I guess we are now a full week into 2010, so I'll just do one more of these. "Woman Says Boss Made Penis Puppets," read this headline. She alleged the puppetry involved, among other things, animal shapes including a goat and some…
After I posted about the guy who set a hand grenade on the jury box during a closing argument, Ken of the excellent Popehat blog reminded me of the hand-grenade paperweights once sent by a law firm to 500 potential clients as part…
In November, Pressler and Pressler, a collections firm in New York, dragged the wrong "Mark Hoyte" into court and then tried to blame him for not proving the firm wasn't wrong. "You didn't send any written proof of [your] claim…
Before listing the top stories of 2009, I feel the need to purge all the various notes and partial drafts I have involving stories that I thought had potential but didn't quite get posted during the year. Many of these…
Hope you had a good New Year's Eve, and that you didn't have to spend it in jail. On the other hand, if you were hoping to spend it in jail because you preferred that to spending it with your…