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By Todd Cunningham | July 17, 2017
A trove of emails and financial records filed this week in the legal battle between fired "The Walking Dead" creator Frank Darabont, Creative Artists Agency and the AMC Network has provided a revealing glimpse behind the curtain of Hollywood TV production and financing. But like the malevolent, flesh-ripping zombies that populate the show, it ain't pretty.
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By Max Mitchell | July 17, 2017
A federal court in Pennsylvania has trimmed the claims that former baseball star Pete Rose can bring against the man who investigated him for betting in the 1980s. That man, attorney John Dowd, had acted as special counsel to Major League Baseball, and gave a 2015 radio interview in which, Rose alleged, the lawyer said the ex-player committed statutory rape.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 14, 2017
Survival as much as maximized profits was the driving force behind the merger proposal of daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel. With the deal now quashed in the wake of the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust concerns, the two companies are left with an uncertain future.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
Res judicata/collateral estoppel barred plaintiffs from litigating tort claims in state court after those claims were dismissed in federal court under the gist of the action and economic loss doctrines. Order of the trial court affirmed.
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By thelegalintelligencer | The Legal Intelligencer | July 14, 2017
Category 2 slot machine license application remanded for reconsideration by Gaming Control Board after it failed to consider whether a post-licensure capital infusion by one of the applicant's affiliates would cause his stake in the licensee to exceed the 33.3 percent threshold. Order of the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board reversed, case remanded for reconsideration.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 13, 2017
Fantasy sports site operator DraftKings on Wednesday enlisted power attorney David Boies as it and FanDuel, a rival site with which it had hoped to merge, battled to have a potential class action suit brought by players dismissed in federal court in Boston.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 13, 2017
DraftKings and FanDuel, operators of the two largest sites in the multibillion online fantasy sports industry, have abandoned their plans to merge in the face of pressure from the Federal Trade Commission.
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By Stephanie Forshee | July 12, 2017
It took a whole lot of dealmaking from attorneys at Lincoln Center and Screenvision Media to get the musical on to the big screen.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 12, 2017
At tonight's Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Miami, umpire Angel Hernandez will work at first base. Hernandez recently sued MLB and commissioner Rob Manfred for racial discrimination.
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By Todd Cunningham | July 11, 2017
Disney has prevailed, at least for the moment, in a copyright complaint targeting its animated box-office hit "Zootopia."
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