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... and likeness lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Los Angeles. The complaint is filed against Ryan Corey Robinson, who is purportedly Ray Charles' son, and Mary Ann Den Bok - an attorney - who is Mr. Robinson's mother. The complaint ... Ray Charles Legacy Corporation, LLC held all rights to the name, likeness, and the right of publicity of the late Ray Charles in an effort to obtain a commercial advantage based on those representations." The case is titled The Ray Charles Foundation, Inc. v. ...

... trial of Charles Robinson, 31, one of his former clients. Bates was accused of negotiating a contract in which Robinson would pay a victim $690 in exchange for not pursuing civil or criminal "remedies." Buying off the victim ... Sun: In an interview yesterday, Bates denied any wrongdoing. "That contract had nothing to do with Charles Robinson," he said. He asserted it was to prevent a civil action. "I told the victim he would still have to come to court and he would have to tell the truth," Bates ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that Charles Robinson, Professor of English at the University of Delaware, has prepared an edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, stripped of Percy Shelley's improvements. We can now see what Mary Shelley actually wrote, and compare it to what we've been reading all these years. The two Shelleys' collaboration, says Robinson, took him years to take apart. Such is the result of the marriage of two minds.

... buried in old e-mail messages. Government policy simply has not kept up with the evolving technology. "At the moment," according to Charles Davis, of the National Freedom of Information Coalition, "everyone is looking up and saying, 'Maybe we ought to be keeping ... to be kept "in perpetuity." Critics say this system is nothing but a giant loophole. "If it's the governor," says Charles Davis, "I would imagine all sorts of things would become transitory. That's just a black hole." Davis argues that ...

... have maintained the life insurance policy on his life, called for under the parties' New Jersey judgment of divorce. Therefore, the ex-wife's motion for a $300,000 judgment against the defendant (the Estate of the late husband) for failure to provide the insurance was properly granted, for benefit of the parties' unemancipated daughter, even though the Estate had a pending coverage suit against the insurer. Weiss, etc. v. Estate of Robinson, Deceased, New Jersey App. Div., January 11, 2007

The FBA Criminal Law Section will host its 3rd Annual CLE Conference and National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana on May 11-12, 2006. The keynote speaker is Lt. Commander Charles Swift of the Judge Advocate General Corps., U.S. Navy, who will discuss his recent Supreme Court argument regarding the constitutionality of military tribunals. Registration may be accomplished electronically http://www.fedbar.org/eventreg.html or by completing a registration form. Download ...

/**/ By Charles H. Kennedy The law governing electronic communications with consumers is increasingly complex, volatile, and fraught with risk. In this bulletin, we highlight recent events affecting electronic marketing and offer a background article that explores the question: How did telemarketing law get to be such a mess? Recent Developments Company-Specific Do-Not-Call Requests: Time to Scrub Your List? According to the telemarketing regulations of both the Federal Communications Commission ...

By Peter Lattman We suspect most of you already read it cover-to-cover over the weekend, but just in case, here's the 390-page report of CA's special-litigation committee, which has accused Charles Wang, founder of Computer Associates, of directing and participating in fraudulent accounting during the 1980s and 1990s. The committee was formed to determine whether CA should try to recover money from Wang and other top executives and how it should deal with a shareholder derivative lawsuit filed ...

... venue in which corporate representatives can informally and confidentially discuss and learn from their industry peers in a non-commercial environment regarding recommended best practices and strategies for both proactive planning and immediate litigation needs," said Charles Morgan, general counsel for ONSITE3 and chairman of the Corporate E-Discovery Forum. "The rapid growth of membership over the past year stems from the strong value experienced by our members and the interest created by word ...

... as it did the previous one. It recently made a similar attempt in which it tried to annex 10.2 square miles of county territory and 2,500 of its residents. That attempt was opposed by county officials, black community leaders in Tupelo and residents living in the proposed annexation area. The case lingered two years and cost taxpayers more than $600,000 in city and county legal fees before retired Chancellor Charles Thomas dismissed it in October, citing concerns about the city's evidence.