2011 – Michael Jackson: Conrad Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter on This Day in Rock Music History! Conrad Faces up to 4 years in a California State Prison, but because of the changes in California law to alleviate over crowdedness, he is unlikely to spend any time in prison… which.. probably translates as this was probably just a show trial put on by sombody to further their already obese profits on another dead rock star. Conspiracy?
His Lawyers will appeal… quoted as saying,
“What matters most right now is trying to keep Dr. Murray from taking up a prison cell in this community,” lead defense lawyer Ed Chernoff said. “That’s what we’re focusing on right now and we’ll deal with an appeal after that.”
2011 -Dr. testifies against Dr. Conrad Murray’s treatment on This Day in Rock Music History!
A sleep doctor who said Dr. Conrad Murray’s treatment of Michael Jackson’s insomnia with the surgical anesthetic propofol was “inconceivable” is expected to resume his testimony Thursday in the trial concerning the singer’s death.
Nader Kamangar, a UCLA associate professor who evaluated Murray’s care as an expert reviewer for the California Medical Board, told jurors Wednesday that the physician had violated the most basic standards and ethics in medicine in his treatment of Jackson.
Kamangar is one of three medical experts expected to testify for prosecutors in the third week of Murray’s involuntary-manslaughter trial.
“It’s kind of beyond a departure of standard of care to something that we would never even fathom doing,” Kamangar said in his testimony.
Echoing experts who have testified before him, Kamangar said his opinions concerning Murray’s actions would remain unchanged even if it were found that Jackson had given himself the lethal dose that led to his death.
2011 – 2nd Raid on Gibson Guitars on This Day in Rock Music History!
Guitar maker ‘Gibson faces criminal investigation over claims it violated environmental laws for importing exotic and protected woods. I guess they must be guilty of wiping out the rain forests… nevermind the housing industry or corporations who clear cut the rain forests.
On August 28 federal agents raided Gibson’s Nashville and Memphis properties, taking shipments of Indian rosewood.
The agents brandished search warrants issued amid suspicions that Gibson had violated the terms of the Lacey Act, an environmental law that requires imports to the US to comply with laws in the country of origin as well.
2011 – Michael Jackson: Dr. Murray gives evidence in hopes of clearing his name on This Day in Rock! The Defence argument: Scientific evidence will show that, on the morning Jackson died, he swallowed a sedative without his doctor’s knowledge, “enough to put six of you to sleep, and he did this when Dr. Murray was not around,” Chernoff said. Jackson then ingested a dose of propofol on his own, creating “a perfect storm that killed him instantly,” Chernoff said.
A lawyer hired by concert promoter AEG to draw up the contract with Michael Jackson’s personal physician testified Wednesday that Dr. Conrad Murray requested a cardiopulmonary resuscitation machine and money to hire a second doctor to help him care for Jackson.
Tuesday morning, dabbing his eyes at times. Mostly, though, the defendant remained stoic through the proceedings.
More at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/28/justice/california-conrad-murray-trial/
2011 – Lady Gaga is being sued for copyright infringement for “Judas” on This Day in Rock! A Chicago based singer and songwriter, Rebecca Francescatti, accused Lady Gaga of lifting portions of a similar tune called “Juda”, which was recorded in 1999.
Francescatti’s “Juda” was engineered by Brian Joseph Gaynor, a member of DJ White Shadow, which worked with Lady Gaga on her new album “Born This Way.”
2011 – Michael Jackson Death Trial: Dr. Murray’s lawyers ask Judge to Sequester the Jury On This Day in Rock! Dr. Conrad Murray’s Legal team asked the judge today if he would consider sequestering the jury at the time of the trial on Sept. 8th. They argue that the Media Circus will influence the jurors. Judge Michael Pastor has made no ruling as of yet, but suggested that it would be too costly for the court system to do that.
2011 – Michael Jackson images are allowed for jurors to see at his doctor’s trial on This Day in Rock.
Furthermore, Judge Michael Pastor said he will allow prosecutors to see segments of the concert movie “This Is It”. Hopefully to see his physical and mental health on screen during the time of the Doctor’s administrations.
Judge is quoted as saying…
“I don’t think this should be entertainment,” the judge said. “We should not feel deprived of our 99-cent iTunes if we don’t hear the whole song.”
2011 – Judge orders Jobs to answer iTunes questions on This Day in Rock!
Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs, who is out on medical leave, has been ordered by a federal magistrate to answer questions from plaintiffs’ lawyers in an antitrust lawsuit related to his company’s iTunes business.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Howard Lloyd, based in San Jose, California, ruled that lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the suit may question Jobs for a total of two hours. He issued the ruling on Monday.
Apple could appeal the ruling to a district judge, but it would likely have to make a case that the magistrate “made a big mistake,” said Professor David Levine at University of California Hastings College of the Law.
An Apple spokeswoman declined to comment, and attorneys for the plaintiffs did not respond to requests for comment.
In the class-action lawsuit, a group of consumers say Apple created a music-downloading monopoly with its iPod player and iTunes store. At issue is a piece of software called Fairplay that allowed only music bought on iTunes to be played on the iPod, according to the complaint.
One competitor, RealNetworks Inc, responded in 2004 by introducing a new technology that would allow customers to play music downloaded from its site on their iPods. Apple quickly announced a software upgrade to iTunes that once more blocked music from RealNetworks, the complaint charges.
“The court finds that Jobs has unique, non-repetitive, first hand knowledge about Apple’s software updates in October 2004 that rendered the RealNetworks’s digital music files once again inoperable with iPods,” Lloyd wrote in his ruling.
The ruling comes amid intense questions about Jobs’ health and whereabouts. Earlier this month an energetic but thin Jobs resurfaced to unveil Apple’s new iPad. His appearance helped reassure investors and fans worried about what his absence might mean for the company.
Apple failed to provide specific examples of how a deposition of Jobs would constitute “undue hardship,” the plaintiffs wrote in a court filing last December.
Lloyd said the deposition of Jobs would be limited to questions about the back-and-forth with RealNetworks in 2004. Apple had sought to prevent the deposition altogether, while the plaintiffs asked to be allowed a broader inquiry.
“By limiting the scope of the deposition, the judge is trying to avoid using this as some sort of tool for embarrassment or annoyance,” Levine said.
Should a district judge uphold Lloyd’s ruling, Levine said it would be extremely difficult for either side to appeal further.
The case is in re Apple iPod iTunes antitrust litigation, Case No. 05-00037, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.
Apple is involved in a host of other lawsuits, both as a plaintiff and defendant, ranging from disputes over patents to antitrust allegations. On Monday, Apple sued Amazon.com Inc in a bid to stop the online retailer from improperly using its APP STORE trademark, according to a court filing.
(Reporting by Paul Thomasch in New York, Dan Levine in San Francisco and Sakthi Prasad in Bangalore; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Derek Caney)
2011 – Jackson doctor seeks records of Demerol treatments on This Day in Rock!
A judge says he will review medical records from Michael Jackson’s longtime dermatologist before deciding whether they should be turned over to attorneys defending the doctor charged in his death.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Pastor said during a hearing Tuesday that he will review records kept by Dr. Arnie Klein for the last nine months of Jackson’s life.
Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray contend Klein got Jackson addicted to the painkiller Demerol through frequent injections.
Garo Ghazarian, an attorney for Klein, denies that claim.
Klein had asked to quash a subpoena to give the files to Murray’s attorneys, but Pastor said he wanted to review the records first to see if their release violated patient-doctor confidentiality.
The judge will review the files in chambers on April 6.
2011 – LimeWire wins limit on damages to record labels on This Day in Rock!
A federal judge limited the potential financial liability facing the operator of LimeWire, a once-popular file-sharing service found liable for copyright infringement, at an upcoming damages trial.
Rejecting an argument that could have led to “trillions” of dollars in damages, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood agreed with Lime Group LLC that the 13 record companies whose works were infringed by LimeWire deserve one award per work infringed.
The record labels had argued they deserved one award for each infringement by individual LimeWire users. Sony Corp and Vivendi SA own various of the labels.
Wood’s ruling allows the labels to recover between $7.5 million and $1.5 billion of “statutory” damages from New York-based Lime Group and other defendants, including LimeWire founder Mark Gorton.
This sum is based on $750 to $150,000 of possible damages for each of roughly 10,000 post-1972 recordings infringed through LimeWire. The labels are also entitled to “actual” damages for infringement of about 1,000 earlier works.
The 13 record companies include Arista, Atlantic, BMG Music, Capital, Elektra, Interscope, Laface, Motown, Priority, Sony BMG, UMG, Virgin and Warner Brothers, court records show.
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Wood said that had she accepted the labels’ theory of damages, Lime Group could have been on the hook for trillions of dollars, citing the “thousands (or even millions)” of uploads and downloads that took place over several years.
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“Plaintiffs are suggesting an award that is more money than the entire music recording industry has made since Edison’s invention of the phonograph in 1877,” Wood wrote, citing a Lime Group court filing referring to the inventor Thomas Edison. She called this an “absurd result.”
Wood had found last May that Lime Group wrongfully assisted users in pirating digital recordings. She shut down LimeWire in October. A trial on damages is scheduled for May 2.
A spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group for the record companies, had no immediate comment on the ruling.
Joseph Baio, a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP representing Lime Group, said: “We’re pleased the court accepted the logical theory that recovery is based on infringements per work.”
On Monday, Lime Group settled a separate copyright lawsuit brought by more than 30 music publishers.
Record companies own copyrights to recordings while publishers can own copyrights to the songs themselves.
The case is Arista Records LLC et al v Lime Group et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 06-05936.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Andre Grenon, Phil Berlowitz)
2011 -Imprisoned music producer Phil Spector settled his lawsuit against attorney Robert Shapiro over a $1 million retainer before a trial was scheduled to begin.
The judge sealed the documents pertaining to the agreement after meeting with the respective lawyers.
Spector had been seeking a refund of the $1 million retainer he paid Shapiro after his arrest in 2003. The “Wall of Sound” producer was convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting of Lana Clarkson after two trials and is currently serving 19 years to life in prison.
Phil is also the producer that plowed thru miles of Beatles tape to finalize production on ‘Let it be’.
2011 -Courtney Love settle her lawsuit with Dawn Simorangkir, fashion designer, who claimed that Love defamed her in a series of messages on Twitter last year. It is reported that Love will pay $430,000 dollars. Payments starting today.
I think all of us are in line to be maligned by Courtney! LOL
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