The Home Shopping Network and companies associated with cooking stars Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart face a class action accusing them of marketing and selling counterfeit knives. California resident Allen Moshiri alleges that the Emeril Santuku Knife he bought from HSN was described as having been made in Solingen, Germany, where some of the world’s best-designed cutlery is made. But the 5-inch, $21.44 knife was of such poor quality, he claims, that it rusted after two weeks, dulled quickly and could not be sharpened with the tool that came with it. The complaint adds that one side of the blade was stamped with the Emeril trademark and the words “Solingen Germany” while the other bore the word “China.” — New Jersey Law Journal
Booking It
Entertainment lawyer Mike Farris has written five books, both fiction and nonfiction, set in some pretty lovely locales. He’s begun work on a nonfiction historical book to be set partly in Hawaii, concerning a grisly murder, Clarence Darrow and a Washington socialite. More than 70 years ago, Darrow represented a woman who allegedly set out to avenge the rape of her daughter and then faced murder charges. Ultimately, her trial led to what Farris describes as “one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American history.” He plans his book to read like a novel but also stay loyal to trial transcripts and court records. Farris is of counsel to Vincent Lopez Serafino Jenevein in Dallas. — Texas Lawyer
