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More On the Dr. Dre "Up In Smoke" Lawsuit

Posted on February 08, 2011
A post on the Dr. Dre lawsuit from student bloggers at the New York Law School.

Practicing IP Law Ethically

Posted on February 08, 2011
William T. Gallagher, Golden Gate University School of Law, has published IP Legal Ethics in the Everyday Practice of Law: An Empirical Perspective on Patent Litigators at 10 John Marshall Review of Intellectual Property Law 309 (2011). Here is the...

Mark Zuckerberg Gets Temporary Restraining Order Against Facebook Stalker

Posted on February 08, 2011
From MSNBC.com: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has obtained a restraining order against a man who has been stalking him via Facebook, and apparently in real life. More here from website TMZ.

Michael Moore Sues Over Profits From "Fahrenheit 9/11"

Posted on February 07, 2011
From the Hollywood Reporter: Michael Moore is suing the Weinsteins over profits he says he is due from his documentary "Fahrenheit 9/11." He has filed in Los Angeles Superior Court.

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Google Exec Apparently Free

Posted on February 07, 2011
From Google: The Egyptian government has freed Google executive Wael Ghonim after a week of detention. More here from CNN.

Second Circuit Affirms Lower Court Dismissal of Defamation Lawsuit Against Cornell Scientist

Posted on February 07, 2011
The Second Circuit has affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing a plaintiff biologist's lawsuit against a defendant whom she said had defamed her by criticizing her work in his lab at Cornell University. The case is Chandok v. Klessig. For...

An Assessment of Responses to the Muhammad Cartoon Controversy

Posted on February 07, 2011
Panagis Germenis has published Risks of Appeasement - Failure of East and West in Muhammad Cartoon Controversy. Here is the abstract. In this paper we examine the reasons for the 12 editorial collection of the danish Jyllands Posten in 2005...

India's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal

Posted on February 07, 2011
Arpan Banerjee has published Assessing the Track Record of India's Film Certification Appellate Tribunal at 2 Journal of Media Law 277 (2010). Here is the abstract. This paper discusses decisions of the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal in India. The full...

Knox, Kercher Families Sue To Ban Airing Of Film Based On Trial

Posted on February 07, 2011
John Kercher, father of Meredith Kercher, the victim in a 2007 murder expressed his displeasure over the weekend over the made for tv movie due to be shown on Lifetime this month. Amanda Knox, Ms. Kercher's roommate, and two others,...

Arm & Hammer Drops Lawsuit Against Fresh Step Over Ads

Posted on February 03, 2011
From the ABA Journal's Law News Now service: Arm & Hammer has abandoned its lawsuit against Fresh Step over the Fresh Step ads that claim cats prefer Fresh Step to other brands. The Fresh Step ads have now been pulled....

Syracuse College of Law Drops Investigation Into Student Blog

Posted on February 03, 2011
Syracuse College of Law has dropped its investigation into a law student's blog, begun last fall after the administration received several complaints that the blog's content was harassing and violated the school's code of conduct. The student has deleted his...

Vagueness About the First Amendment

Posted on February 02, 2011
Larry Alexander, University of San Diego School of Law, is publishing There is No First Amendment Overbreadth (But There are Vague First Amendment Doctrines); Prior Restraints Aren?t ?Prior?; and ?As Applied? Challenges Seek Judicial Statutory Amendments in Constitutional Commentary...

Law Enforcement In Several Countries Try To Track Down Hackers Supporting Wikileaks

Posted on February 01, 2011
The FBI has executed numerous warrants, seeking out those who may have hacked into various company computers in efforts in a show of support for Wikileaks. Across the pond, law enforcement officials in France, Germany and the UK did the...

The Constitutionality of False Statements of Fact

Posted on February 01, 2011
Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School, has published 'Telling Me Lies': The Constitutionality of Regulating False Statements of Fact as Harvard Public Law Working Paper No. 11-02. Here is the abstract. Using recent decisions dealing with the constitutionality of the Stolen...

Standard of Review in Defamation and False Statements Cases

Posted on February 01, 2011
Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School, has published Independent Appellate Review of Knowledge of Falsity in Defamation and False Statements Cases, at 15 Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law 330 (2011). Here is the abstract. Although we are used to...

Unhappy Hotel Owner May Sue Website Over Unfavorable Review

Posted on January 31, 2011
Remember that story published by TripAdvisor about the dirtiest hotels in the US, and picked up by breathlessly by just about every website with a section on travel? Well, Dennis Devlin, the owner of number three on the list, the...

Courtney Love's Twitter Lawsuit

Posted on January 31, 2011
Some analysis on the Courtney Love twitter defamation lawsuit here. Meanwhile, it may never reach a courtroom. The judge has given the parties several more weeks to work on a settlement, meaning that February 8th court date may be moot.

CBS Faces Losses As Star Heads To Treatment

Posted on January 31, 2011
As "Two and a Half Men" star Charlie Sheen heads back to treatment, his network puts the popular show on hiatus and admits it faces some economic losses. The Hollywood Reporter speculates those costs could balloon as high as a...

Ninth Circuit Reverses, Remands Alameda Books

Posted on January 31, 2011
The Ninth Circuit has reversed and remanded Alameda Books v. City of Los Angeles, a long running case in which adult booksellers challenged an ordinance requiring that adult businesses in a particular section of the city be "dispersed". For procedural...

Egypt In Revolution

Posted on January 28, 2011
CNN reports that internet outages in Egypt during this week's violent clashes have been "coordinated" and "extensive" and many think the government is behind them. MSNBC.com's Wilson Rothman examines what faces the Egyptian economy if internet access isn't restored by...

"Dr. Phil" Guest Who Showed Approaches To Discipline Now Facing Child Abuse Charges

Posted on January 28, 2011
An Alaskan mother who appeared on the "Dr. Phil" show last November and showed video of her approaches to child discipline is now facing child abuse charges. Her attorneys have entered a "not guilty" plea on her behalf.

Contractual Relationships and the Passive Online Media User

Posted on January 27, 2011
Woodrow Hartzog, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Journalism & Mass Communication; Stanford University Center for Internet & Society, has published The New Price to Play: Are Passive Online Media Users Bound by Terms of Use? at 15....

London Police Reopen News of the World Phone Hacking Case

Posted on January 27, 2011
Scotland Yard is reopening its investigation of News of the World's phone hacking of prominent persons, four years after the case seemed to have been closed and NOTW's royal editor Clive Goodman received a four month sentence for intercepting some...

Man Wins $400,000 In Damages In Internet Libel Case

Posted on January 27, 2011
Gene Cooley has won a libel suit and more than $400,000 in damages against a woman who posted libelous statements on the Internet against him. Beginning in 2008, shortly after the death of Mr. Cooley's fiancee, Sybil Denise Ballew began...

Charlie Sheen Taken To Hospital

Posted on January 27, 2011
From The Hollywood Reporter: After complaining of abdominal pains, Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen was taken to Cedars-Sinai Hospital early this morning. The show is currently on hiatus. More here from MSNBC.com.

True Threats, Advocacy, and the First Amendment

Posted on January 26, 2011
Mark Strasser, Capital University Law School, has published Advocacy, True Threats, and the Constitution at 38 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 339 (2011). Here is the abstract. Brandenburg v. Ohio is thought by many to offer very robust speech protections, but...

The Narrative of Citizens United

Posted on January 26, 2011
Reza Dibadj, University of San Francisco School of Law, is publishing Citizens United as Corporate Law Narrative in the forthcoming Symposium Issue of Chapman's Journal of Law and Policy. Here is the abstract. In a 5-4 opinion, decided January 21,...

The Interception of Electronic Communications Under Spanish Law

Posted on January 26, 2011
Cristina Zoco Zabala, Universidad Publica de Navarra, has published Interception of Electronic Communications. Here is the abstract. The objective of this work is to analyse Chapter II of Royal Decree 424/2005, dated 15th April, by which a procedure is regulated...

BBC Apologizes For Remarks On Quiz Program Concerning Double A-Bomb Survivor

Posted on January 25, 2011
The BBC has apologized for the poor taste of celebrity participants on the quiz show QI, who joked after answering a question about the dropping of the two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945....

New York State Senator Introduces Amendment To Expand Shield Law To Include Bloggers

Posted on January 25, 2011
New York State Senator Thomas Duane has introduced an amendment to the state shield law that would include "those for gain or livelihood," [are] "engaged in gathering, preparing, collecting, writing, editing, filming, taping or photographing of news intended for a...

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