Description:
Ever look at a legal ruling or law and muse, “You Just Can’t Make it Up?” This episode of The Curious Lawyer series takes you on an odyssey through a variety of laws and legal rulings that are hard to square the circle on. Strip searched by police for not putting your dog on a leash? A private right to adult consensual sex without government interference, yet state liability regimes that can lead to civil liability for adultery? State prohibitions on possession of too many sex toys, but federal grants of patents for sex toys because they are useful devices? Liability for men who question a woman’s chastity? No marijuana trademarks, but a plethora of marijuana patents, even to the US government no less? From fortune tellers to loud muscle cars to cross dressing, and everything in between, this program will leave you laughing and crying as you look at constitutional, criminal, tort and IP law through a lens that leaves you scratching your head.
Speaker:
Peter Afrasiabi, Partner, One LLP, Newport Beach, CA
Peter is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent, trademark and entertainment litigation. In addition, he is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law. Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.