Someone who shows up at a checkpoint anywhere in the Middle East with strange bulges under their clothing is likely to attract some attention. (I concede that this could happen anywhere, depending on the nature of the bulge.) That’s what…
Police officials in the Philippines were targets for criticism last week for discriminatory comments made by Samuel Pagdilao, chief superintendent and spokesperson for the Philippine National Police. Pagdilao had warned police that they might be subject to administrative charges for…
Paul Kane of the Washington Post’s "Capitol Briefing" blog wrote recently that although the Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to approve subpoenas for top White House aides in connection with the prosecutor-firing scandal, former committee chairman Arlen Specter appeared…
People reach Lowering the Bar in many different ways. Sometimes the Internet address comes to them in a dream, inscribed in letters of gold on mighty tablets handed to them by a majestically robed spirit guide who looks a little…
The Wall Street Journal’s excellent law blog reported this week that the members of the 1970s band "The Bay City Rollers" have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York seeking royalties from their label, Arista Records. Those…
New Zealand opera star Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who is sufficiently famous that even I have heard of her, won a lawsuit this week that had been filed against her by an Australian rock singer, John Farnham. Arrangements had been…
I occasionally teach writing seminars for associates in our firm, and there are two or three rules I try to emphasize about the concluding section of a brief. First, always end a brief with a real conclusion and not just…
Reuters reported on Tuesday that Ukrainian border guards had halted an invasion from neighboring Belarus, succeeding in part because the invaders were members of the Belarussian national rowing team. According to the report, a Ukrainian coast guard vessel intercepted ten…
Previous reports in the Anna Nicole Smith case have focused on Judge Larry Seidlin, whose bizarre and often weepy judging behavior was so entertaining. This week, however, the first judge to hear proceedings in that matter, Lawrence Korda, was also…
What do all of the following people have in common? "Fat Frank" Esposito, indicted as an associate of the Bonnano crime family. Frank Capello, arrested for possession of crack cocaine. Nesly Dorce, arrested four times for burglary and drug possession….