Much mischief has been done to the themes treated here, for this case concerned itself with the utterances and writings of ordinary people, including the press, towards public paid officials, critical of them in the conduct of their official duties. The public officials sought to protect themselves from criticism using the then laws of Alabama…

This looks to be a doozer of a case. Here is the complaint, it’s about monopolistic practices alleged by AMD against Intel.
Useful for the purposes of seeing a Complaint in Federal Court very expertly put together by professionals.
AMD vs. Intel

The Debacle of Family Court
A family law attorney’s article in today’s Los Angeles Daily Journal gives us a current status report on this court’s procedures, and California law or lack thereof, under which decisions affecting human relationships are made.
We are told the following, as of now, in this Year of our Lord 2005:…

This was the Grand-daddy of my cases, this started everything, and the filing downtown at Superior Court by James Eliaser, Esq. was intercepted by The National Enquirer, and the London Times, People Magazine, The Daily Mail, and so on and on, as could have been expected.
My readers are asked to put themselves in my…

John Cones, a lawyer, has written a well-researched book on the subject of how business is transacted in Hollywood, and what happened when things didn’t go as planned, although a cynic may wonder that things did in fact go as planned (the cost of doing business theory.) Buchwald, Garner, Welch, Newman, Hoffman, Brando, Beatty, Goldberg,…

First interesting case of the new year, I’d say, about Defamation.
The Ninth, not unanimously, found for the defendants “as a matter of law”.
ESPN is a subsidiary of Walt Disney, Inc., and Knievel sued in State court in Montana, where he lives, and the case was later transferred to Federal court there.
Seems that…

This is for me the most important of cases, because the appeal review goes into the very issues addressed by the SLAPP rules, in clear language and multiple authorities. And it was presented to Time-Warner, Defendants, my opponents.
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I’ve never met Martha Stewart, but I studied this case, and do I have an opinion? You bet I do.
The poor woman is suffering the shame and indignity of dispiriting confinement in a federal prison. And believe me, that is not a funny human experience, regardless of Leno/Letterman jokes. Will she rise above it,…