A court in Jaipur, India, has ordered the arrest of Richard Gere for kissing actress Shilpa Shetty at an event in New Delhi that was intended to promote AIDS awareness. Mostly, it has ended up promoting the facts that India…
The article did not mention the phrase "conflict of interest," but it probably is one if a judge is having an affair with a prosecutor, especially if she also appears before that judge with her clothes on. A judge in…
Cody Webb, a student at Hempfield High School in Pennsylvania, was arrested in March after authorities said a phoned-in bomb threat had been traced to the Webb number. Cody was summoned to the principal’s office and then escorted out of…
IBS, of course, as criminal defense attorneys out there may or may not know, stands for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. Helen Gallo asserted this defense last week in Clearwater, Florida, after she was arrested for shoplifting from a grocery store. Gallo…
This helpful update appeared in today’s "Legal Headlines" email from FindLaw: PERSONAL INJURY Boy, 12, Bitten By Shark Off Fla. Coast Well, that is a "personal injury," no doubt about it. I’m just not sure what the legal ramifications are,…
And you thought feng shui was just a charade. Nina Wang didn’t, and she was the richest woman in Asia, and the 154th richest person in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. Wang, who died earlier this month, was appropriately…
The latest article of Newsweek has an interesting review of a new bio of Albert Einstein, who besides inventing special and general relativity, providing proof of the existence of atoms, providing the foundation for quantum mechanics, and thinking up that…
For once the four-legged kind.
Sent this today to Governor Crist of Florida. I encourage you all to drop him a line as well. ——————————————- Dear Governor Crist: I’m an attorney in San Francisco who does a lot of writing on, let’s say, "unusual" legal…
The blazing-bidet scandal continues to grow in Japan, with the country’s second-largest toilet maker now joining the market leader, Toto Ltd., in admitting that it has been aware for years of defects in its "washlet" products. INAX Corp. said today…