The Wall Street Journal has an item today noting that a new federal law is about to expand the number of medical-insurance codes dramatically. The codes are used by hospitals and doctors to describe a patient's injury, and apparently the…
Citing "credible information from a reliable source," New Mexico authorities got a search warrant describing, apparently with some particularity, a 19-year-old Las Cruces woman who their source claimed was smuggling heroin. The woman was detained and taken to Memorial Medical…
The court also fined him $625 for failing to return the books (which were not identified).
I guess it's not quite "Headless Body in Topless Bar," but it's as close as I'm likely to get. At least the story behind this headline is much more pleasant, if almost as baffling. Police in Asheville, North Carolina, said…
When judges get fed up with discovery disputes, this might happen: Greetings and Salutations! You are invited to a kindergarten party on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2011, at 10:00 a.m. in Courtroom 2 of the United States Courthouse, 200 W. Eighth…
Looks like stabbing somebody 33 times isn’t necessarily a disqualifier.
WikiLeaks said today it has "commenced pre-litigation action" against the Guardian newspaper and a German citizen for negligently disclosing decryption passwords WikiLeaks gave the Guardian. In other words, it is about to sue somebody for leaking secret information. Based on…
I couldn't be more in favor of full access for the handicapped – just suggesting that the cost of building a ramp should be something less than $700,000. The San Francisco Chronicle reported yesterday that a 10-foot ramp being installed in…
Hint: if the answer to the question below was "yes," they would not have videotaped him. In this report from KABC-Los Angeles (via the LA Observed blog), investigative reporter Marc Brown finally caught up with James Farkus Cohan while…
Ladies and gentlemen, over the years we have seen some horrifying examples of man's inhumanity to man. Also man's inhumanity to woman, woman's inhumanity to man, and woman's inhumanity to woman, plus at least some examples of man's inhumanity to…