City's defense to a breach-of-contract claim: contracts aren't valid because the mayor was drunk when he signed them. "Them" being nine separate contracts worth about $1 million. "Again," the mayor said in a deposition, "this was after two or three…
Some firms in London apparently have “sleeping capsules” for busy lawyers.
Further evidence that our rights continue to dwindle: now it's apparently illegal for a man to put his own Camaro out of its misery. Police in Kingman, Arizona, said that Lauriano Lovato had become fed up with his car after…
After a ten-month test of the same scanners currently irritating many U.S. travelers, German federal police have concluded that they aren't worth using. This appears to be largely because, according to the report, the scanners "triggered an unnecessary alarm in…
Below are some legal provisions, the first of which you may recognize if you aren't a member of the City Council of Gould, Arkansas. Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or…
Okay then. Via failblog.org (obviously).
As long as it’s it’s less than a “substantial portion” of trial, the Constitution doesn’t mind.
Let's return to some prior stories and see how things have developed. I. Escape Proves Temporary In 2009, I reported that repeat offender Ronald Tackman had escaped from a holding area in Manhattan Supreme Court, where he was awaiting trial,…
There are a couple of good lessons here, one of which is: don't go on Antiques Roadshow with something unless you are one hundred percent sure it belongs to you. Margaret Smith showed up on that program in 2006 with…
The best work of this kind seems to get done when a judge and/or clerk is sufficiently bored or exasperated, but apparently relief can have the same sort of effect: [S]uch news of an amicable settlement having made this Court…