A legal team in Southern California trying to create a defense exhibit has come under fire for what some might call "thinking outside the box," but others have suggested might be "illegal human experimentation." George Engman is on trial in…
A civil-rights lawsuit by 78-year-old Harold Lischner against the township of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, has generated a couple of interesting motions in limine. It’s also now generated a blog post that may be the first document anywhere to use the…
The L.A. Times runs a story today about allegations that the U-Haul corporation has lost or "spoliated" evidence in various cases over the years. The good part of the story (from my point of view) is its description of an…
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…
For once the four-legged kind.
Police in southwestern England were able to track down a bird thief (apparently at the top of their to-do list these days) after the parrot he stole managed to leave them a vital clue. Tristand Maidment stole Mickey the Macaw…