Is it really "torture" if what you’re being burned with are freshly baked cookies right out of the oven? Well, obviously not, if you’re John Yoo, since this seems unlikely to cause pain equivalent to that caused by organ failure…
Earlier this month, the highest court in China’s Henan province issued a comprehensive set of regulations it said were intended to "improve judicial etiquette." They are pretty exhaustive, to the point that one might wonder what the hell exactly has…
Could be because he didn’t invite any.
Berkeley Law School student Josh Keesan got some attention recently for his album, "The Law of Rock, Vol. 1." "Put down your commercial outlines and treatises," says Josh’s website; "here, for the first time, you can learn complex legal doctrines…
Authorities in Fort Smith, Arkansas, said yesterday that they had arrested Carl Hagy and were charging him with misdemeanor theft after an incident at a local church. According to the report, Pastor Fidelis Obidike of Destiny Global Ministries was familiar…
Police in Ashland, Kentucky, said they believed that Gerald Rocchi was the Stapler Bandit who robbed a local ice cream shop on Tuesday, armed only with a stapler. Employees at the ice cream shop, which in a complete surrender on…
About a month ago I mocked Jeff Skilling’s appellate team, not for the quality of what they said to the court but because it took them 239 pages to say it. (I enjoyed the fact that the word count made…
Lowering the Bar had this item last week but has been sitting on it until it was (a) confirmed (as having actually been filed, that is, not as relating true events) and (b) made public by someone else first, and…
Last month I reported on a custody battle over a severed leg that Shannon Whisnant found inside a barbecue smoker he bought at an auction. The leg had belonged to John Wood, who lost it in a plane crash. Well,…
Stephen Colbert’s run for president ended earlier this month after Democrats in South Carolina refused to put him on the primary ballot. Now, a second disappointment: he will not be allowed to participate in a runoff for a seat on…