Tag: LAWSUITS
Twenty-two-year-old Connecticut resident Willian Barboza was driving through the Catskills town of Liberty, New York last year when he was pulled over and ticketed for speeding. Barboza got home, plead guilty through the mail, and sent his ticket in–but not before eloquently expressing his dissatisfaction, scratching “Liberty” from the ticket, replacing it with “Tyranny,” and offering […]
Past Friday afternoon, artist and recent legal provocateur Richard Prince tweeted a link to a video in which he is seen burning one of his still disputed “Canal Zone” paintings. The tweet has since been deleted. Rewind: Years ago, the artist was sued by photographer Patrick Cariou over the artist’s use of his photographs in a series of paintings […]
Salaheddin Barhoum and Yassine Zaimi, the two young men who were identified as “Bag Men” on the cover of the New York Post during the investigation of the Boston Marathon, have sued that paper for defamation. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday, argues that the Post cover and accompanying article imply Barhoum and Zaimi were lead suspects. No word on […]
Look at the image above, the logo for Everyman Espresso, a coffee shop with locations in SoHo and the East Village. Does it remind you of the state of New York’s iconic “I ♥ NY” mark? Enough for the state to take legal action? That’s exactly what’s happening, as the state’s Department of Economic Development gets its […]
As you’ve probably heard, Supreme is suing Married to the Mob label owner (and ANIMAL friend) Leah McSweeney for $10 million claiming copyright infringement of their signature logo in her “Supreme Bitch” parody design. However, the logo they are suing over hasn’t been federally trademarked. It was only recently that Supreme filed a trademark application […]
Some residents of the Smith Houses on the Lower East Side are suing NYCHA for something even more potentially nefarious than its enthusiasm for canceling repair requests. The lawsuit alleges the housing authority is purposely witholding repair funds in an effort to get projects residents on board with a plan to lease land on the […]
Internt memes, by their very nature, are vessels for reappropriation. Philosoraptor isn’t that funny the first time you see it; the humor comes when a meme creator successfully fulfills the parameters of the meme–banal and/or profound observational humor, setup on top, punchline on the bottom–which evolve as the meme propogates and is remixed. But that […]
In case you missed it, in the immediate aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing, the New York Post published a front page photo of two innocent young men, insinuating that they were chief suspects in the federal investigation. Perhaps not shockingly, the two men were Arab. After the paper issued a half-assed update (not a […]
Patricia Ratz and Pat Guglielmo were walking their three pit bulls in Staten Island’s Schmul Park when two of the dogs got into a scuffle, biting Ratz as she tried to settle them. According to Ratz, Baby Girl–the third, non-fighting dog–started to run off just as a police officer opened fire, unloading 10 shots on the animals […]
Yesterday, the City of New York agreed to pay over $365,000 to settle a lawsuit over the destruction of the Occupy Wall Street People’s Library. When the NYPD unceremoniously raided and evicted the Zuccotti Park Occupy encampment in November 2011, officers destroyed the library and many of the 5,500 books inside. As Allison Burtch put it […]
