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• According to PWInsider, the WWE dropped their application for the trademark upon discovering the name’s Nazi link.

• Upon filing a trademark for Gunther Stark, the WWE learned too late that the name had belonged to a U-boat captain whose vessel was sunk in the English Channel in 1944.

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• 否认 — WWE

  WWE believes these claims have no merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against them

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• In the lawsuit, MLW accused WWE of trying to maintain an 85 percent dominance over the U.S. wrestling market through "unfair and anticompetitive business practices, including poaching talent, misappropriating confidential information, interfering with competitors’ contracts and cutting off competitors’ access to their viewing audiences."

• WWE believes these claims have no merit and intends to vigorously defend itself against them

• The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, by MLW Media LLC, of Mamaroneck, N.Y.

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• 人事处理 — WWE

  WWE Official Adam Pearce announced during Raw Talk that Charlotte has been “indefinitely suspended” and fined $100,000 for attacking a referee at the end of WWE Raw Monday.

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• WWE Official Adam Pearce announced during Raw Talk that Charlotte has been “indefinitely suspended” and fined $100,000 for attacking a referee at the end of WWE Raw Monday.

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• WWE has been sued by a company alleging that they infringed on a patent to create the WWE Network.

• Forbes reports that Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems has filed a lawsuit against the company in regard to Rothschild’s patent that covers the basic function of subscription streaming video services.

• Forbes reports that Rothschild Broadcast Distribution Systems has filed a lawsuit against WWE.

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• 否认 — WWE

  Jerry McDevitt, a partner at law firm K&L Gates who is the outside counsel for WWE, said the accusations are baseless and that the case is without merit.

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• Jerry McDevitt, a partner at law firm K&L Gates who is the outside counsel for WWE, said the accusations are baseless and that the case is without merit.

• “The lawsuit constructs an entirely fictional storyline based on false and fabricated internet gossip, not facts,” McDevitt told CIO. “And we will move to have it dismissed.”

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• On November 18, 2020, World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a term sheet (the “Term Sheet”) to settle the previously disclosed action titled City of Warren Police and Fire Retirement System, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, v. World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., Vincent K. McMahon, George A. Barrios, and Michelle D. Wilson, No. 1:20-cv-02031-JSR, currently pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”).

• Plaintiffs in the lawsuit alleged securities law violations by the Company, its current Chief Executive Officer and its former Co-Presidents, related to certain disclosures concerning the Company’s business relationship in and with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

• The Company believes that resolving the matter is the right business decision and that it is prudent to end the protracted and uncertain class action process.

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• Romero's attorney, Joseph H. Mizrahi of the Cohen & Mizrahi law firm in Brooklyn, issued a settlement notice on Monday, December 7, advising the court to dismiss the case.

• WWE has settled a lawsuit that was recently filed by a man who claimed he was being denied equal access to the WWEShop website.

• The lawsuit alleged that the shop.wwe.com website "is not equally accessible to blind and visually-impaired consumers," and is in violation of the ADA.

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• The lawsuit will proceed to trial and a jury will have to decide if copyright infringement occurred and how much money is owed to Alexander if that is indeed the case.

• Take-Two Interactive and World Wrestling Entertainment are headed to trial after a judge ruled that they copied the work of tattoo artist Catherine Alexander on a wrestler in three "WWE 2K" games.

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• It also states that WWE’s board members may have failed to ensure that McMahon would not “engage in transactions that conflict with WWE’s interests” as it relates to the XFL.

• However, according to the lawsuit that was filed on December 26th in Delaware Chancery Court by an Oklahoma firefighters pension fund, the group believes that McMahon and other senior WWE officers are violating their duties to investors by using WWE resources to help fund the XFL.

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• He stole our likeness, who we are, and our intellectual property of our matches. WWE has admitted they don’t have any of our signed releases most don’t get a dime for DVD’s sold in major stores world wide and online or The WWE Network.

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• The lawsuit lists Cassandra and Nelson as plaintiffs and alleges that he passed away due to the effect of concussions and other injuries from his WWE career.

• Cassandra Frazier, the widow of former WWE Superstar Nelson Frazier Jr. (Viscera, Big Daddy V) filed a lawsuit against WWE on February 18th in Memphis, Tennessee.