It appears that a driver’s request for a bit of Grey Poupon was rather rudely rejected on June 18, according to documents obtained by The Smoking Gun. Most likely, the request was made in fond remembrance of the famous commercials…
He was "detained" only because of a mechanical problem with a plane on which he had hoped to fly to the Ninth Circuit conference in Sun Valley, Idaho. But former deputy AG and "torture memo" author John Yoo‘s failure to…
If you think the answer to that might be yes, you are probably going to fail anyway. Some of those enjoying Day One of the California bar exam, which is otherwise a walk in the park, were rudely interrupted today…
"I can do that [if I want to]," Keith Walendowski told police after he shot his lawn mower to death. "It’s my lawn mower and my yard," he said, "so I can shoot it if I want." The mower’s fatal…
Nicole Black of Legal Antics reports that Halleland Lewis Nilan & Johnson, a Minneapolis law firm, has produced a new recruiting tool that is worth checking out. The "Lawyer Job Interview Translator" features a senior-partner type answering standard recruiting questions…
It wanted him to change his name to “99 Cent” for a day, but he preferred to sue for $4 million.
A family court judge in New Zealand has taken a stand against parents who saddle their children with goofy names, which seem to be fairly common, at least per capita, in that country. Judge Rob Murfitt ordered that a nine-year-old…
This November, among the important issues that San Francisco voters will be asked to decide is whether to rename a city sewage plant in honor of President Bush. The measure qualified for the ballot on July 7 after organizers turned…
State police in Rhode Island, said that a man they arrested early on July 22 may be the new holder of the state record for highest blood-alcohol content: .491. They clarified that this was believed to be the highest ever…
On June 20, Paul Crowell of Waukesha, Wisconsin, was sentenced to two years in prison after pleading guilty to "possession of an electric weapon," namely a Taser that he had stolen from a police officer. Crowell's father has pleaded guilty…