We learned more this week about the lawsuit by a D.C. administrative law judge against his diabolical neighborhood dry cleaners, who allegedly lost or stole or set fire to or irradiated or otherwise acted tortiously towards a pair of pants…
Dramatic rescue preserves Peepers from fleeing felon.
The AP reports today that a group of forty-nine Japanese magicians have sued two broadcasting networks for allegedly revealing the secrets of various coin tricks in programs that aired last year. In a press conference, magician/plaintiff Shintaro Fujiyama told reporters…
The other day I mentioned the story of the judge in D.C. who has claimed $65 million in damages in a dispute over a pair of pants. In today’s D.C. Examiner, the president of the American Tort Reform Association says…
Love conquers all, or at least the ignition systems of older Toyota Camrys and Nissan Sentras. Police in Los Angeles say that Antonio Moreno of Inglewood, desperate to see his girlfriend in Santa Barbara and without a car of his…
I have obtained from Slate Magazine’s "Hot Documents" file a copy of this police report, which recounts the details of a difficult arrest in Highlands County, Florida, in March. An excerpt: When I approached [the perpetrator] she crawled under the…
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.
A court in Jaipur, India, has ordered the arrest of Richard Gere for kissing actress Shilpa Shetty at an event in New Delhi that was intended to promote AIDS awareness. Mostly, it has ended up promoting the facts that India…
The article did not mention the phrase "conflict of interest," but it probably is one if a judge is having an affair with a prosecutor, especially if she also appears before that judge with her clothes on. A judge in…
Cody Webb, a student at Hempfield High School in Pennsylvania, was arrested in March after authorities said a phoned-in bomb threat had been traced to the Webb number. Cody was summoned to the principal’s office and then escorted out of…