No Good Deed Goes Unpunished # 174
On April 29, a group of canoers, or canoeists, or canoe wranglers, or whatever you call people who canoe (if "canoe" is a verb), tried to help out when they saw a woman fall or jump from the Perrine Bridge…
May 2007
Paris Hilton Will Lead The Very Simple Life for the Next 45 Days
Paris Hilton, who you may have heard of, was sentenced to 45 days in jail today after violating her probation for a drunk-driving arrest last year. Her license was suspended at that time, but she was driving again in January…
Further Details Emerge on $65-Million-Pants Lawsuit
We learned more this week about the lawsuit by a D.C. administrative law judge against his diabolical neighborhood dry cleaners, who allegedly lost or stole or set fire to or irradiated or otherwise acted tortiously towards a pair of pants…
Mr. Peepers Survives Vehicular Assault
Dramatic rescue preserves Peepers from fleeing felon.
Magicians Make Lawsuit Appear Out of Thin Air
The AP reports today that a group of forty-nine Japanese magicians have sued two broadcasting networks for allegedly revealing the secrets of various coin tricks in programs that aired last year. In a press conference, magician/plaintiff Shintaro Fujiyama told reporters…
ATRA Offers to Buy Plaintiff New Pants (Presumably for Less Than $65 Million)
The other day I mentioned the story of the judge in D.C. who has claimed $65 million in damages in a dispute over a pair of pants. In today’s D.C. Examiner, the president of the American Tort Reform Association says…