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Royalty Screwed: 80s Band Men at Work's Hit "Down Under" Infringed Girl Guides Ditty
A judge ordered Australian band Men at Work on Tuesday to hand over a portion of the royalties from their 1980s hit "Down Under," after previously ruling its distinctive flute riff was copied from a children's campfire song.A year after SF Bay oil spill, crew still detained
SAN FRANCISCO AP - For nearly a year, six Chinese crew members of the cargo ship that crashed into a bridge and spilled 50,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay have been detained by federal authorities.Although they are under arrest as material witnesses, life is not as bad as it could be. They are not in jail.Living rent-free in apartments and hotels, they have been permitted to roam one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Justices OK Product-Line Exception in Fire Hose Case
The state Supreme Court has let stand a $4.5 million Allegheny County jury verdict against the successor corporation to a fire truck manufacturer.
Circuit Nominee Sees Criticism
Democrats appear poised to filibuster President Bush's latest nominee to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals -- former cattle industry lobbyist and current solicitor for the Interior Department William Myers III. Myers cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday on a 10-9 party-line vote. His nomination now moves to the Senate floor, where he can expect to meet tough opposition. Myers has met resistance from Democrats due his environmental record as an attorney and lobbyist.Parody of Wal-Mart trumps its trademark
A Conyers man has won a two-year legal battle with Wal-Mart, which has demanded he stop making and selling T-shirts, beer steins and other items that sport slogans such as "Wal-ocaust" and "Wal-Qaeda."U.S. District Judge Timothy C. Batten Sr. rejected Wal-Mart's claims that Charles Smith, a 50-year-old computer store owner who thinks the retailing giant is "taking over the world," violated the company's trademark.On The Record: Counsel has fingerprint on every law
SEWELL R. BRUMBY reads more laws in a year than most lawyers do in their career.Brumby is the legislative counsel for the General Assembly, where he supervises a staff of 11 lawyers. "Every bill that goes through the Legislature is written by us," he told me over a plate of cheese ravioli and a glass of water at Tringali's, a few blocks from his office at the Capitol.
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