Legal Matters

  A settlement has just been annoucned in last May's  a class action suit filed by volunteers at the Emerald City Comic Con, over the lack of payment for their work. You can read more...

A Maryland man was arrested in Utah after allegedly using comic con and pop culture events as a means to meet teen girls and lure them into sex. Derrick La Marr Jones, 35, was arrested and charged with illegal...

It's no secret that while his lawyer Arthur Lieberman was alive, Stan Lee loved pacting.  So many pacts, they wouldn't all fit on a page - animated projects, movie projects, book projects, talking vegetable projects....

Cartoonist Kurt Wolfgang, whose real name is Kurt W. Holley, was arrested on Feb. 4 in Gainesville FL, and charged after attacking his girlfriend in a bathroom stall. (The article does not mention the...

UPDATE: I'm told this lawsuit was also settled at the same time as the main one. So, all water under the bridge now. The other day we reported on the end of Wizard World's lawsuit...

According to court documents, the lawsuit filed against former Wizard exec Shephen Shamus for Breach of Contract and Misappropriation of Corporate Assets (among other things) was settled last month. No terms were announced. As you may...

Gerard Jones, a comics writer whose career includes writing Green Lantern and The Trouble with Girls, co-creating Prime for Malibu, has been arrested on suspicions of putting child pornography on YouTube, SFGate reports. Jones...

Say it ain't so, Norman Reedus. Last week convention company Wizard World fired their Chief Marketing Officer Stephen Shamus, and they filed suit against him. The suit alleges that Shamus used his position to obtain more than $1 million worth of signed memorabilia and collectibles from Wizard World guests which he then sold. A sweet set-up for some extra cash, if true.

California is known for having some pretty difficult laws where freelancers are concerned - and LA has even more, but here's a new one that may make the simple, joyous transaction of getting your...

As you know, we're a little obsessed with secretive Marvel chairman Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter here, probably because he is so darned secretive. And for a while we've been reporting on the crazy lawsuit involving...

A suspect has been arrested in San Diego's recent series of murders of homeless men. Jon David Guerrero, 39, was taken into custody after police assembled a "significant amount of evidence" against him, according...

Seattleish has a thorough report on a class-action lawsuit filed by volunteers, known as "minions" for the 2014 and 2015 Emerald City Comic Cons. Minions worked various duties in exchange for access to the...