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Newspaper Fires Back After Redskins General Counsel Sends Nasty Letter
A column in the Washington City Paper Friday fired back a response to Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder's lawsuit and an angry letter from the team's top lawyer David Donovan.Legal Services of New Jersey Thanks Volunteer Attorneys
Notice to the bar.N.Y. Court Rules Drugstore's Defamation Suit Has No Merit
A Manhattan judge has ordered New York pharmacy Duane Reade to pay compensatory and punitive damages for a suit she said was intended to intimidate a man who spoke out against the drugstore chain in a newspaper ad. Acting Supreme Court Justice Debra A. James ruled that the defamation suit, filed last year against a glass artist, had no merit and "no purpose other than intimidation, harassment and punishment" against a man expressing his opinion.Libel Suit Against Conde Nast, Writer Allowed to Proceed
While Southern District Judge J. Paul Oetken rejected the majority of claims filed by art authenticator Peter Paul Biro against writer David Grann and Conde Nast, which publishes 'The New Yorker,' he ruled that Biro could plausibly argue that some of the statements in the piece were libelous.Press Wins First Shield Law Challenge
In the first-ever challenge of Connecticut's 2006 media shield law, a Stamford prosecutor failed to force an Associated Press reporter to testify about his jailhouse interview with the so-called "Dinnertime Bandit" of Greenwich.In Review of High Court Term, Justice Kennedy Still the Man in the Middle
Although the U.S. Supreme Court handed down fewer 5-4 decisions in the term just ended than in the previous one, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is still the dominant key vote. So what can be gleaned from the third term of the Roberts Court besides the 4-1-4 divide on issues triggering the most heat and debate within society today? Some trends are emerging -- and the term's headline cases demonstrate, in this election year, that who sits on the Court and who appoints them matter.Lawsuit Goes Forward in Anthrax Mailing Case
Articles in Vanity Fair and Reader's Digest that pointed to a former Army bioweapons researcher as the perpetrator behind the 2001 mailings of anthrax that led to the deaths of five people are per se defamatory, a New York federal judge has ruled. Judge Colleen McMahon refused to dismiss claims against the magazines and author Donald Foster for his 2003 articles on Dr. Steven Hatfill of Virginia, a researcher in the field of hematology and emerging viral diseases.Trending Stories
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