June2016

June 30, 2016 (Mimesis Law) — Hey, you! Listen to my podcast, NITES/WKNDS! Just kidding. But not really. In the past 6 or so years, I’ve done a lot of interviews. I think I’m over 2000, all...

June 30, 2016 (IP Flow) — Former US presidential candidate and questionable human being, Mike Huckabee, settled a copyright infringement suit with 80s band Survivor for $25,000 for using their hit song “Eye Of The Tiger”...

June 30, 2016 (IP Flow) – A settlement reached in the copyright case over “Happy Birthday” was approved by US District Judge George H. King in Los Angeles this week, thereby clearing the way for the...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Last week, Fault Lines covered the unraveling Oakland Police Department’s sex scandal, forcing three chiefs to resign within a nine day period.  Now the sex worker at the heart of...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — District of Colorado Senior Judge John L. Kane was asked his thoughts about the possibility that the authority to accredit law schools will be taken away from the ABA. I...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — According to a pending lawsuit, a woman who was sexually assaulted by a La Joya police officer while in custody was offered a taco instead of medical assistance after his...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Judge Gia Morris of the Queens County Criminal Court struck down a “failure to yield” ordinance that imposed criminal penalties on drivers who hit pedestrians or bicyclists. The ordinance, Section...

June 29, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Talk about having one’s world turned upside down and backwards after having it made, on Wall Street of all places.  As per a recent decision from the U.S. Court of...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Prosecutorial misconduct extends beyond prosecutors themselves, and can be found at lower levels of the prosecution “team.” Anthony Robinson, a 20-year investigator and former chief investigator for the Dallas County...

June 30, 2016 (Fault Lines) — Ed. Note: At Slate’s Supreme Court Breakfast Table, Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner took the position that legal scholarship had no real impact on the law. I don’t doubt that law...