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Currently ReadingRecently Read | Shortest (and best????) deposition ever? A homeless woman has been charged with a felony theft for allegedly lying about her address to get her son into a better school. (via) People who sued themselves. A Mississippi county judge has been suspended for 90 days after telling a woman he would “fix” the fine he gave [...]            Tim April 29th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostFrench riot police are threatening a strike over fundamental legal principles: the “right to drink alcohol with our food”, even while on duty. (via) Judge guts gut feeling defense. If you open your appellate brief challenging a rape conviction by quoting Mike Tyson spouting an obscenity, you are off on the wrong foot. Hey, Festus, [...] Tim April 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostMassachusetts woman awarded workers’ compensation benefits for workplace harassment that included telling her she would get health insurance only if she agreed to wear a chicken head mask. A California woman convicted of forging drug prescriptions showed up at her sentencing hearing with a note from her doctor that was … wait for it .. [...] Tim April 1st, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostEEEMTCH claims an Idaho law allowing cities and counties to ban the sale of alcohol is unconstitutional because “the consumption of distilled spirits is both our moral obligation and sacred right.” Who’s EEMTCH? Why the Ethereal Enigmatic Euphoric Movement Towards Civilized Hedonism, of course. A New York fashion industry employee is in arbitration with [...] Tim March 18th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostA Florida appeals court has set aside part of a jury award to family members against their brother for not obtaining their consent before dismembering their death mother, burning her body in a barrel and scattering the ashes on the family farm. I’m guessing he’s the one that puts the “fun” into dysfunctional family: [...] Tim February 11th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostAt least this guy deserves an “A” for being innovative: A UK immigration officer put his wife on a no-fly list while she was visiting the in-laws overseas, keeping her away from home for three years. (via) At the other end of the innovation spectrum is the Brit who told the judge, “My brain ended [...] Tim February 4th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostI’m guessing being convicted of “tampering with a judicial officer” while a law student probably doesn’t bode well for gaining admission to the bar. Almost straight out of the Steve Bosell archive: A Taiwanese man accused five neighbors of teaching their mynah bird to call him a “clueless big-mouthed idiot,” causing him emotional distress. [...] Tim January 28th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostSome things you just can’t make up: “The Louisiana Supreme Court has ordered the permanent disbarment of an attorney who, among other things, brought a sixteen year old “assistant” into the Bunkie Detention Center to perform oral sex on two incarcerated clients while the attorney captured the encounter on videotape. The reason? He said he [...] Tim January 21st, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostThere are SO MANY great lines in this Canadian legal opinion that it could fill a couple editions of Friday Follies. It undoubtedly will be an all-time classic and the footnotes alone are worth the price of admission. The judge admitted he was using “ridicule as a last resort” because the custody dispute is one [...] Tim January 14th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostA Houston man is suing his alma mater when his son wasn’t accepted to the college following his $40,000 donation to the school. Legal-related blog headline of the week: Romania declares witchcraft a legally-recognized (and taxable) profession, pisses off witches (The witches are fighting back, though, “using cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells [...] Tim January 7th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This Post |         The views expressed here are mine and mine alone. I do not speak for my law partners, our associates, staff and clients or my family and friends. 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