Among the facts we learned from the GOP candidates’ debate in Michigan last week is that attorneys would have more power than ever if Mitt Romney is elected president. (And no, we don’t have enough already. What kind of a…
All of us have likely had an issue with grading "on the curve" at one time or another, but what is one to do if "the empirical data was quite clear and convincing to any reasonable mind that [one’s] performance…
The New Jersey Supreme Court will be addressing free-speech issues in a case involving a giant inflatable rat, after an appeals court affirmed a township’s decision to fine a union representative $133 for displaying the rat at an event. New…
Brave American citizen Jerry Brumbaugh struck a blow for freedom or something on Friday when he sued the nine current members of the United States Supreme Court for making rulings that have violated his constitutional rights. Specifically, all of them…
A legal team in Southern California trying to create a defense exhibit has come under fire for what some might call "thinking outside the box," but others have suggested might be "illegal human experimentation." George Engman is on trial in…
The New York Times reported last week on a newly discovered program funded — but not run — by the Justice Department, which apparently pays two retired detectives to look at "sexual Web sites and other Internet traffic" to see…
A civil-rights lawsuit by 78-year-old Harold Lischner against the township of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, has generated a couple of interesting motions in limine. It’s also now generated a blog post that may be the first document anywhere to use the…
A united conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled today in Morse v. Frederick that there is no First Amendment protection for a student who unfurled a banner supporting “BONG HiTS 4 JESUS” across the street from his school. Writing…
A Vermont prosecutor has dropped dog-taunting charges against Jayna Hutchinson of Lebanon, New Hampshire, thus possibly averting a constitutional showdown over free expression. Hutchinson was arrested on July 31 after police responded to reports of a brawl going on at…
Adam Liptak of the New York Times writes today (March 7) about restaurants filing libel lawsuits against food critics. The lawsuits are not uncommon, although, as Liptak writes, they are virtually never successful. The most recent example is a new…