Guess what? It’s a California story. Some of you may know about California’s "Proposition 65," passed by the voters in 1986 and intended to help consumers by requiring warnings of any known exposure to a variety of chemicals that the…
The normally sensible Walter Olson and Ted Frank have suffered a serious lapse in judgment and agreed to let me "guestblog" for the next week or so on their well-known blog, "Overlawyered," which chronicles the high cost of our legal…
They reportedly had extensive training in the “marshall arts.”
Superior Court Judge Joseph Biderman ruled today that he would not enjoin the movie "Borat" in a lawsuit by two South Carolina fraternity brothers who were shown in embarrassing circumstances. The two claimed they were duped into appearing in the…
From the Kansas City bureau comes this report of a newly filed case: Gabriel Robles; Bonnie Robles v. State of Missouri; State of Iowa; United States of America; Governor Matt Blunt; Governor Tom Vilsack; George Bush; Randy Rodriguez; Roseanne Kempf…
Two members of a South Carolina fraternity have sued the makers of "Borat," last week’s number one movie, over a scene in which the men make insulting comments about women and minorities after drinking heavily with someone they believed was…
A New Jersey woman who was injured while participating in the "Shake-It-Like-Shakira" contest at Calico Jack’s Cantina in New York City has sued, alleging that the cantina’s owners and operators should have known the dance contest was "dangerous and likely…
Here’s an “October Surprise” for you. On October 6, Leon Gay, Jr., filed suit against George W. Bush, currently President of the United States, in the federal court for the Northern District of Alabama. It seems that Mr. Gay’s investigation…
Yesterday I argued an appeal in California’s Court of Appeal for the Second District, which covers Los Angeles, and I was just getting ready to leave after the argument when they called the next case, Christoff v. Nestle USA. That…
Joining at least three other elementary schools across the nation, Willett Elementary School in Attleboro, Massachusetts (south of Boston) has banned tag, touch football and other other "unsupervised chase game" during recess. School officials cited concerns that children might get…