The Daily Journal legal newspaper reported last week on a 10th-grade history class exercise that put students in the roles of Benjamin Franklin and Britain’s Frederick North at the time of the American Revolution. Amazingly, it appears that by applying…
An unidentified man in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, called police earlier this week and asked for help breaking into a church. They were happy to come over, but didn’t help him with the break-in. The man told police that he had…
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…
Robert Marsh was arrested last week in Wisconsin and charged with several offenses stemming from an incident early Thursday morning in which he broke down a woman’s door and grabbed her. Two other men in the home stopped Marsh, who…
On Monday, a court in Bautzen, Germany, will hear the case of an ostrich farmer who alleges that three teenagers frightened his male ostrich so badly with fireworks that it was unable to breed for six months. This cost the…
Police in Hobart, Indiana, said Monday they had arrested Kevin Russell after he went to a local bank and tried to cash a $50,000 check that was signed "King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant." Even with all…
Reuters News reported today that a German man had ended his ten-day protest of a fraud conviction by coming down out of a treehouse-like box that he had built on top of a 72-foot-tall pole. As the report put it,…
Criminal defense attorney Gene Murray is aggressively defending his client against drug possession charges, in part by arguing that the city police chief, who took part in the traffic stop that led to the arrest, is not qualified. The Toledo…
For those of you who are closely following the Anna Nicole Smith story, this article by Professor Joanna Grossman clearly sets out the legal reasoning behind Judge Larry Seidlin’s "odd," "tearfully delivered," but also apparently correct ruling in the Broward…
A law passed this month in Mexico imposes criminal penalties on men who are "jealous" or who are "indifferent" toward their wives. The law would likely violate the Equal Protection Clause in the U.S. because it applies only to husbands…