A pastor running for a Philadelphia judgeship told potential donors in April that they should contribute because they were "going to need [him]" later, raising concern that he was suggesting he would show favoritism to contributors. "I’m telling you all…
Representatives of the Boston Beer Company, brewers of "Samuel Adams" beer, sent a letter last week to two radio hosts in Portland objecting to their registration of two Web addresses that used the name "Sam Adams" (also a company trademark). …
An Indiana Law School case book died last week in a hail of gunfire, according to reports today from the Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog and elsewhere. A third-year law student at Indiana was arrested last week and charged with…
Sources report that the D.C. Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges has voted not to reappoint Roy Pearson for another term as an administrative law judge. Pearson caused both outrage and (among amateur legal humorists) delight by…
Variety magazine reported on Sunday that Paramount Pictures and (appropriately) MTV Films have bought the film rights to the story of Joseph Frederick, the Alaska high school student who was suspended for unfurling a banner near his school saying "BONG…
The submitter of this item suggests that a new category ("D’oh!") be created for it (and others like it), and I’m seriously considering that. In September, two men broke into a vacant building in Antioch, California, planning to steal copper…
Time again for "Google Searches That Led To Lowering the Bar," that exciting series in which we learn what odd questions some people out there have for Google (anonymously — as I mentioned before, I can see the search terms,…
It was "a big mistake," said lawyer Michael Colich on Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court. He was talking about his client’s decision to pull the head off a duck that lived in an ornamental pond at the Embassy Suites…
Dawn Herb was cited last week for disorderly conduct after a neighbor heard her shouting profanities. Although Dawn (who I’m going to call "Dawn" because calling Dawn "Herb" seems weird) was inside her own home at the time, she admitted…
Or, why the word “not” is one of the more consequential typographical errors a legislature can make.