A talk by author Ellen Hopkins, who also wrote this year’s Banned Books Week Manifesto, at a Norman, Okla., middle school was reportedly cancelled after the school district superintendent received a complaint from a parent, who also filed a challenge seeking removal of one of Hopkins’ books from the school’s library. Irony is just too […]
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Although saying it was adopting “no hard and fast rule,” the South Dakota Supreme Court has upheld an order granting a new trial in a case where a juror did a Google search on a defendant two months before being called for jury duty and happened to mention the search during jury deliberations. In Russo […] Man who sued Match.com over unanswered e-mails is dropping the lawsuit because of “the amount of ridicule” he had to endure. (Via.) Where’s Henry Fonda when you need him? A judge declared “a cooling-off period” for jurors deliberating in a product liability trial. The reports indicate one juror claimed she had been the subject of […] Epitomizing the saw, “can’t take a joke,” woman sues her daughter-in-law, a professional comedian, for spreading false, defamatory and racist lies with in-law jokes. (Via.) On the other hand, lawyer jokes “are OK” if you’re worried about getting sued. (Via.) A good corollary to don’t drink and drive: don’t get tanked and tweet. We […] I’m sorry, but putting a library book in “a back room where it is held under lock and key and can be seen only by appointment,” is the equivalent of banning it. Hmmm, for some odd reason both law professors and well known lawyers seem somewhat taken aback by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s […] |
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