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Updating our earlier item: a San Jose man has appealed a federal court’s dismissal of his suit against Sony for kicking him off the PlayStation network. He’s also suing Nintendo over its Wii update locking out certain unauthorized third-party software, and Microsoft over a ...
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“The novel legal claim was filed by Lucie J. Kim in a class action suit against the singer earlier this year that sought $4,000 in damages for each Asian and Pacific Islander living in Los Angeles County.” Kim complained that Cyrus was photographed with an Asian friend and other ...
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Concerns about the pending Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) [ Jeff Porten, MacWorld/MacUser ]
Tags: copyright , international law , trademarks
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I’m quoted on the subject in Grant Bosse’s article in New Hampshire Watchdog . Earlier here and here .
Tags: medical malpractice
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Allegations of $2,000 in an envelope, constant requests for cash, false financial filings, and much else besides, figure in the House impeachment proceedings against a Louisiana jurist . [ ABA Journal ]
Tags: judges , Louisiana
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Judge finds Army Corps of Engineers negligent in Katrina levees suit [ WSJ Law Blog , Krauss/PoL ]
Feds raise the Gibson guitar factory in Nashville on an exotic-woods rap [ The Tennessean ] Eric Scheie has a few things to say about what turns out to be a remarkably comprehensive federal ...
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She “was taking pictures on the railroad tracks in Tupelo in 2006″ and things didn’t end happily. Now her lawsuit says the train was going too fast and that the BNSF Railway Company “should have posted trespassing signs to keep people away.” People like her, that ...
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Could such a sequence of events actually happen? It seems to have happened to Paul Clerke of Merstham, England. [ ThisIsSurreyToday via Coyote ]
Tags: crime and punishment , guns , United Kingdom
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You’d think they wouldn’t need specific rules to know not to do that. [ Scott Greenfield ]
Tags: ethics
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John Tierney at the Times makes the case against heritage repatriation laws.
Tags: antiquities
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Carter Wood at Point of Law , Hans Bader at the Examiner , and David Kopel at Opposing Views have more about the oughta-be-controversial OSHA nominee.
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A suit by the estate of the late DJ AM says a 2008 plane crash that he survived helped cause his 2009 drug overdose death [ ET Online , TortsProf ]
Tags: aviation , illegal drugs , proximate cause
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California: “Stanley Hilton, 60, of Hillsborough, said in unique court papers that his wife of 13 years divorced him and took their young triplets with her last year because of ‘around-the-clock’ jet noise at SFO. …Hilton last week sued (PDF) SFO, Hillsborough, the ...
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Are you a skilled writer capable of tackling the topic of class action abuse? A reformist group (not us) is looking for a freelancer, old media refugee or other skillful wordsmith to tackle what could be a substantial project. If you’re a serious candidate, drop a line at editor – ...
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“Common sense makes a comeback” against zero tolerance in the classroom [ USA Today ]
Slip at Massachusetts antiques show leads to lawsuit [ Wicked Local Marion ]
Update: Washington Supreme Court takes up horn-honking case [ Lowering the Bar , earlier ]
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The phrase “looks forward to his day in court”, notes Christopher Fountain, yields 74,500 Google hits [ For What It's Worth ]
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Scott Rothstein, the Florida lawyer at the center of the biggest fraud investigation since, oh, Marc Dreier’s, got an “AV Preeminent” rating from Martindale-Hubbell, which says its ratings “serve as an objective indicator that a lawyer has the highest ethical standards ...
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“In a 2000 civil lawsuit filed in Bucks County, Linda Thompson claimed a faulty pump sprayed her with gasoline, leaving her in damaged clothing and with a lingering fear of filling up her cars with gasoline. … ‘(Thompson) is unable to psychologically pump her own gas,’ ...
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Bringing to a close another chapter in the Scruggs scandals. [ WSJ Law Blog ]
Tags: Dickie Scruggs , scandals
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