Whatever you’re working on right now, wouldn’t you rather be working on a case where the only material issue was who owned the big stuffed bear? Me too. See Pardue v. Turnage, 383 So. 2d 804 (La. App. 1980). The…
While Europe debates whether animals are entitled to constitutional rights like human beings, here in America we are debating the constitutional rights of human beings dressed like animals. The latest dispute over advertising in the form of "mobile signs" or…
As I reported last October, an Austrian court refused to grant Matthew H. Pan legal standing on the grounds that he is a chimpanzee, and it appears that the Supreme Court of Austria has now affirmed that decision. An animal-rights…
I think we have enough failed-disguise posts now to consider starting a new category, or at least a sub-category of The Criminal Mind. This does not quite rise to the level of What Not to Use as a Disguise #1…
He must have lost everything. Literally, everything in the universe.
Saying that legislation is necessary because the historic downtown area "gets a little too lively on some nights," City Councilman Richard Veit of St. Charles, Missouri (a St. Louis suburb) has proposed a measure that would ban swearing and other…
Recently I viewed an online training seminar (as I have pledged to kill the next person who uses the word “webinar,” I won’t use that word) designed to help attorneys recognize, avoid and/or deal with harassment situations in the workplace. …
In an entirely unsurprising decision handed down last month, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that indeed it does constitute contempt of court for one to send a written document to a trial judge requesting that the judge…
A former law student at Southern Illinois University has sued the school and its dean after they refused to re-admit her for her second year based on what they said was poor performance. Lisa Dawn Rittenhouse ended up with a…
Specifically, a blacktip reef shark, which is one of two sharks that Christopher Gillette says will be living in the 1,000-gallon aquarium that was installed December 31 in his office in Bozeman, Montana. The aquarium, which is eight feet long,…