Should College Athletes be Paid for the Use of Their Likenesses?
Legal Backdrop to Ed O’Bannon’s Lawsuit Against the NCAA and the California Fair Pay to Play Act In 2008, Ed O’Bannon, the former All-American UCLA power forward, happened to see his likeness on a video game which he had never authorized or been compensated for, so he...Bikini Baristas – Constitutional Law and Female Anatomy Over Coffee
The City of Everett, Washington, got very upset with the so called “Bikini Baristas”, and passed local laws which criminalized the clothing they wear as “lewd conduct”, and enacted a dress code for “Quick-Service Facilities,” which was clearly designed to apply to the...Race Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Brooklyn-Based Real Estate Law Firm, Wenig Saltiel LLP, Its Partners And Of Counsel
Author: Louis M. Leon, Associate Attorney On April 5, 2019, the Law Offices of William Cafaro filed a lawsuit in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn against Wenig Saltiel LLP, Ira Greene, Jeffrey L. Saltiel, and Meryl L. Wenig (a real estate law firm, its...How Much You Recover for Sexual Abuse by a Priest May Depend on Insurance Coverage Issues
You can sue a church (or any other institution or business) whether there is insurance coverage or not, so why does this matter? Because some dioceses, like the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, have filed bankruptcy over sexual abuse claims,...How Did Facebook Get Sued Successfully under the Housing Discrimination Laws without even Being a Landlord?
How Did Facebook Get Sued Successfully under the Housing Discrimination Laws without even Being a Landlord? By passing a law called the CDA1, Congress decided to protect interactive computer services from any liability from material posted by others to promote open...
