Would you be confused by these marks? Look closely: Image: Consumerist.com The one on the left is the logo of West Sixth Brewing Company in Lexington, Kentucky. The one on the right belongs to Magic Hat Brewing Company, based in South…
Me in 2010, on Stayart v. Yahoo: “Like many,” this opinion begins, “Beverly Stayart was curious about what she would find when she put her name into a search engine.” And like many, Beverly Stayart was not happy with what…
All these restrictions on polo tycoons are starting to make me rethink this as a lifelong ambition. First, they get on you for leaving the scene of a fatal accident, and then they won't let you adopt your 42-year-old girlfriend….
You may remember Larry Craig as the senator who pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after he allegedly propositioned an undercover officer in an airport men's room. Now you may also remember him as the former senator who argued that it…
You know, it kind of does, when you think about it. State Rep. Ernest Hewett of Connecticut (D-New London) has been under fire for a while now because of a comment he made during a hearing last month. The hearing…
The idea of questions from the jury may be new to some, but in several states the law allows jurors to pose their own questions to witnesses. The questions are in writing and are screened by the judge and subject…
Like many lawyers might, he used three paragraphs rather than just the one word, but that's what he said. For a while now the administration has been refusing to answer this question one way or the other, which anyone with…
I guess it might literally be hard to argue this, if you aren't good at making arguments. But I really meant that it's hard to argue it successfully. According to the Memphis Commercial Appeal, which is what they call their…
Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes, but sometimes they are also stupid. Brown v. Swindell, a 1967 case out of Louisiana, is one of those cases where all the parties deserve some criticism, though the real creeps…
Bill Maher was not required to pay Trump $5 million just because he proved his dad was not an orangutan.