AMICUS

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Name: AMICUS

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First Reported May 03 2012 - Updated May 04 2012 - 1 Documents

Court warns youth not to threaten suicide

Mumbai, May 3 (IANS) The Bombay High Court Thursday warned a youth, who threatened to commit suicide if his petition on sex change surgery was adjourned, saying that he cannot pressurise the court before his petition was heard and orders passed.After ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Yahoo! Maktoob News ]

Entities: Suicide, Bombay High Court, Maharashtra Police, Mumbai

First Reported Apr 18 2012 - Updated Apr 18 2012 - 1 Documents

Individual mandate, circa 1790

According to Harvard Law professor Einer Elhauge, in 1790 the first Congress, which included 20 framers of the Constitution, passed a law mandating that shipowners purchase medical insurance for their seamen. The bill was signed into law by President ... [ Published Apr 18 2012 by MySanAntonio ]

Entities: John Adams, George Washington, David E Williams

First Reported Apr 09 2012 - Updated Apr 09 2012 - 1 Documents

Flava Works

MPAA Lines Up With Porn Studio in Steamy Copyright Dispute

MPAA Chief Chris Dodd.The MPAA has gotten involved in a dispute over a website that allowed users to upload embedded links to porn videos.The case is Flava Works, Inc. v. Gunter, pending before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. It has suddenly become ... [ Published Apr 09 2012 by Hollywood Reporter ]

Entities: Infringement, Motion Picture Association of America, Pornography, Flava Works

First Reported Apr 02 2012 - Updated Apr 02 2012 - 1 Documents

'Serious Fun' for adults in Budd Lake

23 Lake Shore Road Budd Lake NJThe Pax Amicus Castle Theatre, 23 Lake Shore Road in Budd Lake, will present "Serious Fun" for one night only at 8 p.m. on Saturday, April 28.A musical evening of creative mayhem and improvised madness.Peter Biedermann on ... [ Published Apr 02 2012 by The Progress ]

Entities: LAKE SHORE INC, AMICUS

First Reported Dec 20 2011 - Updated Dec 21 2011 - 1 Documents

AMICUS

Songwriters Group Backs Village People Singer in Rights Case

A federal judge allows the songwriters guild to file an amicus brief in Victor Willis's suit against the companies that published his songs. ... [ Published Dec 20 2011 by ArtsBeat ]

Entities: AMICUS

First Reported Dec 15 2011 - Updated Dec 15 2011 - 1 Documents

American Civil Liberties Union

Medical Mind Control

The ACLU rarely involves itself with patent cases, so it was surprising when the civil liberties group filed an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to invalidate a patent in the case of Mayo v. Prometheus. Mainstream press coverage portrayed the dispute ... [ Published Dec 15 2011 by Slate Magazine - Dilettante, The ]

Entities: Patent, American Civil Liberties Union, AMICUS, Freedom of Thought, Dosage

Quotes

... Next to these stratagems, merely taking over a Maine town in Stephen King's "Salem's Lot seems unambitious (a whole city, as in Robert McCammon's They Thirst, plays better), let alone the way some Hammer Films (Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Scars of Dracula) have Christopher Lee's Count just get into an undignified spat with some students and their girlfriends, or the hang-around-and-annoy-people act of The Lost Boys. Yes, vampires drink blood — but there has to be more to their schtick than that ..."

Why are so many vampire stories so weak? [Horror] [Io9 - May 07 2012]

"As a lawyer you should understand the court's difficulties also" Justice Vazifdar said

Court warns youth not to threaten suicide [Yahoo! Maktoob News - May 03 2012]

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Copyfraud: Techdirt Book Club Selection For April [ Published Apr 03 2012 by Techdirt ] Since this came up with the last book, I'll address this head on: the ebook pricing on this book is kind of ridiculous. The Kindle offering is $15. The "rental" option from SUP is $7, but you only get to have the book for two weeks. I realize that these ...
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Songwriters Group Backs Village People Singer i... [ Published Dec 20 2011 by ArtsBeat ] A federal judge allows the songwriters guild to file an amicus brief in Victor Willis's suit against the companies that published his songs. ...