That might be a good new slogan for Chateau Malescot St. Exupery, a wine so good it helped turn a robbery last week into a group hug. A group of friends in Washington, D.C., were enjoying steaks, jumbo shrimp, fine…
Last week, The Canadian Press (like our Associated Press, but Canadian) reported on a bulletin issued in May by the Canadian Air Transport Safety Authority that urged staff to use more discretion when reporting someone for making jokes about airport…
Apparently unable to live without being mocked daily, and desperate to not be reappointed as a D.C. administrative law judge, Roy Pearson has now asked Judge Judith Bartnoff to reconsider her dismissal of his $54-million-pants lawsuit. In his motion for…
Britain’s Lord Chief Justice, a position similar to our own Chief Justice, but lordier, announced today that judges and lawyers in that country will no longer be required to wear the white wigs that they have been practicing under since…
I like to salute great opening sentences when it’s appropriate, and especially when I’m not sure I could do any better. So here’s this opening sentence, which began a story written on Tuesday by an unknown reporter at WFTV.com in…
Nobody really likes jury duty, but probably nobody doesn’t like it as much as Daniel Ellis. Ellis was absolutely determined not to serve on a Massachusetts grand jury, apparently so determined that he wanted to go to jail instead. Ellis…
It didn’t make a lot of sense in Macbeth, either.
On Monday, a judge in Orange County Superior Court ruled against Kim Jin-Soo, refusing to enforce a contract to pay him over $140,000. Judge Corey Cramin ruled after a bench trial that there was no consideration for the contract, despite…
In June 2007, prosecutors filed charges against a man who assaulted a lawyer in an Indiana courthouse and allegedly tried to push her over a fourth-floor railing. According to the report, Russell Timmons attacked Linda Polley after a hearing in…
On June 29, the California Court of Appeal reversed the judgment for Russell Christoff in his lawsuit against Nestle’s. As I’ve written about before, Christoff, a former model, happened to be in a store one day in 2002 and saw…