You have to sympathize with someone letting off a little steam after what had to be an incredibly stressful event, but still: Turns out McCain was just reacting to having started to walk off stage in the wrong direction, but…
From the archives, here’s an appellate ruling on a claim of error by the defendant, Mr. Roden: "Appellant asserts that the prosecutor referred to him as ‘Mr. Rodent’ on at least three occasions. This claim is unsupported by the record."…
Plaintiff’s thinking about taking this one to a higher court.
Didn’t go well in the 1860s, isn’t going to go well now.
Here’s another great idea being tested by Google Labs. As many of you may know from bitter experience, the well-known phenomenon of "drunk dialing" has been partly replaced by drunk emailing, although the latter is worse because the email evidence…
Thanks to everyone at my firm, Shook, Hardy and Bacon, for letting me do the live version of "Lowering the Bar" at our firm’s retreat this past weekend in Henderson, Nevada (just outside Vegas), and for not throwing anything especially…
Here’s another one from the archives: [The Court asked counsel to] prepare a "plain English" version of the injunctive order, which the Court could then substitute for the somewhat convoluted order still in place. . . . In response, [counsel]…
A judge in Connecticut has granted summary judgment in favor of L’Oreal, dismissing the claims of a woman who alleged emotional distress due to becoming a brunette. Charlotte Feeney claimed that she bought a tube of permanent hair color in…
The last identical-twin-swap story I wrote about involved two sisters who changed places when one had a final exam and a probation hearing on the same day. That got them in trouble, but at least they weren’t lawyers. Italian newspapers…
In court papers filed last week, attorneys for John LaVoie, pastor of the "Church of Liberty" in Tucson, Arizona, argued that the civil-forfeiture proceeding against LaVoie is unconstitutional because it violates his right to freedom of religion. Specifically, they said…