Mealey's (June 19, 2019, 1:22 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a June 14 in-chambers order, a federal judge in California rejected allegations that the creators of the television show “Empire” committed copyright infringement, citing a plaintiff’s “repeated failures” to plausibly allege access by the defendants to the plaintiff’s copyrighted work (Jon Astor-White v. Daniel William Strong, et al., No. 15-6326, C.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 100247)....