In this outstanding clip edited from MSNBC’s coverage, O.J. Simpson’s attorney Yale Galanter is assisted at a press conference by a gentleman who seems to have recently joined the team. It appears that Galanter will provide the legal talent, and…
More specifically, a Texan claiming to represent Him has appeared on His behalf.
Gilberto Lozano, a criminal defense attorney in Bogota, Colombia, wore scuba gear over his business suit as he filed a complaint on Tuesday to protest the government’s treatment of his client. Lozano’s client is Carlos Jimenez, also known as "Macaco,"…
A judge in Fort Lupton, Colorado (northeast of Denver) has received some attention for his creative sentencing of people who violate the town’s noise ordinance. As these are mostly young people who cruise around the streets of Fort Lupton with…
Good luck serving God with the summons.
Bonus points: refers to his alleged murder of two people as “my trouble.”
While the facts of the underlying opinion in U.S. v. Freeman aren’t especially comical — it was an appeal from a conviction and sentence on drug-conspiracy charges — it does have some educational value. The question was whether the district…
In its latest act in defense of the language, today the Plain English Campaign went on the offensive against government signs and other warnings that do no more than state the obvious. Saying that the statements are unnecessary and "assume…
The New Orleans bureau has alerted me to a new lawsuit against the rock band Tool, filed in federal court in Louisiana. Tool, whose music is described as "heavy metal," "alternative metal," "art rock," "art metal," "progressive rock," "progressive metal,"…
From a New Yorker article in July about protests in Islamabad after the Chief Justice of Pakistan was suspended: The largest crowd by far was made up of lawyers in starched collars, white shirts, and black suits. They marched in…