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...January 2006, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court dismissed a lawsuit filed by The Crimson against Harvard. The lawsuit contended that because the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) is endowed with “special state police powers”—such as the ability to make arrests and obtain search warrants—it should provide access to the same reports released by public police forces...
...filmmakers, however, are so understanding, and the MPAA believes the film incentives will ultimately end up in court. While the MPAA is not planning a lawsuit, in its letter to Gov. Perry the industry group cited a long list of appellate cases supporting their position. David Kendall, the noted First Amendment attorney with the Washington-based firm Williams and Connolly, said the Texas law is not only vague, but may run afoul of First Amendment protections. "I think if the state benefit is conditional or can be revoked, it is plainly unconstitutional since the First Amendment prevents content discrimination," Kendall...
...LAWSUITS $54 million Compensation demanded by Judge Roy Pearson in a lawsuit against a dry cleaner in Washington, D.C., who lost a pair of his pants, claiming it failed to deliver on its promise of "satisfaction guaranteed"; the suit was dismissed on June 26 $10.50 Cost of the alteration that led to Pearson's pants being lost...
...liable for the damage it causes. "It's not a defense to say, I was just a distributor," says Jonathan Bunge, a partner at the law firm Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago. Foreign Tire Sales, the company that imported the recalled tires from Hangzhou Zhongce Rubber, is named in a lawsuit over a fatal crash involving the tires...
...very nice" for Borat. The film faces another lawsuit, this one filed by the New York City businessman who says he faces public ridicule after he was filmed frantically running from Sacha Baron Cohen's character. "Have you noticed that people that file lawsuits like this act as though they have never been embarrassed in their lives?" asks blogsite HOLLYWOOD SNARK. SCORE...