Book publisher Judith Regan has filed a lawsuit against her former employer, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., seeking $100 million in damages. The New York Times reports that, among other salacious allegations, Regan claims in her complaint that a News Corp. executive ordered her to lie about her affair with Bernard Kerik, the former, and recently…
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Spotlight on the Ninth Circuit’s Alex Kozinski
Spotlight on the Ninth Circuit’s Alex Kozinski: “ A ‘California eccentrics’ theme has emerged from our morning items. We just posted on Seymour Lazar, an 80-year-old lawyer who pleaded guilty to crimes related to the Milberg Weiss case. On the opposite end of the Golden State-bar respectability spectrum, but no less colorful: Judge Alex Kozinski,…
3rd Circuit Upholds FCC on Internet Deregulation
The Legal Intelligencer reported today that the federal Third Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an FCC decision relieving telephone companies of the obligation to grant competing high speed internet providers access to the companies wires at “non-discriminatory” rates. This is, of course, a major victory for proponents of internet service deregulation. If only Verizon…
Vick Co-Defendant Flips
One of Michael Vick’s co-defendants in the dog fighting fiasco pleaded guilty today and is cooperating with the federales, the Associated Press reports. While it is critical not to pre-judge and assume Vick’s guilt – if the Duke case taught us anything it was about the dangers in rushing to jkudgment – this is nonetheless…
Administrative Note
You may have noticed that the blog is undergoing some changes. I have been in the process of melding a couple of litigation related blogs together, so as to do all of my trial related blogging in one place. Over the next week or so I will be trying to clean up the mess that…
Brocade Backdating Prosecution on Life Support
The federal judge presiding over the stock options backdating related criminal prosecution of former Brocade Communications CEO Gregory Reyes has ordered prosecutors to file a response to the defense team’s motion for acquittal by 8 am tomorrow morning. At a hearing on Friday, the Judge grilled prosecutors relentlessly about what evidence had been presented to…
Whither Delay?
Does anyone have any info about where the case against Tom Delay stands? I seem to recall seeing recently that an appellare court upheld the dismissal of one count in the indictment, but truthfully I wasn’t paying very close attention as I’ve had a lot of other things going on. Anyone?
Study Shows that Children Begin To Deceive At 6 Months of Age
The UK Telegraph ran this interesting story reporting the results of studies conducted by psychologists at the University of Portsmouth. The study shows that children begin to engage in deceitful behavior as early as 6 months of age. Presumably Patrick Fitzgerald will be issuing indictments shortly.
Russian Government Sues Bank of New York
Reuters reports that the Russian Federation has sued the Bank of New York in the Russian Court of Arbitration for money laundering, and seeks $22.5 billion in damages. I knoe that BNY’s recent history is somewhat sketchy, but there’s just soemthing so absurd about the Russians complaining about money laundering. And I’m sure BNY will…