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…
Actually, maybe the only way. George Kokkinidis of Design Language News has plotted who's suing who in the mobile business, creating this graphic that is probably the most attractive depiction of litigation you're likely to see: The fact that so many arrows…
Because this woman was. Above the Law says it has confirmed the story with multiple sources, and has a picture of the resulting baby. Who resulted, at a hospital across the street, less than two hours after Mom finished the…
Everybody wants God on their side, but über-polygamist Warren Jeffs is apparently getting legal advice directly from Him. Jeffs, who is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), is on trial in Texas…