From the New York Law Journal: Attorney Ravi Batra can proceed with a $15 million libel suit against the creators of "Law & Order" for airing an episode depicting a "bald Indian-American" lawyer who bribes a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge, a Manhattan court has ruled.The lawyer filed the defamation action in 2004 against 35 defendants, including producer Dick Wolf and NBC Universal, claiming that an episode was based on a corruption scandal involving Justice Gerald Garson,… [read post]

Consider this real-life fact-pattern that was used for a “Law & Order” episode: In 2003, New York State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Garson was charged with granting a divorce lawyer, Paul Siminovsky, preferential treatment in exchange for kickbacks. [read post]

View the article here03/05/2006Scapegoats and ShunningBy "PARIAH"Progressives in America are rightly concerned about increasing signs of fascism in this country, such as a so-called war on terrorism that allows massive invasion of privacy and wholesale imprisonment without charge; such as state manufacture of propaganda for its own people; such as the assertion that anyone who challenges government policies on these matters is a traitor; such as a "great leader" who puts himself… [read post]