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16 Jul 2010 10:22

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Music: Vampire Weekend’s cover model: I’m suing you jerks!

  • The thing about this photo, which Vampire Weekend made the cover of their second album, is that it looks like it could’ve been taken at any moment in the last year. People like this still exist. But no, it was taken in 1983. And now, Kirsten Kennis, the presumably middle-aged woman in the photo, has reportedly sued the band to the tune of $2 million, claiming the photographer forged her signature on the contract and the band never verified it was hers. source
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01 Jul 2010 21:34

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Tech: The RIAA: The Viacom/YouTube decision is “bad public policy”

  • So says the group that sues suburban mothers for stealing two dozen songs. President Cary Sherman says that the ruling “will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.” To that, we say, make it easier to exchange content legally and you won’t have an issue. Fewer lawsuits (actually, wait, no lawsuits), more cool things like Lala and Rdio. source
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23 Jun 2010 19:30

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Tech: YouTube vs. Viacom: Nerds win over creative types once again

Google’s happy after a judge sided with them in the long-running $1 billion lawsuit. Viacom plans to appeal. We appeal to them to put “The Daily Show” on YouTube again. source
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05 Jun 2010 17:19

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Politics: Arizona policeman: The immigration law is making our jobs harder

  • Ask any officer … You would not believe how many incidents go unreported … even though the law has not gone into effect.
  • Tucson police officer Martin Escobar • Regarding the immigration law that he has filed a lawsuit against with another officer. Escobar, who works in an area of Tucson that’s nearly half-Hispanic, says that there are no “race-neutral criteria” to decide who’s an immigrant and who isn’t. And that’s going to affect leads on crimes. “These are the people that are calling in something going on,” he says. source
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03 Jun 2010 21:01

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Biz: Show offs. Wal-Mart anticipated costly class-action bias suit

  • 1995 Wal-Mart hired a bunch of lawyers to see if they might be vulnerable to a costly class-action discrimination suit from female workers.
  • 2001 A bunch of female workers file a class-action suit against the company, claiming bias. It then winds its way through the courts.
  • 2010 A lower court decides to let the suit go forward. Wal-Mart plans to appeal that obvious decision all the way to the Supreme Court. source
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12 May 2010 20:28

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Biz: Mark Cuban sued for sucking at running the Dallas Mavericks

  • $273
    million     amount the Mavericks
    have lost in Cuban’s nine years
    of running the team
  • 76%
    share     amount of the team Cuban owns;
    Ross Perot Jr. owns 5 percent, and
    he’s mad source
  • » Why’s he getting sued? Simply put, Perot (the former presidential candidate’s son) thinks that Cuban is putting an unsustainable amount of debt on the team, and that they’ll become insolvent over time. The famously outspoken Cuban, who bought most of the team from Perot back in 2000, has enough money in his bank account and a diverse enough portfolio of businesses to ensure that doesn’t happen, and suggests that Perot is merely looking to get out of the deal.
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12 May 2010 11:03

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Biz: Wal-Mart forgot to pay workers in California some of their wages

  • $86M
     the possible size of the total settlement, based on underpaid wages and vacation time
  • 232k
     the number of former workers that could benefit from the class-action suit
  • $370 the amount that would net each employee, on average, which isn’t that much source
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30 Apr 2010 15:27

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Biz: Goldman Sachs under investigation? Let’s send your stock tumbling!

  • 9.5% stock freefall thanks to new legal troubles source
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29 Apr 2010 11:23

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U.S.: Time for a lawsuit! Arizona immigration lawsuit on the way

  • four number of groups that will be suing over the controversial new law
  • two of those groups are related to the American Civil Liberties Union source
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27 Apr 2010 20:27

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Biz: Fabrice Tourre: Goldman Sachs’ fraud mastermind or fall guy?

Fabrice Tourre, a kid in these circles at 31, reportedly created the ABACUS system which defrauded investors in 2007. He looked scared today. source
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