Well, the ever-roiling, always-turbid waters of California consumer law have just coughed up yet another ridiculous creature whose slowly decomposing corpse will stink up the once-pleasant beach that is the federal docket for the next several months. (Previous sentence ©2013…
I don't want to disappoint anyone who really enjoys reading 1000-word rants about whatever is bothering me that day, but posts will probably be shorter this week as I am also working on getting the book finished. This one doesn't…
A New Mexico man says he will get started on a writ of habeas corpus now that a judge has dismissed his latest request to set aside an open-container conviction. Gary Southern was convicted in 2008 of violating a law…
And not because it refused to grant her a degree.
Me in 2010, on Stayart v. Yahoo: “Like many,” this opinion begins, “Beverly Stayart was curious about what she would find when she put her name into a search engine.” And like many, Beverly Stayart was not happy with what…
You may recall that a couple of months ago, Donald Trump sued Bill Maher for breach of contract after Maher offered to give $5 million to charity if Trump could prove he was not descended from an orangutan. It was…
Bill Maher was not required to pay Trump $5 million just because he proved his dad was not an orangutan.
This story’s at least as good as the one they made into a movie. And it doesn’t have Shia LeBoeuf in it.
An above-average rhesus monkey, I think, but still.
In August, I mentioned the battle going on in Twiggs County, Georgia, over who owned about 400 acres of land there. The people who lived on it thought they owned it, but a guy whose ancestors had lived in the…