Judge Denny Chin expressed frustration at a hearing today about how long everyone is taking to come up with a plan for a settlement between the Author’s Guild and the Association of American Publishers (plaintiffs) and Google Books (defendant). At issue is just how Google will compensate writers whose books it scans while the work Read More
Today, according to an article in Crain’s, a judge in Manhattan federal court said that NBC Universal will have to stand trial in a $100 million civil suit, revolving around the 2006 suicide of Texas district attorney Louis Conradt.
At the time of his suicide, Mr. Conradt was about to be arrested for soliciting Read More
It’s getting hard to miss U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin.
On Aug. 31, Judge Chin gave Khallid Muhammad the right to have his Million Youth March in Harlem, overriding Mayor Rudolph Giuliani’s objections that Mr. Muhammad had last year whipped the crowd toward rioting. Judge Chin, 45, the city’s youngest Federal circuit judge Read More
