I was interviewed for this show- a friend of mine and I found out that we were actually half sisters (my mom had given her up for adoption, I knew about it but not who, years and years later friend and I have a random conversation and oh look at that, my mysterious half sis is my friend, who I met in my 30's). We…

Read the entire Slate piece, it is fantastically done. These women are total badasses and had absolutely zero patience for Keller. I will add that Breyer’s moment in the sun was pretty spectacular as well. (emphasis mine)

Courtney Vance is FANTASTIC. He might be a better Johnnie Cochran than Johnnie Cochran himself.

I love the dichotomy of his party boy persona vs. his save-the-earth-we-only-have-one image. I imagine he howled with the boys then was all like “but for real guys, wolves are really endangered.”

This is the correct way to law school, good form.

Yes. She can always breach. She’s not forced to continue working with him; she can walk away from her contract at any time, just like anybody with almost any contract.

As a practical matter the damages would potentially be immense; she would likely have them over her head for the rest of her life. Better to get a judicial termination that she doesn’t have to perform.

Yes I assume she could, but 6 albums worth of damages would be a ton of money. I know very little about the music industry but I imagine that Dr. Luke and/or Sony could calculate damages beyond what what Kesha has.

See my reply to snapdragon.

Bingo! That’s exactly what’s happening. Luke is the plaintiff here, he instituted the action because Kesha signed with another management company in breach of her agreement with Luke, but now she’s also counter suing under her own theory of Luke’s breach as well as sexual harassment and a bunch of gender…

Pretty much. Thanks to the pesky 13th amendment, which banned slavery, courts generally don’t grant specific performance on contracts for personal services. So it’s pay or play — she would have to pay for breaching it. At least, without having read the contract at issue, that’s my take on it — anyone who’s more…

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…

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…

OMG YES! How did I not know about this?! It’s like the Jezebel staff took over the Onion! <3 <3 <3

Yeah, I have to admit the “inspirational and motivational” angle feels kinda patronizing and weird. Like, especially given the whole “Motto: Words to Live By” thing, I feel like this is going to be one huge extension of those quote images that 12-year-old girls love to put up on Facebook and Instagram. I don’t really…

I’m dying to read a linguist/anthropologist’s essay on how people discuss Hillary in comparison to the other candidates. You can say you don’t like someone without making it so obvious your opinion is tainted with misogyny

It sounds fair to me. They need to take care of their rape problem first though.

Seriously. I want to know how many of the people jumping on him are actual people of color versus how many are grandstanding whites who want to out-ally an obvious ally.

Am I alone in my mixed feelings about Miley? Like, “what a beautiful woman, put that tongue back in your mouth, love her voice and her heartfelt songwriting, what the hell is she wearing?!, we get it-you dig the herb, you really, really do..., girl you keep doing you! (but do you have to do it on an an inflatable…