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21 Nov 2011, 1:50 pm by Geoffrey Rapp
, 41 UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LAW REVIEW 847 (2011)James T. [read post]
17 Nov 2011, 5:17 am by Lawrence Douglas
by Lawrence Douglas [Note from ed.: This is the final commentary on Kevin Heller's book,The Nuremberg Military Tribunals and the Origins of International Criminal Law. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 3:47 pm by Matthew A. Cordell
  After receiving 13 comment letters from concerned parties, Director James Freis, Jr. reports his agency has nearly finished preparing the final regulations.FinCEN's explanation for expanding the requirements to non-depository mortgage lenders is as follows:"There has been a regulatory gap between the [Bank Secrecy Act's] coverage of depository institutions and residential mortgage lenders and originators in that the latter are currently not… [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 5:10 am
However, social media also provides snake oil salesmen and others whose ethics are questionable the ability to defraud in ways not imagined until a few years ago.After a recent speaking engagement, a lawyer approached me and said, "I think I have been duped the way Oprah was by James Frey. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 8:18 am by Patrick G. Lee
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Beast that the litigation surrounding James Frey’s 2003 memoir A Million Little Pieces helped start the trend in literary lawsuits against high-profile books. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 10:44 pm by Walter Olson
Alex Beam at the Boston Globe and Ian Crouch at the New Yorker write about the rise of lawsuits over unsatisfactory book contents, as with class actions filed over Greg Mortenson’s challenged memoirs and, before that, those of James Frey. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 1:18 pm by By Erik Lundegaard
Anne Bremner, with Stafford Frey Cooper, has opposed Lobsenz--whom she calls a "brainiac"--in several cases. [read post]
26 May 2011, 10:16 pm by Walter Olson
It might eventuate in another deeply flawed book-reader class action, predicts Andrew Trask (earlier on James Frey “Million Little Pieces” suits). [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 6:01 pm by Kevin Jon Heller
" Similar suits, Schoen said, have been filed in New York against James Frey, the much reviled author of the notentirely- accurate memoir A Million Little Pieces. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 9:56 am by C.E. Petit
The ghosts of James Frey and the Beardstown Ladies are now ganging up, along with some dubiously motivated lawyers, on a Nobel Peace Prize winner: Former President Jimmy Carter. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 1:09 pm by Buce
Which inevitably raises the question: does disclosure of Glassco's "fib" (Menand's word) put him in a class with James (A Million Little Pieces) Frey, whose "fib" about his alleged druggy past put him crosswise with his publisher and, perhaps worse, earned an anathema from Oprah. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 11:18 am by C.E. Petit
James Frey doesn't know when to quit; he's added the million-and-second little lie (and several others) when defending his indefensible, unlawful exploitation of desperate wannabe authors. [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 7:21 pm by Frank Pasquale
Now James Frey is assembling writers, Andy Warhol factory-style, to try find the next Twilight: This is the essence of the terms being offered by Frey’s company Full Fathom Five: In exchange for delivering a finished book within a set number of months, the writer would receive $250 (some contracts allowed for another $250 upon completion), along with a percentage of all revenue generated by the project, including television, film, and merchandise rights—30… [read post]
13 Nov 2010, 2:16 pm by C.E. Petit
Just a short note today on James Frey's apparent inability to learn, especially regarding ethics... and how that affects authors, and particularly authors who have stars in their eyes regarding "new publishing paradigms. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 6:22 am
James Freis Jr., director of the FinCEN, explained that the proposal would “greatly assist law enforcement in detecting and ferreting out transnational organized crime, multinational drug cartels, terrorist financing and international tax evasion. [read post]
24 Aug 2010, 12:36 pm by Law Office of Marcia G. Shein, P.C.
FinCEN Director James Freis, Jr. said, "These numbers tell us that we must remain vigilant and continue taking action to focus resources and hold accountable perpetrators of mortgage fraud" Allegations in SARs do not necessarily mean there have been cases of actual fraud, just cases that may merit FinCEN investigation. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 12:17 pm by Amanda Frost
  Syracuse Law Review published a diverse set of essays on the subject by experts on judicial ethics, including Professors Steven Lubet, Ronald Rotunda, James Sample, and Elizabeth Wydra, as well as by Supreme Court litigators James Bopp and Andrew Frey. [read post]
18 May 2010, 12:58 pm
Here is the abstract.This paper examines the class action against James Frey, alleging fraud because of his falsehoods in A Million Little Pieces. [read post]