Called "Boalt Hall" for many years, the law school at the University of California’s Berkeley campus recently decided to change its name because of concerns that people outside the Bay Area did not know what "Boalt Hall" was. "We [were]…
"Nice butt." This comment, by a male judge with reference to a female criminal defense attorney, resulted in a disciplinary ruling yesterday by the New York Commission on Judicial Conduct. The judge argued that he had only parroted a comment…
Sorry, I had hoped to spare you this, but you now may be subject to a lawsuit. It is not at all uncommon for attorneys representing a trademark or copyright holder to send a "cease-and-desist" letter to someone believed to…
This now joins Reason 1 ("Roommate used the last roll of toilet paper") and Reason 2 ("Argued over game of Yahtzee") in this unfortunately growing database. Link: FindLaw.com
Timothy McKevitt, one of the two killers who murdered Gaylord the ostrich last October, has been sentenced to five months in jail. His accomplice, Jonathon Porter, was released earlier this year after also serving five months for the crime. As…
I am already about a dozen items behind, and now this morning, on a very busy day, I learn about this new lawsuit. The high-school art teacher who was fired in January after his employer learned that, on his own…
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…
Dongmei Li, one of the many consumers who bought the original iPhone for $599 only to see the price go down to $399 two months later, has now sued Apple on behalf of herself and other "early adopters," alleging "price…
PETA announced today that on September 18, Michael Vick successfully completed its seminar on "Developing Empathy for Animals," an eight-hour course that concludes with a written exam that PETA described as "rigorous." Vick was immediately pardoned and given PETA’s "Animal…
Matthew Pan’s legal team says they will appeal an intermediate court’s decision to dismiss Pan’s case, which would place the matter before the Supreme Court of Austria. The provincial court affirmed a lower court’s decision on the grounds that Pan…