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Is Jerry West’s Potential Lawsuit Against HBO Over His Portrayal in the Lakers Docudrama “Winning Time” a Jump Ball?

The IP Law Blog

In a letter to HBO, West’s lawyer claims that Winning Time falsely and cruelly portrays West as an out-of-control, intoxicated, rage-aholic. West’s lawyers argue that the scene implies that Winning Time depicts the “real” West. West calls his portrayal “false and defamatory” and he has publicly called for a retraction and an apology.

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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New issue alert: RabelsZ 2/2021

Conflict of Laws

The Law and Economics of Extreme Sports Sponsoring in Comparative Perspective. This article investigates the law and economics of extreme sports sponsoring in a comparative perspective. Many lawyers are well aware of the advantages of a neutral legal regime. 273-325 (53), DOI: 10.1628/rabelsz-2021-0002. to 52.9 % since 2004.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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How to Get Work as a Paralegal

SimplyLawJobs

This covers all the basic areas of academic law including, English Legal System, Contract Law, Law of Tort and a choice of another legal topic. Choose a business that matches your interests, such as retail companies, sports organisations, car manufacturers, tech businesses or charities. Freelancing. What is the law conversion course?

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Spooky Torts: The 2023 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween of course remains a holiday seemingly designed for personal injury lawyers around the world and this year’s additions show why. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more.

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February 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

The proposed intervenors had argued that “[t]he public deserves to see documentation of the effort by a tort lawyer to help his tort campaign against by enlisting the New York Office of Attorney General, successfully, if in pursuit of terribly unsuccessful prosecution at a cost, clearly, of millions of taxpayer dollars.”