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The New York Appellate Division, Third Department, ordered summary dismissal of a suit over a fan who died after chasing a Britney Spears impersonator outside a radio station.

Recently filed cases in entertainment law, straight from the steps of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Recent cases in entertainment law.

Recent cases on the enforcement and requirement of arbitration disputes.

The justices of the California Supreme Court recently seemed inclined to keep their fingers out of the creative process that helped breathe life into the characters on the TV sitcom "Friends." The court had been asked to rule whether the show writers' sexually crude comments and simulations while hashing out TV scripts could constitute sexual harassment serious enough to cause a hostile work environment, especially for women and minorities.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that the owner of an interest in a song failed to show that he reasonably relied on an alleged materially false representation regarding the transfer of his interest in the song ' and thus failed to establish his fraud claim.

Lawyer's Conduct Leads to Reduction In Services Award

Courts have broadly interpreted in favor of record companies the language in agreements with artists that states the label will be able to reproduce the artist's recordings "by any method now or hereafter known." But the Court of Appeals of Tennessee, at Nashville, decided that neither the record company to which the late country legend Hank Williams had signed, nor a company that obtained rights in the physical masters of Williams' 1950s radio performances had the right to exploit those recordings.