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Joan Rivers’s former manager files $2 million defamation suitBy ReutersThursday, June 24, 2010 NEW YORK — Joan Rivers’s former manager has sued the popular comedian for more than $2 million, claiming she failed to pay him commissions and defamed him in a recent documentary film about her life and career. In the lawsuit, William “Billy” …

Washington Post: Lask files Suit for Billy Sammeth against Joan RiversRead More

Rivers sued for defame & fortuneBy DAREH GREGORIAN June 24, 2010 Joan Rivers’ former personal manager is suing her for . . . claiming he was suing her. In Manhattan federal court papers, Billy Sammeth says the comic stiffed him on commissions and defamed him by calling him a “missing manager” and saying in an …

New York Post: Lask defends Sammeth in Joan Rivers SuitRead More

  Joan Rivers’ former manager slaps her with federal lawsuit claiming unpaid fees and ridicule BY NANCY DILLON AND SCOTT SHIFREL DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Thursday, June 24, 2010 Joan Rivers’ estranged ex-manager is shticking it to comedy’s bigmouthed matriarch with a federal lawsuit claiming unpaid fees and public ridicule. Billy Sammeth says Rivers stiffed …

The New York Daily News : Lask represents Manager to the Stars Billy SammethRead More

COURIER POST Editorial May 30, 2010 by Mike Daniels  Opinion Editor No strip searches for minor infractions Jails shouldn’t strip search everyone who walks in the door; it’s not necessary. You get pulled over for not wearing a seat belt or having a tail light out. The police officer puts your information in the system and …

Courier Post | News Editorial Supports Lask’s Class ActionRead More

  The Times of Trenton (New Jersey) April 16, 2010 Friday  TRENTON FULL RUN EDITION  Strip-search legality appealed BYLINE: Joe Ryan, newhouse news service  DATELINE: PHILADELPHIA Lawyers for two New Jersey county jails asked a federal appeals panel yesterday to overturn a ruling outlawing strip searches for defendants arrested for outstanding traffic tickets, failing to …

The Times of Trenton : Lask’s Third Circuit Argument Against Strip Searches Awaits DecisionRead More

Appeals Panel To Consider NJ Strip-Search CaseDAVID PORTER, Associated Press Writer April 14, 2010 NEWARK, N.J. (AP) ― The constitutionality of strip searches in jails is to be considered by a federal appeals panel this week in a lawsuit that has drawn support from five of the state’s former attorneys general. The case was brought …

Associated Press : Lask’s Strip Search Case to be Heard by Third CircuitRead More

Essex, Burlington jails liable for strip searchesBy DAVID PORTER • Associated Press • February 12, 2009 NEWARK — A bureaucratic mix-up landed Albert Florence in the Burlington County Jail in 2005. Unable to convince police that he had paid the traffic fine he was now accused of ignoring, Florence was arrested and forced to submit …

Daily Record : Lask’s Prison Strip Search gets Class Action WinRead More