Musician Ed Sheeran was in Manhattan federal court Tuesday as a copyright infringement trial got underway involving alleged similarities between his Grammy-winning song “Thinking Out Loud” and the Marvin Gaye classic “Let’s Get It On.”
Sheeran, seated in a dark suit and tie at the defense table, listened to the opening statements in the case, which was brought forth by the heirs to “Let’s Get It On” co-writer Ed Townsend.
“If you remember nothing else about this trial, about this case, simply remember it is about giving credit where credit is due,” said renowned civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, who…
A federal judge in New York on Monday denied former President Donald Trump’s bid for a mistrial in writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit alleging that Trump raped her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
In an 18-page filing hours ahead of his second day of cross-examining Carroll, Trump lawyer Joe Tacopina accused US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who is overseeing the case, of making “pervasive unfair and prejudicial rulings” against his client.
Barring a mistrial ruling, Tacopina requested that Kaplan “correct the record for each and every instance in which the Court has mischaracterized the facts of this…
Ed Sheeran’s plagiarism trial has finally come to an end, with the jury now set to deliberate.
Kathryn Townsend Griffin, the daughter of Ed Townsend, who worked with Gaye on the song, has been arguing that there are ‘striking similarities’ between the two songs, as well as ‘overt common elements’ that violates their copyright.
Sheeran has been consistent throughout the case that he has done nothing wrong, and that lots of tunes share certain characteristics, but that doesn’t mean there’s been any plagiarism.
Ed Sheeran’s lawyer says the case should ‘never have been brought’ to court. Credit: Press Wire/Shutterstock
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Citations: 1992 AIR 1904, 1991 SCR(1) 274
Appellant: Smt. Sureshta Devi
Respondents: Om Prakash
Decided On: 7.02. 1991
Equivalent Citations:
1. 1992 AIR 1904
2. 1991 SCR (1) 274
Benches:
SHETTY, KJ (J)
AGRAWAL, SC (J)
Statutes Referred:
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955
Special Marriage Act, 1954
Marriage Laws (Amendment) Act, 1976
In a marriage, a man and woman make a lifelong commitment to one another, promising to love and cherish one another until death do them part. The pair learns the true meaning of love, trust, tolerance, support and harmony through their marriage as a union. It is a community…
Evan Corcoran has been ordered to testify, piercing attorney-client privilege.
A federal judge has ruled that a lawyer for former President Donald Trump must provide additional testimony before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s handling of classified documents, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
Special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutors asked Judge Beryl Howell last month to pierce attorney-client privilege and compel Trump attorney Evan Corcoran to appear before a grand jury, sources previously told ABC News.
The Justice Department made the request on the basis of the crime-fraud exception, sources said, which allows for claims of attorney-client privilege…
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Few Americans in modern history have run through a series of lawyers as colorful — and often, of such dubious reliability — as Donald Trump.
And now we have a new entry in a long succession: Joe Tacopina.
In appearances on ABC News, Fox News and MSNBC this week, the high-profile criminal defense lawyer rather enthusiastically laid out Trump’s defense against a potentially imminent criminal charge in Manhattan. In the course of doing so, though, Tacopina lodged a series of questionable claims about the case.
The potential charges apparently deal with the $130,000 hush-money payment that…
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