Vol. 56 No. 3
Trial Magazine
Hearsay
The lighter side of the law
March 2020“[S]ometime[s] you wake up in the United States Code, and that[’]s ok.”
A tweet from @langdellbird, a parody account tracking a bird stuck in the Harvard Law School library. School officials asked people to stop feeding the bird so it could be humanely captured and removed, which it was—weeks later.
“DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS CARICATURE? And no, we are not kidding . . .”
In a Facebook post, the Riverside, Calif., police department trying to track down a thief who stole approximately $500 from an artist after having his caricature drawn. The artist gave the drawing to police to aid in the search.
“After Nautilus spent nearly two decades creating works . . . of Blackbeard’s famed Queen Anne’s Revenge, the state brazenly pirated them.”
The petitioners in their reply brief in the SCOTUS case Allen v. Cooper. They allege North Carolina infringed on Nautilus Productions’s copyrights of film from the underwater excavation of the notorious pirate ship.
