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...regular on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for 45 years; in Nashville, Tennessee. DIED. MARVIN MITCHELSON, 76, divorce lawyer whose advocacy of the right to alimony without marriage ("palimony") earned him a famous client list; in Beverly Hills, California . In 1976, he won a landmark lawsuit against actor Lee Marvin, whose lover, Michele Triola Marvin, had abandoned her nightclub singing career to be his companion. Mitchelson also represented such celebrities as Joan Collins and Sonny Bono, but later drew criticism for shoddy work, and served more than two years in prison for tax fraud. DIED. RUSS MEYER, 82, soft...
Nadler said that Herms plans to appeal the trespass order and file a lawsuit against HUPD Chief Francis D. “Bud” Riley for defamation of character, but he would not say when that lawsuit would be filed...
...statesman of hate" by civil rights advocates, the former aerospace engineer housed a spectrum of right-wing extremists, some of whom would later be convicted of racially motivated crimes. Butler himself claimed he was against violence, however, and operated relatively unhindered until he was bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001--stemming from a 1998 incident in which his guards assaulted a Native-American woman--and had to sell his compound...
ATTN: Smoking gun! According to a recent survey, 1 in 5 U.S. companies has had employee e-mails subpoenaed in the course of a lawsuit or regulatory investigation so far this year. The cost of gathering such electronic data: $700 million--expected to grow to $1.8 billion in 2006. This promises to be a boon for the e-mail archivers--a niche industry that has emerged to help companies cope by shifting from the costly process of sorting through unorganized data stored on backup tapes to proactive email archiving with speedy search engines. In August, Veritas Software paid $225 million...
...Matrix-esque top banner bar. The Winklevoss twins have been featured in New York Magazine, modeling $700 blazers. Zuckerberg’s face has been featured on hundreds of thousands of internet browsers, modeling a cheap collared shirt. Still, if ConnectU’s recent lawsuit against thefacebook is any evidence, it seems like the Winklevosses wouldn’t mind trading places...