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Showing posts with label CBS. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Dominion v. Fox News evidences 'actual malice,' also shows how standard has fueled misinformation

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(UPDATE, April 18, at 5:17 p.m.: NBC News reported a half hour ago that Dominion and Fox News reached a $787.5m settlement.) CBS Sunday Mor...
Saturday, August 13, 2022

NBC resists TV free market, overcharges U.S. viewers: PL football costs $20 in Canada, $70 in United States

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Each year, I become freshly enraged at the cost of seeing Premier League football in the United States, a ready example of antitrust non-enf...
Sunday, February 27, 2022

War forces news underground; Poles rally for refugees

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Broadcast news continues from an underground parking garage, where Ukrainians take refuge from Russian attack, Western media have reported w...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Court affirms widow's $21m verdict vs. Big Tobacco, upholds punitive damages despite '98 settlement

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Marlboro Red Open Box by Sarah Johnson ( CC BY 2.0 ) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today affirmed a $21m verdict against Phili...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

What goes around comes around: U.S. election cycle, Capitol riot draw 'banana republic' gibes

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Seth Doane has an excellent piece out today ( Facebook , YouTube , and embed below) on foreign perspectives on the Capitol riot, insurrecti...
Sunday, November 15, 2020

'Oh, the lawyers'

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From A Late Show with Stephen Colbert , Nov. 12, 2020: Stephen thanked everyone who made 1,000 shows possible.
Friday, May 29, 2020

Law prof joins 'Taps Across America,' honors Texas soldier, attorney, Justice Floyd A. Shumpert

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My longtime colleague, mentor, and friend, Professor J. Thomas Sullivan , joined Monday's "Taps Across America" remembrance (...
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Oberlin case leaves no doubt, 'racist' accusation is capable of defamatory meaning; Koppel reports

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An Ohio jury in June awarded $44m to a family-owned bakery that proved defamation by Oberlin College in a case of false accusations of rac...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Can ‘Star Trek’ put the U back in –topia?

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This weekend will see the premiere of the newest entrant in the Star Trek franchise, CBS’s Star Trek: Discovery ( trailer ) .   Notw...
Monday, September 26, 2016

The NFL and the Dramatic Arts

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Last week, in The Death of Civil Justice , I mentioned Hackbart v. Cincinnati Bengals, Inc ., 435 F. Supp. 352 (D. Colo. 1977), rev’d &am...