Kobe Bryant In Legal Dispute With His Mother
Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers has sued a New Jersey auction house, Goldin Auctions, in Federal court to stop the auction of his personal belongings. How did the auction house get hold of Kobe’s personal belongings? His Mother! Kobe claims that he never gave his items to his mother. He and his wife [...]
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50 Shades of Copyright Infringement
I am one of the few females I know that didn’t see the appeal in the Fifty Shades of Grey series; potentially because I haven’t had time to engage in recreational reading since the summer of 2011 (which was before law school). Anyway…although I chose not to engage in the racy reading material, thousands of [...]
On February 20th of this year, businessman and animal lover Bob Schenck walked into his pet shop in Fall River, Massachusetts to find that someone had broken into the shop the night before and smashed several tropical fish tanks with a metal pipe rendering them destroyed. Massive tanks filled with tropical fish and exotic coral [...]
Violent Video Games and the First Amendment
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In the wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre, Vice President Joe Biden met with representatives of the motion picture and video game industry as part of the White House offensive on gun violence and the NRA denounced a video game. Now other bills have cropped up around the country. Including one which would put a 1% on any [...]
NFL Commissioner Goodell Backs Player’s Support of Gay Marriage
Earlier last week Brendan Ayanbadejo, a linebacker for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens, publicly reinforced his support for same-sex marriage, according to the New York Times. The 36-year old NFL veteran has been praised by the lesbian and gay community, including Ellen DeGeneres who exchanged messages with him on Twitter. Ayanbadejo, who has a 1-year-old son and a 6-year-old [...]
