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Currently ReadingRecently Read | A Kansas City grocery store is being sued because one of its employees shoved his hand down her pants and grabbed her breast — and the nearby cashier said, “he has been doing that all day.” Houston lawyer responds to middle school kids’ video dissing his daughter with cease-and-desist letters and lawsuit. For future reference: [...]            Tim July 1st, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed |  Print This Post |  Email This PostA group of children were fined $500 by county authorities in Bethesda, Md., for operating a lemonade stand without a permit next to Congressional Country Club, the site of this week’s U.S. Open golf tournament. (via) Missouri lawyer claims opponent’s use/misuse of possessives, among other things, means “there is no way on God’s earth that [...] Tim June 17th, 2011 | Tags: Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostStatues and busts have advantages over the heroes and icons they depict. Any imperfections are superficial, unlike human flaws. Their character is fixed, not subject to further research and analysis. But anyone who insists folk heroes must be paragons of virtue ignores the reality of human nature. Even — and perhaps especially — those with [...] Tim June 13th, 2011 | Tags: biography, Book Reviews, Clarence Darrow, Law, nonfiction, Review Copy | Category: Book Reviews | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostWhat???? People get upset if you come up with a list of The 10 Hottest Women on the Texas Sex Offenders List??? I can’t imagine anyone would think a list of “attractive” child rapists might rile up a few people. Ummm, is this proper excoriation? Judge tells calls man convicted of sexually assaulting boys, “I [...] Tim May 13th, 2011 | Tags: Friday Follies, Law, Linkage | Category: Law, Miscellany/Linkage | Comments are closed | Print This Post | Email This PostShortest (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 PostAlthough it tends to be overused and misattributed, the summary of Voltaire’s thoughts on free speech — “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” — epitomizes my views of the First Amendment. More important, that view was reinforced by the U.S. Supreme Court today [...] Tim March 2nd, 2011 | Tags: First Amendment, Law, U.S. Supreme Court | Category: Law | 2 comments - (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 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. Not only should any opinions here not be attributed to them, chances are they probably don't agree with me.  | ||
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