“The Naked Cowboy versus The Blue M&M”
In a 23-page opinion, Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York ruled yesterday that confectioner Mars inc. did not violate the right of publicity of well-known Times Square entertainer...
View ArticlePre-emption debate in Chicago Tribune
I’m quoted by Amanda Erickson in today’s Chicago Tribune: But federal agencies and industry groups say lawsuits are out of control. More punitive damage verdicts of more than $100 million have been...
View ArticleClaim: Nintendo Wii dangerous and addictive
Self-described as “America’s Lifestyle Coach For Health And Wellness” and “the quintessential, cutting edge fitness advocate leader”, Michael Torchia says he intends to sue Nintendo over the fitness...
View ArticleWelcome New York Times readers
I’m quoted today in the Times (and this site is linked — way to go Times!) in John Schwartz’s piece on Sonia Sotomayor’s opinions in civil litigation, where she comes across as generally on the liberal...
View ArticleLindsay Lohan’s legal woes
Found in violation of the terms of her probation and sentenced to 90 days, the actress feels that the criminal justice system has been too strict with her and used her Twitter account to link a Cato...
View Article“New Financial Regulations Will Make Whistleblowing Lucrative”
I’m quoted in this report by Dunstan Prial of FoxBusiness.com and in this report by David Savage of the Los Angeles Times on the large-scale bounty incentives in the Dodd-Frank financial regulation...
View ArticleHappy Meal lawsuit, cont’d
My New York Daily News opinion piece stirred up a whole lot of discussion: at Megan McArdle/The Atlantic, Hans Bader/CEI, Mike Riggs/Daily Caller “TheDC Morning”, Outside the Beltway, Radley Balko,...
View ArticleOn Secular Right (& welcome NY Times readers)
Religion correspondent Mark Oppenheimer mentions this site and me in a finely drawn profile of Secular Right, the website I’m involved in (it launched in 2008) which explores the theme of a...
View ArticlePaulie unsaturated
What better way to pick up that slow DJ business than to hitch a press release to a preposterous trademark infringement claim? Hint: It involves an utterly phenomenal battle between intellectual...
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