Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd Panayiotou v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd Panayiotou and others v Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. ([1994] ChD 142) was a contract and entertainment law case before the High Court of Justice's Chancery Division. The plaintiff, entertainer George Michael, argued that his recording contract constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade. Michael alleged that the defendant had failed to promote his album "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" with due vigour as punishment when the artist decided to downplay his status as a sex symbol. Michael described his situation as "professional slavery" because his contract required that he produce music and cede
History of slavery in Illinois v Jay," Judge Samuel D. Lockwood, previously Coles' anti-convention and abolitionist ally, held that the 40 year indenture of Phoebe (entered into in 1814) could be transferred to Joseph Jay's heir, his son William Jay, arguing that the new state's Constitution superceded the anti-slavery provisions of the Northwest Ordinance. Nonetheless, in a series of legal decisions beginning with "Cornelius v. Cohen" in 1825, the Illinois Supreme Court gradually developed a jurisprudence to gradually emancipate slaves in Illinois. In that first case, the justices decided that both parties must be in agreement and sign a servitude contract. In "Choisser v. Hargrave",