Media & Entertainment Law

B.O.L.O. Georgia Escapee www.privateofficer.com
B.O.L.O.–Escapee Georgia www.privateofficer.com SAVANNAH, Ga. May 9 2008 The FBI has issued an alert for an armed robbery suspect who escaped from a Georgia jail and is deemed armed and dangerous...

Summary Judgment Gets a (Bad) Rap
Here's an unusual tool for teaching summary judgment to civil procedure students. In a case against Eminem for defamation, Michigan state court judge Deborah Servitto composed a rap about the state-law summary judgment rule...

Summary Judgment Sustained On Argument Trial Court Did Not Consider
Glen Howard had an argument with his roommate, Bethany Firmand. After Bethany brought two order of protection proceedings against Glen, he sued Bethany for malicious prosecution. A summary judgment was entered in Bethany?s favor because she ?had probable cause as a matter of law to initiate the underlying civil proceedings against Howard...

Cognex aggressive with VCode on defamation matter
Of the Cognex v. VCode [Acacia] case, the 271 blog noted:While the district court dismissed the deceptive trade practices claim, the court denied Acacia's motion for summary judgment on the issue of defamation.

Mo. Appellate Court Finds Summary Judgment Affirming Blight Determination and Approval of TIF is Improper Where Genuine Disputes Concerning Facts Exist
In 1999, the city adopted a finding of blight, a redevelopment plan, and tax increment financing (TIF) for 1,640 acres of farmland. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the city...

Converse Video Cases
One of the questions I consider in my video project is how summary judgment courts might respond to videos that appear--on that visceral, emotional level at which video initially works and at which a summary-judgment court (because not a fact-finder) might look at it--to favor the plaintiff's version of events...

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Career Choices
Descriptions of law enforcement occupations

Paxil Lawsuit
Paxil Claims, Lawsuits, and Injuries

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Is Barack Obama a Natural Born Citizen?
Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz (Supreme Court): Does Obama meet the constitutional requirements to be President

Ojani Noa
$545,000 settlement JLo defamation lawsuit.

National Association of Realtors
Settlement reached in broker listing antitrust lawsuit, pending court approval.

Missouri Attorney General's Office
$26,000 settlement reached in disability discrimination lawsuit, pending court approval.

GNG Marketing Violations
Georgia Natural Gas to pay customers $2.5 million in settlement.

Tanning Salon Defamation
WDIO-TV pays undisclosed settlement after reporting false information about a business owner.

False Abuse Accusations
Boothbay Harbor Central School District pays shop teacher $320,000 defamation settlement.