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PAGE 16 u BIZARRE BRIEFS By Viola James FAMILY FEUD OVER SAUSAGE SUCCESSION BERLIN — A fight over sausage succession rights is tearing one German family apart. Aſter months of legal wrangling with his moth- According to Reuters, his shop is just a few blocks away from his family's restaurant, Kon- nopke's Imbiss, one of the city's most famous eat- s famous dish, the currywurst. hour to buy the spicy sausage in communist times and Konnopke' destination to this day. Ziervogel' Italy, Germany, Ireland, and France, blocked off a square with tractors and statues of cows painted in the national colours of EU member states. One milk producer perched on a haystack and er, Mario Ziervogel has opened a fast-food outlet serving Berlin' eries because it was the first to introduce the cur- rywurst to then-communist East Berlin in 1960. Hungry Berliners would queue for up to an s remains a popular tourist for wanting to name his new outlet "Ziervogel's s mother Waltraud, 76, has sued him Cult Curry — since 1960." Her lawyer Fabian Ti- etz argued that the son, 48, wasn't even born in 1960, let alone serving sausages. The local court ruled on Tuesday that Ziervo- July 23, 2012 • law Times u The INSIDE STORY used a hose to spray the contents of a milk truck into a makeshiſt tarpaulin pool, splashing dem- onstrators, spectators, and reporters. The milk lake was intended to symbolize an oversupply of milk in the European market, with protesters ringing cowbells and denouncing moves to phase out production quotas, result- ing in more milk on the market and lower prices, Reuters reported. European Milk Board members in flannel shirts and cowboy hats addressed the gather- ing. One lamented the excess milk production and how little farmers were getting paid, to loud cheers from the crowd. Another blamed the Eu- ropean Union' more raucous applause. Once the lake was full, the pool was opened gel could keep the name for his new restaurant but must drop the year. "In this regard, Ziervogel was anti-competi- tive," Tietz told Reuters. "We are glad that we won." At the court hearing, Waltraud Ziervogel re- voked her son's inheritance rights and said she would hand over the reins of the family business instead to her daughter. "In the end, it will be for the clients to decide whose currywurst tastes better," said the son's law- yer Christian Weizberg. DAIRY PROTESTERS CREATE MILK LAKE BRUSSELS — This is what things could look like in Canada if the government agrees to end supply management in the agricultural sector. According to Reuters, dairy farmers sprayed thousands of litres of milk outside the European Parliament in Brussels recently, creating a milk lake to protest against low prices. Protesters from around Europe, including and the milk ran down the street into the gutter. According to Reuters, some farmers in rubber boots happily splashed around in the milk river. Marc Tarabella, a socialist member of the Par- liament, said the protesters had a just cause. "Their fight is also ours," he said. FORTUNETELLING BAN OVERTURNED ALEXANDRIA, La. — An ordinance banning fortunetelling, palm reading, and astrology is no more following a federal judge' District Judge Dee Drell ruled a central Loui- siana ordinance banning the activities was un- constitutional. Fortuneteller Rachel Adams sued the city According to The Associated Press, U.S. s ruling. WEIRFOULDS LAWYER GETS RYERSON POST Ryerson University has named WeirFoulds LLP partner Frank Walwyn a distinguished visiting scholar at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education. "I am pleased to have one of Canada' brilliant legal minds join our university," said s most John Isbister, interim provost and vice presi- dent academic at Ryerson. "He will be a welcome addition to our univer- sity family with his extensive knowledge in legal matters." Walwyn' Frank Walwyn collaborating with my colleagues at the Chang School to build on their established reputation as Canada' sionate about lifelong learning and improving their skills," he said. s executive commission to even LONGTIME BENCHER DIES Law Society of Upper Can- ada life bencher Robert Topp died on July 15. Born in Regina, Topp worked as an Ontario Provincial Police officer in Dowling, Ont., before becoming a lawyer. During his career, he became a law society bencher and earned life bencher status before his retirement. A funeral service took place at the St. Jean de Brebeuf Ro- man Catholic Church in Sud- bury, Ont., on Friday. aſter she received a court summons for vio- lating the ordinance. According to The As- sociated Press, the city argued fortunetelling is fraud, but in an earlier decision, magistrate James Kirk found it' the Constitution. s free speech protected by LT HARASSMENT CASE DISMISSED The Superior Court of Jus- tice has dismissed an action by a former CHRY Commu- nity Radio Inc. volunteer who sought damages for harassment by a colleague despite finding the actions would have been significant if they had happened at a private, for-profit company. The Superior Court ruled in Moore v. CHRY Community that although non-profit radio station CHRY didn't techni- cally follow its harassment poli- cies when addressing volunteer Donna Moore' complied with their spirit and shouldn't have to live up to the same standards as a for-profit corporation in its duty of care owed to her. "There is no doubt that the s complaints, it station failed to strictly apply its own policies and handled Moore' Justice Kevin Whitaker in his decision. "The station was well inten- turned out to be ineffective from her perspective, s concerns in what " wrote tioned. The underlying moti- vation appears to have been to avoid conflict and to settle the discord by pursuing a mediated are limited and those that work or provide leadership are not professionals. In these circum- stances, the station cannot be held to the same practical stan- dards as a business operated by professionals. He continued: "Resources " Moore claimed one of the radio station's co-hosts began " making rude and inappropri- ate comments on- and off-air, bullying, throwing items, yell- ing, and roughly touching her in 2005. While Moore had several meetings with the station's managers and the program was disbanded over the issue, the matter remained unresolved and she leſt the organization in the summer of 2007. Moore argued the had failed to enforce its harass- ment policies and sought an injunction requiring it to do so. She also sought damages. While the station agreed it station s appointment is effective immediately. "I look forward to s leading school for adults who are pas- outcome without findings of wrongdoing. owed Moore some duty of care, it argued it had complied with its policies. POLL RESULTS The results of the most recent Law Times online poll are in. Nearly 62 per cent of respon- dents said federal government lawyers should get a 15.25-per- cent wage boost. The Association of Justice Counsel and the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat reached a tentative agreement late last month spiking the wag- es of nearly 2,700 federal gov- ernment lawyers by a total of 15.25 per cent from May 2011 to May 2014. Federal lawyers ar- gue it addresses a long-standing disparity with counterparts in other sectors. LT The title insurer that puts you front row, centre Putting the legal community front and centre has made us the #1 choice with Canadian lawyers for over a decade. 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