In a stunning blow to the Coca-Cola Company (owners of Vitaminwater), a Federal Judge ruled that a class action lawsuit could proceed against the company due to the misleading nature of its name and its health claims. Coke had tried to dismiss the complaint saying that the claims were just puffery and that non one [...]
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Representing a hated or disgraced figure in a high-profile case is no easy task. Not only are you faced with the regular burdens of trying a difficult case -stress, increased workload, etc – but you have the ever hungry media crew and the disapproving looks and comments of those around you to contend with. (“How [...] Lynne Stewart was a well-known combative defense lawyer when she was convicted of aiding terrorism by allowing a supposed interpreter exchange messages with her client, a convicted terrorist cleric. The judge’s original sentence of 28-months was considered a strong sentence. Certainly more than enough for the 60plus year old attorney to have gotten a stern [...] Lindsay Lohan’s search for a new lawyer led to a Chicago Lawyer named Stuart Goldberg. How she found Mr. Goldberg, I don’t know, as his website seems to indicate he specializes in State and Federal street narcotics cases. But in any event, he was flown to LA to meet with Lohan for six hours to [...] In a decision that could have far-reaching implications for the licensors of digital images, Federal Judge Loretta Preska, the Chief Judge for the Southern District of New York, declared as improper and unenforceable the standard method for registering images by digital image warehouses like Corbis and Masterfile (the biggest of them Getty Images, does not [...] Last week The Root, an online magazine focused on African-American issues reported on a topic raised by Sociology Professor Frances Goldscheder who teaches at Brown University. She put out the idea whether men should be able to seek a “financial abortion” if their unmarried girlfriend has a baby that the man specifically told her he [...] My latest intellectual property case is a lawsuit brought against the Tribeca Film Festival by the founders of the Manhattan Film Festival. I think the TFF appears to have lost its way and forgotten its “innovative” roots. After all, this year’s TFF opened with “Shrek 3.” This year it also launched its first “Virtual Film [...] I had previously commented about how poorly Lindsay Lohan was dressed for her court and how her lawyer needs to give her advice on that subject as well as her general court demeanor May 28,2010: http://www.courtroomstrategy.com/2010/05/lindsay-lohans-lawyer-needs-to-do-damage-control-asap-she-just-twitted-for-chanel-to-decorate-her-dwi-bracelet/ So now the web has pictures of her nails with a message scribbled on the middle finger “F*ck You” [...] Happy Fourth of July! I was lying in my pool enjoying this fine hot summer day, reading the Times , when I came upon an article about how Thurgood Marshall’s name is being thrown about during the Kagan confirmation hearings. I was in total disbelief that there could be serious debate about whether Marshall was [...] |
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