Again, no one should be surprised that “very intoxicated” appears in the next paragraph of this story: “A [Florida] man was arrested Friday after deputies said he called 911 multiple times to complain his mother took his beer away.”
Also in Florida, the family of a 13-year-old home-schooled girl has filed an age discrimination complaint against a college because it has a minimum age requirement of 15. (Overlawyered)
This could be called taking “fighting for your client” to an extreme.
A prison cell is not a home, at least for purposes of Iowa’s civil rights act.
Who knew that you could be suspended from school for wearing rosary beads? Evidently, they “are sometimes worn as gang symbols.”
A Massachusetts attorney was suspended for six months and one day for serving a summary judgment motion on opposing counsel of record. The problem? He knew that counsel of record had recently died.”
And, if you haven’t heard already, a woman is suing Google for bad directions. (Futurelawyer) (Lowering the Bar has more details.)
Neither law nor human nature is an exact science.
Harris’s Hints on Advocacy
As someone who writes about people for whom maturity was a necessity, not an option, I can say that I totally agree with maintaining a “minimum age” for college students! At my college, anyway, the immature students are the single major problem faced by teachers. A student who’s a grownup: I can teach that person anything.