On May 15, a judge ruled against a Miami woman who had sued her husband to get a share of a $600,000 lottery prize he won. Donna Campbell said that last summer she began to suspect that her husband, Arnim…
The Denver Post reported today that the father of a 4-year-old boy pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct on Tuesday, after a heated argument with his ex-girlfriend during which he knocked displays over in the store where she works. The two…
Sadly, it seems to be all too common for legal disputes to arise over who gets the engagement ring if a wedding is called off. But not many of those disputes involve a ring worth close to half a million…
Or, why the word “not” is one of the more consequential typographical errors a legislature can make.
One of my ongoing projects (in addition to trying to convince our managing partner to get us a helper monkey) is to collect and make available as many legal documents as possible that are truly funny (intentionally or not). As…
Leroy Greer sued 1-800-Flowers last week in federal court, alleging that the company’s breach of its privacy policy has caused him $1 million in damages. Mr. Greer contacted the company in order to send a beautiful bouquet of roses along…
Among the terrifying things that have happened in Britain recently is this decision by a court ordering Dennis North to give his ex-wife an additional 202,000 pounds (which I think is a lot of money) as a lump-sum maintenance payment. …
Sometimes it’s hard to let go when you think a judge’s ruling was wrong, but sometimes a motion for reconsideration is not a good idea. Case in point: Michael Polsky’s motion to reconsider the $176 million award to his ex-wife,…
When you and your identical twin brother had sex with the same woman on the same day. Holly Adams named Raymon Miller as the father of her child, but he contests that, even though he admits he slept with Adams….
Bishop Anthony Owens of Memphis, Tennessee, is back in jail on bigamy charges again after a woman said he proposed to her not long after being released from serving his previous sentence. He had apparently proposed to three other women…