A new site called ihollaback.org was launched recently to help women report instances of street harassment. It allows women to post their stories of street harassment and it collects them in the hope of maybe changing the belief that this is an acceptable societal norm. Here’s part of its mission statement: Stories change the world. […]
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No Justice in Spain
Next time you want to complain about the jury system, just read about this case from Spain reported in today’s NY Times. Antonio Meno Ortega, a 21 year old law student from Madrid went to the hospital for minor nasal surgery. He was scheduled to spend just one overnight in the hospital and then get […]
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The Devil’s In The Details
The foreclosure business is at a standstill in much of the country. Yes, banks are still sending out foreclosure and eviction notices but in courtrooms all across America, foreclosure cases have been stayed or frozen. The inactivity has been caused in large part by one lawyer, Thomas Cox, whose pro bono work on behalf of […]
Sandisk, the multi-billion dollar company, that is the king of electronic storage devices, was just hit with $150,000.00 fine for losing emails related to litigation its involved in with two former employees. The case Harkabi v. Sandisk is a warning to all companies not to destroy e-documents if there is any threat of litigation and […]
My latest intellectual property case is a lawsuit brought against the Tribeca Film Festival by the founders of the Manhattan Film Festival. I think the TFF appears to have lost its way and forgotten its “innovative” roots. After all, this year’s TFF opened with “Shrek 3.” This year it also launched its first “Virtual Film […]
Those of us who have gone through raising middle schoolers or who teach for a living know that of all the classes in the world, teaching Middle School Health is as thankless a task as you can get assigned to. Hormones raging, sexual experimentation occurring regularly, cliques, mean girls, immature boys: a recipe for disaster. […]
Many of my litigation clients are owners of small to mid-size businesses that find themselves thrust into court for the first time. These folks are often shocked to see how time consuming and expensive the litigation process can be. So after years of counseling them through the court system, I have observed that there a […]