A recently re-circulated video shows a TSA officer patting down a 3-year-old girl, causing her to cry and yell "Stop touching me!" (It's a 2-year-old video, but it's not like things have improved.) Responding to outrage over this, a TSA official said…
Is there a dance called the “Perp Walk”?
The ABA Journal reports that the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary has reprimanded a county judge who, it said, violated the rule requiring judges "to dispose of all matters promptly." That is a flexible rule, as it has to be given the…
Apparently you can be convicted of reckless driving in Virginia even if you weren't driving. As I wrote the other day, a Virginia man was acquitted of reckless driving recently after his attorney noticed that there was an "at" missing…
I mentioned the other day that I was closing in on two million pageviews, and I was planning a big celebration involving a very large cash prize to the person viewing that two millionth page, but then I got distracted…
I guess you know your date didn't go very well when you get sued afterward. New York's Appellate Division held on November 23 that a woman could not sue a man for injuries she sustained when she fell off a…
It is for dorks, but it’s not *just* for dorks.
The ABA Journal has released its fourth annual list of what it considers the "top legal blogs," and I'm pleased to say that Lowering the Bar is on the list. The blogs are chosen by the editors, who select 100 blogs…
Last week, the New York Times reported that the median length of U.S. Supreme Court majority opinions has more than doubled since 1953, and during the 2009 term that number reached an all-time high of 4,751 words. Adam Liptak wrote that…
Angeles Duran did not say how much she was going to charge people for using the Sun, but she did confirm that she owns it, that her claim is legally valid, and that she will be charging a fee. Duran, a…