Here's a case report describing a recent filing in San Francisco County: Brendan H__ v. KatachiSF Inc. dba Katachi, No. CGC-10-501116 (San Francisco Super. Ct. filed 6/28/10). Personal injury action in which the defendants failed to warn the plaintiff that…
“It was probably the worst place they could have taken him,” opined the sensei.
Michael Williams, who was the chief electronics technician on the Deepwater Horizon rig while it was still above water, told a federal panel today that a critical alarm system on the rig had been in "inhibited mode" for a year prior to…
Hollerin’ is not specifically prohibited, but would probably fall under the ban on “yelling.”
Although this is a saga that long-time LTB readers may be quite familiar with by now (see, e.g., "Reasonable Consumer Would Know 'Crunch Berries' Are Not Real, Judge Rules," Lowering the Bar (June 2, 2009)), my column this week for Forbes.com…
Please fill in the blank in the following sentence, which recently came out of the mouth of John Morton, Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security: The reason the Department of Homeland Security is protecting ______ is because we are all about…
All quotes from Rod Blagojevich, except as indicated: Dec. 19, 2008: "I'm dying to answer these charges. I am dying to show you how innocent I am. . . . I intend to answer every allegation that comes my way….
Fed up with noisy visitors, the city council of Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, appears likely to pass an ordinance that would make it illegal to, inter alia, hoot between the hours of 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. or at any…
Daryl Simon seems to have included his bogus charity photos in an appendix to his sentencing memorandum, but I was unable to find that on the court’s docket. It may not have been posted yet, but that seems odd given…
In a final effort to put his fraud skills to good use, Daryl Simon tried to scam the court that was about to sentence him by offering fake documents and pictures to support his bid for leniency. Unfortunately for him,…