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A regular compilation about the law and legal news from Glen Ashman, who has been a municipal judge since 1988 and a lawyer since 1980
By Glen Ashman

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Last Entry: May 19, 2013 at 18:09:27

Bank Kills Man With Wrongful Foreclosure

Posted on May 19, 2013
Wrongful Death Lawsuit against Wells Fargo in Wrongful Foreclosure Case AllGov - ?May 18, 2013? Disabled veteran Larry Delassus of Hermosa Beach, California, died in court last December while opposing the wrongful foreclosure of his condominium, which he had purchased 17 years earlier, prompting those close to him to sue the bank...

Delphi's Memorial Forum

Posted on May 12, 2013
A couple months ago, we built what has quickly become a wonderful tribute forum to those we have lost on Delphi, Delphi's Memorial Forum.Since that start, we have posted fitting memorials for 46 Delphi members who passed away, are looking for a number of missing members, and successfully looked for and found 4 other MIA members...

Dumb Criminals: Social Security Edition

Posted on April 27, 2013
Dumb Criminal of the Week: The Alleged Disability Insurance Scammers Whose Frauds Got Caught on Camera SLATE MAGAZINE Posted Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 12:20 PM Disability fraud is not a terribly hard crime to get away with. You claim you?ve been injured, get a shady doctor to sign off, and then you stick to the fakery...

Racist federal judge is gone

Posted on April 03, 2013
Good riddance of garbage: Montana federal judge to retire after inquiry into racist email The Missoulian HELENA ? A Montana federal judge will retire following an investigation into an email he forwarded that included a racist joke involving President Barack Obama...

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1 in 10 federal judges unethical

Posted on March 29, 2013
This is a practice that not only is sleazy and unethical; it should be made criminal by Congress so we can stop the practice: ================ One in 10 Federal Judges Took Trips on Other People's Dime, Study Says The National Law Journal A nonprofit group's research has restoked the debate about federal judges who accept all-expenses-paid trips for educational seminars...

Fla. declares war on women and children

Posted on March 27, 2013
Press release from Florida's bar, which opposes the bill: Florida Families Lose with Passage of HB231/SB718: Lawmakers side against Florida's women, children and families. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., March 22, 2013 -- This week, women, children and families across the state were dealt a devastating blow from the policy makers who were elected to act in the best interest of Florida's citizens, but instead, chose to collapse to the pressure of a small, vocal group of disgruntled alimony payors...

Indigent legal defense problematic

Posted on March 17, 2013
Serious problems persist in indigent legal defense WASHINGTON (AP) - It is not the happiest of birthdays for the landmark Supreme Court decision that, a half-century ago, guaranteed a lawyer for criminal defendants who are too poor to afford one...

Major part of "Patriot Act" illegal

Posted on March 15, 2013
A great day for freedom, the Constitution and liberty as a piece of the abhorent misnamed "Patriot Act" is rejected: FBI's 'National Security Letters' Demands Ruled Unconstitutional NPR (blog) A federal judge in California ruled today that the FBI cannot secretly demand data from banks and phone companies in national security cases...

How Big Banks cheat people out of homes

Posted on March 10, 2013
How Bank of America (and the other big banks) con people out of homes - trying to foreclose at the same time as they pretend to do a modification (refusing to put the foreclosure on hold) - when you hear the word FORECLOSURE, assume the bank may be lying and see a lawyer IMMEDIATELY (your home is at stake): Details: http://www...

Pass the bar exam or your money back

Posted on March 10, 2013
Two law schools now offer partial refunds if you can?t pass the bar The Daily Caller Law schools are struggling these days. Applications are down nearly 50 percent since 2004 and at their lowest ebb lowest since the Reagan administration...Desperate times call for desperate measures...

Can the feds look at your laptop?

Posted on March 09, 2013
Appeals Court Curbs Border Agents' Carte Blanche Power to Search Cell Phones, Laptops... Wired A federal appeals court for the first time ruled Friday that U.S. border agents do not have carte blanche authority to search the cellphones, tablets and laptops of travelers entering the country ? a ?watershed? decision in the court?s own terms and one at odds with the policies of the President Barack Obama administration...

Fedex works for marijuana dealers?

Posted on March 01, 2013
Mass. woman sues FedEx over marijuana delivery PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) ? A Massachusetts woman has sued FedEx, claiming the company mistakenly sent her a package containing seven pounds of marijuana, then gave her address to the intended recipients, who later showed up at her door...

Delphi's Memorial Forum

Posted on February 25, 2013
Looking for someone that has disappeared from Delphi Forums? Wanting to share memories of those lost to the Delphi Community? This is the place to do so, and pay respects to those who were important to you. http://forums.delphiforums.com/glen/start Not a bunch of rules: Please be respectful of others and please don't flame...

Woman Gets 4 Speeding Tickets In 3 Hours

Posted on February 17, 2013
Woman Gets 4 Speeding Tickets In 3 Hours Huffington Post January 31, 2013 Loretta Lacy is a driven woman. You'd have to be to get four speeding tickets in a three-hour period, including one for doing 112 mph...

Bloggers protected by media shield laws?

Posted on February 05, 2013
Hearing Will Test Blogger's Right to Privilege New Jersey Law Journal A New Jersey judge is deciding what it takes for a blogger to qualify for the protection of the state's broad news-gathering privilege. Assignment Judge Karen Cassidy has agreed to hold a plenary hearing on whether a subpoena served on Tina Renna, who has blogged about possible misuse of county generators after Hurricane Sandy, should be quashed...

Blog: The "sleazy world of probate?"

Posted on February 01, 2013
Attorney's Blogging Prompts Ethics Complaint The National Law JournalA Chicago attorney who writes a blog highlighting what she describes as Illinois' corrupt probate system faces an ethics complaint, which asserts that she is undermining the administration of justice and denigrating the legal profession through her blog posts...

Florida discriminates against men

Posted on January 29, 2013
It's pretty unconscionable that in 2013, Florida is in the middle ages. In Florida, which apparently still thinks women belong to men, a woman can take a husband's name upon marriage, but reverse the rolls and the state DMV claims (ridiculously) fraud...

Judge Charged with Corruption

Posted on December 26, 2012
JQC files charges against Grady State Court judge Fulton County Daily Report Dec 17, 2012 ? The state Judicial Qualifications Commission has filed ethics charges against a former president of the Council of State Court Judges of Georgia, accusing him of illegally fining criminal defendants to boost his salary, allowing social relationships to influence his judicial conduct and verbally attacking people in his courtroom whom he believed had supported his political opponent...

Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 24, 2012
This is the annual Christmas message I have posted in each of my forums since 1996.Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus[Francis P. Church's editorial, "Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus" was an immediate sensation, and became one of the most famous editorials ever written...

You can be fired for being pretty

Posted on December 22, 2012
Iowa court rules boss can fire employee he considers an 'irresistible attraction' Fox News ? December 21, 2012 A dentist acted legally when he fired an assistant that he found attractive simply because he and his wife viewed the woman as a threat to their marriage, the all-male Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday...

Texas cop hands out ticket?and $100 bill

Posted on December 17, 2012
Texas cop hands out ticket?and $100 bill The Lookout Normally, being stopped by a police officer is not good news. But this traffic stop was not exactly typical. When Hayden Carlo was pulled over by a Plano, Texas, cop for driving a car with an expired registration, he told the officer the truth...

Calif. Judge has bizarre view of rape

Posted on December 13, 2012
OC judge admonished for insensitive remarks on rape OCRegister An Orange County judge was admonished by a state commission Thursday for making "outdated, biased and insensitive" remarks about rape victims who do not "put up a fight" during a 2008 sentencing hearing...

10 Tips for a Stress-Free Holiday Season

Posted on November 29, 2012
10 Tips for a Stress-Free Holiday SeasonSource: USA.gov. Whether the holiday season is your favorite time of year or gives you stress-induced nightmares, USA.gov can help you make the most of it. These ten tips from across the government highlight ways you can celebrate on a budget, secure seasonal employment, sign up for local volunteer opportunities and more...

Dumb law students flunk in Court

Posted on November 21, 2012
Judge Tosses Suit by Two Former Students Who Failed Out of Texas Law School The National Law Journal A federal judge has dismissed a suit brought by two former law students at Texas Southern University who claimed they were given unfairly low grades, causing them to flunk out...

New IE 10 doesn't work with Delphi blogs

Posted on November 20, 2012
For those of you with Delphi blogs, a warning. The Delphi editor is not working right with IE10, either in the already released Windows 8 version or in the public beta for Windows 7 users. (You get a plain text editor). There is a fix besides using Chrome or Firefox...

Jail coming to mass-mortgage robo-signer

Posted on November 20, 2012
Plea deals in mortgage robo-signing in Fla., Mo. San Francisco Chronicle JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The former head of a company where workers forged signatures on mortgage documents pleaded guilty to a federal charge in Florida on Tuesday, the same day a plea agreement on related state charges was announced in Missouri...

Some folk don't want to get out of jail

Posted on November 19, 2012
Moments After $50K Win, Man Is Arrested Daily Report A Georgia man who had just been awarded $50,000 over a paperwork mistake that kept him imprisoned 22 months beyond his sentence was arrested moments after the verdict was announced. As his lawyer interviewed jurors, Calvin McGee was whisked away by sheriff's deputies executing an arrest warrant from August 2011...

Be careful when you counterfeit money

Posted on November 15, 2012
Police: Rhode Island man?s fake $100 bills had wrong face Attleboro, Mass. (AP) ? A Rhode Island man police say used counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases at a Target store made a critical mistake. The bills had a picture of President Abraham Lincoln on them...

Today's Dumbest Criminals

Posted on November 08, 2012
Criminals busted for stealing from site of law enforcement conference Today's TMJ4-Oct 23, 2012 MILWAUKEE - Two dumb criminals walked by 100 cop cars parked outside the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee to try to steal items from inside the building...

They grow them dumb in Alabama & Florida

Posted on November 07, 2012
Some voters are too stupid to be voters: Dead candidates win elections in Florida, Alabama Reuters (Reuters) - Florida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will not take office. Both men died weeks before the November 6 election yet managed to beat their very much alive opponents by comfortable margins...

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