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Which McCourt Will Blink First in Dodgers Divorce Case?

LOS ANGELES -- It's the most expensive question in baseball right now: can Frank and Jamie McCourt make peace? On Friday in a closed Los Angeles courtroom, attorneys for the estranged spouses appeared before a mediator in an attempt to negotiate a settlement and end their ownership battle over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The...

Dodgers Ownership Could Hinge on Altered McCourt Document

LOS ANGELES -- In the most heated exchange of Frank and Jamie McCourt's high-profile divorce trial, Jamie's attorney David Boies lit into the couple's longtime lawyer on Tuesday morning, loudly questioning Larry Silverstein, the McCourts' former attorney in Boston, about his role in altering the couple's 2004 marital...

In McCourt Trial for Control of Dodgers, a Classic Case of 'He Said, She Said'

LOS ANGELES -- If you believe Frank McCourt, his estranged wife Jamie is a social-climbing spendthrift who never wanted to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers and badgered him to guarantee her financial security. If you believe Jamie, Frank is a calculating operator who has selective memory and may have conspired with a lawyer...

McCourt Divorce Trial Reveals Dodgers' Massive Debts, Payroll Deductions

LOS ANGELES -- To put it mildly, Wednesday was a downer for the Los Angeles Dodgers. In a packed courtroom, owner Frank McCourt testified that his vision for the franchise always included "significant" reductions to player payroll, higher ticket prices, and a dramatically smaller baseball operations department. On the...

Here's What to Watch for as McCourt Divorce Trial Kicks Off

In a year of landmark sports litigation, the divorce trial between Frank and Jamie McCourt, which begins Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, may end up being the most-discussed case of all. It is the ultimate Hollywood he said, she said, a saga that includes Malibu mansions, millionaire ballplayers, conflicting...

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05/24/12 A litigator's view: Three things I know about Oracle... Source: ZDNet I spent three years in law school, a bunch of years practicing law, and I follow intellectual property matters pretty closely, but I can't say with a straight face that I have a complete grasp of every issue in the Oracle-Google litigation.
05/18/12 Friday in Tech Bullshitters Source: Balloon Juice Oracle is suing Google, one of the pieces of evidence is a fairly trivial few lines of code.
05/16/12 Java Jury Deliberating Google's Patent Infringement Source: Sys-Con Media Oracle's Java patent infringement case against Google and Android went to the jury Tuesday afternoon.
05/11/12 Judge Ridicules Oracle's Risky Choice To Forego... Source: Techdirt We've written tons of stuff on the ridiculousness of statutory damages for copyright infringement -- which can put damages for a single infringement at up to $150,000 (for willful infringement).
04/25/12 Is Android critical to Google? Source: WirelessIQ Google trial the value of the Android platform to the Internet giant has been a subject of inquiry.