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“Spears appeared unexpectedly Friday for a hearing in her ongoing conservatorship. A court spokesman said after the hearing that Spears appeared to give an update on her upcoming album, ‘Circus,’ and details of her tour and other promotions. Her father, Jamie Spears, has had control over his 26-year-old daughter’s personal and financial affairs since February. The court made the arrangement permanent last month, but Spears can petition to end the arrangement.” [Link]
“Meeting in closed session, the state high court asked litigants on both sides for more written arguments and said a hearing on the cases could come as early as March. The court also signaled its intention to decide the fate of existing same-sex marriages, asking litigants to argue that question.” [Link]
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“Despite her legal team’s request to have the case dismissed, Charlize Theron is heading to Federal Court for the Southern District of New York later this month for a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her by Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil. ” [Link]
“The settlement was announced Tuesday night by attorneys for the husband and three adult children of Milena Del Valle, who was killed in July 2006 when part of a tunnel ceiling collapsed on her car. The main defendants in the lawsuit included companies that worked on the Big Dig — Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff, Modern Continental Co., Gannett Fleming Inc.— and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. ” [Link]
“”Another example of an overreaction is that Mother suggested that Roan should have Botox injections in his feet to resolve a problem he had with foot odor. As Father appropriately noted, the simple and common sense approach of making sure Roan wore socks with his shoes and used foot deodorant corrected the odor problem without the need for any invasive procedure on this young child.” The judge differentiated very distinctly the difference between Bronstein and Stone, saying, “Father has championed for Roan’s well-being out of, what appears to this Court, nothing less than the unconditional love for his son.” [Link]
“I Will Not Lose, LLC CEO Reggie Tucker claims Rocawear’s marketing executives used his trademarked phrase ‘I Will Not Lose’ to promote their urban wear range internationally without permission. ” [Link]
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“Sharon Stone has lost physical custody of her eight-year-old son Roan, according to a court minute obtained by Entertainment Tonight. The order is permanent unless there is a change of circumstances. According to documents detailing a September 12, 2008 custody hearing, her ex-husband Phil Bronstein ‘shall have permanent sole physical custody of child.” [Link]
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“In the book, Baldwin rails against the family court system in Los Angeles, offers advice based on his own experience with divorce litigation and talks about how one parent can turn a child against another parent. Baldwin said he’s apologized to his daughter, Ireland, for the phone message, which he said was wrong and ‘horrified’ him. But he added that it never should have been released without his permission. Baldwin has blamed Basinger, 54, for leaking the tape. She has denied the claim.” [Link]
“Terri Hughes, who is African-American, alleges that when a host of another Playboy show — who was also an African-American woman — requested for Hughes work on her show, the executive producer of Playboy Radio warned, ‘I don’t know how to say this, and it might offend you, but I’m just going to say it anyway — no Negro shows.’” [Link]
“Former Eagles quarterback turned entrepreneur Ron Jaworski is being sued in Superior Court here by the owner of Running Deer Golf Club, under claims his allegedly deceptive business practices forced the club to file for bankruptcy. The civil suit was drawn up on behalf of Edward Carman, who designed, built and has operated the Pittsgrove links alongside his family since its creation in 1998.” [Link]
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“The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday the lawsuit against the Colorado-based company, Crocs, describes how a young boy identified only as ‘A.M.’ had his toes mangled in an escalator at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport allegedly due to the popular shoe brand. Meanwhile, radio producer Belinda Skelton, thought to be the unidentified boy’s mother, described to the Journal-Constitution last month how her 4-year-old son, Andrew Meyer, had been injured at the airport.” [Link]
“Charles Dean Hood had been scheduled to die June 17, but the death warrant ran out while defense attorneys and prosecutors wrangled over the controversial allegations. At that point, the judge, Verla Sue Holland, and the district attorney, Thomas O’Connell, refused to confirm their affair. A new execution date had been set for today, and a hearing on Hood’s claims that the alleged affair amounted to a conflict of interest was set for Friday — two days after his scheduled death.” [Link]
“Steven Spielberg and major Hollywood studios stole the plot from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1954 film ‘Rear Window’ in making last year’s ‘Disturbia,’ a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday said. Dreamworks, its parent company Viacom Inc, and Universal Pictures, a unit of General Electric Co’s NBC Universal, are accused of copyright infringement and breach of contract for making ‘Disturbia’ without first obtaining permission from the copyright holders, the suit said.” [Link]
“Tommy Lee Jones is suing the makers of ‘No Country for Old Men’ for more than $10 million that the Oscar-winning actor claims he is owed for starring in the 2007 hit crime thriller. The lawsuit against Paramount Pictures claims that Jones was promised ’significant box-office bonuses’ and other compensation depending on the success of the film, which went on to make more than $160 million.” [Link]
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