{"id":2442359,"date":"2026-06-02T22:45:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2442359"},"modified":"2026-06-02T22:45:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:45:56","slug":"kc-sports-entertainment-law-weekly-roundup-june-2026-kaufman-canoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kc-sports-entertainment-law-weekly-roundup-june-2026-kaufman-canoles\/","title":{"rendered":"K&#038;C Sports &#038; Entertainment Law Weekly Roundup &#8211; June 2026 | Kaufman &#038; Canoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"html-view-content\">\n<p><strong>Sports: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Entertainment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FILM &amp; TELEVISION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>LAWSUITS OF THE RICH &amp; FAMOUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An attorney for a Las Vegas performer asked a California federal judge Wednesday to block Taylor Swift from using &#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; as their trademark infringement case plays out, while Swift&#8217;s attorney said the case is on &#8220;all fours&#8221; with a similar dispute that went in Lady Gaga&#8217;s favor. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-case-lawyer-fights-lawsuit\/\">Taylor Swift &#8216;Life of a Showgirl&#8217; Case: Lawyer Fights Lawsuit in Court<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Keanu Reeves wrote\u00a0a letter\u00a0to a Manhattan federal judge to seek leniency for director Carl Erik Rinsch, and Rinsch included it in a memo he submitted to the court asking for no prison time after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million to make a never-delivered TV series. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/keanu-reeves-goes-bat-netflix-003521096.html\">Keanu Reeves Goes To Bat For Netflix Fraudster Carl Rinsch, Read Letter To Judge<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Matthew Perry&#8217;s former assistant was sentenced to 41 months in prison Wednesday by a California federal judge for his role in the actor&#8217;s fatal ketamine overdose, delivering the sentence shortly after Perry&#8217;s stepfather, Keith Morrison of &#8220;Dateline,&#8221; chastised the defendant for not notifying the family Perry&#8217;s addiction struggles had returned. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2026\/05\/27\/matthew-perry-death-kenneth-iwamasa-sentenced\/90268845007\/\">Matthew Perry assistant Kenneth Iwamasa last of 5 sentenced in death<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Chance the Rapper testified that he would not have kept his former manager employed if he knew the person he relied on to represent him in business dealings had been abusing their relationship &#8220;to enrich himself and get a certain influence in the industry.&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/completemusicupdate.com\/chance-the-rapper-and-pat-the-manager-back-in-court-over-claims-pat-improperly-inserted-himself-into-chances-deals\/\">Chance The Rapper and Pat The Manager back in court, over claims Pat improperly inserted himself into Chance\u2019s deals<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A Florida federal judge reinstated a $75,000 verdict for Megan Thee Stallion, finding Friday that a Texas-based blogger wasn&#8217;t entitled to a presuit notice required for media defendants because she engaged in a financially motivated campaign to defame the rapper.\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/megan-thee-stallion-defamation-judgment-214647030.html\">Megan Thee Stallion Defamation Judgment Reinstated Against Blogger Milagro Gramz<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A North Carolina federal judge has largely sided with a group of international models, former Playboy Playmates and a &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; star alleging a strip club misused their likenesses in advertisements, finding that lingering factual questions preclude a pretrial statute of limitations win for the club. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/legalnewsfeed.com\/2026\/05\/27\/north-carolina-judge-upholds-models-claims-against-strip-club-for-image-misuse-reexamines-statute-of-limitations\/\">North Carolina Judge Upholds Models\u2019 Claims Against Strip Club for Image Misuse, Reexamines Statute of Limitations \u2013 Legal News Feed<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; theme song composer and former Oingo Boingo frontman Danny Elfman can&#8217;t toss a defamation suit brought by a woman after Rolling Stone published statements he made about her sexual misconduct claims against him, a California state appellate court ruled. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.law360.com\/media\/articles\/2483131?cn_pk=23d842b9-ddb4-431a-acf4-791a613b014b&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=custom&amp;utm_content=2026-05-29&amp;read_main=1&amp;nlsidx=0&amp;nlaidx=3\">Grammy Winner Danny Elfman Must Face Woman&#8217;s Libel Suit &#8211; Law360<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MUSIC<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.jdsupra.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports: Entertainment: FILM &amp; TELEVISION LAWSUITS OF THE RICH &amp; FAMOUS An attorney for a Las Vegas performer asked a California federal judge Wednesday to block Taylor Swift from using &#8220;The Life of a Showgirl&#8221; as their trademark infringement case plays out, while Swift&#8217;s attorney said the case is on &#8220;all fours&#8221; with a similar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2216933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2442359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1767122835_KC-Sports-Entertainment-Law-Weekly-Roundup-December-2025.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442360,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442359\/revisions\/2442360"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2216933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}