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LOS ANGELES — A California appeals court on Tuesday overturned most of a 2017 jury verdict awarding Quincy Jones $9.4 million in royalties and fees from the Michael Jackson estate over the use of Jones-produced Jackson hits in the concert film “This Is It” and two Cirque du Soleil shows. The state’s 2nd District Court …

A rehab facility has vowed to “cooperate with law enforcement” against its staffers if it discovers that any of them had a part in leaking pictures of Scott Disick to the press. Disick stormed out of the All Points Lodge in Colorado on Monday, according to his attorney, after discovering that a shot that he …

House Judiciary Republicans are demanding that FBI Director Christopher Wray answer for the Bureau’s “targeting” of former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn by making top officials and documents connected to the probe available to lawmakers. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R., Ohio) and Representative Mike Johnson (R., La.) asked Wray to hand …

Britney Spears‘ conservatorship has been extended through to August while Los Angeles courts remain closed amid the coronavirus pandemic. According to court documents obtained by Page Six, Jodi Pais Montgomery will remain as Spears’ temporary conservator until Aug. 22. An “order to show cause” hearing for this case is scheduled to take place on Aug. …

Hollywood mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg is under attack from billionaire Paul Singer, whose activist hedge fund has accused his mobile-streaming startup Quibi of patent infringement and theft of trade secrets. Singer’s fund Elliott Management, which manages more than $40 billion in assets, has made a “substantial” investment in rival interactive-video company Eko to fund its litigation …

Frozen margaritas are one thing — but frozen beer is bad for business, according to Heineken, which claims it lost more than 15,000 cases of brew to frigid temps when a shipping company mishandled them. The suds were shipped to the United States from Amsterdam last year, were offloaded in the Port of Newark, and …

Christopher Meloni, known for his role as Elliot Stabler, will return to Dick Wolf’s Law and Order SVU for its 22nd season, according to showrunner Warren Leight. Leight confirmed on the SVU podcast on Wednesday that Stabler will at the least appear in the season opener. “It’s pretty clear that Elliot will be in the …

A federal appeals court ruled against a Trump administration policy to withhold millions in federal grants for law enforcement from “sanctuary” cities on Thursday, contradicting a prior ruling from a different appeals court earlier this year to set up a possible Supreme Court case. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled against …

Political operative and former Trump adviser Roger Stone on Thursday filed an appeal of his conviction for lying to federal investigators in the Mueller investigation. Stone’s attorneys did not offer any arguments directly disputing his guilt or three-year prison sentence, but argued that Judge Amy Jackson had improperly dismissed Stone’s request for a retrial. That …

New unsealed documents in the Michael Flynn case show that FBI officials openly questioned whether their goal in interviewing the former Trump national-security adviser was “to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired.” Dated January 24, 2017, the same day of the White House interview with Flynn that was …