Football: Court gives back brand rights to former Maradona lawyer

A court in Argentina on Friday revoked a ban on the late Diego Maradona's former lawyer from using the player's brand and imaging rights.

In March, a company owned by Matias Morla, called Sattvica, was barred from using Maradona brands such as Diego Maradona, Maradona, D10S, El Diez, La mano de Dios (the hand of God) and El Diego.

The ban came after two of the Argentine football great's daughters filed a complaint against Morla for fraudulent administration and fraud.

Dalma and Gianinna Maradona are embroiled in an inheritance dispute with Morla over their father's brand and image rights.

But in a 13-page decision seen by AFP, the National Chamber of Criminal and Correctional Appeals ruled in favor of Morla.

The Maradona brands are registered officially as owned by Sattvica S.A., a company owned by Morla and a brother-in-law.

The company was set up in 2015, six months after Maradona signed over his brand and image rights to Morla.

The lawyer and Maradona's two daughters have been trading insults and accusations.

Dalma and Giannina accused Morla of "betrayal, dishonesty and abuse" in his management of Maradona's brand and image rights after the star's death.

Morla has fired back that the pair "abandoned" Maradona before he died "alone."

He's also filed a complaint against them for "digital bullying."

Maradona died of a heart attack on November 25 aged 60 while recovering from an operation to remove a blood clot from his head.

In a separate investigation, authorities are looking into the health treatment he received to determine whether there was any neglect or malpractice, following a complaint by Maradona's family.

In a curious twist, Morla was representing Maradona's five sisters in that case but was dismissed by the courts on suspicion that he was simultaneously advising two of the accused, the neurosurgeon Leopoldo Luque and the psychologist Carlos Diaz.

Agence France-Presse

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Fil-Am lawyer: Obama's deportation record worse than Bush's

President Obama has been sending “mixed signals” on immigration, said lawyer Cristina Godinez.

What’s even more grating to this immigration attorney is that Obama has not delivered on his campaign promise and that his administration has deported more people than the previous government of George Bush.

Four years after he vowed to fix the broken US immigration system as a presidential candidate, “his administration has yet to deliver on his campaign promise,” said Godinez at a February 26 Café Migrante discussion in Queens organized by the Philippine Forum.

“Instead, there have been more deportations under Obama than there have been in the two full presidential terms of George Bush,” she said.

It looks like the same focus will continue. To illustrate, Godinez pointed out that the Department of Homeland Security budget proposal next year is quite revealing. The budget allocates six times more money to immigration enforcement agencies than to its agency that grants immigration benefits to non-citizens, she said.

The enforcement agency Customs and Border Protection is allocated 21 percent of the proposed 2013 budget, according to Godinez, and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement 10 percent. Contrast that with the US Citizenship and Immigration Service that processes visas, green cards and citizenships, which is earmarked a “measly” 5 percent of the budget.

“This reflects the US government’s immigration priorities,” she said.

Godinez said, “America proudly declares itself a nation of immigrants and yet forces some 11 million people to live in the shadows as undocumented persons by ‘congressional default.’”

She defined “congressional default” as the failure of the U.S. Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform law that reflects social and economic realities.

“It has resulted in a confused patchwork of state and local immigration laws and an enforcement-heavy immigration policy on the federal level,” she explained further.

Immigrants, she warned, have the power to influence the outcome of this year’s election. Citing a 2011 study from the Pew Hispanic Center, Godinez said that one in eight Americans is an immigrant. She also noted the economic power of the foreign-born population, citing a study by the Selig Center of Economic Growth in the University of Georgia. The purchasing power of the Latino and Asian communities in 2010 reached $1.544 trillion, according to the report.

“Immigrants have the number and the resources,” she said. - The FilAm

source: gmanetwork.com