According to a Belgian newspaper, a local businessman rejected a Nigerian job applicant on the grounds that his dog was racist and would probably bite the man. The applicant was not even allowed to enter the business where he had…
In the interest of moving on to polls dealing with other critical world issues, I’m going to declare victory for the pro-pardon forces on the question whether Jim Morrison should be granted a posthumous pardon for his indecent-exposure conviction back…
At first I felt guilty that my source for this was PeopleMagazine.com’s report of a FOX News report, but then I decided that there is really no better way to report a story like this (although I still feel fairly…
Vladimir Putin also shows up in this one.
Quality judicial work by Judge Gregory Todd of the Thirteenth Judicial District Court, Yellowstone County, Montana. You can see a PDF of the memo itself at the link below, but here’s an excerpt: Mr. McCormack, you pled guilty to the…
A Vermont prosecutor has dropped dog-taunting charges against Jayna Hutchinson of Lebanon, New Hampshire, thus possibly averting a constitutional showdown over free expression. Hutchinson was arrested on July 31 after police responded to reports of a brawl going on at…
Three teenagers in Bautzen, Germany, will have to pay less than $200 in costs after a court ruled that the ostrich farmer who sued them could not prove that they had caused his prize breeding ostrich, Gustav, to become impotent….
New developments this week in the lawsuit by D.C. administrative law judge Roy Pearson against his local dry cleaners, alleging a diabolical pants-related scheme. As you may recall, Pearson sued under the D.C. consumer-protection statute after the cleaners allegedly lost…
Sometimes it’s hard to let go when you think a judge’s ruling was wrong, but sometimes a motion for reconsideration is not a good idea. Case in point: Michael Polsky’s motion to reconsider the $176 million award to his ex-wife,…
A tool or device probably can’t be considered inherently bad in and of itself. A case could be made that some, like the atomic bomb or the BlackBerry, are so dangerous or destructive that they should be banned entirely because…