In August, a Washington, D.C. judge turned down Trump’s request to seal videos and the full transcript from a very long, much-anticipated deposition that Donald Trump gave back in June, in response to court motions filed by BuzzFeed; they were released today. The deposition was given in connection with a lawsuit he…

Blake Wentworth, an assistant professor in University of California-Berkeley’s South and Southeast Asian studies department, has filed a defamation lawsuit against three women—two graduate students and one former undergraduate—who accused him of repeated sexual harassment. In the lawsuit, Wentworth accuses the three…

According to a damning new report by the Los Angeles Times based on documents from a 2012 labor relations lawsuit and a separate retaliation claim, employees at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes spoke of a “toxic” work culture in which woman employees were either fired or pressured to quit if managers,…

A former Whole Foods employee in Boulder, Colorado who’s suing the store for discrimination claims she faced frequent harassment for being gay.

CBS’s The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey was remarkable in that its team of investigators outright stated that they believed the six-year-old died at the hands of her then-nine-year-old brother Burke. Though a screen at the end of the series emphasized that the crime is yet unsolved and its investigators were simply…

On Monday, actor Jim Carrey was sued for allegedly facilitating the September 2015 suicide of his ex-girlfriend, Cathriona White. Mark Burton, married to 30-year-old White at the time of her death, filed the lawsuit for wrongful death and drug violations. He says that Carrey illegally procured painkillers for White…

A defamation lawsuit against Rolling Stone filed by Nicole Eramo, University of Virginia’s Associate Dean of Students, is set for trial next month. A judge has ruled that the jury will have to decide whether the magazine acted with a “reckless disregard for the truth” in publishing Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s now-debunked…

In a lawsuit filed against William Paterson University in New Jersey, Marquesa Jackson-Locklear alleged that her 21-year-old daughter Cherelle Jovanna Locklear killed herself after the university failed to properly investigate her rape.

The theater chain Cinemark is no longer pursuing $700,000 in legal fees from victims of the Aurora, Colorado mass shooting after reaching an agreement on Tuesday.

Mitch “Wild Thing” Williams’s lawsuit against MLB Network was scheduled to go to trial this week in New Jersey, two years after the former major-league pitcher and TV analyst filed a complaint in Camden County Superior Court alleging—among other things—breach of contract, negligent misrepresentation, intentional and…

Remember those bright-eyed moppets dressed like extras in Bette Midler’s underrated film For The Boys who sang a song about freedom and liberty under a Trump presidency in Pensacola this January? They’re suing Donald Trump’s campaign, claiming the moldy pumpkin with hair like candy floss stiffed them on pay and broke…

Britney Spears’ lawyers have reportedly sent a sternly worded legal notice cautioning In Touch not to to move forward with a story about Spears’ alleged “erratic” behavior at the MTV VMAs.

An unnamed male student who has twice been investigated for sexual assault is suing his institution, the University Of Chicago, for “anti-male bias.”

Melania Trump has filed suit against The Daily Mail and a Maryland blogger named Webster G. Tarpley over a story that claimed she was an escort in the 1990s. The tabloid published the story on August 20, and repeated allegations from a Slovenian magazine, Suzy, which claimed that the modeling agency Trump worked for…

If you had asked me yesterday, “Hey, Joanna, is there anything ex-Subway spokes-dieter and convicted child pornography enthusiast Jared Fogle could do to make you think less of him?” I would say, “No, may I leave this focus group?”

Filmmaker Matt Fulks sued Beyonce Knowles earlier this year for “lifting” elements (including visuals of stairs and parking garages) from his 2014 short film Palinoia for use in Knowles’s 2016 video album Lemonade. In the original complaint, he sought profits “‘attributed to exploitation of his work’ including a…

Last week, former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros filed a lawsuit claiming she was shunted off the air for complaining about relentless sexual harassment from Roger Ailes and others. In a response filed Monday, the network calls Tantaros a lying “opportunist” who merely wishes she was sexually harassed.

A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked the Obama administration’s directive that school districts allow transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity. The directive, which shouldn’t be controversial, is snarled in a messy lawsuit brought by 13 conservative-run states.

Ahmed Mohamed, the Irving, Texas teenager who was falsely arrested because he made a clock that his school found bomb-like, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against his old school district, his high school and the city. The suit says that the city of Irving has a pattern of discriminating against Muslims, and…

I rarely write about the Duggars in Dirt Bag because 1) they repulse me, and 2) the stories are usually far too dark for something posted before 10:00 am, but this one is a little different. How do I put this? It’s, uh, proof that karma is a shady bitch?