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Senior C-suite executives moving to rival companies is common. As are non-compete clauses as part of employment contracts by employers while making top management employee appointments. Yet lawsuits against employees for contract violations are not a frequent phenomenon in India.What happened?Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill CoursesOffering CollegeCourseWebsiteIIT DelhiIITD Certificate Programme in Data Science & Machine LearningVisitIndian School of BusinessISB Product ManagementVisitIIM KozhikodeIIMK…

The owner of the Aspen Snowmass resorts is complaining about a high-end fashion company that keeps sending so-called “influencers” to its ski areas to be photographed in pricey attire. Aspen Skiing Co. filed a lawsuit Wednesday that accuses Perfect Moment, a London-based skiwear maker, of trademark infringement, among other allegations. The dispute began in March 2021, when Perfect Moment posted photos of female influencers modeling its skiwear on Instagram and other social media sites. Within weeks, Aspen Skiing noticed…

Lizzo’s lawyers filed a motion last week rebuffing a harassment and misconduct lawsuit brought by a former employee, calling it “meritless and salacious.” The lawsuit was brought by Asha Daniels, who worked as a wardrobe designer on Lizzo’s 2023 tour, and helped design outfits for the rapper’s “Big Grrrl” dancers. Daniels accused Lizzo and her team of racial and sexual harassment, disability discrimination, illegal retaliatory termination, and assault.  In the filing last week, Lizzo’s lawyer, Martin Singer,…

A state judge on Friday ordered TikTok to comply with a request from the North Carolina Attorney General's Office for records in a multistate investigation into whether the app puts young people at risk.North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein said the attorneys general investigating since 2022 have discovered TikTok had an archive of tens of thousands of recorded internal Zoom meetings that the company initially failed to disclose for nearly a year and a half.Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value Skill…

A landlord at 18th and Blake in LoDo wants permission to evict a convenience store that the landlord blames for difficulties leasing office space above the store. “The 7-Eleven at the premises attracts vagrancy and crime,” its landlord alleges. In September 2021, Seattle-based Unico paid $61.2 million for the five-story office building at 1755 Blake St. 7-Eleven had been a ground-floor tenant for 11 years by that time and had just signed a lease extension to stay there through June 2026, court records show. Unico says…

Frontier Airlines will settle a federal lawsuit filed by five pilots who accused the Denver-based airline of discriminating against them during pregnancy and while breastfeeding. Through the settlement, Frontier will allow pilots to pump breastmilk in the cockpit during noncritical phases of a flight and will update or comply with existing policies that impact pregnant and lactating employees. It is one of the first airlines to allow pilots to pump during flights, according to a Monday news release from the American Civil…

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has temporarily stepped down as chairman of Revolt, the TV network he co-founded, amidst a wave of sexual assault allegations, Rolling Stone has confirmed.  No further details about the decision were given, such as who would take up Combs’ role in the interim and when he might return. TMZ first reported the news, saying Combs — who has denied the allegations against him — decided to temporarily step down last week.  Combs has been hit with three sexual assault lawsuits in recent weeks. The…

Sean Combs, the rapper and mogul known as Diddy, has been accused of sexual assault in two new lawsuits, after another he settled last week with former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, AKA Cassie.The first, from Joi Dickerson-Neal, alleges Combs attacked her in 1991 and inflicted “substantial and lifetime injuries … as a result of being drugged, sexually assaulted and abused, and being “the victim of ‘revenge porn’ that Sean Combs or ‘P. Diddy’ created and distributed”. A representative for Combs has called the claims “made…

If it seems like you’ve been seeing a lot of claims of sexual assault against celebrities in the last few days, that’s because you are. New lawsuits have been filed against the likes of Jamie Foxx, Axl Rose, Cuba Gooding Jr., and P. Diddy in the last week, and most were filed in the last couple of days. There’s a particular reason for that, as the window for filing these suits is coming to a close. The New York Adult Survivors Act was signed into law in early 2022. It gave residents who claimed to have been sexually…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeCuba Gooding Jr has been hit with two lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault.In the suits, the Jerry Maguire actor is accused of groping two women in two separate incidents at New York restaurants in 2018 and 2019.The lawsuits were filed on Wednesday in New York Supreme Court ahead of the expiration of the state’s Adult Survivors Act on Friday.The measure, passed last year, created a…