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Court TV doesn't air fake judge shows like "Judge Judy," "Judge Maria Lopez" or "Judge Snappy Comeback," even if focus groups reveal that 97% of America thinks we do. So allow us some measure of schadenfreude when we found out that writer/performer/self-described "infiltrator" Harmon Leon scammed "Judge Joe Brown" with a crazy tale of transsexual strippers and a bachelor party gone awry. Watch the video below (Harmon plays plaintiff "Hank Leonard") and then read the hilarious ...

... and NBC Studios filed a federal court lawsuit Wednesday to stop comedy teacher Judy Brown from publishing his punch lines in her books, which are largely compilations ... Allen. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, said that Brown and her publishers have turned out nearly two dozen such joke books. "Brown is no 'author,' " the lawsuit chides. "She is simply packaging the original copyrighted work of [the plaintiffs], drawing and profiting from a well of creativity that is not her ...

... case (second item here) filed in 2006 on behalf of Jay Leno, NBC Studios and several other comedians - who claimed their jokes were replicated without permission in author Judy Brown's books - has settled. "We got everything and more than we could have ... representing the plaintiffs. "We stopped further distribution of the books, and got a substantial monetary supplement." Brown also pledged to never again copy any of the plaintiffs' jokes without permission, Boutrous said. ...

Jay Leno and NBC have sued an author and her publishers for joke books that compile material from his - and others' - standup routines. Here's a story from the AP. The "Tonight Show" host and other comics, including Rita Rudner, are seeking damages and a permanent injunction against Judy Brown's 19 books - joke compilations [...]

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... that threshold. All of the commissioners expressed dissatisfaction with the collection rate, but none expressed any reservations about the program itself -- though they did note that several legislators are not supportive of the program. Drivers License Division Chief Judy Brown noted that the program was modeled after New Jersey's ("why we would want to emulate ANYTHING about New Jersey is anathema to me," my ...

... silly Judge Ed Koch, former NYC mayor, morphed into the woman who revitalized the genre, Judge Judy Sheindlin, who became increasingly venal with every new show. Judge ... has yet to be fulfilled. The newest is Fulton County Georgia State Court Judge Penny Brown Reynolds, according to the New York Lawyer. Naturally, your first question is, "what's ... called me to a higher place," Fulton County State Court Judge Penny Brown Reynolds on Monday notified Gov. Sonny Perdue that she would resign, effective ...

... . Thanks to a couple of other books (McGee's On Food and Cooking and Alton Brown's I'm Just Here For the Food), and a few fellow bloggers, I have somewhat of an explanation ... , Porterhouse, T-Bone and NY Strip. If you are Howard McGee, a member of Alton Brown's research team or Mr. Burke my high school bio teacher…..and think I'm ... than I my little brain could muster, please let me know. With respect, Ms.Judy Rogers, I'd like to suggest that your explanation of why salting works in your book may be ...

... explain why CBS Television Distribution, the syndicator of both "Judge Judy" and "Judge Joe Brown," is contemplating yet another courtroom show with Larry Seidlin, the judge who ... and they are better known than their brethren in Washington. The ratings for "Judge Judy" have slipped, but she is the chief justice of her field and the star ... New York mayor, presiding; then Judge Jerry Sheindlin, husband of Judge Judy, took over. At the moment the gavel is held by the no-nonsense Judge Marilyn Milian. ...

... bondage with the Dred Scott decision, followed shortly by the 1859 trial of abolitionist John Brown in Virginia who sought to free the slaves. Even after the Civil War, our country ... should have been no more than a blip in the history books, but Brown turned out to be larger than life. Partly due to his own flawed ... side, and in 1987, the McMartin pre-school faculty found themselves in the sights of Judy Johnson. She was a woman later recognized as a paranoid schizophrenic, but who initially appeared ...