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April 8th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

April 8 roundup

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Coca-Cola’s sense of humor doesn’t extend to other artists’ parodies; shuts down movie release over single dream sequence showing Jesus drinking Coke. [Variety via BLT]

Kevin MD on defensive medicine.
Slip & fall case: “it would be unreasonable to expect the defendants to constantly clean the floors of their buses” during a snowstorm [McKenzie v. County of Westchester; Turkewitz]

TV news and dumb lawsuit ideas series (earlier: Sep. 18), American Idol edition: Fox v. Vote for the Worst? [Above the Law]
Shades of Myspace litigation (Feb. 15 and links therein): phone-chat dating service sued over rape of teenager [On Point]

Updating Nov. 3 entry: Ninth Circuit vacates and will en banc review ludicrous Reinhardt decision in Smith v. Baldwin [Legal Pad]

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