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by leon on March 12, 2010
The thing that Lindsay Lohan likes to call her career is going nowhere which might explain her bizarre lawsuit against E-Trade. Watch the Associated Press report on YouTube and judge for yourself.
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by leon on March 12, 2010
The Lehman Brothers collapse could end up in court for years. But it will not answer one key question: who was regulating banks? Why did US regulators pretend things weren't going off the rails?...
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by leon on March 11, 2010
EMI, the record label in trouble, just seems to go from bad to worse.Now we have news that Pink Floyd is suing them, claiming their old label has no right to sell their songs on iTunes. The case, w...
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by leon on March 10, 2010
Last week, I revealed that Goldman Sachs was worried that its bad image had become one of its big business risks.Now we have reports that one of the big union pension funds is suing Goldman Sachs t...
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by leon on March 2, 2010
The climate change debate has become so polarized and extreme now that the US Chamber of Commerce and the state of Texas have launched litigation against the Environmental Protection Agency's f...
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by leon on February 16, 2010
Hugh Hefner has never been shy about his libidinous lifestyle. The founder of Playboy famously said: "Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now."...
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by leon on January 6, 2010
How much does climate change affect human rights? The answer to that question could shed light on potential future class action claims.A study Climate Change and Human Rights by John H Knox at Wake...
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by leon on December 27, 2009
Does Facebook cause divorce?According to The Telegraph, lawyers are saying Facebook is named in one out every five divorce petitions. They say Facebook is allowing people to have inappropriate chat...
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by leon on December 25, 2009
Tiger Woods' sex life has turned into a bonanza for lawyers.As Bloomberg's Ann Woolner says, Woods has brought in lawyers in the US and overseas to represent his interests as the list of pa...
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by leon on October 30, 2009
An extraordinary case where two men who claim PepsiCo stole their idea to sell bottled water and sued the snack and drink maker and won a $1.26 billion judgment last month after the company didn't...
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by leon on September 7, 2009
At the end of last year, a 61 year old New York woman Phyllis Molchatsky sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for negligence after she lost $2 million investing with Bernard Madoff. Now in th...
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by leon on August 11, 2009
So the fallout from the meltdown continues with reports that Norwegian municipalities and a bankrupt securities broker, Terra Securities, are suing Citigroup for $200 million after losing all their ...
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by leon on July 27, 2009
An alarming Oxfam Australia report shows very clearly that Pacific islands like Tuvalu and Kiribati will probably need one strategy to stop climate change: complete evacuation."Rising sea levels...
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by leon on July 16, 2009
Ratings agencies have been prime targets for litigation as their conflicts of interest contributed to the global market meltdown. But they have always defended their actions, hiding under the First A...
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by leon on July 7, 2009
The Sarah Palin sideshow continues to amaze the world.Last week, I did a blog entry looking at bloggers speculating whether her resignation was about averting an investigation into whether she embezz...
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by leon on July 1, 2009
Just days following his death, michael Jackson's albums sold at 100,000 apiece, according to news reports. And according to preliminary sales numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, as reported here, the...
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by leon on June 29, 2009
Michael Jackson had a weird life so it's not surprising that the story about the battle over his estate is getting stranger by the day.Now we are told that no will for Jackson has emerged and tha...
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by leon on June 28, 2009
By the narrowest of margins, Congress has passed the "cap and trade" energy bill which will bring in tough new greenhouse gas emissions standards for US companies. Given that it passed by t...
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by leon on June 27, 2009
There's bound to be massive litigation over Michael Jackson's estate.For the last years of his life, the pop icon was bogged down in controversy. But more to the point, he was trapped in a qu...
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by leon on June 8, 2009
One of the things that has disturbed me the most about the subprime crisis is the impact it's had on the African American and Hispanic communities, and the way banks had targeted these people for...
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by leon on June 5, 2009
Mon Dieu, it could only happen in France.French contestants in a French reality TV show, L'Ile de la Tentation (Temptation Island), have won a court case to get the same entitlements as employees...
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by leon on May 2, 2009
The Chrysler will probably be messy. First, it has to get through the court battles as Chrysler lenders object to the move into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection under the government brokered deal. Th...
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by leon on April 17, 2009
Fascinating to watch Woody Allen's court battle with clothing manufacturing behemoth American Apparel. As reported here, the comedian has sued the company after it posted billboards in New York a...
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by leon on April 13, 2009
Oh dear, such a sensitive lot at Goldman Sachs. They are a somewhat thin-skinned about Florida blogger Mike Morgan's site www.goldmansachs666.com.With headlines like Did Lloyd Blankfein of Goldma...
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by leon on January 16, 2009
The micro-blogging Twitter might be gaining 5,000 to 10,000 new accounts a day but lawyers are warning that it could be dangerous.Tresa Baldas in the National Law Journal says lawyers are warning tha...
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by leon on January 8, 2009
The financial meltdown is driving litigation.New data released in the Securities Class Action Filings: 2008 Year End Assessment, from Cornerstone Research and the Stanford University Law School Secur...
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by leon on December 25, 2008
It had to happen. Bernard Madoff's $50 billion Ponzi scheme is turning into a lawyers' picnic with the lawsuits rolling in.First, we have reports that a New York woman, Phyllis Molchatsky, is...
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by leon on December 20, 2008
Already the signs aren't looking good, and accountants should start to worry.With the credit crisis, the number of securities class actions has nearly doubled this year, according to NERA Econom...
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by leon on December 16, 2008
In a 5 to 4 decision, the US Supreme Court has opened the door to a flood of lawsuits against tobacco companies with a ruling that smokers can sue over the way they promote light and low tar brands. ...
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by leon on September 9, 2008
Earlier this year, I did a blog entry looking at Nicholas Cage's battle with the Internal Revenue Service. All over his treatment of meals , gifts and that Gulfstream 1159A turbojet. Quite unders...
