Anyone who has taken 1L Torts class is not surprised that a 4-year-old can be sued in a court of law. In fact, anyone versed in the law might not be shocked and appalled should a 4-year-old be found guilty in a tort action. How could one forget the case of Garratt v. Dailey, where […]
No one likes a bully, and that includes “trademark bullies.” One definition of “bullying” is, to treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner (synonym = intimidate). So how exactly does one intimidate others with trademarks? Through aggressive litigation tactics by those with power against those with limited resources. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) […]
When a trading card company uses a professional athlete’s picture on one of its cards, it needs to first have permission from the athlete before printing the cards and selling them to the public for profit. Karim Abdul-Jabbar is ready to put up a fight against the Upper Deck Inc. after the company released cards […]
Tom Condon, who is an agent in the football division at Creative Artists Agency (CAA), has filed a lawsuit in federal court against former client, Ryan Pickett. Condon claims that Pickett owes the agent $83,600 in unpaid agent fees, and wants the court to confirm and enforce an arbitrator’s order stating such is true. The […]
Last night, Google sent out a “mandatory announcement” to all Gmail users in the United States as part of a legal settlement, which was authorized by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The note stipulated that Google has reached a settlement in a lawsuit regarding Google Buzz, a service Google […]
Peer-to-peer music sharing’s glory days are long gone. Napster used to be a favorite for people interested in swapping music with one another for free. It did not take too long for the music industry to see the writing on the wall, and Napster had to completely change the services it offered. Other peer-to-peer start-ups […]
Last Monday, Joseph Agnew, a former Rice University football player, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco based on the NCAA’s one-year scholarship rule. The rule restricts a school from giving an athletic scholarship to a student-athlete for more than one-year at a time. Agnew was affected by […]
Last Wednesday, junior Declan Sullivan was recording Notre Dame football’s practice from the top of a hydraulic lift before he fell to his death. He was doing his job, videotaping practice from an aerial view so that the football players would later be able to see what they needed to correct before game day. Then a […]
This really could go down as the greatest Emergency Motion for Continuance ever. An attorney, Darrell W. Cook, asked for a continuance of a Pretrial Conference originally scheduled for yesterday at 1:00 p.m., because he wanted to be able to attend Game 1 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Texas […]
While Miami Heat fans are still wondering whether the team made a good decision by signing Jerry Stackhouse after Mike Miller had surgery to repair a broken thumb, the team has its own concerns in a legal matter off the court. The Miami Heat filed a legal action against Clear Channel Broadcasting, claiming that Clear […]