JT Money, alter ego of Jeffrey J. Thompkins
The rapper JT Money lost his sound recording copyrights even though the purchaser rejected the royalty contracts with Mr. Money after taking bankruptcy and sold the copyrights to another company under a plan of reorganization. So the Eleventh Circuit held today. Thompkins v. Lil’ Joe Records, Inc.,
Prosecutors played snippets of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby’s grand jury testimony today for the petit juror considering perjury and obstruction of justice charges against him (story here). Libby testified twice to the grand jury in March 2004.
Libby’s lawyers fought introduction of the tape excerpts into evidence as well as their release to the
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The jury box in U.S. District Judge
Simeon T. Lake’s courtroom.
Charles D. "Cully" Stimson quit his job as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs.
The resignation follows the Bar Association of San Francisco’s request Thursday that the State Bar of California investigate whether Mr. Stimson violated ethical rules by criticizing "major law firms" for representing Guantanamo Bay detainees pro bono. Mr. Stimson belongs
Julia Roberts in Conspiracy Theory (1997).
Do plaintiffs’ lawyers care whether
conspiracy theories make sense?
Yesterday, Blawgletter asked what keeps class action lawyers from filing suit in the wake of some criminal price-fixing investigations but not others. Does the answer depend mainly — as Antitrust Review suggests — on the size of the potential recovery?
Everybody who believes in psychokinesis, raise my arm.
Antitrust Division has kept
subpoena servers busy.
Blawgletter understands that the French phrase "a go-go" originally meant, in the 1400s, "abundantly". The term may fairly apply to price-fixers — if Blawgletter judges aright from the subpoenas and search warrants flying lately out of the U.S. Justice Department’s Antitrust Division.
Price-fixing — a per se violation
May a police officer arrest a citizen for cussing at a public meeting? What if the citizen uses the Lord’s name while cussing?
He** no, per the Sixth Circuit today (opinion here).
