Amish on the Loose
Is it just me, or is there a rising tide of reports about Amish-related mayhem? The Associated Press reported yesterday (via WSJ) that a number of young Amish adults in western New York had been charged with illegal possession of…
Brilliant Arguments
UPDATED: Soccer Player Blames the Baptists for Ruining His Career
According to The Guardian, a former semi-professional soccer player (yes, I know it's called "football" over there but I'm not over there) has sued the Baptist Church, or at least the Baptist Union of Great Britain, for allegedly ruining his…
Feds Guilty of Backwards-Correct-Syntaxing-Modification-Fraud, Plaintiff Alleges
Huh?
White House Party Crashers Now Suing Each Other
Let us hope that nobody wins this one.
Quail Murderer Encourages Feeding Human Fetuses to Livestock
"You buried the lead" in last week's post about Sen. Ralph Shortey, a reader pointed out to me, and he was right. Given that Shortey's proposed ban on the use of "aborted human fetuses" in food or food research is…
Further Pain on Appeal for Gun-Safety Instructor Who Shot Himself
The Legal Times reports that on January 17, the D.C. Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Lee Paige's lawsuit against his employer, the Drug Enforcement Administration, likely bringing this saga to a close. As you may recall, Mr. Paige shot himself…
Auto Insurer Won’t Cover Injury Caused by Dead Driver
Many have pondered the question, "If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" But few have pondered the equally stupid question: "If a car causes an injury but…
Judges Still Not Amused by Identical-Twin Hijinks [Updated]
I've never thought the whole identical-twins-switch-places thing was all that amusing, and I might even rank it one step below its leprous cousin, the inexplicably frequent parent-child-body-swap farce. And that's when Hollywood does it. It's even less likely to go…
Lawyer Facing Contempt for Insulting Judge Decides to Double Down
Most likely this saga is on the way to becoming more sad than it is funny, but it's not quite there yet. As I mentioned the other day, a Minnesota lawyer is facing contempt charges after filing a bizarre pleading…
The Homeland Security Snow-Cone Machine
In which those protecting western Michigan from al Qaeda did their best to justify spending a homeland-security grant on 13 snow-cone machines.