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Wikileaks Lawsuit Abandoned

Posted on March 07, 2008
Julius Baer, the bank that had been pursuing the lawsuit against Wikileaks.org, has abandoned the litigation, at least for now. The U.S. district court judge who had originally granted an injunction against Wikileaks, which had posted documents in the case,...

Doninger v. Niehoff, Or Footloose II

Posted on March 06, 2008
The Second Circuit has heard oral arguments in the case of a teen who criticized, on her blog, in somewhat enthusiastic language, the administrators of the high school she attends. After erroneously reporting on the activities of the administrators at...

ITV Profits Down, Attributed To Call-In Scandals

Posted on March 06, 2008
The call-in scandals that hit a number of British networks, including the BBC and ITV, have taken their toll in terms of profits. ITV reports its approximately two billion pounds in pre-tax profits represent a nearly 35 percent dip compared...

McNamee Asks Judge To Dismiss Defamation Case

Posted on March 06, 2008
Brian McNamee has asked a U. S. District Court to dismiss Roger Clemens's defamation suit against him, claiming that his (Mr. McNamee's statements) to former Senator George Mitchell were covered by a grant of immunity. Read more here.

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Julie Hilden On the Wikileaks Case

Posted on March 06, 2008
FindLaw's Julie Hilden writes about the Wikileaks case in part one of a two part column.

British Cameras In the Courts

Posted on March 06, 2008
Mark Lawson discusses why, even though British courtrooms remain closed to the tv cameras, defendants do end up on the nightly news via what he calls "interrogation-room telly", and why this phenomenon might ultimately amount to an end-run around the...

More On "Love and Consequences"

Posted on March 06, 2008
Here's more on the repercussions from the discovery that Margaret B. Jones's memoir Love and Consequences is a hoax. In this article from yesterday's New York Times, Motoko Rich interviews those who worked with the author, now revealed to be...

ASA Upholds RyanAir Complaint About Competitor's Ad

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Advertising Standards Authority has ruled in favor of a complaint filed by RyanAir over competitor easyJet's recent ad touting low summer fares. RyanAir had alleged that the number of restrictions that easyJet put on the fares made it nearly...

House of Lords Nixes "Jerry Springer--The Opera" Appeal

Posted on March 05, 2008
The Law Lords have refused to hear an appeal in the "Jerry Springer--the Opera" case. Christian Voice had lost its case in the trial court and in the High Court; the House of Lords was its final hope. The lobbying...

News of the World Admits Story About Rosanna Arquette Untrue

Posted on March 04, 2008
News of the World has agreed that its story that actress Rosanna Arquette has had problems with drugs is false, and has apologized and will pay damages. Ms. Arquette will donate the amount to Los Angeles's Children's Hospital.

Media May Interview Ready and Willing Jurors As To Likely Verdict: Texas Appellate Court

Posted on March 04, 2008
The Texas First District Court of Appeal has ruled that the media has the right to interview ready and willing former jurors in a trial as to their likely verdicts, except when the press's right to do so is outweighed...

Virginia Supreme Court Upholds Conviction Under Computer Crimes Act

Posted on March 04, 2008
By a split vote, the Virginia Supreme Court has upheld a conviction under a state statute that prohibits the sending of "spam" emails. Jeremy Jaynes appealed his conviction under the Virginia Computer Crimes Act for sending more than 12000 emails...

And More....

Posted on March 04, 2008
Now Riverhead Books, a division of Penguin USA, is recalling all copies of Love and Consequences, by "Margaret B. Jones," who, as it turns out, is not part Native American and a former gang member, but a privileged young Caucasian...

Author of Holocaust Bestseller Admits Content Is Fiction

Posted on March 04, 2008
Misha Defonseca, the author of Misha: A Memoire of the Holocaust Years, has admitted that the bestseller is fiction, and that she never lived with wolves in the forest to escape the Nazis, as she claimed to recall in the...

Where Are The Non-White Faces In British Print Media, Asks One Commentator

Posted on March 03, 2008
Joseph Harker critiques the lack of diversity among senior British newspaper staffers here.

Express Newspapers Journalists Vote On Possible Strike

Posted on March 03, 2008
The National Union of Journalists is preparing for labor action at Express Newspapers in London, Glasgow and Lancashire. Talks aimed at increasing reporters' pay by three percent have failed. The vote on the strike will run from March 6 through...

The Ministry and the Media

Posted on March 03, 2008
Here's more on how the Ministry of Defence masterminded the coup that kept the British media quiet on Prince Harry's deployment. Now, says the BBC, "it had "agonised" about whether to take part and other newspaper executives admitted being privately....

Conrad Black To Report To Prison Today

Posted on March 03, 2008
Conrad Black was to report to the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, a low security facility in Florida, to begin serving his nearly seven year sentence, after a judge refused to defer it in light of his appeal to the Seventh...

Update in the Wikileaks Case

Posted on March 02, 2008
The judge in the "Wikileaks" case has dissolved a preliminary injunction he issued last month, and is allowing Wikileaks.org to return to the 'net after he was bombarded legally by a number of folks, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the....

Peer To Peer Legal Assistance

Posted on February 29, 2008
Through its Internet and Intellectual Property Justice Project, students at the University of San Francisco School of Law are helping their peers, and others, accused of illegally downloading music from the net fight these charges. The students, advised by Professor...

The Harry-ed Press

Posted on February 29, 2008
So, as it turns out, while the Drudge Report leaked the news that Prince Harry is serving in Afghanistan, the British press has known since December. In exchange for interviews with the Prince, it promised to keep mum, and has...

Charges Downgraded In Case of Former Philadelphia Anchor

Posted on February 28, 2008
A judge has downgraded the charges in the case of former Philadephia news anchor Alycia Lane, who was accused of assaulting a New York police officer last December. Here's a prior post. Prosecutors said "the felony charge was dropped because...

Libel Law In the UK and the US

Posted on February 28, 2008
In an article in the Guardian, Geoffrey Wheatcroft discusses the differences between libel law in the UK and the US in the wake of the introduction of a bill in New York's legislature designed to protect against the effects of...

CRTC Will Try To Sort Out Airplay Disputes

Posted on February 28, 2008
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission will sit down and explain what a "hit" is, and possibly who "emerging artists" are, in order to settle disputes over the airplay that Canadian law requires for domestic artists (35 percent)...

Jury Convicts Man in Killing of Ex-Girlfriend at CNN Complex

Posted on February 28, 2008
A jury convicted Arthur Mann yesterday of the murder of his ex-girlfriend, Clara Riddles, last year at the CNN Headquarters complex in Atlanta. Mr. Mann had abducted Ms. Riddles from her place of work inside the complex; when she attempted...

No, No, Nutella

Posted on February 27, 2008
ASA, the UK agency which regulates ads, told Ferrero, the company that markets the tasty treat Nutella, that it may be yummy but it isn't all that nutritious. ASA judged a television ad touting the product as suitable for a...

City Commissioner Memos Are Public Records, According To Florida Appellate Court

Posted on February 27, 2008
In Miami Herald Media v. Sarnoff, the Florida District Court of Appeal (3d District), ruled that a city commissioner's written memo to "the file", which included details of "alleged factual information about possible criminal activity" was a public record within...

Leading Iraqi Journalist Killed

Posted on February 27, 2008
The AP reports that Shihab al-Timimi, head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, has died in hospital after he was shot by gunmen. Read more here.

Australian Court Rules That Paper Did Not Defame Photographer

Posted on February 27, 2008
A New South Wales (Australia) court has ruled that a newspaper did not defame a photographer when it wrote that he "wanted to `wreak havoc' on [Nicole Kidman's] private life." The Sun-Herald successfully appealed a jury's verdict that it had...

What Happens In Vegas...

Posted on February 26, 2008
The Hollywood Reporter notes the number, and originality, of death and serious injury scenes in the television series "Las Vegas" here. Among them: falling off a hotel roof and missing a motorcycle jump. Note to self, as THR says: make...

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