A few corrections to my report a while back on the lawsuit involving opera singer Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Australian pop singer John Farnham. The coverage I saw claimed that Dame Kiri had backed out of a joint-concert deal…
According to the International Herald Tribune, Florida Governor Charlie Crist said today that he is "seriously thinking" of granting a posthumous pardon to Doors singer Jim Morrison. (This is a major step forward since my report on this last week.) …
On April 12, a jury in Tampa convicted Rafael Angel Rondon of being the "Band-Aid Bandit," suspected in the robberies of 39 banks in nine counties between 2000 and 2006. Rondon’s brother-in-law, Emeregildo Roman, was also convicted. The report did…
Toto Ltd., Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer, announced today that it was offering free repairs for a defect that had been identified in its popular "Z Series" toilets. The company said that the defect, related to the toilets’ electrical systems, may…
Joe Francis, the entrepreneur who has made umpteen million dollars from the "Girls Gone Wild" videos, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on two counts of tax evasion. He was easy to find because, as you may…
Joe Selle appears to have triumphed in last week’s city council elections in Missouri City, Missouri, a town of 300 people that is confusingly situated near Kansas City, Missouri. Here’s the background you’ll be wanting on that. Missouri City, Missouri,…
This list could probably get a lot longer, but right now I have two. First, Marva Bilberry, of Belton, Missouri, who runs Bilberry Bookkeeping & Tax Service, at least for now. On April 11, the Justice Department sued Bilberry, alleging…
People are strange.
Ignoring Lowering the Bar poll results that clearly indicated I was the father of baby Dannielynn, a court in the Bahamas has chosen to believe DNA test results instead which allegedly show that Larry Birkhead is the father. According to…
The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog, which I thank again for not using the awful word "blawg," reported yesterday that Georgetown Law Center professor David Cole has banned laptops from his classroom. Students typically claim, he says, that it is…