The ABA Journal reports today that a judge in New York dismissed a motion for default judgment partly because it had been so poorly stapled. It appears that the staple or staples used were inadequately closed during the stapling process,…
According to the people at Improbable Research, who collect interesting and completely ridiculous studies done in many scientific fields (including the social sciences), the longest known oath required of witnesses in a judicial proceeding was the oath required in Burmese…
Recently, District Judge Ronald McPhillips of Toole County, Montana, ruled that James Rubow had not breached his agreement with Milan Ayers, who contended that Rubow owed him millions of dollars for improperly taking his share of a natural-gas field. This…
Careful with those friend requests.
Last season, a judge agreed to continue a trial date after counsel pointed out that the date would impair the parties’ ability to watch the New Orleans Saints play for the NFC championship. Now a judge in Baton Rouge has…
Ram and Hanuman apparently have not been answering their mail.
Last Friday, a court in Naples, Italy, sent trial subpoenas to Mickey Mouse, Tweety, and Donald and Daisy Duck, in what appears to have been a clerical error. The defendant awaiting trial there is charged with counterfeiting Disney and Warner…
Hail to Judge Ernest L. Jones of Orleans Parish, who swiftly granted a motion to continue a trial originally set for Monday. (According to this article the motion was granted on Wednesday, the same day it was filed.) This gives…
A while ago I reported on a motion filed in an Arkansas case seeking a continuance on the ground that trial was set during deer season and so most of the jury pool would be out in the wilderness. In…
John Freeman sued for $3 million after he fell off a roof at a job site and broke his left arm. Defense attorneys were eager to take Freeman’s deposition partly because they had learned he had a history of drug…