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It’s that time of year again, when thousands of students have been traipsing off on cruises for spring break, looking forward to a week of tanning, eating well, and poolside drinking, all in the comfort of a floating resort that will take them to exotic foreign locations. However, recent cruise-related news may give potential cruisers [...]

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L.A. has done it again.  The city’s baseball team is starring in a drama so “Hollywood” that it appears scripted.  Even in the modern days of huge salaries, epic betrayals, and remorseless lockouts, the bankruptcy of the Los Angeles Dodgers is truly a sacrilegious debacle.  America’s storied franchise is going to court, where [...]

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Courtney Love has been in the news again recently, this time as the defendant in a defamation suit. The rocker has just settled for the impressive sum of $430,000. The forum for her defamation? Twitter.

The suit was filed by fashion designer Dawm Simorangkir, otherwise known as the “Boudior Queen,” after Ms. [...]

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The world of television teen dramas has historically been populated by actors far past their high school years. Who could forget Luke Perry’s receding hairline while playing a sixteen-year-old on the original Beverly Hills, 90210? New shows like the 90210 remake and Glee have continued the tradition and feature a thirty-one-year-old and [...]

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On January 18th the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) gave Comcast, the country’s largest cable company, the green-light to take over NBC Universal. Comcast already owns a handful of cable channels, including E! Entertainment and the Golf Channel. However, through its acquisition of a fifty-one percent stake [...]

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Monday Morning JETLawg

On July 5, 2010 By JETLaw

In the news…

Elena Kagan’s record indicates she might be friendly to entertainment cases.

Finland becomes first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.

Supreme Court decides patent door should stay open for those creating new [...]

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Celebrities are often criticized for being negative role models — showing kids all the wrong things to do. We often hear stories of stars drinking and driving, partying all night, or taking pictures with a gun in their mouth and putting it on Twitter (thank you, Lindsay Lohan). Although entertainers do not [...]

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Known for his outrageous and controversial movie characters, Sacha Baron Cohen has become a pro at dodging legal bullets. Because of his penchant for crossing the line, it should come as no surprise that he is now embroiled in another lawsuit. However, this time there is an unexpected twist — David Letterman is playing a [...]

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Jeremy Piven, the star of HBO’s popular Entourage series, has won his case against the producers of the Broadway show Speed-the-Plow, with a professional arbiter ruling that he did not breach his contract after becoming ill with mercury poisoning from his habit of eating too much fish.

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