Convicted terrorist and murderer Carlos Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal," is still upset about how he is portrayed in the new movie, "Carlos," which premiered at Cannes in May. Ramirez is fuming about the movie from…
The corruption trial of former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich started this morning, but he fired the first salvo before even walking in the front door. It missed. His lawyers filed a motion prior to opening statements arguing that Blagojevich had…
Last week, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick got his probation upgraded to jail time after a judge found he had been hiding assets to avoid paying restitution. Kilpatrick was supposed to be paying back $1 million of the $8.4 million…
In my opinion, mapping software paired with GPS technology is one of the more remarkable developments of the modern age, but you know what? You do still need to look where you're going occasionally. Please remember this if you are…
Here's one I drafted last summer but, for some reason, never got around to posting. It still seems worth mentioning, though, because of the remarkable defense argument involved. In July 2009, 30-year-old Sultan al-Sayed was sentenced to nine weeks in…
A restaurant that refused to seat a blind patron because its workers allegedly believed his seeing-eye dog was gay has been fined $1,500 by the Australian Equal Opportunity Tribunal. The restaurant, located in Adelaide, also agreed to provide a written apology to…
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On Wednesday, a judge in Erie, Pennsylvania, ruled that Dominica Juliano and her mother had failed to present enough evidence to prove that 12-year-old Dominica had actually been injured by a bar-code scanner, as plaintiffs had claimed. According to the…
I wrote on April 2 about an April Fools' Day prank by law blogger Eric Turkewitz (and others) who managed to fool the New York Times, at least briefly. Turns out that was only the first act in a drama…
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