Our Executive Editor, Michael Dearington, was recently selected to write a guest blog post for the FCPAProfessor.com website. Michael’s post deals with the recent case U.S. v. Siriwan, which involves the extradition of a Thai official who accepted bribes from Hollywood movie executives in exchange for lucrative contracts. Read the full post Continue Reading →
Though the 2012 London Summer Olympics are in full swing, elite sports can never quite seem to escape the skeleton in its closet–performance enhancing drugs. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (the “CAS”), empowered by the authority of the International Olympic Committee (the “IOC”), upheld the appeal of the International [...]
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So it seems that a couple of my recent blog posts have been about alcohol, specifically a bourbon’s red wax trademark and an alleged drunken beat-down. This post is no different, concerning the immensely popular Jack Daniel’s whiskey, which has a long and storied history, has been featured in [...]
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With Kodak facing bankruptcy, Google and Apple are interested in obtaining its patents. The Ninth Circuit will review a decision allowing law enforcement to collect DNA samples from people who are arrested. Apple seeking $2.5 billion in damages against Samsung. Senator Franken’s Continue Reading →
Freedom of religion is not a new concept. However, in Sweden, the concept is being put to a very new test. The website for a new religion called kopimism, recently recognized by the Swedish government, references the Swedish Constitution in stating that “every citizen is against the government guaranteed freedom [...]
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One of the traditional justifications for copyright law is that it incentivizes inventors to create. Recently one MIT economist, Abhishek Nagaraj, studied how the copyright law regime affects Wikipedia and how resources like Wikipedia affect our collective body of knowledge. The issues go back to Google starting to Continue Reading →
I want to start this post by expressing my deepest sympathies to the victims of the shooting in Aurora, Colorado. Also, I would like to point out that the opinions in this post are meant to spark meaningful debate, and in no way represent the views of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & [...]
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By now, everyone has heard of the horrific shooting at the midnight showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” in an Aurora, CO movie theater. About 20 minutes into the movie, a man dressed in black, wearing a helmet, body armor, and a gas mask, entered the theater through an exit [...]
Continue Reading →‘Three’s Company’ lawyers object to the play 3C. A federal appeals court suggested Friday that it may affirm its previous ruling that human genes can be patented. Twitter will appeal a subpoena that it must turn over messages from an Occupy supporter. Romance novelists [...]
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The Secure High-voltage Infrastructure for Electricity from Lethal Damage Act (SHIELD Act, HR 668), aims to protect America’s electric grid against an Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) event. There are essentially only two static events that could cause significant EMP damage: 1) a coronal mass ejection (CME) (or solar storm) or 2) [...]
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