Labor & Employment Law

Wal-Mart Video Archive Helpful in Products Suit
Consumerist has a post (based on a WSJ piece) about the second life of thirty years of videos made for Wal-Mart. The company that did the work evidently retained the rights (oops on Wal-Mart) and Wal-Mart declined to pay as...

WalMart video scandal
and who at Wal Mart failed to get the IP rights to the video UP FRONT??? Wake UP WalMart.... God is in the details....(or see the related story on WalMart selling bible action figures...

Wal-Mart Execs Behaving Badly: Who Owns the Videos
Paul Caron brought an interesting piece in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal to my attention: Candid Camera: Trove of Videos Vexes Wal-Mart. The story: about 30 years ago, Wal-Mart hired a small video production firm to record meetings of Wal-Mart’s executives, as well as speeches, shareholder meetings, sales presentations, and the like...

Guest Post: Wal-Mart Watch
I?m a blogger over at Wal-Mart Watch. I?m writing to pass along a video we?ve put together from footage of a 1995 Wal-Mart managers meeting. As you?ll see in the video, someone decided it would be a great idea to incorporate a drag queen competition into the meeting?s official proceedings: http://walmartwatch...

Town Acted Appropriately in Land Use Actions That Resulted in Denial of Wal-Marts Application for Supercenter
The petitioner-owners of certain real property that was the subject of an application to the Town by Wal-Mart, did not have standing to challenge the Board?s denial of Wal-Mart?s application since only Wal-Mart was an aggrieved party...

Big Box, Small Heart: Wal-Mart Sued By U..S. Over Termination of Veteran
With the various legal controversies involving Wal-Mart, one would think that its legal department would seek to avoid another lawsuit. Yet, Wal-Mart’s hard-nosed approach to legal disputes appears to be again getting the store into hot water — this time with the U...

Media/Telecom
consumer rights involving print, radio, television, video, DVD, video games, and mobile telephones.

Nintendo Control
Video game giant to pay $21 million settlement in patent lawsuit.

Video Technology
RealNetworks to pay $533,500 settlement in licensing lawsuit.

Video Taping Arrest
Harris County pays wrongfully arrested brothers $1.7 million civil rights settlement.

DVD Players Recalled by Wal-Mart Due to Fire Hazard
DVD Players Recalled by Wal-Mart Due to Fire Hazard

Wal-Mart
Must Pay $6.5 Million to Employees