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Out with the old, in with the new. For 2012, I knew I needed to open the year with long over due new photos. I wanted photos that captured me looking as natural as possible, conveyed by down to earth yet no-nonsense personality for my job as a lawyer/trial lawyer. The right man for the job was photographer Rudy Meyers. I met Rudy a couple of years ago through searching for a photographer here in Sacramento on google. Rudy is a successful commercial photographer who has shot clients in the... Read Full Story
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Published to Jay-Z
When I read Beyonce and Jay-Z paid $1.3million to section off a part of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York for delivery of their child, Blue Ivy Carter as reported by news media, I smelt a potential lawsuit from afar. Should celebrities place other expecting families in distress just because they are having their baby? What about the hospital? What is their responsibility and legal liability? Read the excerpt first:
“Hip-hop parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z were in lullaby land with their baby girl... Read Full Story
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Published to Snoop Dogg
TMZ reports that Snoop Dogg has been arrested for possession of weed. I love reading great openings. “Snoop Dogg isn’t the Only Canine with a Nose for Weed. . .” What an opening by TMZ.
“Snoop Dogg isn’t the only canine with a nose for weed … TMZ has learned the rapper was ARRESTED in Texas this weekend after a drug-sniffing dog uncovered marijuana on his tour bus.
Law enforcement sources tell us … Snoop’s tour bus was stopped at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca — a small town... Read Full Story
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Published to Nigeria
Happy New Year to you all!
Welcome to 2012 on UDUAK LAW FIRM’S Fashionentlaw.com blog.
It feels good to be back on my online home. This is my favorite hangout spot on the web. It is the place to relax and just be “legally me.” Typically, I prepare my stories I discuss with you all during the week on weekends, giving room for breaking and compelling legal news stories as my full work schedule permits. Well, this weekend, I did not have the luxury to prepare for a big welcome party... Read Full Story
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Thank you all for a fantastic year! I appreciate every visit, your emails, your comments, your time. Uduak Law Firm’s Fashionentlaw.com blog clocked one year old this July 2011. Boy have we covered so much ground! When people experience the legal system in California and the USA in general, it is deeply personal. It is life changing. At times, rubbing shoulders with the legal system can be empowering. Often, it is not. It is intense, stressful, intimidating, crippling and at times... Read Full Story
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As an attorney who is intimately connected with the use of social media on the front and back end, I believe I can authoritatively say these are really exciting times we live in! Long time followers of this blog know law is to me what music is to musicians or fashion to designers etc. It is creative, sexy, powerful, explosive, innovative and of course life changing. The current case I am about to discuss and its mind blowing intricacies underscores the above point.
If you are just joining... Read Full Story
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Published to Nigeria
The following story hit th e web yesterday of an alleged lawsuit planned by Nigeria’s Cross River State against Maybach Music Group’s Rick Ross.
On December 26th, 2011, Allhiphop.com published an exclusive story stating that although Rick Ross was to perform in Calabar, Cross River State in Nigeria on December 28th, 2011, he was reneging on his promise based on an alleged “unfulfilled contractual obligations.” You don’t say.
On December 28th, 2011, the organizers of the Calabar Festival... Read Full Story
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Published to Charlie Sheen
“Luxury fashion brand Louis Vuitton filed suit in federal court in New York on Thursday alleging that a handbag featured in the movie is a fakery. In the scene, the character played by Zach Galifianakis carries a bag marked LVM and admonishes another character: “Careful, that is.. that is a Louis Vuitton.”
But the complaint. . .lleges that the bag is instead made by the Chinese American company Diophy, which Louis Vuitton is currently suing in an attempt to prevent knock-off items from... Read Full Story
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Published to Kim Kardashian
“The Kardashian family is preparing for war — gearing up to unleash a legal attack on everyone who claimed their clothing line is manufactured in child slave labor sweat shops in China … TMZ has learned.
Sources close to the family tell us … Kris Jenner is furious — claiming the guy who runs the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights had no right to accuse the Kardashian brands of wrongdoing because he has no tangible proof to back up his claims.
Kris must have seen I.G.L.H.R... Read Full Story
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Published to Jay-Z
Late last year, I wrote about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Dr. Carlos Moore, author of Fela: This Bitch of a Life! , against Jay-Z, Jada Pinkett-Smith and Will Smith’s FELA! on Broadway. I stated the case would resolve and made the pertinent arguments on both sides that I anticipated the trial representing the litigants would make. You can read my legal commentary and analysis here . Subsequently, after that writing, Dr. Moore (the Plaintiff) contacted my office to indicate he... Read Full Story
