Courtney Love Involved in Groundbreaking Twitter Lawsuit

Courtney Love Twitter trial moved to February 6
Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter) - The trial date in the Defamation case against Courtney Love over her outrageous Twitter postings has been postponed three weeks. Lawyers for Love and Fashion Designer Dawn Simorangkir—who is suing the rocker over a March 2009 tirade of Tweets in which Love called the self-proclaimed "Boudoir Queen" a Prostitute and a thief—were in the Los Angeles courtroom of Hon. Debre Weintraub Wednesday morning for the final status conference in the case. The tr...

Courtney Love's tweets lead to court trial
Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter) - Courtney Love was very upset. The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a Fashion Designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes. So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the "Boudoir Queen." Love's tweets, which instantly landed in the Twitter feeds of her 40,000 or so followers (and countless others via retweets...

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The German anatomist who pioneered the Controversial "Body Worlds" exhibition announced that he plans to display his own corpse in the art show. Von Hagens was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. The 65-year-old, dubbed "Dr. Death" for reportedly trying to sell body parts online, told Germany's Bild amm Sontag: "I want to prepare myself for the plastination of my own body and determine the place where I want to be exhibited after my death.&#...

Singer Courtney Love is sued in landmark Twitter case
Courtney Love, the singer and actress, has become the first high profile celebrity to be sued over comments made on the micro-blogging website Twitter....

Twisted Tweeting Gets Twit Sued
Tweet - Tweet From kgmi.com Courtney Love’s tweets lead to court trial Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter) - Courtney Love was very upset. The firebrand rocker had been locked in a dispute with Dawn Simorangkir, a Fashion Designer who was demanding payment for a few thousand dollars worth of clothes. So on March 17, 2009, Love took to her Twitter account and began hurling a stream of shocking insults at the designer known as the “Boudoir Queen.” Love’s tweets,...

Facebook tried to buy Twitter in 2008: report
Stumble This! NEW YORK (AFP) - The Microblogging site Twitter turned down a 500 million dollar purchase offer from the Social Networking site Facebook in 2008, according to the Financial Times. In an interview with the British business daily published over the weekend, co-founder Biz Stone said Twitter wanted to become not just a popular site but a viable business, rather than be taken over by another company. "We?ve created something that people are finding value in," he said. "But we ha...

MySpace eyes major staff cuts: reports
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - MySpace is preparing to unveil a major round of layoffs as early as this month in its latest restructuring step, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The social-networking site has roughly 1,100 employees, but the report didn't detail the amount of likely Job Cuts. Both MySpace and the Wall Street Journal are owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. CNBC reporter Julia Boorstin said the network is eyeing cuts of around 50% of its Workforce. A MySpace spokeswoman ...

MySpace May Face Huge Cuts
The faltering social network site MySpace may be considering a huge downsizing, according to the Wall Street Journal. "One person familiar with the matter said the site could lay off between a third and a half of its roughly 1,100 employees," the Journal reported. The Wall Street Journal is owned by News Corp (NWS), as is Myspace. It is no surprise, then, that the paper was the first to report the possible layoffs. There have also been rumors that MySpace is for sale. It is an irony that the n...

Let's give Steve Ballmer some credit
In October 2007, Microsoft (MSFT) agreed to buy a 1.6% stake in Facebook at a $15 billion valuation. Reaction from many quarters was withering: PC Mag: "Whoever said the company is worth that much must be smoking something, including Microsoft, who paid millions for a tiny stake in it." ValleyWag: "It's Microsoft executives, driven mad by Google and MySpace envy and determined not to miss out on the social-networking trend, who seem, well, a bit off." All Things D: "Silicon Valley can now b...

Grassley To Take GOP Helm At Senate Judiciary Committee
The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a new top Republican in the 112th Congress. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) is slated to take over the ranking member post from Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), pending resolution of a fight over Senate Filibuster rules that is holding up committee organizing for the new Congress. Grassley is moving to Judiciary from a plum perch as ranking member of the tax-writing Finance Committee. A GOP rule limits Senate Republicans to no more than six years in top commit...

Co-host of Roger Ebert's new movie show speaks out
Los Angeles (Hollywood Reporter) - Ignatiy Vishnevetsky raised a lot of eyebrows when he was announced as the new host of "Ebert Presents At the Movies." But the 24-year-old critic for the film website Mubi and the Chicago Reader says he is not daunted by the prospect of filling the massive shoes left by the man who hired him for the spot -- former host Roger Ebert. "You have to be the best you that you can possibly be," Vishnevetsky tells The Hollywood Reporter. "There is a legacy here. But th...

State crime lab evaluating software for familial DNA searching
Virginia has obtained the software needed for conducting familial DNA searching and could soon be the third state to regularly employ the crime-fighting tool. Use of the technique is being sought in at least two high-profile unsolved Virginia cases: the search for the so-called East Coast Rapist and the killer of Virginia Tech Student Morgan Harrington. In November, Mitchell Morrissey, the Denver District Attorney and a proponent of familial searching, told the Virginia State Crime Commission th...

NY lawsuit: Clorox misleads in cat litter ads
The maker of Arm & Hammer's Super Scoop cat litter has sued The Clorox Co. in Federal Court in New York, saying Clorox's Fresh Step cat litter is running a disparaging television commercial that will hurt its product. The Lawsuit was filed Wednesday. It seeks unspecified damages and a court order to stop the Clorox commercial from airing. In the Lawsuit the Princeton, N.J.-based Church & Dwight Co. Inc. says its Super Scoop product is maligned because the advertisement shows multiple cat...

Clorox Kitty Litter Ad Steps In It, Rival Says
Yahoo! Buzz Talk about a cat fight. Church & Dwight Co., the maker of Arm & Hammer’s Super Scoop kitty litter, sued The Clorox Co. on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan over its new ad campaign for Clorox’s Fresh Step litter. According to the false advertising Lawsuit, the Clorox ads depict multiple cats rejecting the Arm & Hammer litter and cats prefer Fresh Step because it “is better at eliminating odors.” However, Church & Dwight claims its own rese...

Clorox sued by Arm & Hammer maker over cat litter
Trading Report for (CLX). A detailed report, including free correlated market analysis, and updates. NYSE and AMEX quotes delayed by at least 20 minutes. NASDAQ delayed by at least 15 minutes. For a complete list of exchanges and delays, please click here. By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new Lawsuit cries foul over Clorox Co's (CLX.N) advertising for a brand of cat litter. Church & Dwight Co (CHD.N), the maker of Arm & Hammer baking soda, on Wednesday sued Clorox to stop... ...

Clorox sued by Arm & Hammer maker over cat litter
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK | Wed Jan 5, 2011 6:36pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new Lawsuit cries foul over Clorox Co's (CLX.N) advertising for a brand of cat litter. Church & Dwight Co (CHD.N), the maker of Arm & Hammer baking soda, on Wednesday sued Clorox to stop advertising for Fresh Step cat litter that it said disparages its own Arm & Hammer Super Scoop cat litter. Clorox spokeswoman Kathryn Caulfield said the company does not generally discuss pending litigation and had no...

New Michigan AG renews challenge to Obamacare
Newly sworn-in Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today announced that he will renew Michigan's Constitutional Challenge to the federal healthcare law commonly known as “ObamaCare,” initiated by outgoing Attorney General Mike Cox. Most recently, Cox praised a Virginia Federal Court ruling that found the Individual Mandate compelling U.S. citizens to buy Health Insurance was Unconstitutional. Schuette succeeds Cox representing the People of the State Michigan in the Lawsuit pendi...

Suit alleges police hold back info on alderman's protection
The Better Government Association filed a Lawsuit Wednesday against the Chicago Police Department alleging that the agency wrongfully denied the nonprofit's Freedom of Information Act request for records related to Ald. Edward Burke's security detail. The organization filed the FOIA request in August, requesting the names of the officers assigned to Burke and their titles, salaries, time sheets, reports and expenses. In a September response, the police department called the request "unduly bur...

Lawsuit: Diabetic 'pummeled,' shocked by Hamilton County, Ohio deputies
John Harmon was coming off a late night at work when he left his downtown marketing firm for his Anderson Township home just after midnight in October 2009. The 52-year-old longtime diabetic's blood sugar levels had dipped to a dangerously low level causing him to weave into another lane. A Hamilton County Sheriff's deputy spotted him on Clough Pike and suspected drunken driving. What happened over the next two minutes and 20 seconds should never happen to anyone, Harmon said. Deputies brok...

US Army: Beards OK for Muslims, Not OK for Jews
From The Army Times, via Commentary, via The Jawa Report: A rabbi from Brooklyn, N.Y., is suing The Army over its “no-beard” policy, claiming the service violated his Religious Freedoms when it rejected him because he refuses to shave. Menachem M. Stern’s Lawsuit argues The Army is discriminating against him because it has waived the “no-beard” rule for several Sikhs and a Muslim, but not for him. Advocates hope the case, if successful, will pave the way for more bearded rab

U.S. tells agencies: Watch 'insiders' to prevent new WikiLeaks
Source: NBC News Trying to prevent more Wikileaks embarrassments, the Obama Administration is telling federal agencies to take aggressive new steps to prevent leaks of classified documents, including instituting “insider threat” programs to ferret out disgruntled employees who might be inclined to leak classified documents, NBC News has learned. As part of these programs, agency officials are being asked to figure out ways to “detect behavioral changes” among employees who might have acc

Quinoa's popularity boon to Bolivians
In this photo taken Oct. 25, 2010, a man cleans quinoa grain in Pacoma, Bolivia. Quinoa's rising popularity among First World foodies has been a boon to some of the poor farmers in the semiarid highlands of Bolivia. It's as inhospitable as climates come for crop cultivation, the dry and rocky soils of Bolivia's semiarid altiplain. Miguel Choque can see his breath as surveys his fields of quinoa, the Andean "supergrain." In late March or April, the flowering plants will paint the rugged landscap...

Issa asks: 'Where are the bad regulations?'
Think a government Regulation is burdensome? Rep. Darrell Issa wants to know.  The incoming chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently sent a letter to more than 150 Think Tanks, trade associations and private businesses, his office announced Tuesday, asking those groups which proposed and existing regulations "have negatively impacted job growth in your members' industry." In the letter, Issa (R-Calif.) wrote that 43 major new regulations announced by federal ag...

Extreme security marks Rick Scott's inauguration as governor
Tallahassee -- Rick Scott is bringing change to the capital in more ways than one. Florida's new Governor was the star of the most security-conscious inauguration in recent memory, with elaborate Washington-style flourishes that amplified Scott's unfamiliarity with the small, informal capital city he now calls home. For two days, Scott was trailed by a cadre of dark-suited men who resembled law-enforcement agents, but were not. They wore red lapel buttons and silver earpieces, checking visito...

Private Report: US Added 300,000 Jobs in Dec.
Like this Story? Share it: A new report is raising hopes the government's official report Friday on last month's Job Creation could be a blockbuster. (CBS/iStockphoto) (AP) A new report is raising hopes the government's official report Friday on last month's Job Creation could be a blockbuster. The private Payroll firm, Automatic Data Processing, says companies added nearly 300,000 jobs in December. While some Economists see reasons to doubt the numbers, the ADP report and another showing str...