This is one panel from a new comic book that, according to The Hollywood Reporter's legal blog, tells the "incredible, insane true story" of legal disputes in the American comic-book industry, including, for example, whether Captain Marvel infringed on Superman. (The…
Joan Newberger, 66, and her caretaker, James Poole, said they and the four monkeys were dressed as pirates on Bourbon Street during the weekend when police and wildlife agents approached them and seized the small primates. … Newberger said the seizure…
This was created by students at George Washington University's law school for their annual law "revue," and it's pretty damn good. Language warning for those who dislike F-bombs; volume warning for those who are fine with them but may be…
I guess in this case FBI stands for "Ferris Bueller Imitators." According to the Detroit News, a Michigan insurance company has sued the FBI and the Department of Justice alleging that one of its agents totaled a $750,000 Ferrari during what…
Helmets might be a good idea in Illinois.
Here's another argument people can probably stop trying. The California Court of Appeal ruled on February 25 that a drunken passenger who caused a car to crash could be convicted of "driving under the influence." The defendant had argued that the…
According to On Point News, the woman who alleged she was hit by a car after following walking directions provided by Google Maps is now arguing that Google can be held liable because it provided her with "individual advice." As…
I briefly reported last month that a woman had filed a lawsuit alleging she was injured by hot candle wax that got into her ear, although it turned out it got there because she paid somebody to stick a lit…
“[I]t is not up to this Hearing Officer to decide whether in fact Respondent was or was not truly possessed by and speaking for [her client’s] deceased wife,” wrote the officer hearing this legal-ethics case. He did go ahead and…
A Pennsylvania statute provides: Whoever intentionally throws, shoots, drops or causes to be propelled any solid object, from an overpass or any other location adjacent to or on a roadway, onto or toward said roadway shall be guilty of a…