It used to be that an isolated “bad word” might simply get your mouth washed out with soap. But after U2 lead singer Bono referred to an award as “fucking brilliant” in 2003, ripples from the case made it all the way to the Supreme Court this ... [Read more...]
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Florida Decision Rejects False Light Claims, but Media Gains Are Uncertain
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life Florida Decision Rejects False Light Claims, but Media Gains Are Uncertain Can a true story place a person in a false light? Until last week, the state of Florida had never clearly decided whether to recognize a ... [Read more...]
Florida Decision Rejects False Light Claims, but Media Gains Are Uncertain
Can a true story place a person in a false light? Until last week, the state of Florida had never clearly decided whether to recognize a cause of action called “false light invasion of privacy.” For potential defendants like newspapers, false light ... [Read more...]
Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute and GetLegal / FuenteLegal Launch Spanish-language Project
Euless, Texas (October 24, 2008) — The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell University Law School, in partnership with GetLegal, has launched a new section of its popular website featuring Spanish-language overviews of selected topics on U.S. ... [Read more...]
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Feds Tax Reality Show Winnings but Otherwise Do Not Regulate Survivor and Other Competitive Shows
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life Feds Tax Reality Show Winnings but Otherwise Do Not Regulate Survivor and Other Competitive Shows In the nearly eight years since Richard Hatch became the first winner of Survivor, he has done a variety of things. ... [Read more...]
Feds Tax Reality Show Winnings but Otherwise Do Not Regulate Survivor and Other Competitive Shows
Lea en español In the nearly eight years since Richard Hatch became the first winner of Survivor, he has done a variety of things. He appeared on Late Night with David Letterman and The Howard Stern Show; he was on Hollywood Squares and ... [Read more...]
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Drafting Mistake in Marijuana Law Creates Problems for Georgia Court
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life Drafting Mistake in Marijuana Law Creates Problems for Georgia Court Judges don't get up in the morning to fix legislative mistakes. They'll take their best shot at what the word "reasonable" means in a particular ... [Read more...]
Drafting Mistake in Marijuana Law Creates Problems for Georgia Court
Judges don’t get up in the morning to fix legislative mistakes. They’ll take their best shot at what the word “reasonable” means in a particular context, but for the most part, you can’t ask them to pretend, for example, that the word “more” is the ... [Read more...]
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life: Appeals Court Runs Out of Patience for One Man’s Free Litigation
COLUMN: The Law in Real Life Appeals Court Runs Out of Patience for One Man's Free Litigation Once again, Tyrone Hurt has been rebuffed. Hurt, who seems to file lawsuits as either a hobby or a compulsion, has appealed lower-court dismissals of ... [Read more...]
Appeals Court Runs Out of Patience for One Man’s Free Litigation
Once again, Tyrone Hurt has been rebuffed. Hurt, who seems to file lawsuits as either a hobby or a compulsion, has appealed lower-court dismissals of more than 70 cases in the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals since 2006. He sues ... [Read more...]