"It's more about protection and control in the way he goes about using his infamy," said Polak, director and chairman of the Intellectual Property Group at Indianapolis law firm Sommer Barnard.
Obviously some white folks were more deeply scarred by the OJ verdict than 9/11.
If you a relative, I suggest with respect it's past time to let go and move on. I've dealt with several deaths, I know how that works. And if you're not a relative, get a life and shut up.
Men offer twist to Simpson case
Pair's legal maneuver could force ex-football star to pay for slayings
By Erika D. Smith
September 6, 2006
Two Indianapolis men want to put the squeeze on O.J. Simpson.
On Tuesday, attorney Jonathan Polak filed a petition in California Superior Court in an attempt to make Simpson cough up $33.5 million for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
It's been almost a decade since a civil jury ordered the former football star and actor to pay up. But Simpson has said repeatedly that he has no income to pay to Fred Goldman, Ronald Goldman's father.
So how are Polak and Hoosier colleague Karl Manders going to collect?
They want Simpson to sign over his "right of publicity" to Fred Goldman.
The petition, believed to be the first of its kind, would place Goldman in charge of any attempts to make money off of Simpson's name, image, voice or likeness. For example, any profit Simpson made from signing autographs would go to Goldman.
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