Overlawyered » movies film and videos http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Claim: “defamation by omission” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/claim-defamation-by-omission/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/claim-defamation-by-omission/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:43:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27299 “Once profiled in The New York Times as a former Harvard student who had his own claim as being the true genius behind Facebook, [Aaron] Greenspan is now involved in a dispute with Columbia Pictures that alleges [among other counts] he was defamed by being left out of the award-winning film about Facebook’s origins ['The Social Network'].” [Hollywood Reporter]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/claim-defamation-by-omission/feed/ 4 “Redbox sued over access for visually impaired” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/redbox-sued-over-access-for-visually-impaired/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/redbox-sued-over-access-for-visually-impaired/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:08:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27046 “[T]he kiosks of the video rental giant Redbox are difficult, if not impossible, to use for those who are blind and visually impaired. The lawsuit says Redbox needs to change the technology in their kiosks so the visually impaired can rent movies too.” [KTRK]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/redbox-sued-over-access-for-visually-impaired/feed/ 10 Ron Paul campaign sues John Does over anti-Huntsman video http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/ron-paul-campaign-sues-john-does-over-anti-huntsman-video/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/ron-paul-campaign-sues-john-does-over-anti-huntsman-video/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:32:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26978 “Presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign committee sued the unidentified makers of a video attacking ex-Republican rival Jon Huntsman claiming it falsely implies it was made or endorsed by the Texas congressman.” [Bloomberg] Paul Alan Levy contends that Rep. Paul, a longtime civil liberties advocate, should know better than to advance arguments that would if accepted narrow the legal protections afforded to anonymous political speech.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/ron-paul-campaign-sues-john-does-over-anti-huntsman-video/feed/ 4 January 18 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-18-roundup-4/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-18-roundup-4/#comments Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:11:45 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26848
  • A federal fishing raid, the Pew Charitable Trusts and a biased Business Week account [Nils Stolpe on Gloucester, Mass. fisheries, via Stoll]
  • Intimidating the judiciary? “Group Opposing Citizens United Pushes ‘Occupy the Courts’ Protest” Jan. 20 [Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal] Mob rallies at Michigan governor’s private home [Meegan Holland, MLive] “Occupy” forces Gingrich to cancel event [Daily Caller] Earlier here, here, here, etc.
  • “Paper Airplane? Late for School? Shouting Too Loud? You’re Under Arrest!” [Free-Range Kids, Texas]
  • Spielberg in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” paid homage to earlier movie sequences without sweating permissions. Oh, for those days [Joho] “Cultural gems that should be in the public domain today” [Atlantic Wire, Tabarrok]
  • UPS settlement exaggerates benefits to class members [Ted Frank; related, CCAF] “Federal Judges Have Harsh Words, Rulings for Class Action Plaintiffs’ Lawyers” [Lammi/WLF]
  • “Justice Breyer Calls Recusal Controversy a ‘Non-Issue’” [ABA Journal]
  • “Add Plaintiff-Lawyer Fees To The Cost Of Most Mergers” [Daniel Fisher, Forbes on Cornerstone Research report]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-18-roundup-4/feed/ 1     December 7 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-7-roundup-4/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-7-roundup-4/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:21:44 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25872
  • Debate on medical malpractice between Ted Frank (Manhattan Institute) and Shirley Svorny (Cato Institute) [PoL]
  • Lawyers, accountants have done well from litigation-ridden Pearlman Ponzi aftermath [Orlando Sentinel]
  • Book drop “inherently dangerous”, says rape victim’s family suing library designers [Florida, LISNews]
  • “The iTunes Class Action Lawsuit You’ll Never Hear About”[NJLRA] “Jackson v. Unocal – Class Actions Find a Welcome Home in Colorado” [Karlsgodt]
  • Another tot accused of sexual harassment, this time a first grader [Boston Herald, earlier (six year old's "assault")]
  • Profile of lawyer who defends fair use of clips for documentary makers [ABA Journal]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-7-roundup-4/feed/ 3     Judge declines to dismiss ADA suit over streaming Netflix http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/harkins-to-equip-cinemas-for-deaf-blind-to-settle-arizona-suit/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/harkins-to-equip-cinemas-for-deaf-blind-to-settle-arizona-suit/#comments Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:07:18 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25660 A Massachusetts federal judge has declined to throw out an ADA suit against Netflix demanding captioning of its streaming movie service, but “stayed the case pending rulemaking by the Federal Communications Commission.” [Qualters, NLJ] Relatedly, Arizona’s largest movie chain will install closed captioning and headset systems in all its outlets following an adverse ruling by the Ninth Circuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). [East Valley Tribune, earlier] Meanwhile, following an audit negotiated in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, “The city of Tucson may have to find an estimated $17 million to bring many of its facilities into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.” [Star]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/harkins-to-equip-cinemas-for-deaf-blind-to-settle-arizona-suit/feed/ 6     “Actress sues Amazon over her age on its IMDb site” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:15:45 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25205 “An actress has sued Amazon.com for more than $1m after her age was posted on its Internet Movie Database. The unnamed actress says the website misused her legal date of birth after she signed up to the IMDbPro service in 2008.” [BBC]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/actress-sues-amazon-over-her-age-on-its-imdb-site/feed/ 7     “Upset Moviegoer Sues Over ‘Misleading’ Trailer” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:46:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25066 Sarah Deming has sued the distributor of the critically acclaimed Ryan Gosling thriller DRIVE under Michigan’s Consumer Protection Act, saying it was promoted “as very similar to the Fast and Furious, or similar, series of movies” but “bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film…having very little driving in the motion picture.” The suit aims for class-action status. [Lawyerist, Guardian]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/feed/ 23     Class action settlements as marketing outreach http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/class-action-settlements-as-marketing-outreach/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/class-action-settlements-as-marketing-outreach/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:35:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24796 At Paid Content, Jeff Roberts reports that Wal-Mart may have found a clever way to pitch its services at Netflix’s streaming subscribers, namely by settling a class action lawsuit to which they are party:

    A federal court in California late last week approved a class-action settlement that requires Wal-Mart to pay out $27.5 million. But here’s the key element of the ruling: Wal-Mart will be allowed to pay the 40 million Netflix subscribers in the form of gift cards for Wal-Mart.com—where there is prominent advertising for Vudu, which rents and sells movies a la carte.

    The court ruling is a blow to Netflix, which had earlier blasted the settlement as “the equivalent of a marketing campaign that costs Walmart only 68 cents per potential customer.”

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/class-action-settlements-as-marketing-outreach/feed/ 1     Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/buffalo-lawmakers-irate-at-law-firm-ad-set-in-council-chambers/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:32:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24159 “What’s next? A dog food commercial?” fumed Council President David A. Franczyk, who says, as do colleagues, that they were never informed that a prominent local injury-law practice was filming a TV ad in its historic chambers [Buffalo News via WSJ]. The firm of Cellino & Barnes, which we’ve met previously on this site, says it has no plans to discontinue showing the ad despite the lawmakers’ displeasure.

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