Hollywood Docket: CBS vs. 48 Hours magazine; Chartier vs. movie pirates; Elena Kagan and 2 Live Crew

• CBS has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the publishers of a magazine called "48 Hours" -- named for the time it takes to produce each issue -- claiming the title violates its trademark on the news magazine series, "48 Hours." Clearing use of titles is clearly not a rush job. [NYT] 

• Federal copyright lawsuits have plummeted to a six-year low in the wake of a decision by the RIAA to abandon its campaign against individual file-sharers. [Wired] 

• Voltage Pictures president Nicolas Chartier has lambasted a critic of the company's plan to sue "Hurt Locker" pirates, calling the guy in an email a "moron who believes stealing is right." [Boing Boing]

• In the recent decision that found P2P service LimeWire guilty of inducing copyright infringement, Judge Kimba Wood implied that EFF attorney Fred van Lohmann acted improperly in his advice on what documents needed to be retained. The EFF is requesting that the judge modify her decision. [CNET]

• In response to a Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan confirms she once represented the RIAA in the appeal of a district court ruling that 2 Live Crew's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was obscene. [Sacramento Bee]