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23 Jul, 2008 6:42 pm
... hip-hop. We've seen "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," the 2005 biopic of Curtis Jackson (a/k/a 50 Cent),
but this item of trivia still eluded us. ... , alleging that the restaurant drafted a fake letter (attached at the end of the complaint) purporting to ask Jackson to change his name to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or "99 Cent" in order to ... Menu." Taco Bell released the letter to the national press in June before
sending it to Jackson, the complaint alleges. "Simply put, Taco Bell knew that it would likely have ...
31 Aug, 2006 7:47 am
... - alleges the In Da Club star punched DeJesus in the face and injured Nesbitt's knee. The alleged incident took place when 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, jumped into the crowd in search of a fan who sprayed him with water. Jackson was then ... by security guards and two police officers and he finished his show. In May 2005, Jackson
entered a plea agreement in a criminal trial stemming from the incident and was sentenced to attend an anger management program ...
7 Feb 12:01 am
... emotional article on the subject of hit-and-run accidents written by Long Island blogger, Curtis Jackson. He talks about how hit-and-run accidents occur and why people ... where hit-and-run accidents are unfortunately all too common. In his blog,
Jackson writes about his own experience causing an accident in the parking lot of a restaurant where he worked ... no one was injured, but the
accident damaged another person's car. To this day, Jackson says, he feels bad that he didn't own up to that accident ...
31 Oct, 2006 7:22 am
In a Miami Court on October 27, 2006 Rapper 50 Cent won his copyright case. Curtis Jackson "50 Cent"
had the suit brought against him by the group "2 Live Crew". In particular Luther Campbell owned the song "It's your birthday" in which "2 Live Crew" performed. Well the lawsuit against
Jackson claimed [...]
20 Nov, 2008 4:20 pm
... by Taco Bell Corp. asking 50 Cent to change his name for one day to 79 Cent, 89 Cent or 99 Cent to help publicize its value menu. In return, the company offered to donate $10,000 to
the charity of his choice. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has sued for trademark
infringement. Jackson's attorney, Peter Raymond, says he wonders why Taco Bell would use his client's name in an ad campaign.
31 May, 2007 10:09 am
... public comments would have one to believe. In 2004 he purchased a 10% interest in Glaceau, the company that makes "vitaminwater" and that was just bought by Coca-Cola for over 4
billion dollars. For the math challenged, that means Mr. Curtis Jackson's take is $400 million.
Hip-hop deity RZA attended a "Young Hollywood" reception for Hilary Clinton yesterday. Call me naive, but I would expect the conscious hiphop types to be supporting Obama. ...
26 Jun, 2007 6:25 am
Don't let his name fool you. 50 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson, don't come cheap. In 2003, Milan
Music, Inc., a small recording company, began negotiations with Michael Lighty of Emmel Communications Booking, Inc. -- a concert booking agency representing the hip-hop artist 50 Cent
-- for Milan to promote 50 Cent concerts. On March 18, 2003, the parties entered into a written agreement for 50 Cent to perform on May 11, 2003, at the ...
17 Oct, 2007 6:27 pm
Jonathan Lee Riches© (known on Dreadnaught as the JLR) has filed his most recent complaint entitled Jonathan Lee Riches© v. Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc, Pepsi Cola Bottling Group Inc.,
Briar's USA, B&E Juices Energy Brands, Glaceau Vitimin Water, 50 Cent A/K/A Curtis Jackson,
Canada Dry Bottling Co. This complaint approaches the surreal, as Dreadnaught is named in [...]
25 Jul, 2008 4:48 pm
Rapper 50 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson, has sued Taco Bell and its advertising agency, accusing
them of using his name and reputation without permission for its "Why Pay More" promotion, which offers items for 79, 89, or 99 cent(s). According to the lawsuit, filed in Manhattan
this week, Taco Bell released a letter to the media in which it said it would give $10,000 to Cent's favorite charity if he changed his name for one day to "79 Cent," "89 Cent" or ...
23 Oct, 2008 3:52 pm
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) _ Rapper 50 Cent has reached a settlement with his ex-girlfriend over visitation of their 11-year-old son. The rapper, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, will get one weekend per month with his son Marquise, as well as one month in the summer and half of
each his winter and spring breaks. Both sides say they are satisfied with the deal, which was reached Wednesday in Suffolk County Family ...
31 Mar 7:20 pm
... , the director of the rapper's Web empire, who typed in those words after reading them in an interview. "He doesn't actually use Twitter," Mr. Romero said of 50 Cent, whose real
name is Curtis Jackson III, "but the energy of it is all him." . . . In many cases, celebrities and
their handlers have turned to outside writers - ghost Twitterers, if you will - who keep fans updated on the latest twists and turns, often in the star' ...
2 Jun 10:41 pm
... 250,000, the maximum authorized by MICRA, which was signed into law by then Gov. Jerry Brown in 1975. In the appeal, Van Buren's attorneys argue that Hansen's decision to slash the
award violated his right to a jury trial. Attorney Curtis Cole, representing the defense, said the appellate court didn't have the authority to
overrule the Legislature's decision to pass MICRA. "The Legislature functioned as it should-a check and balance on the courts," Cole said. The panel included Presiding Justice ...
21 Sep 6:00 am
From Tech Dirt 14/09/09: Famed rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) was apparently on CNBC recently
talking about his "business acumen." I have to admit that having three different people all trying to interview him at once is rather annoying -- as they almost never let him complete a
thought. However, when they ask him about piracy, and whether or not it makes him angry (around 2 minutes), he responds that: he sees it as a part of the marketing ...
1 Sep 10:49 pm
... apparent drug overdose, but it`s not just celebrities like Michael Jackson and Anna Nicole Smith. Twenty thousand of us die every year ...
sloppy police work" for starters. Jackson`s mansion was not declared a crime scene. What? Straight out to my fantastic panel: Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels ... prosecution presents because garbage in, garbage out. The L.A. coroner ruled Michael Jackson died of acute Propofol intoxication with a boost from the cocktail of sedatives that were in his system ...
19 Apr, 2007 5:01 pm
... -both received C- on the second paper for the class, both received F on the final paper. Curtis gave Dowd an F for the course, only to have
her grade changed to a D ... national media, and including the local NAACP and the ever-present Jesse Jackson," a mob atmosphere that
culminated in the Group of 88's statement. Now, "after all ... former student-athletes - did not receive public apologies from the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the Rev. Al Sharpton, who appointed themselves prosecutor, judge and jury. And ...
10 Oct, 2008 1:42 pm
... Steel Seizure case, by Patricia L. Bellia in the volume Presidential Power Stories, edited by Christopher Schroeder and Curtis Bradley. It
reminded me of something that has been bothering me since the 2004 controversy over the torture memo. ... a reliable barometer of elite opinion. Sometime in the intervening twenty
years, a consensus had formed around the greatness of Jackson's concurrence. It would be interesting to hear from those who learned about
Youngstown in law schools in the 1960s and 1970s ...
9 May, 2008 10:09 am
... noted: We note in passing that the significance of American States Ins. Co. v. Capital Assocs. of Jackson County, Inc., 392 F.3d 939 (7th
Cir.2004), was undermined significantly by ... 974, 981 (10th Cir. (Kan.) 1995) (claim for interference with bank lines of credit); Curtis-Universal, Inc. v. Sheboygan Emerg. Med. Servs., Inc., 43 F.3d 1119 ... on injury and damages which is inappropriate in analyzing offense-based
policies. See Curtis-Universal, Inc. v. Sheboygan Emerg. Med. Servs., Inc., 43 F.3d ...
9 Jun, 2008 7:56 pm
... Bob Marley, Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit, Keep on Pushin' by Curtis Mayfield, Respect by Aretha Franklin…. It feels
totally impossible to even list my favorite ... order): Miles Davis, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Mahalia Jackson, Ella
Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Etta James, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, BB ... , Temptations, Seal, Earth Wind & Fire, Quincy Jones, Bill Withers, The Jacksons, Supremes,
Temptations, Same Cooke, Will Smith, Chuck Berry, Mary J. Blige, ...
31 Oct 11:51 am
... Blessed Nine include John Marshall Harlan, Thurgood Marshall, William Brennan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Harry Blackmun, Benjamin Curtis,
Robert Jackson, John Marshall, and is anchored (of course) by Louis D. Brandeis. The selection had some clear standouts (Brandeis, J. Marshall,
Holmes, Jackson), but I acknowledge that some are quirky picks; Curtis, a Dred Scott dissenter, is
there in order to keep an eye on the diabolical Taney. The composition of the ...
30 Oct, 2007 3:57 am
... Steve Mohr told The Associated Press after the Tigers got home Sunday night from Jackson, Miss. "We couldn't do that against air if we
tried."" ... , Jonathan Wiener: "Now here's the rest of the story: That announcer, Jonny Wiener, is from Jackson. He's a a sophomore English
major at Trinity, a private liberal arts school in ... do not believe it. ... That was one of the most miraculous plays in all of college football!" Jake Curtis, San Francisco Chronicle, 15-lateral play gave other guys the run-around ...
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