Now that Supreme Court transcripts identify justices by name, which has only been the case since October 2004, it’s possible to (choose one): [gain even more insight into the thought processes of the justices] [waste even more time analyzing pointless…
Poor Loli Wang has been the target of a massive conspiracy to assassinate her in every way possible, or at least that’s what her many lawsuits allege. Luckily, the conspirators always seem to fail. I noticed that the most recent…
Hector Pulido explained to police that, by biting his nephew repeatedly, he was only trying to teach his nephew that biting people is wrong. Sure, in retrospect, he may have said, it’s possible that actually biting a 3-year-old multiple times,…
"Keep it simple" is a principle that lawyers tend to forget, sometimes permanently, but a case in Britain shows why you should never assume that a judge or anyone else is fully up to speed on your case. This case…
First, we can get police to beat you up for a totally legitimate reason, and then … oh, wait.
Peter Neumann was awarded "moral and legal damages" on Monday by a court in Quebec, based on Neumann’s allegations that a city employee ruined his grandson’s bar mitzvah in 2003 and the city government then failed to take his complaints…
The bald men among you who have been thinking about moving to the German province of Rhineland-Palatinate in order to take advantage of liberal health-care coverage to get free hairpieces should think again. A court there ruled last week that…
Lately the headlines about Paris Hilton have involved her 45-day jail sentence for violating probation, but it turns out she is part of at least one other legal proceeding. In a case that is an outstanding use of the nation’s…
Uri Geller’s also trying to bend the law with this one.
Though it was significantly less boring than some lawyer ads.