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Fair Game (2010) – IMDb – A thriller based on a book the CIA litigated to redact

2 March, 2011
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| 1A, Freedom of Expression, General, Law and movies

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Fair Game (I) (2010)

… CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration. …

Stars: Naomi Watts, Sean Penn and Sonya Davison

… Plame’s status as a CIA agent was revealed by White House officials allegedly out to discredit her husband after he wrote a 2003 New York Times op-ed piece saying that the Bush administration had manipulated intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq.

via imdb.com

This movie is based on the experiences of Valerie Plame, about whom I have blogged here. The case about the redaction of the book which became the screenplay is here. Given that trailers and posters for the movie have been appearing over the last short while, I don’t expect it to suffer the same direct-to-dvd fate as befell Nothing But the Truth, more loosely based on the experiences of Judith Miller, about whom I have blogged here.

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The Volokh Conspiracy » True Grit and the Law

17 January, 2011
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| Contract, General, Law and movies

True Grit and the Law

Ilya Somin • January 14, 2011 10:30 am

Various legal bloggers have commented on the surprising number of legal issues addressed in the recent Coen Brothers’ movie True Grit. There are contract issues, evidence issues, and federalism problems, among others. The protagonist, Mattie Ross, succeeds in large part because of her extensive legal knowledge. As a property professor, I was happy to see that she knows what a writ of replevin is, and uses the threat of getting one to good advantage.

True Grit also includes some interesting law and economics concepts about incentives.

via volokh.com
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Man ‘used TV legal dramas to impersonate lawyer’ – Telegraph

12 January, 2011
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| General, Law and movies

Man ‘used TV legal dramas to impersonate lawyer’

A man has been accused of impersonating a lawyer in more than 50 court cases after watching TV legal dramas including ‘The Good Wife’ and ‘Boston Legal’for tips.

Tahir Malik, who has no legal training, often watched the shows and picked up what to say and how to file court motions, according to his father.. [and]fooled courts in Cook County, Illinois, for several years. … He was eventually discovered last month when a court clerk became suspicious about his behaviour and asked to see his legal credentials.

via telegraph.co.uk

An interesting use for court-room dramas, eh, Ted? But what does it say about law schools that Malik got that far?

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The Faculty Lounge: Law and Film: Despicable Me

12 January, 2011
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| General, Law and movies

Law and Film: Despicable Me

Despicableme

… I’ve been reminded of this back-and-forth interplay between parties (the law professor and the student, or the secured party and the debtor) as my daughters have watched (over and over and over and …) one of the DVDs they received for Christmas:  Despicable Me.  In this delightful animated film, the lead character (Gru) adopts three little girls (Margo, Agnes, and Edith) to assist him in stealing a “shrink ray” gun from a competing villian.  Gru is not used to having three little girls in his house, and he quickly sets about to establish some boundaries. …

It really is quite charming.  But it also is a wonderful illustration of what can happen if a person states an overly broad position — a concern that can arise in the law school classroom, as well as during document negotiations.  For that reason, perhaps this snippet from the film merits consideration for inclusion in any “law and film” course.   

via thefacultylounge.org

This is plainly another candidate for Ted Tjadan’s list of law-related movies of 2010! And Jordan Furlong even sees lessons for the legal profession in an episode of Thomas the Tank Engine.

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