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August 27, 1999 | Law.com

Poetter Seeks to Overturn Sodomy Conviction in Anneewakee Attacks

One of Georgia's most infamous sex criminals wants his guilty plea on 18 charges of sodomizing former mental patients overturned since the state law prohibiting such acts is now unconstitutional. Louis J. Poetter, 80, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1988, including 12 years probation set to end in 2008. Poetter has served his prison term and he wants the conviction overturned in order to void his probation term, so he may travel out of the country to visit family and see property he owns in Mexico.
7 minute read
October 14, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Computer Law

Richard Raysman, a partner at Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen, and Peter Brown, a partner at Baker & Hostetler, discuss the Digitla Millennium Copyright Act safe harbor generally, a recent decision holding that a video-sharing site that actively enforces its user policy, acts expeditiously to remove infringing material, and seeks to prevent the same infringing content from being re-posted qualifies for the safe harbor, and how that decision might impact the Viacom v. YouTube litigation currently taking place in the Southern District of New York.
13 minute read
January 14, 2013 | Daily Business Review

Law Firm Diversity: Women still seeking parity

Several new studies show women still earn less than men and are promoted to partner at lower rates, particularly at big law firms.
12 minute read
November 01, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Mortgage lenders have yet to get what they deserve

A cynic might conclude from the horror stories that abound in the news that servicers are simply milking as much money from the borrower as they can before taking the house, which they knew they would do all along.
5 minute read
February 12, 2013 | The Legal Intelligencer

Publisher Agrees To Settle in E-Books Price-Fixing Suit

The holdout publisher in the Justice Department's e-books price-fixing case agreed to a settlement with the government February 8, setting the stage for a showdown between Apple Inc. and federal prosecutors later this year.
2 minute read
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December 12, 2008 | New York Law Journal

Evidence

Michael M. Martin, the Distinguished Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, reviews a recent Fourth Department overturning of a medical examiner's determination, holding that the evidence in the record failed to rebut New York's "presumption against suicide," a decision that has provided another illustration that the topic of "presumptions" is one of the more confusing in the law of evidence.
11 minute read
September 27, 2013 | The American Lawyer

The Churn: Lateral Moves in The Am Law 200

A federal prosecutor in Texas joins Haynes and Boone; Greenberg Traurig adds a lawyer on each coast; and Epstein Becker & Green nabs a labor and employment specialist from Proskauer Rose. The Churn is constant. Please send all announcements and news releases to [email protected].
3 minute read
February 21, 2002 | Law.com

Government Panel Proposes Royalties for Web Music

In the latest step in the struggle to determine the price of music in the Information Age, a government panel proposed Wednesday that organizations that broadcast music and other radio content over the Internet pay royalties based on each Web user that listens in. The U.S. Copyright Office panel issued its recommendations after hearing seven months of testimony from more than 50 witnesses.
4 minute read
April 18, 2001 | Law.com

Prisoner Not Guaranteed Right to Advise Other Inmates

Prison inmates have no constitutional right to give legal advice to fellow inmates, said the Supreme Court Wednesday. The fact that a communication between prison inmates contains legal advice does not give it special free-speech protection, a unanimous court ruled in the case of a Montana inmate. "Inmate law clerks are sometimes a menace to prison discipline," wrote Justice Clarence Thomas.
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December 05, 2008 | The Recorder

Letters to the Editor

Readers respond to an anti-Prop 8 piece and stick up for Judge James McBride and attorney Joanna Mendoza.
8 minute read

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