baby-sitter after luring her into his car in the Big Apple more than two decades ago.The woman, only identified as “Jane Doe,” claims she had just finished a baby-sitting gig at an apartment building in Lower Manhattan when she ran into the Bad Boy Records founder in late 2000, according to court papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Monday.The high schooler, who lived around the corner with her parents at the time, claimed Combs’ romantic partner — only described as a “well-known woman” — lived in the same building where she worked as a sitter, the filing states.It coincides with when Combs was known to be dating Jennifer Lopez.The accuser alleges Combs, who was sitting in a car outside with two male employees, repeatedly offered her a ride home, telling her it wasn’t safe for her to be walking alone at night.“She advised Combs that she lived around the corner, was familiar with the neighborhood and would be fine. Combs offered a ride home several times which she continued to refuse.

his new lawsuit against the New York Times.Baldoni, 40, claimed that Reynolds, 48, “berated” him during a heated meeting at the couple’s Tribeca penthouse in New York, in which he accused the director of “fat shaming” his wife.The “Jane the Virgin” star allegedly asked how much Lively, 37, weighed before he was supposed to life her in a scene. Baldoni claimed he had back issues and wanted “to ensure he could safely perform the lift without injury.”In response, Reynolds “aggressively berated” Baldoni during their meeting.“The confrontation that followed was so aggressive that Baldoni felt compelled to offer repeated apologies,” the lawsuit read.“Baldoni, in an effort to avoid further confrontation with Lively and Reynolds and rebuild rapport with his co-star, continued to bend to her will,” the legal filing added.A producer on the movie who was at the meeting allegedly later said “that in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that.”Lively allegedly “refused to perform” the scene with Baldoni despite rehearsing “with a stunt double.”Baldoni also claimed Reynolds pressured Baldoni’s agency, WME, to drop him — allegedly during the “Deadpool & Wolverine” premiere in July, which took place before Baldoni hired his crisis PR team.