At present, Mr. Garbus is preparing to appear in Federal Court before a jury in 2005 in a copyright infringement suit against hip-hop and rap star, Eminem (also known as Marshall Mathers).   Mr. Garbus represents a composer whose music was copied without authorization and used in the song Kill You , the first track on The Marshall Mathers LP .   That album, Eminem's second, enjoyed sales of over 16,000,000 CDs, making it number one in CD sales in 2001.

Currently, Mr. Garbus is also representing employees in a class action employment discrimination suit challenging President Bush's "faith based" initiative and flight attendants in a labor dispute against their union and American Airlines.   Both cases are to be tried in Federal Court before the end of 2005.   Mr. Garbus will try another jury case in New York State Court in early 2005 that involves damage to a $20,000,000 painting by one of America's greatest artists.   In a recent personal injury suit against American Airlines, Mr. Garbus won a jury award of $26,000,000, one of the largest awards at that time.

Mr. Garbus most recently was confronted by yet another challenge from a then-unfamiliar source, the Internet.   Pioneering the legal future of the digital age, Mr. Garbus represented Eric Corley, The Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Open Source Movement in the first copyright case to be tried under the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act.   That landmark case, involving the Motion Picture Association of America, became a battle where First Amendment and copyright values clashed, permanently affecting the art, movie, music and DVD industry, including the rights of MP3 and IPOD owners.

He is presently working on two future books, the first is entitled "The Coming Battle in the Courts: The Changing Face of Justice and Why it Matters to All of Us," and the second about his experiences in China.   More information about his books, and the first chapter of his new book, can be found at www.martingarbus.com.