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The Daily Memo - 5/22/07

check.jpgA variety of groups (including Viacom, Microsoft, the MPAA and the RIAA) have formed the “Copyright Alliance” to fight the fight against copyright pirates. (Gizmodo)

check.jpgJohn Grisham: “Are [lawyers] really needed?” (WSJ Law Blog)

check.jpgEeegads - a 33-year-old Nevada woman has been arrested for allegedly exposing herself to a 13-year-old boy (and also making her touch him), and looking at her picture, there’s no question that this poor kid will be scarred for life. (Reno Gazette-Journal

check.jpgA Texas Senate subcommittee has discovered that the vendor of speed cameras used by the police has actually been paying one police officer’s salary. (The Newspaper)

check.jpgRetired Supreme, Sandra Day O’Connor, says that folks are too hard on judges, but also says that the Court needs to stick closer to its precedent. (CNN)

check.jpgPreliminary approval has been given “to the settlement of a class-action lawsuit brought against Random House and author James Frey.” WSJ Law Blog)

check.jpgA traveling minister is facing all sorts of bigamy charges, accused of having eight wives. (CBS46)