JERRY SEINFELD: A comedian’s lesson from a defamation case

A few years ago, star comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s family spent quite a bit of time in court and with lawyers. First, his wife gets sued for plagiarizing (or copying) somebody else’s cookbook. Then Seinfeld himself gets sued for talking about the lawsuit filed against his wife when he appeared on David Letterman’s show. And it…

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DONALD TRUMP vs. BILL MAHER: Tensions between a Joke and a Deal

When it comes to money matters, mixing things up with Donald Trump can be a costly proposition. This means that even making a bet with the real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice host can earn someone a court date and maybe even set the person back a couple million dollars. Not even if the bet was meant…

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THE JAY LENO TRIANGLE: Comedy, Courtroom & Foreign Relations

Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsuit in…

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