Washington Star Drops Suit Against NOTUS After Winning Ban

June 18, 2026, 9:06 PM UTC

The Washington Star Co. dropped its lawsuit over NOTUS Media LLC’s planned rebrand to “Washington Star” two weeks after securing an emergency restraining order in a ruling indicating it was likely to prevail.

Judge Rossie D. Alston Jr.'s June 2 ruling stopped the planned revival of the name of a daily publication that ran from 1852 to 1981.

The notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, may indicate a settlement. Counsel for the parties didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

NOTUS—whose founder, Robert Allbritton, is the son ...

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