This is a very odd story, and not because it involves one-half of TV's most enjoyable sitcoms ever, The Odd Couple, but it's not about that show. It's about his other successful series. Jack Klugman has filed suit against NBC Universal over profits from Quincy, M.E. The oddity is that the show hasn't been in production for 25 years and this hasn't come up till now!SupremeCourt-related stories
Jack Klugman sues NBC over Quincy profits
This is a very odd story, and not because it involves one-half of TV's most enjoyable sitcoms ever, The Odd Couple, but it's not about that show. It's about his other successful series. Jack Klugman has filed suit against NBC Universal over profits from Quincy, M.E. The oddity is that the show hasn't been in production for 25 years and this hasn't come up till now!Continue reading Jack Klugman sues NBC over Quincy profits
Judge Alex loses in court
By a vote of 8-1, the highest court in the land has ruled against Alex Ferrer, Judge Alex. Now, we're not talking the Emmy judges, ruling against the TV show. This is the real legal business, not the Let's Make A Deal-justice of the sort Judge Alex is all about. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against him. Ferrer, star of the syndicated court show Judge Alex, a former police officer and Florida judge, had brought a case before the high court involving a dispute over commissions he supposedly owed to a former associate, Arnold Preston. Continue reading Judge Alex loses in court
A supreme slam at Tony and Carmela
If you're in the camp that believes that Tony was whacked by the Members-Only jacketed man in the final blackout of The Sopranos, then you'll probably be pleased to know that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has taken a shot at the HBO drama, too.During a recent speech at New Jersey's Rutgers University, Justice Alito opined that the Emmy-winning series besmirched not only Italians, but citizens of the Garden State, too. "You have a trifecta - gangsters, Italian-Americans, New Jersey - wedded in the popular American imagination," he said to a crowd of about 100. He was speaking about the stereotypes Italian-Americans have had to live with in the United States. Clearly, The Sopranos would be just the kind of depiction to draw his ire. After all, Uncle Junior and Paulie Walnuts are not characters to be emulated and admired, and creator David Chase never said they were.
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Fox greenlights three pilots
Fox has given the green light to three pilots that could appear on the network's fall schedule. The pilots are hour-long dramas about lawyers, nurses, and law clerks.Canterbury's Law is about a "headstrong female defense attorney" who practically bends the law to get justice for her innocent clients. Supreme Courtships (arrrgh, what a dumb name) is an ensemble dramedy about the personal lives of six U.S. Supreme Court clerks. The untitled nurse project is another ensemble dramedy about nurses in a big-city hospital.
I think this is indicative of one of the main problems in television these days. Everything is either crime or medical. How many freakin' lawyer shows do we need? They're not that interesting! And I am sick to death of anything set in a hospital. At least with Heroes and Lost we have original settings and situations.
Supreme Court supports Anna Nicole Smith
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that former Playboy playmate and reality TV star Anna
Nicole Smith can pursue part of her late husband's estate. I don't believe any of us thought that the nouns Anna Nicole
Smith and Supreme Court would ever be put in the same sentence, but stranger things have happened.
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Anna Nicole goes to court
Proving once again that the gal
with the best implants always stays afloat, Anna Nicole Smith has found herself an unlikely ally in her Supreme Court
battle for the kabillion dollar inheritance she believes her ex-husband wanted her to have. U.S. Solicitor
General Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top Supreme Court attorney, has filed arguments on behalf of Smith, and
is lobbying for permission to argue alongside Smith's attorney when the case goes before the judges on February 28.
Though Bush has more than a couple of things in common with Smith's long-dead benefactor – both were Yalies
-turned- Texas oilmen – this is apparently an issue not of fraternity, but of politics: the Supremes are only
hearing Smith's case because it maintains that federal court rulings should maintain superiority
over local judgements, and that's apparently an issue close to the Neo-con administration's heart. Station forced to hand over tape of Sox riot
WCAX, a television station in Vermont which held on to footage it had shot of a celebration which took place after the Red Sox's World Series win and soon escalated into a riot, has finally chosen to acquiesce and hand the tape over to the authorities. Of course, when I say "chosen to" I should have said "was forced to." It seems bosses at WCAX claimed there was no legal reason to hand over the tape, but the Vermont Supreme Court stepped in and said otherwise. The tape will be used as evidence.
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