Lawyers representing New York City have filed a brief appealing a state court decision striking down a regulation that would restrict New York City restaurants, movie theaters and other food-service businesses from selling sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces.

 

A New York Supreme Court judge last week issued an injunction prohibiting Lifetime Television from airing and promoting the made-for-TV movie Romeo Killer: The Christopher Porco Story.

In a case that’s likely to be watched closely by criminals from drug-dealers to white-collar embezzlers—and the unpaid lawyers representing them—the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the plight of a criminally-indicted woman arguing that she is constitutionally entitled to a pretrial hearing before the government can freeze her assets.

The U.S. Supreme Court this week held that a U.S. copyright holder’s rights expire when his copyrighted work is sold overseas legally, the LA Times reported.