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Judge Orders Google To Turn Over Anonymous Blogger's Name In Defamation Case; Outed Blogger Now Miffed At Google

Posted on August 24, 2009
Findlaw's Brian Kumnick discusses the recently concluded suit over the anonymous post about model Liskula Cohen and her fight to discover who called her a "skank" (among other things) on a Google-hosted blog. After a trial judge ordered Google to...

Suspect Sought In Jasmine Fiore's Murder Found Dead

Posted on August 24, 2009
Canadian law enforcement authorities have confirmed that a man found hanged in a room at a motel in Hope, British Columbia, is Ryan Alexander Jenkins, sought in connection with the murder of Jasmine Fiore. Mr. Jenkins had been the subject...

Glyndebourne Soprano Has Accident On Stage, Understudies Step Up

Posted on August 22, 2009
Soprano Ana Maria Martinez fell into the orchestra pit at Glyndebourne during a performance of Dvorak's opera Rusalka, and was taken to the hospital to be checked out "as a precaution". Apparently she got entangled in the scenery and couldn't...

VH1 Pulls Reality Show Involving Murder Suspect, Considers Cancelling Production Of Second Show Which Also Includes Him As Contestant

Posted on August 22, 2009
Following up on my post about the hunt for Ryan Jenkins, suspected in the murder of his ex-wife, model Jasmine Fiore, I'm posting a link here to a New York Times story by Brian Stelter about VH1's response. The network...

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Apple and Google Voice

Posted on August 22, 2009
Two articles from the New York Times on Apple's argument with Google over Google Voice, the Google app for the IPhone. Now, the FCC is involved. Apple has responded to the agency that it has not formally rejected Google's app,...

Slang

Posted on August 22, 2009
From today's New York Times, an article on how quickly today's slang changes.

Touring Exhibit of MJ's Memorabilia Will Go Forward

Posted on August 22, 2009
L. A. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff has okayed the agreement between AEG Live and the current representatives of Michael Jackson's estate to exhibit some of his memorabilia in three cities, after initially granting Katherine Jackson's request for a delay...

Richard Hatch, Let Out For Home Confinement, Rejailed For Giving Media Interviews

Posted on August 21, 2009
The American Civil Liberties Union says that Richard Hatch, recently allowed out of prison to serve the rest of his sentence for tax evasion under home confinement, should not have been returned to jail for granting two media interviews simply...

News Corp Will Stop Publishing London Paper

Posted on August 21, 2009
The freebie London Paper will shut down, a victim of the economy. Read more here.

Reality Show Contestant Sought In Death of Ex-Wife

Posted on August 21, 2009
Police are seeking reality show contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins in the death of his ex-wife Jasmine Fiore. They believe he may have fled to Canada. Ms. Fiore's mutilated body was found in a suitcase last weekend. Mr. Jenkins appeared on...

Trolling For Patents

Posted on August 21, 2009
Christopher Anthony Cotropia, University of Richmond School of Law, has published "The Individual Inventor Motif in the Age of the Patent Troll." Here is the abstract. The individual inventor motif has been part of American patent law since its inception...

Stella McCartney's New Perfume Goes To Market After Rival Perfume Maker Denied Injunction

Posted on August 20, 2009
Stella McCartney will launch her new perfume, STELLANUDE, on schedule, after a British judge refused to grant an injunction to Nude Brands, Ltd., which claims that it holds the rights to use the word "Nude" (all caps). The judge agreed...

Making It Work

Posted on August 20, 2009
Project Runway is back, this season on Lifetime. Meanwhile, Trinny and Susannah make their appearance on U.S. tv.

Regulating Sports Bloggers

Posted on August 20, 2009
From the New York Times, an article on the rise of sports bloggers and the attempts of sports leagues to regulate them.

New Morgan Creek "Mob" Film Project May Be Derailed

Posted on August 20, 2009
From the Hollywood Reporter, news that a movie in development at Morgan Creek might not find its way to the big screen after one of the real-life individuals on whom the project is purportedly based has filed a lawsuit to...

Reality Show Will Check On Contestants' Emotional Health Using Psychologists

Posted on August 19, 2009
Producers of the British reality tv show X Factor have announced they will use psychologists to make certain that contestants can withstand the pressure of performing, after several reality show contestants, including Britain's Got Talent's Susan Boyle, had highly publicized...

ASA Finds Skype's Ad Campaign For VOIP Misleading

Posted on August 19, 2009
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled that Skype's advertising campaign for its Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) which emphasizes the high quality of its video actually overstates the quality of the picture. The company had argued that it is really...

British Film Board Denies Certificate To Japanese Horror Film

Posted on August 19, 2009
The British Board of Film Classification is refusing to allow the sale of a violent Japanese film which it says is "an unrelenting and escalating scenario of humiliation, brutality and sadism." Read more here and here.

More On the Debate Over the Google Settlement

Posted on August 19, 2009
Scott Gant, a lawyer at Boies Schiller & Flexner, and author of We?re All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age, is filing a suit objecting to the settlement that would...

Hip Hop and Criminal Justice

Posted on August 18, 2009
Andre Douglas Pond Cummings, West Virginia University College of Law, has published "Thug Life: Hip Hop?s Curious Relationship with Criminal Justice," in volume 50 of the Santa Clara Law Review (2009). Here is the abstract. I argue that hip hop...

Robert Novak Dies

Posted on August 18, 2009
Columnist Robert Novak, who worked for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1966, and as an on-air debater on the CNN show Crossfire from 1980 to 2005, has died of a brain tumor. He was 78. Mr. Novak was involved in the...

Hugo Chavez Trying To Quash Private Media

Posted on August 18, 2009
CNN reports that the U.S. government says Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is aggressively moving against television and radio journalists who criticize his administration. Read more here.

I'm a Lawyer! No, a Screenwriter! No, a Lawyer!

Posted on August 17, 2009
From the ever-entertaining and insightful Julie Hilden today, tips for lawyers from screenwriting school. I'm suggesting this column to my Entertainment Law class, which meets for the first time this semester today.

LatCrit Conference Scheduled For October 1-4

Posted on August 17, 2009
From Anthony Varona, American University School of Law In case you have not yet received it, here is the full preliminary conference schedule for LatCrit XIV and the LatCrit/SALT New Faculty Development Workshop in Washington, October 1 through 4, hosted...

The Blogger's Scoop

Posted on August 17, 2009
The New York Times has this piece on the blogger who first suggested that the motive behind the deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings was actually a contract hit.

Egad! Four Letter Words In British Newspapers

Posted on August 17, 2009
Siobhain Butterworth discusses reader reaction to the Guardian's spelling out, literally, of a particular four letter word in the paper. As she says, "A line has been crossed. What conclusions should we draw from readers' responses to it?"

Women in the Media

Posted on August 17, 2009
The Guardian discusses the image and treatment of women in the media, particularly in high profile positions, here.

Second Circuit Rules Against New York Times In Request To Unseal Wiretap Application In "Emperor's Club" Case

Posted on August 16, 2009
The Second Circuit has ruled that the New York Times has not shown "good cause" in its application to "gain access to sealed wiretap applications relating to the investigation of the "Emperor's Club," the prostitution operation patronized by former Governor...

Chima Simone Leaves "Big Brother"; CBS Says She Was Removed For "Violating the Rules"

Posted on August 16, 2009
More controversy for Big Brother--this time for the U.S. version of the popular reality show. CBS announced that producers for the reality series tossed journalist Chima Simone from the show. According to a statement, "Chima has been evicted by the...

German Appellate Court Reverses Lower Court Decision on English Language Nazi Slogan

Posted on August 15, 2009
The Federal Court of Justice (Germany) has ruled that the German law against printing Nazi slogans applies only to printing them in German. It overturned a lower court ruling against a defendant who was convicted of importing t-shirts with the...

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