Tag Archives: Law and Rights

Okay, so Janet Ventura-Arviso-Jackson, the mother of Michael Jackson’s accuser, is a loon, a celebrity butt-sniffer, and probably a grifter. But does that mean Michael Jackson didn’t molest her son? I think the conspiracy charge involving child abduction, false imprisonment and extortion is going to be rather difficult to convince …

Update on the tragic Damageplan shootings (click here for our complete coverage), which left five dead including metal guitar legend Dimebag Darrell Abbott, in a Columbus, Ohio rock club on December 8: The Columbus Dispatch (not available online) reported today that Nathan Gale, the paranoid schizophrenic Pantera fanatic and killer …

Apart from Michael Jackson’s guilt or innocence, the enormous question hanging over the trial proceedings like a poisonous cloud is why on earth did parents — and in particular, mothers — essentially turn their young boys over to the care of the grown man who expressed intense, and in retrospect, …

Tuesday, a former maid, the mother of one of his accusers, testified she saw the cleanly Jacko shower with an 8 year old boy, Wade Robson, who is now a choreographer. Yesterday court was recessed while Jackson attended the funeral of Johnnie Cochran Jr. But today the bunker buster bomb …

We with access to computers, microphones, cameras, or simply our own voices have expended a vast amount of time and energy publicly wrestling with our opinions and/or attempting to convince others of the rightness of said opinions regarding poor, benighted, now deceased Terri Schiavo. At this point I am willing …

Absorbing and potentially far-reaching copyright case decided by the New York State Court of Appeals today, Capitol Records v. Naxos of America. The state’s highest court ruled common law in New York “protects ownership interests in sound recordings made before 1972 that are not covered by the federal copyright act.” …

Testimony in the Michael Jackson trial has resumed today with former house manager at Jackson’s Neverland ranch, Jesus Salas, telling jurors he saw three boys tour the wine cellar with the singer and come out drunk. “When I saw the boys coming out of the arcade they weren’t acting right …

Terri Schiavo, possibly the best-known, least-conscious woman in American history died this morning shortly before 10 a.m. EST, ending a protracted battle between her husband and her parents that elicited action and opinion from every branch of the Florida state and federal governments. She died 13 days after her feeding …

After agreeing to consider an emergency bid by Bob and Mary Schindler for a new hearing in their case late Tuesday night, 15 hours later the Atlanta-based 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said “just kidding.” “Any further action by our court or the district court would be improper,” wrote …

In the latest in a series of criminal and civil setbacks, rap mogul and felon Marion “Suge” Knight was slapped with $107 million in damages ($45 million in economic, $2 million in noneconomic, and $60 million in punitive damages) in a lawsuit brought by Lydia Harris in Los Angeles County …