This is an excellent point. Trump says some ridiculously stupid things, and there is a smack of fascism in some of that stuff, but the guy overall is relatively moderate. Cruz is a fucking nut job. All I needed to see the other day was Trump to admit that he wouldn’t let sick people die in the streets without medical…

I’d take Trump over Cruz any day of the week.

All industry award shows suck. Doesn’t matter if it’s for multimillion dollar films, advertising campaigns or small commercial real estate sales in the greater Cincinatti metro area - industry award shows are just work with (if you’re lucky) drinks.

Oh, to be clear, I'm not talking just about the prelim injunction, which is an even higher hurdle. I'm talking about the actual civil case. On the prelim injuction, I completely agree, it's about the ability to compensate for the harm.

I stopped reading after that.

I don’t think she’s obligated to work with, or be around Dr. Luke—and I don’t think she alleged that she’s in imminent physical danger here. I doubt she’s alleging that she suspects he’s going to rape her again.

Even simply the way they framed the whole thing is inflammatory—for instance, Luke is the plaintiff in this action, Kesha the defendant, and Sony wasn’t even a party to the litigation until Kesha counterclaimed essentially alleging that Sony contributed to Luke’s alleged non-performance and Kesha’s ongoing abuse by…

Oh man you've gone one step further than me and actually pulled the docket. If I had time (read: if it was billable) I would totally do that too.

yessss. Jez/GM’s legal analysis is pretty lacking most of the time. So many smart lady lawyer commenters could be resources to make sure this is right. (I'd do it! I may only be a 3rd year associate, but what I lack in experience I make up for in moral outrage!)

I’ve been fuming over the reporting of this case here as well, mainly for the uninformed bashing of the Court and Judge. It’s really frustrating. There are over 400 docket entries in this action—it’s a pretty complicated litigation yet these authors and the comentatriat continue to lambaste the court without having…

Jez really needs some legal advisors. The generalizations and misinterpretations for the sake of drama/outrage generation tend to undermine their arguments. I mean, the court isn’t exactly dry-washing its hands with evil glee while they kick back a few with Dr. Luke and Sony’s legal team and drown kittens in a sack.

Yep! I was about to say the same thing, being denied a preliminary injunction on the grounds that she wasn’t able to prove irreparable harm just means that money damages are sufficient to compensate her for any wrong doing that is eventually proven at trial. PIs are difficult to get, even more so when the party is…

If Kesha’s team can’t even get her off Kemosabe in the civil suit, they sure as fuck wouldn’t have been able to get a criminal verdict against Dr. Luke.

This this this. Posted about this in the comments of another article. There is been no trial, there has been no verdict. People need to stop using those words.

The Court is NOT on Dr. Luke’s “side.” The Judge merely applied the law to the facts. As an attorney one of the hardest things to deal with are bad facts. They are what they are and we do our best to construe them most favorably to our clients but ultimately Judges have no discretion to choose a “side” they like. It’s…

Let’s face it, Madeleine. You’re qualified to (1) write blog posts about celebrity gossip, (2) free-associate about feminist critical “theory,” and (3) very little else.

Typo? El-oh-el.

You’re forgetting the other all too important aspect of a modern and just society: we innocent until proven guilty.

I don’t understand... So she asked a judge to dissolve a legally binding contract based on rumors that this guy is abusive? Did she first prove in court that this guy abused her?

It was a response to people claiming that he was running an openly sexist campaign, not an unbidden brag. Nobody’s looking for cookies.