By GioLaw | Published February 4, 2013 | Posted in Blawgs | Tagged Tags: #blawg, #cory lidle, #court costs, #legal blog | Leave a comment
Today, the New York Post reported that the widow of Yankee’s Pitcher Cory Lidle was ordered to pay $80,000 in court costs for losing a lawsuit against the manufacturer of the plane Lidle was in when he crashed into a Manhattan apartment building. The Post article is copied in its entirety below. You may ask: Read More
Read MoreIn AFP v. Morel, 10 Civ. 02730 (AJN) (SDNY Jan. 14, 2013), Judge Alison Nathan, USDJ, SDNY, decided summary judgment motions in an interesting case. Judge Nathan held that it may constitute copyright infringement for a news organization and image distributor to extract photographs posted by an individual to Twitter and then license them to Read More
Read MoreThere are, however, exceptions to this general rule: Any part of your lawsuit compensation attributed to lost wages and/or lost income is taxable. Compensation for punitive damages (non-compensatory damages to punish the tortfeasor) is taxable. Finally, any type of interest stemming from personal injury proceed investments is also taxable. Always check with your attorney regarding Read More
Read MoreDo you want cops to do this? https://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/nypd-testing-t-ray-device-see-through-clothes.html NYPD Testing T-Ray Device to See Through Clothes By Joe Coscarelli NYPD boss Ray Kelly was his version of giddy yesterday while describing new technology that will allow police to just see straight through people’s clothing. As detailed by The Wall Street Journal, “The so-called T-Ray machine Read More
Read Morehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/darrell-issa-aaron-swartz-_n_2481450.html
Read MoreThis 26 year old killed himself rather than face the prospect of a 35 year sentence for a minor act of college campus trespass that was used by the Massachusetts prosecutor as part of a media campaign. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/technology/aaron-swartz-a-data-crusader-and-now-a-cause.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0 Aaron Swartz was considered a tech prodigy and had engaged in several acts of civil disobedience in Read More
Read MoreBlack Sports Online and a few others have reported that Kevin Garnett taunted Carmello Anthony by telling him that his wife, Actress LaLa Vasquez, “tastes like Honey Nut Cheerios” during Monday night’s Knicks – Celtics game. Assuming KG did, in fact, make such a statement, who thinks KG should be sanctioned for his conduct? After Read More
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