Broadcast Law Blog

MARCH 21, 2017

The Georgia Supreme Court this week issued a decision holding that the streaming of pre-1972 sound recordings by iHeart Media does not violate the state’s criminal statutes against the “transfer” of recorded sounds without the permission of the owner of the master recording.

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SCOTUSBlog

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Cohen – who first met the Lovings when he was just 29 – filed a lawsuit on their behalf, challenging the Virginia law and similar state statutes as violating the 14th Amendment. Virginia , the court did find the statute unconstitutional. He and his co-counsel, Philip Hirschkop, took the case to the Supreme Court. 29, 1941 – Nov.

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JonathanTurley

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The litigation over last year’s lettuce recall has only just started due to the statute of limitations. The cases from injuries last year are just now being filed under the statute of limitations, but it has been another bumper crop of Thanksgiving torts. The result is a horn of plenty for litigators.

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JonathanTurley

JANUARY 5, 2021

Law has become a recreation and legal analysts have become part of the legal entertainment. Within minutes of the leaking of a call between Trump and Georgia election officials, the same experts were declaring yet another clear crime. Georgia is a one party consent state). McNally, 483 U. This Court declined to go along.

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