May 25 2012
So I have openly railed against copyright and trademark trolls using extortionate letters to extract unreasonable settlement amounts from folks accused of infringing on their intellectual property. In fact, I have a whole website devoted to the topic: www.extortionletterinfo.com. But Wednesday’s Newsday had a cover story about Long Island Railroad disability pension fraud that revealed …
May 17 2012
In today’s op-ed section of the NY Times, Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Gustin Reichbach writes a poignant letter of love in support of medical marijuana. He recounts his own personal and ongoing battle against pancreatic cancer. He has fought the disease for more than three and half years despite being only given four months to …
May 09 2012
Shoe designer Karen Kell (KK) issued a “cease and desist” letter through her lawyers today to national retailer Urban Outfitters (UO) accusing them of stealing her latest shoe design. The letter demands that UO immediately pull the shoes off the shelf or face litigation. A copy of the letter accompanies this press release. KK first …
May 06 2012
Common sense is finally coming to copyright troll lawsuits. As I have reported on before here on this site, the adult film industry has been filing lawsuits all around the country against folks whose IP address was registered to them when that IP address was used to download a pornographic movie. Where the plaintiff did …
May 02 2012
NY Court of Appeals Judge Jonathan Lippman and his blue-ribbon panel appointed by him have decreed yesterday that new lawyers seeking admission to the Bar in the State of NY will have to do 50 hours of free legal services for the needy. Its’ a wrong and bad idea. There I said it. What is …