DATE:
June 19, 2007
LOCATION:
The Recording Academy
3402 Pico Blvd. * Santa Monica, CA
Free parking is available. Please enter through The Recording Academy's gate. Additional parking is available at the back.
ABOUT:
This program will educate the attendees about the ethical challenges attorneys face when representing high profile entertainment clients and what alternatives exist to prevent problems from occuring and to address problems when they arise. The panel will focus on such topics as celebrity clients with substance abuse problems, confidentiality issues, media spotlight, gag orders, celebrity entourages, and handling criminal issues.
MODERATOR:
Gary A. Watson, Entertainment Transactional Attorney
Gary A. Watson & Associates, PC * Los Angeles, CA
SPEAKERS:
Dr. Sheila Balkan, Criminologist
Los Angeles, CA
Stephen D. Barnes, Entertainment Transactional Attorney
Barnes Morris Klein Mark Yorn Barnes & Levine P.C. * Santa Monica, CA
Anthony Brooklier, Criminal Defense Attorney
Marks & Brooklier * Los Angeles, CA
Harold Owens, Senior Director of Addiction Recovery Services
MusiCares Foundation *Santa Monica, CA
Michael J. Plonsker, Entertainment Litigation Attorney
Dreier Stein & Kahan LLP * Santa Monica, CA
For more information:
http://www.abanet.org/forums/entsports/flyer/index.html
Monday, June 18, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Judge issues ruling in favor of Brooklyn arena
NEW YORK -- A federal judge delivered a setback Wednesday to Brooklyn residents trying to stop the state from leveling their homes to make way for a new arena for the NBA's Nets.
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed one of two major legal challenges to the project, which is also to include office space and as many as 6,400 new apartments in towers designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Thirteen holdout tenants, homeowners and business owners in the mega-development's vast footprint sued last year to save their properties. They said the planned seizures were a sham, orchestrated for the sole purpose of enriching the Nets principal owner, Bruce Ratner.
Garaufis called that allegation baseless.
"Because plaintiffs concede that the project will create large quantities of housing and office space, as well as a sports arena, in an area that is mostly blighted," he wrote, no reasonable juror could conclude "that the 'sole purpose' of the project is to confer a private benefit."
Ratner released a statement calling the ruling "an important victory" for Brooklyn.
An attorney for the residents, Matthew Brinckerhoff, said he will appeal.
"We are confident that the appellate court will allow this case to proceed to trial, at which the citizens of New York will finally learn the real reason plaintiffs' properties were selected to be forcibly taken, and why Ratner was chosen to reap an unprecedented financial windfall," he said in a written statement.
The development, dubbed Atlantic Yards, still must overcome other legal hurdles, including a lawsuit in state court challenging the validity of the state's review of the project's environmental impact.
U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed one of two major legal challenges to the project, which is also to include office space and as many as 6,400 new apartments in towers designed by architect Frank Gehry.
Thirteen holdout tenants, homeowners and business owners in the mega-development's vast footprint sued last year to save their properties. They said the planned seizures were a sham, orchestrated for the sole purpose of enriching the Nets principal owner, Bruce Ratner.
Garaufis called that allegation baseless.
"Because plaintiffs concede that the project will create large quantities of housing and office space, as well as a sports arena, in an area that is mostly blighted," he wrote, no reasonable juror could conclude "that the 'sole purpose' of the project is to confer a private benefit."
Ratner released a statement calling the ruling "an important victory" for Brooklyn.
An attorney for the residents, Matthew Brinckerhoff, said he will appeal.
"We are confident that the appellate court will allow this case to proceed to trial, at which the citizens of New York will finally learn the real reason plaintiffs' properties were selected to be forcibly taken, and why Ratner was chosen to reap an unprecedented financial windfall," he said in a written statement.
The development, dubbed Atlantic Yards, still must overcome other legal hurdles, including a lawsuit in state court challenging the validity of the state's review of the project's environmental impact.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
2nd Circuit rejects FCC ruling
In a 2-to-1 vote, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York rejected the FCC's ruling that Fox's airing of "fleeting expletives" uttered by Nicole Richie and Cher during the 2002 and 2003 Billboard Music Awards, equated to indecency. The judges also questioned if the new FCC policy, which was imposed after Bono's word choice during NBC's broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards in 2003, was legally sustainable. The FCC is currently reviewing the appellate court's decision. A second case challenging the FCC indecency ruling involves fines forced on CBS from the Janet Jackson Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction incident.
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