We start at the Supreme Court, where justices are deciding DJT’s 2024 ballot fate. Then, we’re shifting gears to the latest Boeing 737 Max debacle. With a side of the plane missing mid-flight, it’s a new take on ‘extra legroom.’ Plus, Starbucks’ new initiative to get customers to BYOC (Bring Your Own Cup). It’s part environmental crusade, part logistical puzzle. How will this play out in the drive-thru line? And, we’ll delve into the Biden administration’s proposed rule change for gig workers. From Uber to DoorDash, the employment landscape might be in for a seismic shift.
The Supreme Court concluded the October Term 2022 by issuing its final disappointing decisions. Also, a World Famous INTU “News Roundup.”
Calls to impeach Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Outrageous moments during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson.
Ladies and gentlemen, the idobi Supreme Court is convened today to discuss the case of Beach Weather v. Beyonce, two stellar music acts who share many of the same qualities.
California’s Supreme Court upheld the state’s gay marriage ban Tuesday but said the 18,000 same-sex weddings that took place before the prohibition passed are still valid – a ruling decried by gay rights activists as a hollow victory. Demonstrators outside the court booed, wept and yelled, “Shame on you!” Activists said they would go back to the voters as early as next year in a bid to repeal the ban. In a 6-1 decision written by Chief Justice Ron George, the court rejected arguments that the ban approved by the voters last fall was such a fundamental change in the… Read more »
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.’s Warner Music Group may not be close to settling its disagreement with YouTube over music video revenue but at least he’s out from under a $100 million lawsuit. The lawsuit, a hangover from the $2.6 billion leveraged buyout of the music company from Time Warner in 2004, was filed by former Simon & Schuster CEO Richard Snyder in 2007. Snyder claimed he wasn’t compensated properly for his role in bringing investment bankers to the deal and sued Bronfman personally. But the New York Supreme Court disagreed, dismissing the case Tuesday and ordering Snyder to cover the court… Read more »
Among the most notorious on-screen gaffes ever, Janet Jackson’s breast-baring “wardrobe malfunction” on CBS during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show drew a $550,000 indecency fine from the Federal Communications Commission. Now a federal appeals court has thrown it out. A panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that the FCC “acted arbitrarily and capriciously” in issuing the fine for the fleeting image of nudity, which it noted lasted just over half a second. An estimated 90 million people watching the Super Bowl heard Justin Timberlake sing, “Gonna have you naked by the end of this… Read more »
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that school officials retain discretion to censor student speech that they believe may encourage illegal drug use. A high school principal did not violate the free speech rights of a student when she confiscated a 14-foot prank banner near school grounds during an outdoor school assembly. In an important First Amendment decision limiting student free speech, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday that school administrators and teachers retain discretion to censor student speech that they believe may encourage illegal drug use. The 5-to-4 decision comes in a case involving an Alaska high school student… Read more »
Two musicians who claim they’ve been cheated by rocker Ozzy Osbourne got no sympathy Monday from the Supreme Court. Justices refused to consider the appeal of bassist Robert Daisley and drummer Lee Kerslake, who sued in 1998 seeking royalties for their work on Osbourne albums “Blizzard of Ozz” and “Diary of a Madman.” Los Angeles attorney Nate Kraut said his musician clients have been denied credit for writing songs that are now used in television commercials and during NFL games. “Their music is literally everywhere,” he told justices in a filing. A California judge had dismissed the lawsuit that named… Read more »
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed a libel lawsuit by a critic of violent rap lyrics who said two newspapers had mischaracterized her dispute with the estate of slain rapper Tupac Shakur and others. C. DeLores Tucker, who led a national campaign against rap music with violent lyrics in the 1990s, had sued over lyrics in which Shakur rhymed her name with an obscenity. Her 1997 lawsuit alleged, among other things, that her husband, William Tucker, had suffered loss of “consortium.” The Philadelphia Daily News and The Legal Intelligencer, a daily newspaper covering legal affairs in Philadelphia, were among… Read more »
