For the first time in a NY state court case, an Appellate Division court has adopted the standard set forth in 2003 in Zubulake v. UBS Warburg LLC, which set forth guidelines when a party can be punished for the destruction of emails. The NY case, Voom HD Holdings v. EchoStar Satellite LLC, involved a [...]
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Give 16 year old Jessica Ahlquist an “A” for “chutzpa” for being the successful lead plaintiff in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU against a Cranston Rhode Island school district that forced the district to cover up an eight foot high prayer in the school auditorium. The prayer had been there for 49 years and [...] Today the Supreme Court in United States v. Jones decided that the District of Columbia’s Police Department’s attachment of GPS device to a suspected drug dealer’s car without a proper warrant violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable search and seizures. In overturning the conviction of Antoine Jones, who had received a life sentence [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Imitation is the fondest form of flattery,right? So famed shoe designer Derek Lam should have been pleased that the Ivanka released a shoe that – well let’s just say it flatters Derek Lam a great deal. (picture of the two shoes is below). Lam has not sued yet, just fired off a cease and desist [...] Last month, Project Runway winner Christian Soriano was sued by Designer’s Management Agency (DMA) for unpaid commission. According to the complaint, DMA negotiated Soriano’s highly touted deal with Payless to design shoes for its company. Payless has already put out several lines of the Soriano-designed shoes which Payless hoped would elevate its brand. Now [...] 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 [...] 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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