Feuding Newport Beach Fortune-Teller Clans Take Dispute to Court
One clan was apparently horning in on the other clan’s territory.
Titanic Legal Battles
UPDATE: Battle Over Cat Jurisdiction Enters Fifth Year
Back in July, I reported on a dispute between federal and local authorities as to who had jurisdiction over the descendants of Ernest Hemingway’s mutant six-toed cat. (See Legal Battle Rages Over Future of Hemingway’s Mutant Cats, July 19, 2007.) …
Judge In $54 Million Pants Case Soon to Be Former Judge in $54 Million Pants Case
Sources report that the D.C. Commission on Selection and Tenure of Administrative Law Judges has voted not to reappoint Roy Pearson for another term as an administrative law judge. Pearson caused both outrage and (among amateur legal humorists) delight by…
Activist Convicted of Pelting School Board Members With Grapes
Agnes Hitchcock says she has made her point and will no longer disrupt school-board meetings, now that her act of civil disobedience on April 4 has served its purpose of allowing her to talk about mismanagement of the Detroit-area school…
Architect Pursues Rival Beyond the Grave
According to a report on Monday, a Pennsylvania architect challenging the license of a rival architect recently appealed his case to the state’s highest court. This means Mark Altman is still trying to get Michael Molnar’s license revoked even though…
Legal Battle Rages Over Future of Hemingway’s Mutant Cats
Reuters News reported this week that the federal government and the local authorities in charge of the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum in Key West, Florida, are battling over the future status of dozens of cats that roam the grounds…
Live-Blogging From the Pants Trial
Not me, unfortunately, but at least someone is doing it. Emil Steiner of the Washington Post is live at the trial of Pearson v. Custom Cleaners, which did in fact go to trial this morning and may or may not…
Trial of Judge’s Lost-Pants Claim Set to Begin
According to the website of the firm representing Custom Cleaners, the trial of Judge Roy Pearson’s $54-million-dollar lost-pants claims is set to begin today or tomorrow in District of Columbia Superior Court. Apparently Judge Judith Bartnoff is presiding over another…
Judge Drops Pants; Suit Still On
New developments this week in the lawsuit by D.C. administrative law judge Roy Pearson against his local dry cleaners, alleging a diabolical pants-related scheme. As you may recall, Pearson sued under the D.C. consumer-protection statute after the cleaners allegedly lost…
Lawyer Seeking $65 Million for Pants-Related Fraud
It’s the principle of the thing, probably.