Posts Tagged: litigation

Can You Copyright a Tattoo?

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Hollywood is accustomed to lawsuits over salaries, movie credits, even half-baked concepts that become movies. Now a studio may be going to court over the original concept of a tattoo. In “The Hangover Part II,” the character played by Ed Helms wakes up with a permanent tattoo bracketing his left eye, which bears an eerie… Read more »

Not too squeaky clean

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A suit called GSP Finance LLC v. KPMG LLC was filed on March 29 with GPS alleging that KPMG “was well aware of the desperate financial condition of Hicks Sports” — specifically, the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars — when it was hired to conduct the ’08 audit. The suit says Hicks Sports Group suffered… Read more »

New York Rules That It Is OK To Resell Life Insurance Benefits

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New York’s top court ruled Wednesday that state law allows people to buy life insurance policies and immediately sell them to investors who make money when the insured person dies. The Court of Appeals, in a 5-2 ruling, said the practice is legal in New York even where the policy was obtained solely for that… Read more »

U.S. Loan Auditors Scam

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     U.S. Loan Auditors and similar outfits are promising to conduct “forensic audits” of mortgage transactions to find evidence of “predatory lending” and fraud, and use that evidence to haul lenders into court and obtain new mortgages at far more favorable interest rates, officials say.      In October, California Attorney General Jerry Brown sued U.S…. Read more »

Losing a Trademark Battle

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Danish toy brick maker Lego Juris A/S has failed in its bid to overturn a European trade mark decision canceling European trade mark protection for its standard 2 by 4 red Lego brick in a September 14 ruling of the European Court of Justice. Lego went to court after a Canadian firm had made blocks… Read more »