The cancellation of Lady Gaga show in Moscow last summer cost Russian Media Company UTV $1.8 million.
The company, which owns the Muz-TV music channel, filed a case with a Miami court against the American New Wave Entertainment Company to return the insurance deposit and compensation for the losses.
UTV claims it hired New Wave Entertainment to book the popular American singer to perform at the Muz-TV awards ceremony in June 2012.
“The company paid the necessary reservation deposit but the Americans could not guarantee the concert on the date needed for the channel,” Muz-TV said in a statement.
UTV claims New Wave Entertainment failed to secure Lady Gaga’s performance in Moscow, despite receiving the $1.5 million advance payment and $300,000 agency fee.
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Article source: http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/russian-media-court-lady-gaga-047/
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LeBron James got the thumbs-up from Dwyane Wade to facilitate the crunch-time offense.
MIAMI – The conversation needed to happen at some point.
There simply was no way around it. After sitting out the past six games to recover from a combination of ankle, foot and calf injuries, sooner or later Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade and forward LeBron James were going to have to discuss the most seamless way to reunite their dominant play.
After all, James and the Heat had redefined their playing style and rotation pecking order to the tune of a 5-1 record in the most recent stretch of games Wade missed. In that time, James found a productive comfort zone and strung together a run of MVP-worthy performances. He even started referring to his recent play as that of the Cleveland LeBron.
Well into their second season together in Miami, James and Wade still, at times, don’t play as much with each other as they do around one another. Finding their Kanye West/Jay Z balance, their Miles Davis/John Coltrane rhythm – especially in the fourth quarter of close games – remains the final frontier yet to be crossed for
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Article source: http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/11987/lebron-must-take-wades-advice-lead-heat
William E. Wells murdered five people in a Florida fishing village in 2003. After his arrest, he insisted he should be executed.
He wasn’t.
So, Wells began to make meticulous plans to kill a fellow inmate inside a Miami-Dade prison.
“It’s natural selection — survival of the fittest,” he later told guards.
In May 2008, Wells tied the man up by the wrists, strangled him and stabbed him with a homemade shiv before other guards stepped in. The man survived — and Wells quickly pleaded guilty to a life term for the attack.
Nevertheless, Wells behaved well enough to earn a position as an “orderly” within a maximum security prison in Raiford, giving him greater access to the cell blocks of fellow inmates. Then last year, Wells finally killed again, this time teaming up with another man to strangle and stab an inmate to death.
Wells, 36, may finally get his wish to die by lethal injection — the State Attorney in Bradford County is now seeking the death penalty.
“There is the possibility they are bound and determined to get the death penalty imposed on them,” State
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Article source: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/28/2613573/notorious-murderer-facing-death.html
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Jan. 27, 2012
–The Florida Bar–
LAWYER REGULATION UNDER REVIEW– The Florida Bar News, http://www.floridabar.org, Feb. 1, 2012.
Florida Bar President Scott Hawkins kicked off a daylong meeting of the Bar’s Commission on Review of the Discipline System at the Florida AM University College of Law Jan. 9 in Orlando. Created this past May, the commission’s goal is to make sure the Bar is fully responsive and vigilant in regulating its nearly 100,000 members. The commission has been broken down into three subcommittees: Group One focuses on the standards for imposing lawyer sanctions, alternatives to discipline and problems related to aging attorneys; Group Two examines the Bar’s Attorney Consumer Assistance Program; and Group Three looks at complex discipline cases and is examining communication with the public and Bar about the grievance program.
PANEL LOOKS AT LIMITING LRS MEMBERSHIP– The Florida Bar News, http://www.floridabar.org, Feb. 1, 2012.
A Bar committee
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U.S. citizens who were on the Costa Concordia and want to sue may be lost in the sea of fine print written on the back of their ticket vouchers, according to legal experts.
Marc Bern, a senior partner with the New York-based Napoli Bern Ripka LLP, said he plans to file a single lawsuit on behalf of “a number of injured passengers” in Miami on Friday — despite the cruise line’s offer to pay passengers who have returned home more than $14,000 each in compensation.
Families of passengers killed in the accident and cruise guests who were injured and needed medical treatment on site will “be covered under a separate proposal that will take into account their individual circumstances,” the cruise line said in a statement.
But Bern’s civil complaint against Costa Cruises and its operator, Miami-based Carnival Corporation, faces a major legal problem because of where the lawsuit is being filed, according to legal experts. Included in the fine print on the back of each passenger
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Article source: http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/01/27/costa-concordia-civil-lawsuit-to-be-filed-in-miami-may-face-legal-hurdle/
(Adds Stanford in top section, BP and Apple in Lawsuits and Perelman in Trials. Updates Chinese Vitamin C Makers in Lawsuits and JJ in Verdicts.)
Jan. 27 (Bloomberg) — R. Allen Stanford, standing trial on allegations he led a $7 billion investment fraud, appeared in an October 2008 video shown to jurors in which he decried “damn greed” on Wall Street as the financial crisis deepened.
“People are stupid, they’re greedy, they’re lazy, they don’t stick to their core values,” he told a gathering of Stanford Financial Group Co. executives in Miami. “We’re different.”
In the video, shown yesterday in Houston federal court, the financier told his audience that the company was “$5.5 billion more liquid than it should have been.” Four months later, U.S. regulators filed suit claiming his businesses were missing billions of dollars in investor money. He was indicted in June 2009.
Prosecutors accuse Stanford of skimming more than $1 billion in investor deposits from his Stanford International Bank Ltd. to fund a lavish lifestyle and support real estate developments and unrelated companies that included regional airlines
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Jan. 26, 2012
–The Florida Bar–
THE 2012 FLORIDA BAR PRESIDENT’S PRO BONO SERVICE AWARDS– The Florida Bar, news release, http://www.floridabar.org, Jan. 25, 2012. [Also: PRO BONO AWARDS-- News Service of Florida, http://www.newsserviceflorida.com, Jan. 26, 2012; INDIALANTIC MAN PROUD TO BE 'LAWYER OF ONLY RESORT'-- Florida Today, http://www.floridatoday.com, Jan. 26, 2012; ATTORNEY BEING HONORED FOR WORK ON BEHALF OF POOR-- Pensacola News Journal, http://www.pnj.com, Jan. 26, 2012].
Each year, the Florida Supreme Court and The Florida Bar give special recognition to lawyers, groups and a member of the judiciary who have freely given their time and expertise in making legal services available to the poor. This year 23 lawyers, a judge, a voluntary bar association and a law firm will receive the legal profession’s gratitude and honor for their pro bono service at a special ceremony at the Supreme
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By CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer
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8 hours ago
MIAMI (AP) — Former NFL players should not be permitted to sue for damages over concussions they suffered because player safety issues have long been governed by the league’s collective bargaining agreements, an NFL attorney said Thursday.
“You don’t get to come to court,” league lawyer Beth Wilkinson said. “They should go through the process that’s laid out in the agreement.”
Wilkinson spoke following a hearing before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which is considering whether to consolidate 21 player lawsuits filed in six states before a single judge for pretrial matters. At least 300 former football players, plus an equal number of wives and other family members, are plaintiffs in the cases.
They include Hall of Famers Tony Dorsett, Lem Barney and Joe DeLamielleure and other stars such as Ottis Anderson, Mark Duper, Jim McMahon, Paul Krause and Marvin Jones. The vast majority, however, are players who toiled more obscurely in the game’s trenches and often bounced from team to team. Some are suffering from degenerative brain diseases, depression and other mental ailments.
The six-judge panel made no immediate decision. Still, there was a clear
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