Ice Cube’s ‘Check Yo Self’ Suit Against Robinhood Eighty-Sixed

Robinhood Markets Inc. shook off, for good this time, claims by rapper and actor Ice Cube that the company used his likeness and work to hype products that tarnished his brand, after a federal magistrate found he didn’t “plausibly plead” that consumers would think he endorsed the products.

O’Shea Jackson Sr., better known as Ice Cube, doesn’t have standing to pursue the Lanham Act claims because the suit doesn’t sufficiently plead an injury, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said Monday.

Robinhood’s use of Ice Cube’s image and paraphrasing of his song lyric “Check yo self ...