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... not raised by the defendants. Why is that? Was it inadvertence? I doubt it. Was it a "strategic decision?" Perhaps, but if so, it was a bad one in hindsight. Or was it simply a reluctance to raise a defense that lots of music publishers and record labels fear -- one ... case was Universal-MCA Music Publishing v. Bad Boy Entertainment, Inc., 2003 WL 21497318 (N.Y. Sup 2003). Plaintiffs were the named record company and three individual songwriters. Defendants were Mr. Diddy and the company of which ...

... Ontario Advocates, 1950-2000, wrote a column in the Toronto Star with the title "Bad boys, bad boys, what they gonna bill?" In the column, Batten writes about two of his ... other was jailed and disbarred. Batten then goes on to review Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada's Legal Profession . . . Philip Slayton' ... justice). Slayton traces the lawyers' ignominious careers through news reports, court records and, in most cases, interviews with the fallen lawyers and their associates. Some ...

... , Cali'" (citing THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Going Back to Cali, on LIFE AFTER DEATH (Bad Boy Records 1997)). As previously noted on these pages, here, in connection with prior summaries of Chancery Court decisions, ... Holland explained in Seinfeld, permitting a single shareholder to hound a corporation with exclusively personal requests for books and records is a waste of corporate resources that engenders no benefit for the shareholders in general. The proper purpose requirement protects against such ...

... good guy getting a bad rap." Harris County Sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth O. Thomas said investigators hadn't yet confirmed whether the boy was at the party. " ... and wife to report the sexual assault to school administrators. Valdes said the man spotted the boy in the school lobby, called out to him and lunged at him from behind, stabbing the ... of sexual assault and could be identified through the father's name. Court records show that the 44-year-old man had received deferred adjudication for discharging a ...

... it's done, and the person doesn't want it done to them, that's bad." Another woman, who brought her son in at 7:30 a.m. yesterday, said ... assault," he said, noting the offence can run the gamut of a grope to a rape. The boys are scheduled to appear in court Nov. 8. Ludski emphasized that Smithfield is "a particularly strong ... and plays drums with students in an African drumming group at the school. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences donated $10,000 to the music program last year. ...

... one could offer perhaps ? The Daily Record reports : Watch more cowboy films, judge tells airgun yobs Jun 5 2008 By Kurt Bayer TWO drunken idiots who shot a boy of 14 in the head ... lamp-posts, chimneys and a phone box from Anderson's flat instead. The boy was heading for the call box when he was shot. He wasn't badly hurt. But Sheriff Davidson reminded Anderson and Brankine that a two-year-old boy had been killed in Glasgow by a man firing an airgun from a window. Mark Bonini, 27, got life for ...

... darn ugly, be they personal -- e.g., Britney Spears -- or professional. Here's an interesting story about Pillsbury Winthrop, from the Recorder: At least eight lawyers who left Pillsbury last year are being asked to return a portion or all of their 2006 earnings to the ... at stake -- relatively modest, by Biglaw standards -- it may not be worth (1) the litigation costs and (2) the attendant bad publicity and airing of dirty laundry. We don't know the identity of the partners in question. If you ...

... , Congressman Charlie Rangel's new book, And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress, by Charles B. Rangel and Leon ... an Army veteran and high-school dropout became a law school graduate in record time reflects a breathtaking energy and intellect. The book becomes much less ... about some issues - but also very much and unapologetically a part of the machine. This boy from Harlem made it to the heart of the establishment; he may not have forgotten the people ...

... a number of interesting oral arguments this week -- and we're way behind in our coverage of them. We're working on catching up. On that note, it's too bad that audio recordings of this week's SCOTUS arguments aren't available. As noted by the WSJ Law Blog, the ... -day printed transcripts in Watters v. Wachovia Bank and the greenhouse gas case -- but no audio broadcasts or same-day recordings. This was pursuant to the Court's policy of selectively releasing recordings based on ...

... was in the original Wham version, which is my favorite 80s single. (Chez Althouse, it got played a lot on a Fisher-Price record player back then.) Danny Noriega sang some damned thing that I didn't like and couldn't even recognize as a ... deliver a mini-sermon about the homeless, for whom he cares. David Hernandez - I've already forgotten what he did. Has the bad press wrecked my opinion of him? Chikezie? What was that thing he sang? ADDED: Jacob at Television Without Pity gets very heavy-handed ...