Speaking of the Supreme Court, before the debut of the Hat the big news was that Justice Thomas had astounded the legal world by actually speaking during oral argument. As it was his first utterance in nearly seven years, pundits…
In August, I mentioned the battle going on in Twiggs County, Georgia, over who owned about 400 acres of land there. The people who lived on it thought they owned it, but a guy whose ancestors had lived in the…
Agreement made between Harper and Brothers of the city of New York, Publishers, of the one part and Herman Melville of Pittsfield Massachusets [sic] of the other part, witnesseth— That the said Harper and Brothers have agreed to publish and…
An arrest report reportedly filed by the sheriff of Yuma County, Arizona Territory, in 1873: Received the within process Arizona City, Jan. 1873 and served same by arresting defendant at Ehrenberg, A.T., Jan. 31, 1873, but as defendant had no…
"I have been practicing law since 1974," said Randal Harrison, "and I have never been involved in a case where someone was claiming a title based on unrecorded deeds that were over 200 years old and not having possession of…
They would like the Crown Jewels and an apology, but will get neither.
She just assumed that “religious” meant “Christian,” because … is there another kind?
Although this time, it was because he got stuck in the stairwell. This month is the 40th anniversary of the break-in at the Watergate Office Complex that ultimately led to the resignation of Richard Nixon. On June 11, the Washington…
It's the 20th anniversary of the release of My Cousin Vinny, and the Abnormal Use blog is celebrating with an entire week of stuff devoted to the courtroom classic. Today, Nick Farr writes about how the world's shortest opening argument by Vincent Gambini…
From the first chapter of Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, who would be 200 years old today if he hadn't died in 1870: Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so…