Legal Research Blog

New York Times: Can a Sandwich Be Slandered? Some companies have made a sport of using advertising to bash a competing brand: Pepsi and Coke, Colgate and Crest, Miller Lite and Bud Light. It was a rivalry of this sort that compelled Quiznos, the toasted-sandwich chain, to invite the public to submit homemade commercials in [...]

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Federal Communications Commission: In the Matter of Complaints Against Various Television Licensees Concerning Their February 25, 2003 Broadcast of the Program “NYPD Blue”. Although ABC argues, without citing any authority, that the buttocks are not a sexual organ, we reject this argument, which runs counter to both case law and common sense.
ABC should have cited [...]

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The Lawyers Weekly will be warning law firms about the dangers of Facebook. Will be? Yes, the article is dated January 25, 2008, or two days from today. Nifty time travel trick aside, the article is great linkbait because Kevin O’Keefe commented on it, and I feel the need to chime in [...]

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Reuters: Marion Jones Tells Oprah She was Tired of the Lies. “Disgraced Olympian Marion Jones [was] stripped of her medals and fac[es] six months in prison.
Her crime? Lying to prosecutors about her steroid use. Should have just asserted her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Perjury is a B.S. offense. Sure, [...]

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Mishak v. Google, Inc. et al. is quite a head-scratcher. I found the complaint on the Justia Federal District Court Filings and Dockets website. Unfortunately, the complaint was a scanned and split into three parts. Breaks the flow when you have to hop around. I pieced the complaint together and OCR’d [...]

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Seth Godin has some great stories about Permission Marketing. Now, I have my own. I received a lovely piece of spam today. At the bottom of the email, the footer read:
Express Email Marketing supports permission-based email marketing. You can change your preferences or unsubscribe from this mailing list at any time.
Please. [...]

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“Unlike most Internet sites, Music Store is accessed with proprietary Apple software, rather than a Web browser.”
Talk about a meaningless distinction. Safari is proprietary Apple software. Internet Explorer is proprietary Microsoft software. Go Firefox?

“The ‘Online Music market’ is defined as the market for digital music delivered to the consumer by way of [...]

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