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CNN Scores Partial Victory in Online Closed Captions Dispute
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Netflix capitulated, and agreed to put captions on all of its online videos by 2014. CNN? They fought, and tried to have a similar lawsuit, brought by the...
Gay Marriage at the 9th Cir.: Oral Argument Preview for ID, NV, HI
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
And then there were three. While the Ninth Circuit originally had challenges to four states' gay marriage bans lined up for oral argument, Oregon's case came...
9th Cir: Judge Kozinski Skeptical of Officer-Involved Shooting
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
In case of what Chief Judge Alex Kozinski called "we said, he's dead," the Ninth Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part a district court's finding that...
Officers Need Warrant to Extract Drugs From Man's Rectum
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
Sheriff's deputies at the Long Beach jailhouse understandably don't want drugs circulating around the facility. So when Mark Fowlkes was brought in on drug and...
LAX Solicitation Ban Stands; Battle With Hare Krishnas Over?
By William Peacock, Esq. | Last updated on
This was a ruling nearly 20 years in the making, but is the battle actually over? Back in 1997, a Hare Krishna group challenged a new panhandling ordinance...
No Personal Jurisdiction on Corp. by Serving Executive: 9th Cir.
By Mark Wilson, Esq. | Last updated on
Remember Burnham v. Superior Court? That's the one where a defendant was personally served in California while traveling there on business. The U.S. Supreme...
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