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29 Oct 2012, 4:00 am
Last September, broadcasters and amici supporters filed their briefs in the Second Circuit in WNET v Aereo. Within the last week or so, Aereo and its amici began to file their briefs in response. You can read Aereo’s brief here, as well as a brief from the EFF, Public Knowledge and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and a brief from law professors.
Aereo, if you recall, is an online service which, like cable or satellite TV, retransmits broadcast television signals to paying… [read post]
20 Jun 2012, 10:33 am
In the June 20, 2012 decision of Argabright v. Argabright, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed a permanent restraint against Mother exposing Child to her convicted sex-offender boyfriend [Doe] until the Child turned age eighteen.
Mother began dating her boyfriend in 2003. Four years prior boyfriend pled guilty to lewd act upon a minor. Boyfriend had performed oral sex on his daughters, then ages six and eight, and his sentence required him to register as a sex offender. Mother learned of… [read post]
18 Feb 2012, 5:11 am
No modern authoritarian government acts “lawlessly.” Instead such governments cloak their actions with the veneer of due process but they manipulate the law so that due process is meaningless. There are (at least) two ways they can accomplish this. The first is by creating a web of laws so complex and contradictory that no one can possibly obey them and then selectively apply the law only against the state’s enemies. The second way is to create jurisprudential rules that allow for… [read post]
14 Dec 2012, 11:10 am
The care and feeding of the broadcaster's public file is a hot topic once again. For many years, the public file was often overlooked, being visited most often by competing broadcasters looking for dirt on their cross-town rivals, or by college journalism students assigned a project by their professor requiring the review of local stations' files. But, with the debate that occurred earlier this year over the online public file for television stations, the file has received much… [read post]
13 Jan 2010, 3:43 pm
Each year poses a new set of regulatory deadlines, and to help you remember all of those deadlines, the Davis Wright Tremaine Broadcast Group has prepared a calendar setting out the dates that broadcasters need to remember in 2010. The calendar can be found here, and sets out FCC imposed deadlines for, among other things, Ownership Report filings (for noncommercial stations for now, until the status of the Form 323 for commercial stations is resolved), for quarterly issues programs lists, for EEO… [read post]
13 Oct 2012, 11:17 am
The rare occasions when I am required to wade into the morass of the federal Stored Wire and Electronic Communications and Transactional Records Access Act (SCA), 18 U.S.C. § 2701 and Wire and Electronic Communications Interception and Interception of Oral Communications Act. 18 U.S.C. § 2501, I find myself hopeless lost and call upon our state family law/wiretapping guru, Richard G. Whiting, for clarity.
Thus it is with a combination of admiration, pity and confusion that I note the October 10,… [read post]
17 Nov 2010, 2:35 pm
Someone sent me this on facebook. In under 3 ½ minutes this animator hits on every way a child custody client can make an attorney miserable. Warning vulgar.
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26 Apr 2011, 6:11 am
Editor’s Note: Matteo Tonello is Director of Corporate Governance for The Conference Board, Inc. This post is based on a Conference Board Director Note by Shuili Du, C.B. Bhattacharya and Sankar Sen.
Since creating stakeholder awareness is a key prerequisite for reaping the strategic benefits of any business initiative, it is imperative for board members and senior executives instituting a social responsibility program to have a deeper understanding of the key issues related to CSR… [read post]
22 May 2012, 6:50 am
On May 18, 2012 I was interviewed by Carolyn Murray of WCBD regarding the recognition of same sex relationships in South Carolina.
Part one is here: WCDB interview part one
Part two is here: WCDB interview part two [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 11:09 am
A colleague of mine, T. Ryan Phillips, emailed me an October 1, 2012 Tennessee Supreme Court opinion in the case of Hodge v. Craig. That opinion approves a cause of action for paternity fraud within that state. With the rise of paternity testing, this cause of action may become more common and may eventually come to South Carolina.
In the days before genetic testing there was a popular bit of folk wisdom, “mama’s baby daddy’s maybe.” To deal with the inability to determine paternity,… [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 2:28 pm
I sometimes think there is some hidden law titled, “The South Carolina Family Law Attorney Full Employment Act,” which requires family court judges to issue child-related restraining orders so vague that, in theory, an infinite number of attorneys could spend an infinite amount of time arguing about whether that restraint has been violated. Such is the case with the recent rise in restraints against exposing children to “age inappropriate entertainment.” Can anyone state with certainly… [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 9:44 am
In what is, for me, one of the most highly anticipated decisions on this year’s docket, the South Carolina Supreme Court decided on September 19, 2011 in the case of Theisen v. Theisen that physical separation is a required component for bringing a separate maintenance action. For almost a decade, I had assumed that to be the case but since the legislature never clarified the issue, the Supreme Court was certainly entitled to do so. Meanwhile attorneys I greatly respect, such as Professor Roy… [read post]
22 Jul 2010, 12:54 pm
Usually, we find conversations with lawyers to be very engaging. But in this video short, Ron Livingston does not:
The video was produced as part of a corporate undertaking — The Responsibility Project — devoted to “exploring what it means to do the right thing.” So, what is it trying to say exactly?
The Responsibility Project is sponsored by the insurance company, Liberty Mutual. To them, we imagine “doing the right thing” is to “not fight too hard when your insurance company… [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:13 pm
As mentioned last week, in a new series of essays, PFF scholars will be examining proposals that would have the government play a greater role in sustaining struggling media enterprises, “saving journalism,” or promoting more “public interest” content. With many traditional media operators struggling, and questions being raised about how journalism in particular will be supported in the future, Washington policymakers are currently considering what role government can and should play… [read post]
19 Oct 2012, 11:09 am
A colleague of mine, T. Ryan Phillips, emailed me an October 1, 2012 Tennessee Supreme Court opinion in the case of Hodge v. Craig. That opinion approves a cause of action for paternity fraud within that state. With the rise of paternity testing, this cause of action may become more common and may eventually come to South Carolina.
In the days before genetic testing there was a popular bit of folk wisdom, “mama’s baby daddy’s maybe.” To deal with the… [read post]
7 Dec 2010, 5:31 am
I was never a big proponent of the grandparent visitation statutes that proliferated throughout the United States in the 1980?s and 90?s. Such statutes typically allowed family courts to award autonomous visitation to grandparents over the parents’ objection, based merely upon the court’s own view of “best interests of the child.”
I had one case in which the family court awarded a grandmother supervised visitation over the father’s objection. That grandparent’s behavior had been so… [read post]
27 May 2012, 9:00 pm
18 Feb 2012, 3:53 am
A state that denies homosexuals the right to marry has no right to punish them for living together without being married.
In 1967, the United States Supreme Court decision in Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, rendered unconstitutional laws preventing marriages between persons solely on the basis of racial classifications. It then took thirty-one years for South Carolina voters to repeal the provision of our 1895 state constitution prohibiting “marriage of a white person with a Negro or mulatto… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 4:42 am
In the September 21, 2011 Court of Appeals opinion of South Carolina Department of Social Services v. Mary C., a child’s therapist opined that a three-year old’s masturbating and defying her potty training by urinating on the floor were signs of “sexualized behaviors” indicative of sexual abuse.
This leads me to ponder: who buggered my dog?
Mary C. stems from a highly contentious visitation case which required DSS intervention. From the Court of Appeals opinion, Mother appears to be one… [read post]