The record that launched 10,000 rock bands is at the heart of a new lawsuit filed Wednesday by legendary rock band the Velvet Underground.The band, which emerged from the late ’60s avant garde New York scene, released their debut album “The Velvet Underground and Nico” in 1967 (the greatest year in rock history, BTW). The [...]
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In another blow to New Orleans DA Harry Connick (Father of the singer Harry Connick Jr) the US Supreme Court once again found that his office withheld exculpatory evidence from a defendant in a capital murder trial. There is a long history of problems in Connick’s office. In 1995, Esquire photographed him, for a piece [...] Congratulations to Gwinnett County School System for winning the coveted Courtroom Strategy Bonehead Legal Move of the Year Award for 2012. I know what your thinking – Oscar its only January How can you possibly award this now? Because I am confident that no application of a governmental rule or law will stop this one [...] In New York, General Business Law ยง627-a requires that an automated external defibrillator (AED) be present in health clubs with at least 500 members, along with a trained operator to use it. And now a NY Appellate Court has ruled that this statute also means that the operator has a duty to use the machine [...] SAT test-taker and cheat Sam Eshaghoff and his lawyer appear tomorrow on 60 Minutes to discuss the criminal case and why he cheated. Normally, I get wanted to capitalize on your 15 minutes of fame, even if its 15 minutes of infamy, but this is a bone-headed move that makes you wonder how smart he [...] Monsanto is one of the largest conglomerates in the world. For years, they have been trying to corner the world’s food production by patenting genetically-altered seeds. If a farmer wants to grow Monsanto’s crops, they have to actually license the seeds and renew that license every year. But these are seeds that grow into crops [...] In a decision that will resonate throughout cyberspace, Maryland Federal Judge Roger W. Titus has dismissed an indictment against a California man who was arrested for stalking a Maryland woman through blog posts and Twitter feeds. The case US v. William Lawrence Cassidy is also an example of how Federal Courts can use the intent [...] Newsday reported today that Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano had appointed a panel of 5 persons to oversee the restoration of Nassau’s shuttered police crime lab into a facility run by civilian scientists to resume key evidence testing. The scandal facing the lab exposed it as an unreliable testing center resulting in potentially wrongful convictions. [...] In a strange case I reported on a few months ago, a Western NY man is claiming he was an original partner of Mark Zuckerberg’s in Facebook. He claimed he had a signed contract and emails to and from Zuckerberg proving his claim. FB immediately shot back and called the whole claim a fraud and [...] Yes, yesterday was the 48th anniversary of the assassination of JFK. There were various blog posts, FB status updates and other commemorations of the historic event. But very little was written about the 40th anniversary of a landmark Supreme Court decision that changed this country forever. On November 22, 1971, the Supreme Court issued Reed [...] |
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