From a complaint filed in El Paso County, Colorado, in May: FIRST CLAIM FOR RELIEF(Negligence) 8. Plaintiffs hereby incorporate by reference each and every other paragraph as though fully set forth herein. 9. On or about May 28, 2010, Plaintiff…
Here's the complaint, courtesy of Matthew Inman's lawyer, Venkat Balasubramani. Well, this is the caption. Although by filing this, the plaintiff has of course made all of his contact information public, I still feel the need to try to redact…
Last week, I mentioned the fact that Matthew Inman, author of the hugely popular humor site The Oatmeal, had been threatened by a lawyer for a site called FunnyJunk.com after Inman dared to complain that FunnyJunk had copied and reposted many…
"They are giving me a hard time!" said a caller to the 911 dispatcher in East Hartford, Connecticut, on Wednesday. What outrage had They perpetrated this time? "I specifically asked for little turkey, and little ham, a lot of cheese…
From the New York Times, June 11, on the opening statements in Jerry Sandusky's trial on child-sex-abuse charges: In his opening statement to the jury, Sandusky’s lawyer, Joseph Amendola, said that Sandusky had a long history of helping children and that…
Matthew Inman, who runs the hilarious and extremely popular site The Oatmeal, announced the other day that he had been threatened by a lawyer representing FunnyJunk.com over this post in which he noted that FunnyJunk had reposted hundreds of his original…
This happened: Two Border Patrol agents have been put on paid leave after audience members complained they engaged in a sex act while attending a Cirque du Soleil theater performance in San Diego County. *** [According to a witness,] the pair…
We … remind the parties that our Handbook of Practice and Internal Procedures states that "parties are strongly urged to limit the use of acronyms" and "should avoid using acronyms that are not widely known." Brief-writing, no less than "written English, is…
… did not, surprisingly, persuade the Fifth Circuit that the district court had erred when it found that his appeal was not taken in good faith and therefore refused to allow him to proceed in forma pauperis (i.e., for free). The…
This is one reason the getaway driver normally waits in the getaway car, I assume.