The Louisiana legislature, always on the lookout for important problems to solve, appears likely to pass a bill that would make it a criminal offense to send an electronic message with the intent to "harass" or "embarrass" any person under…
With all other problems now solved, state legislatures are taking the opportunity to pass laws that will keep our brains (and other parts) free of unwanted microchips. Georgia Rep. Ed Setzler, a supporter of SB 235, the Microchip Consent Act…
Hold it — I distinctly remember being told that under TSA rules this could not happen. It did? Well, at least we can be thankful that the scanners aren't actually capable of storing or sending the images they take of…
Alfred Hightower had been on the run since 2007, when a warrant was issued for his arrest on drug-dealing charges. Hightower was apparently from Kokomo, Indiana, but had fled to Canada. His downfall, though, was that he spent a…
She had no other way to stop her son from playing “Grand Theft Auto,” she claimed.
Because of course it doesn’t.
Paul Christiansen, who caused a mistrial in March by doing his own research on the defendant and disclosing it to other jurors, has been fined $1,200 by a court in Newbury, New Hampshire. Jurors, of course, are instructed not to do…
I know this has been tried before, and I'd be surprised if it has ever worked, but it didn't work this time. In an opinion issued on October 14, the California Court of Appeal held that an insanity plea to…
From a recent report of filings in San Francisco Superior Court: Bryerton v. Westar Marine Services, CGC-09-493160 (10/2/09) Marine personal injury action. The plaintiff was throwing a line to another ship when his ship's captain, who was distracted and talking…
Thieves stole 14 global positioning system devices from a New York public-works department on Monday night. Police located them almost immediately. My shortest post yet.