Legally Present

nevver:

• 1. Caveat Emptor
  (KAV-ee-OT emp-TOR): “Let the buyer beware”
• 2. Persona Non Grata
  (puhr-SOH-nah non GRAH-tah): “An unacceptable person”
• 3. Habeas Corpus
  (HAY-bee-as KOR-pus): “You have the body”
• 4. Cogito Ergo Sum
  (CO-gee-toe ER-go SOME): “I think, therefore I am”
• 5. E Pluribus Unum
  (EE PLUR-uh-buhs OOH-nuhm): “Out of many, one”
• 6. Quid Pro Quo
  (kwid proh KWOH): “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”
• 7. Ad Hominem
  (ad HAH-mi-nem): “To attack the man”
• 8. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam
  (ad-MA-yor-em DAY-ee GLOR-ee-um): “All for the Greater Glory of God”
• 9. Memento Mori
  (meh-MEN-toh MOR-ee): “Remember, you must die”
• 10. Sui Generis
  (SOO-ee JEN-er-is): “Of its own genus,” or “Unique and unable to classify”

Definitions

Though there’s no indication that the Zuckerberg wedding had anything to do with the IPO, its timing couldn’t have been better. At least if the pair ever decide to divorce.

Now, we’ve known for a while that Mark Zuckerberg is worth billions. But with Facebook being a private company and an IPO looming somewhere in the future, it was difficult to pin down his exact worth. 

Well, it’s much easier to place a value on his Facebook shares now that the company has gone public.

This is particularly useful knowledge if the Zuckerberg wedding was preceded by a prenuptial agreement. It would have helped establish exactly how the pair plans to split their assets in the event of a divorce.

And even if there was no prenuptial agreement, a post-IPO wedding still takes some of the mess out of a potential divorce. California is a community property state, which means everything earned during the marriage belongs to both partners. This includes any increases in value to pre-marriage property that are the result of a partner’s labor.

CNN: 

South Korea is set to carry out the chemical castration of a serial rapist later this week, implementing recent legislation for the first time.

The drug treatment is intended to suppress sexual impulses and does not require the convict’s consent.

The sex offender, identified only by his surname of Park, has been convicted of four counts of rape or attempted rape on young girls since the 1980s, according to the Ministry of Justice.

“Sex offenders over the age of 19, who have sexually offended against children under the age of 16 and are diagnosed with pedophilia, can be subject to such treatment,” a Justice Ministry official said Wednesday, declining to be identified as is customary in South Korea.

A law authorizing this treatment for sex offenders came into effect last year. It followed a public outcry after a number of cases were reported of rapists reoffending following their release.

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When we last wrote about the epic trademark war that Gucci launched against Guess in 2009, we noted that the case made headlines soon after the first filing. Apparently Gucci’s former in-house counsel, Jonathan Moss, had been engaging in faux lawyering, and he paid for it dearly — with his job.

Gucci v. Guess has been a dramatic roller coaster ride ever since, complete with men crying on the witness stand, and hours upon hours of in-court questioning for one company’s chief executive officer.

But as we noted in Morning Docket, a verdict has finally been reached in the case, and it looks like Guess will have to own up to its fashion faux pas with a payout of more than $4 million dollars in damages. But how will this ruling affect the fashion world at large? Let’s take a look….

In case you haven’t been following the case, Gucci sued Guess in the spring of 2009 for selling items with “studied imitations of the Gucci trademarks.” (See the picture featured above for an example.) In the complaint, the high-end fashion house alleged that Guess had attempted to “Gucci-fy” their product line by infringing or counterfeiting four of Gucci’s trademarks and one instance of Gucci’s trade dress.

read on at Above the LAW