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C’mon, Canada [ Coleman ; originally Eric Johnson, Pixelization ]
Tags: Canada , copyright
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Bloomberg reports that the trial in Italy is going forward
on charges related to a clip uploaded to Google Video in 2006.
The clip was created and posted on the Web by a group of students at a Turin school, who filmed themselves bullying a disabled classmate. Google says that it removed the ...
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Just might be a police investigator. [ Radley Balko ]
Tags: Facebook , police
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Rick Woldenberg talks back to the California attorney general, and also raises some questions about Proposition 65 and the finances of the freelance enforcers in the case, the Center for Environmental Health (CEH). Two years ago we covered CEH’s crusade against the iPhone. More: Darleen ...
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Gordon Brown
A Hall County, Georgia jury has awarded $100,000 in damages to a woman who said that a character in the best-selling novel “The Red Hat Club” was recognizably based in part on herself, and was falsely portrayed as an “alcoholic slut.’ The lawsuit also named New ...
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The Progressive Policy Institute (!) criticizes a provision almost snuck into the health-care bill that would have been a windfall for trial lawyers at the expense of the rest of us. Earlier and earlier on Overlawyered, which was the first to publicize the provision.
Tags: Medicare , ...
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“California’s Largest Cities and Counties Spent More Than $500 Million in Litigation Costs in Two Years” [ CACALA ]
Violence Policy Center blames handgun carry permits for offenses that include … strangulation? [ Sullum ]
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An Ohio town discontinues its municipal WiFi network after MPAA lawyers rattle swords about a copyrighted movie that moved through the system. Andrew Moshirnia at Citizen Media Law explains .
Tags: movies film and videos , Ohio , RIAA and file sharing
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A bright-line rule in legal ethics: don’t order that witnesses be killed [ Philadelphia Inquirer , WSJ Law Blog on prosecutors' allegations in a case against New Jersey criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergrin]
Tags: defense lawyers , don't
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The Arkansas plaintiff’s lawyer says he was too embarrassed to make layoffs as his finances turned sour, which is why he stole the $9.3 million in class-action settlement funds [ WSJ Law Blog , ABA Journal ] Earlier here , here , and here .
Tags: Arkansas , class action settlements , ...
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Those of you who have attended my “Law of McDonald’s” talks in California and Florida may recall the case of the strip search hoax . A Florida man who was unusually persuasive would call dozens of fast food restaurants until he could find someone who would believe he was with ...
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The New York Times doesn’t have statistics, but its reporter thinks Lanham Act litigation (filed by companies against their competitors over allegedly misleading advertising) is on the rise these days .
Tags: advertising , competition through litigation
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Jacob Sullum on the FDA’s threat to ban caffeinated alcoholic drinks [ Reason “Hit and Run” . Earlier here , here , here , etc.
Tags: alcohol , FDA
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When you search Google on the name of the prominent Milwaukee personal injury firm of Habush, Habush & Rottier, you get a paid ad link from one of its competitors, the Brookfield, Wisc. firm of Cannon & Dunphy. So now Habush is suing its rival. [ Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ]
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“Ten Ways Lawyers Rip Off Clients” [ Lawrence Delevingne and Gus Lubin, Business Insider ]
White House visitor logs contain more entries for trial lawyer lobbyist Linda Lipsen (5x) than for Hillary Clinton (3x) (h/t ShopFloor)
Time magazine has a cover story on child ...
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“Calling someone a ‘douche’ may be bad manners but it does not give an insurance company grounds to disavow a policy protecting against defamation claims, a state judge has ruled.” The owner of a public relations firm was sued by a rival after he purchased a domain ...
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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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Microsoft
“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 .
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