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Really Judge Murphy. Really !?!
Judge Ernest Murphy Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Ernest Murphy won a $2 million libel verdict against the Boston Herald after the Herald incorrectly reported that he had said that a 14 year old...
View ArticleWebsite Hook-Ups: if a Hook-Up Site Requires its Members to Represent That...
The answer to the question posed in the title is: No. No, no, no, no, no. Only a lawyer with really bad judgment would file a suit alleging breach of contract, fraud, and related claims. And, after...
View ArticleThe Face of Evil May Be Behind The Judge’s Bench
Judge: Miss West, are you trying to show contempt for this court?’ Mae West: On the contrary, your Honor, I was doin’ my best to conceal it.’ (During a trial in which she was accused of indecency on...
View ArticleWho Watches the Watchmen?
“How does the court have confidence that the public integrity section has public integrity?” Judge Emmett Sullivan, during the trial of former Senator Ted Stevens Prosecutor: I already got no proof...
View ArticleDOJ to Senator Ted Stevens: “We Deeply Regret That This Has Occurred”
It’s not often that the U.S. Department of Justice prosecutes a sitting U.S. Senator, obtains a conviction at trial, and then concludes it has no choice but to voluntarily dismiss the charges and let...
View ArticleBoring Lawsuit We Missed the First Time Around ….
How many residential driveways are there in the USA? I have no idea, but I would estimate tens of millions. So it figures that someone whose driveway was videotaped by Google and put on the Internet...
View ArticleThe Road Goes on Forever, But the Lawsuits Never End: ConnectU, Facebook,...
The ConnectU/Facebook legal saga is truly astounding. Imagine a mature Oak tree. Now give the it properties of Kudzu vine (the “vine that ate the South”). Each branch of this tree is another lawsuit...
View ArticleSixth Circuit Finds Trip Advisor’s “Dirtiest Hotel” Ranking Is Not Defamatory
I guess the owners of the Grand Resort Hotel in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee have never heard of the Streisland Effect. Their attempt to sue Trip Advisor for defamation based on the hotel’s inclusion in...
View ArticleWhat Happens When You Get A Federal District Court Judge Really, Really Mad...
I haven’t written a post that falls in the “what were they thinking” category for quite a while, but you don’t see this very often. In Angiodynamics v. Biolitec AG Massachusetts federal district court...
View ArticleThings are Settling Back Down in Yoknapatawpha County
“It was as though she realised for the first time that you – everyone – must, or anyway may have to, pay for your past; the past is something like a promissory note with a trick clause in it which, as...
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