Timothy McKevitt, one of the two killers who murdered Gaylord the ostrich last October, has been sentenced to five months in jail. His accomplice, Jonathon Porter, was released earlier this year after also serving five months for the crime. As…
All of us have likely had an issue with grading "on the curve" at one time or another, but what is one to do if "the empirical data was quite clear and convincing to any reasonable mind that [one’s] performance…
In a result sure to not open the floodgates of missing-skull litigation, a German court has awarded only 3,000 euros ($4,100) to a man who had to have the top of his skull replaced with plastic after a hospital’s error….
Surprised at his sudden heart attack (but then, I guess, who isn’t?), an Australian whose heart stopped after he drank eight Red Bulls in five hours is blaming the company for not warning about what might happen. The labels do…
A 21-year-old woman was arrested and booked last Thursday after she assaulted a man during an karaoke performance. Witnesses reported the man was attempting the Coldplay song "Yellow" when the woman lost control and attacked him. Personally, I was surprised…
A German man who repeatedly fled from restaurants rather than pay his bills was sentenced today to 18 months in jail after being convicted on 64 counts of meal-related fraud. The man, a 350-pound unemployed truck driver, has been nicknamed…
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…
In India on Wednesday, the Agra Bar Association said it would be looking into the details of an attack by several lawyers on a litigant there. According to reports, the lawyers claim that the man refused to marry the niece…
Peter Neumann was awarded "moral and legal damages" on Monday by a court in Quebec, based on Neumann’s allegations that a city employee ruined his grandson’s bar mitzvah in 2003 and the city government then failed to take his complaints…
Amanda Verett, an attorney in Edwardsville, Illinois, has sued Pizza Hut and another customer for injuries she says she sustained from a door. Verett alleges that on February 12, as she was exiting the Hut, she held the door open…