Maurice the rooster’s early morning cock-a-doodle-doo won’t be silenced after neighbors filed a lawsuit over the noise, a French court ruled Thursday. The 4-year-old rooster’s dawn crowing exasperated its neighbors, a retired couple who moved to the small island of Oleron off of France’s Atlantic coast. “I hope it will set a precedent for them.”The lawsuit was just one of several cases pitting …
(Newser) – In 2008, a fire at Universal Studios Hollywood also hit a vault of master music recordings owned by Universal Music Group. UMG didn’t comment to NPR, but it has previously accused the Times of overstating the scope of the fire’s damage. Last week, the chairman of Vivendi, UMG’s corporate parent, dismissed the new controversy over the 11-year-old fire as “noise.” To which music …
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday seeks to allow a Pleasanton man to resume preaching on a public street after he was ticketed three times for noise complaints and had his amplified speech permit revoked by Santa Cruz police. The lawsuit also seeks to overturn two city laws that allow police to issue a city permit for amplified public speech and allows police to revoke the permits …