avery friedman civil rights attorney in cleveland.ood to see you. >> good to see you. >> i richard herman, good to see you. happy new year. >> happy new year, fred. >> let's take a look at the list, greatest legal cases. we've ranked favorites. let's count them down. avery ranks dominique strauss-kahn which you died with warren jeffs. >> a tie. >> couldn't decide. >> you chose actress lindsay lohan as number five. you both agreed on number four rod blagojevich for corruption and sentencing deserved that spot. for number three penn state's jerry sandusky, and american student in italy amanda knox also at number three. first why didn't you put sandusky on your list? >> well, you know what, if cases were based on allegations, then casey anthony would have been convicted. i think the jerry sandusky case is an important case and it's opening up a lot of observation and concern about what goes on in campuses and college campuses and high school. but the bottom line is at this point we have some very outrageous allegations. let's see what ha

this one boggles the mind avery friedman, a civil rights attorney and law professor in cleveland. his ex-wife is going to get half of all he's made. it's because they didn't have a prenup, right? >> you know what, a lot of people when they start out in hollywood never think of these i think so. this whole case turned on the fact there was no prenup. look at the fortune. $600 million alone in the production and writing of "passion of the christ" which mel was responsible for. he owns an island in fiji, $22 million worth of housing in malibu that have already been turned over to his now ex-wife as of yesterday afternoon, to robyn. yes, the word was that harrison ford had had the largest. this is the largest hollywood payout involving stars that we've ever seen. it is enormous primarily because there was no prenup. >> we've heard this before. no prenup, you get half. thirty years together, seven kids. in some ways, it's understandable. having said that, she also gets half of his future earnings as well? how did that happen? >> you know, think about this, people say, it's mel's money

our legal guys are back, avery friedman in cleveland, richard herman in las vegas. s is a very touchy topic and disturbing one for this family in particular. avery, the cleveland's children and family services takes away the child saying he's 200 pounds, 8 years old. he should weigh on average 60, 65 pounds. this is putting his life, his health in jeopardy and they had to intervene. how common is this for child protective services to do this? >> like never. i mean, i don't know that i've ever seen a case. i've beenen court with these child care workers or whatever they call themselves. your visceral reaction is having the government break down the door and pull out a heavy kid, take him away from his parents and throw them into foster care is outrage. more than 2 million kids extremely obese, fredricka. it's an epidemic. when you think more deeply, there are circumstances where the standard is either abuse or neglect. did the mother medically neglect this child to require this removing the child to put the child into foster care in order to save his life. we'll find

avery friedman in land and richard herman in las vegas.y, gentlemen, she is suing for millions. she is suing the marriott chain and also suing the convicted peeping tom. is this going to be difficult, though, for her to try to establish this, richard, particularly because she's -- in the public view? she works in the public view, people have been seeing her. how will she establish if there has been some damage? >> well, she going to be able to prove the invasion of privacy claims no problem there. on the negligence and the intentional infliction of emotional distress i'm not so sure. she is bringing the case in tennessee, fred. sued for $6 million against marriott. and, you know, i think if she got anywhere close to a six figure offer she should take it and run. you know, she was prancing around naked on "dancing with the stars," just about naked, almost naked. i don't know what the damages are there. i don't know -- she's not going -- this is not going to be a lot of victory for her. lotto victory for her. i think the case will settle. i

avery friedman and richard herman joining us.his is heartbreaking for the family of robert champion, the drum major. it's ruled a homicide. how is this going to redirect this investigation? richard, you first. >> it's horrible, fred. they are going to unturn every stone to look into the hazing activities that have been going on at this university. frankly hazing activity that goes on at universities all over the country. not only universities but high schools as well. every now and then we see a fatality, everybody gets in an uproar. they rant and rave how hazing must end. it dies down for a while. an incident like this comes to fruition. it's horrible. this death was unnecessary. the band may be taken away from this university for a while. i think that's what's going to happen. >> also at issue here is a pattern. avery, investigators are looking at other allegations of hazing incidents on tamp us. this death is being linked to an alleged hazing on campus. how are investigators going to look at how far was this common knowledge o

as you know, your dad is a tremendous -- avery friedman told me all about your father and his accomplishmentsmerican. >> thanks so much. >> so whatever we could do to help and give to our society. so i called up phil ramon, who produced my record and al schmidt. i said, i want to do a christmas song "mistletoe and holly." it's a film sinatra did. it's the only christmas song he had a hand in writing. i found that outaft afterwards. i wanted to, you know, get in touch with the salvation army. a woman was there. she says, oh, robert davi, you're terrific. i like you as an actor. her name was denise richardson. she goes, i'm with the salvation army. i says, you're kidding. low and behold, i sent her the song. she immediately sent it to major george hood. he said, okay, let's do this. i said, i want to give all the proceeds. now, part of the story that no one realizes is that besides the salvation army being in different films like "guys and dolls," when i was a young boy, my grandfather, who was from italy, he was a bootlegger with marshall field and joseph b. kennedy. he was in that world for a