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Blockbuster showdown coming today in bankruptcy court
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2011/04/02 23:37
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| pSeveral bidders are set to duke it out for Blockbuster Inc. at a bankruptcy auction in New York today. They reportedly include Dish Network Corp. and billionaire investor Carl Icahn./ppThe movie-rental chain has received several bids other than the opening bid of $290 million from a group of debtholders made in February. Blockbuster filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September./ppDish and Icahn have each submitted a bid, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter. /ppDish Network declined to comment. Icahn could not immediately be reached for comment./ppJay Indyke, attorney for the committee of unsecured creditors, says several bids had come in but did not specify who they are from./ppIcahn has been expected to make a bid. He was part of the group of debtholders that provided Blockbuster financing to operate while in bankruptcy in September. Everyone in that group, except for Icahn, made an opening bid in February, known as a “stalking horse” bid, to buy Blockbuster for $290 million. /ppBlockbuster used to dominate the U.S. movie rental business. But it lost money for years as that business declined because customers shifted to Netflix Inc., video on demand and DVD rental kiosks./ppProspective bidders are either after Blockbuster’s assets, such as its name, kiosks and movie-download service, or the money they can make from liquidating the brand, analysts said./p |
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Court nixes new rape trial in dispute over poem
Court Watch |
2011/03/24 09:28
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| pA court has overturned a decision granting a new trial to a convicted rapist who claimed his rights were violated when a poem written by the victim was kept out of evidence during trial in Wayne County. /ppThe poem expressing regret about alcohol and sex was written before the woman's encounter with Dustin Wiecek in 1999. /ppA federal judge says the exclusion hurt Wiecek's ability to fully confront his accuser at trial about her personal life. But a U.S. appeals court on Wednesday disagreed, saying Wiecek's lawyer had much opportunity to challenge the woman's credibility. /ppWiecek was accused of using GHB, known as a date-rape drug. He's already served 41 months in prison, more than the minimum sentence. He's been free on bond since fall 2009. /p |
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Oregon appeals court: Teeth not dangerous weapon
Court Watch |
2011/03/24 06:28
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| pThe Oregon Court of Appeals has ruled that teeth are not a dangerous weapon./ppThe decision Wednesday overturned a first-degree assault conviction for a Marion County man who bit off part of a neighbor's ear in 2008 in a drunken fight./ppThe Oregonian reports a second-degree assault conviction against 30-year-old Scott Russell Kuperus II stands. But first-degree assault involves a dangerous weapon, and teeth don't qualify./ppHis attorney says the first-degree assault charge that carried a sentence of 90 months in jail will be dismissed and Kuperus will be sentenced to 70 months for second-degree assault./p |
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How the Mobile Web Works - Law Firm Mobile
Legal Focuses |
2011/03/11 11:56
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A mobile website solution for lawyers must also take into account that there are many different smartphone platforms including iPhones, Androids and Blackberries.nbsp; They each require different coding and have different capabilities.nbsp; The iPhone, for example, is not compatible with flash, so make your mobile site accessible to as many different phone users as possible by making a compatible site.
Smartphones put the mobile web at your fingertips and are capable of many functions through their complex programming.nbsp; Internet browsing, downloading and email are now available to people on the go at speeds that are becoming increasingly comparable to home computers.nbsp; Certain limitations and restrictions exist naturally because of the physicality of mobile devices themselves.nbsp; This has meant that mobile web developers have had to program sites strategically to fit and function well on smartphones of all platforms./divpBecause the mobile internet needs to fit onto the small screen of a smartphone, browsers and operating systems are vastly different from that of a computer.nbsp; Choices of browsers are limited on smartphones but because there are a range of smartphones in the first place, the mobile web must be a dynamic technology that is highly adaptive.nbsp; Speed is a significant issue when accessing WiFi on a smartphone because of the limitations of the technology.nbsp; Depending on the quality of the phone as well as the level of available service based on your location and carrier, a smartphone can have significantly slower internet access speed than a computer./ppMobile broadband is made possible in the same way that cell phones are: they use radio waves and frequencies.nbsp; Radio towers send little packets of data (like emails, website pages, music and streaming video) back and forth to each other making them accessible to you on your smartphone.nbsp; The reason for the need for mobile web development is that the device on which you access the mobile web is vastly different than it was traditionally on a regular computer.nbsp; The physical and technological limitations of the smartphone make for unique challenges to developing websites that work seamlessly with all the different types of smartphone platforms that are out there and that continue to emerge every day.
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Ex-judge Camp sentenced to 30 days in prison
Court Watch |
2011/03/11 11:55
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| pJack Camp, the former federal judge ensnared in a scandal involving drugs and a stripper, was sentenced Friday to 30 days in prison and 400 hours of community service./ppSenior U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said he could not give a sentence of only probation because Camp had breached his oath of office./ppHe has disgraced his office, Hogan said. He has denigrated the federal judiciary. He has encouraged disrespect for the rule of law./ppBefore being sentenced, Camp apologized for what he had done and thanked his family and friends, many of whom filled the courtroom./ppI have embarrassed and humiliated my family as well as myself, Camp said. I have embarrassed the court I have served on and I am deeply sorry for that. When I look back at the circumstances which brought me here and look at what I did, it makes me sick./ppCamp said that at the end of the day, the only thing I can say is that I'm so very sorry./ppAs a judge, Camp often meted out harsh sentences and rarely gave breaks to defendants who presented mitigating circumstances to explain their conduct. On Friday, Hogan was asked by Camp's lawyers to grant leniency because of the ex-judge's decades-long battle with a bipolar disorder and brain damage caused by a 2000 biking accident./p |
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Mississippi high court upholds price-gouging law
Headline News |
2011/03/11 11:55
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pThe Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of the state's price-gouging law./ppThe justices Thursday unanimously overturned a Winston County judge's ruling that the law was unconstitutionally vague./ppChancellor J. Max Kilpatrick's ruling came in 2008 as he rejected Attorney General Jim Hood's lawsuit accusing a Mississippi oil company of charging too much for fuel after Hurricane Katrina. Kilpatrick has since retired from the bench./ppThe Supreme Court sent the case back to Winston County to determine if Fair Oil Co. in Louisville violated the law./ppFair Oil was one of two companies Hood sued in 2007. The lawsuit, which represents only one side of a legal argument, accused the company of gouging consumers after Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
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