Claiming that he was acting on a "significant" number of citizen complaints, the police chief for Flint, Michigan, said on June 25 that he had directed officers to start arresting people seen wearing pants and/or shorts that sag "too low."…
On June 9, Macrida Patterson filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County alleging that she was injured last year by a defective product. According to the report, Patterson was putting on a "low-rise v-string" thong she had purchased at Victoria’s…
No member of the Trinity was joined as a defendant.
On June 11, a St. Louis man filed a lawsuit against Home Depot alleging that it had negligently failed to monitor the condition of the toilet seats in its customer restrooms, and had negligently failed to warn of a serious…
Some of you probably think the phrase "lawyer who wouldn’t stop talking" is redundant, but it isn’t quite. There is a time for talking, and a time for not talking; and one good time for not talking is just after…
A 30-year-old Korean man, identified only as "Park" (which, in Korea, does not narrow it down one bit), has lost his bid to be reimbursed by his ex-girlfriend for the money he spent on their dates. Park sued the woman…
A German court has rejected a woman’s appeal of a decision terminating her child-support benefits, despite her disability claim. The woman had argued that she could not respond earlier to an agency’s requests for information because she has a "phobia…
The penalty in this case was three hours in a holding cell, which seems about right.
Here’s an important tip: the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada, has ruled that lawyers who notice that their trial judge is sleeping must awaken him or her at the time and object, rather than waiting to raise the issue…
As you may recall, when Leona Helmsley died last year she left $12 million to her dog, more than twice as much as she left to any other family member. (Two grandchildren were completely stiffed, for "reasons that are known…