Plaintiff Who Visited “Pissed Off Pete’s” Alleges Beating by Pete [Updated]
What did she allegedly expect?
Articles by Kevin
Court Ruling Will Force Employers to Spank Employees Equally
If they are to spank at all, anyway (which this attorney does not recommend). In 2006, a jury in Fresno, California, awarded Janet Orlando about $1.7 million for her claims that she had been spanked at work. Orlando alleged that…
New Addition to Case Law Hall of Fame: The Case of the Stuffed-Bear Donation
Whatever you’re working on right now, wouldn’t you rather be working on a case where the only material issue was who owned the big stuffed bear? Me too. See Pardue v. Turnage, 383 So. 2d 804 (La. App. 1980). The…
Debate Over Free-Speech Rights of Chicken Man Rages in Colorado Town
“Leave the Chicken Man alone,” a local business owner was quoted as saying.
UPDATE: Monkey Denied Person Status
As I reported last October, an Austrian court refused to grant Matthew H. Pan legal standing on the grounds that he is a chimpanzee, and it appears that the Supreme Court of Austria has now affirmed that decision. An animal-rights…
What Not to Use as a Disguise, #3: Drywall Compound
I think we have enough failed-disguise posts now to consider starting a new category, or at least a sub-category of The Criminal Mind. This does not quite rise to the level of What Not to Use as a Disguise #1…
Katrina Victim Sues For Three Quadrillion Dollars
He must have lost everything. Literally, everything in the universe.
Missouri City Council to Consider Ban on Swearing, Bar Dancing
Saying that legislation is necessary because the historic downtown area "gets a little too lively on some nights," City Councilman Richard Veit of St. Charles, Missouri (a St. Louis suburb) has proposed a measure that would ban swearing and other…
Take the Workplace Harassment Quiz
Recently I viewed an online training seminar (as I have pledged to kill the next person who uses the word “webinar,” I won’t use that word) designed to help attorneys recognize, avoid and/or deal with harassment situations in the workplace. …
Appellate Court Agrees that Written Request to “Kiss My Ass” is Contempt of Court
In an entirely unsurprising decision handed down last month, the South Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that indeed it does constitute contempt of court for one to send a written document to a trial judge requesting that the judge…