In the News: September 14

The California Labor Commission has ruled that the agent for actress Nicollette Sheridan wasn’t properly licensed when he represented her, but that this fact may not have been relevant to his breach of contract claim for fees arising out of her work on Desperate Housewives.

Baltimore has terminated a school busing contract with a private operator after its service was interrupted by striking drivers.

Barbra Streisand’s promoters are suing ticket agencies in the U.K., claiming that thousands of tickets (worth nearly £ 1 million) for her much-ballyhooed series of “sold out” English concerts were never actually sold.

Two well-known NASCAR drivers, Sterling Marlin and Joe Nemechek, are suing Ginn Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. for breach of contract; their jobs were eliminated when the two teams merged.

News Corp. says it expects “prickly and dicey and contentious” negotiations with Apple Corp. over the terms for showing Fox television and film properties over Apple’s iTunes platform.

[Frank Snyder]