It seems that our old friend Roy L. Pearson, Jr., he of the $65 million pants, has recovered sufficiently from losing that case to get on with losing another one. This one was a wrongful-termination lawsuit against the District of Columbia,…
Back in the day, as I recall, we blamed (or tried to blame) el Niño for pretty much everything, but now it seems to be swine flu – I mean, the H1N1 virus. At least, blaming H1N1 is apparently all the rage in…
Oh, for the simpler times when we could all leave our doors unlocked, our phones weren't all tapped, and the authorities were less cynical and would accept at face value your explanations for why you were butt-naked in a cemetery…
Nevada's highest court (and its only appellate court) will hear oral argument on August 3 as to whether O.J. Simpson should be allowed to go free on bond while he appeals his conviction for that gun-waving memorabilia negotiation he conducted…
“In his deposition, Beninati admitted he knew ‘fire was dangerous and caused burns’ before he walked into one.”
The tale of the woman who sued the manufacturer of “Cap’n Crunch with Crunch Berries” for allegedly misleading her about the “berries,” has turned out to be extremely popular, bringing literally tens of thousands of people to this site over…
One of the most popular posts ever on this site, and one of the dumbest cases ever filed by people who weren’t incarcerated.
A remarkable number of people believe that most of one's legal troubles can be cured by declaring oneself to be an independent sovereign nation. Usually this has to do with tax issues, as we saw a while back when a…
Former SF supervisor Ed Jew was sentenced today to 64 months in jail by a judge in SF federal court. Judge Susan Illston apparently rejected the claim that the defendant had been afflicted by childhood head injuries that first manifested…
Here's an argument that Rod Blagojevich might want to take notes on, now that he has been very unsurprisingly indicted. Former San Francisco supervisor Ed Jew (who I'm going to refer to as "Ed" here in hopes of not appearing in…