Posts tagged with legal-news

Dec 13 2017

Tug-o-war

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There's an interesting article on Vulture about the court battle(s) brewing over Emma Cline's mega-successful 2016 novel The Girls. Cline and her ex, Chaz Reetz-Laiolo, recently filed dueling federal lawsuits over the book...

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Oct 4 2016

Tragic

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According to the LA Times, there is an ongoing murder trial in England centering around the theft of a first edition of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The details of the crime are pretty creepy, so I'll stick to the bare-bones version: a man named Michael Danaher...

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May 3 2016

Done and done

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According to io9, Robert Jordan's widow Harriet McDougal has announced that the weird legal situation surrounding the TV rights to Jordan's Wheel of Time series has been resolved, and an approved adaptation is on its way...

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Nov 25 2014

Congratulations, mom!

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My mother is prone to long, ongoing obsessions with totally random subjects, where she reads everything she can on the issue and accumulates an encyclopedic knowledge of details of no interest to anyone but herself. Her latest fixation is on Scientology's ongoing legal disputes, so...

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Nov 11 2014

A literary battle

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According to NPR, a lawsuit has been filed in an ongoing fight over the late Maurice Sendak's personal library. The Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia has accused the executors of Sendak's estate...

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