Miscellaneous

BREAKING, BREAKING -- Dapper Don Pinched by the Coppers for Hawking His Homehade Hooch Without a License

Posted on June 08, 2009
...Actually, this fine fella' was busted for driving with a suspended license (his license had been suspended thanks to a little DUI). But that just didn't have the same Newsie ring, you know?...

Want another reason Australians are better than us?

Posted on June 05, 2009
...Their judges say that it's ok for you to go surfing when you're out of work on disability because of your supposed bad back. And you can't be fired for it. Surf's up, bra! Have a gnarly weekend!...

Today's Lesson in Civic Duty

Posted on June 05, 2009
Look people. I get it. Jury duty isn't always the most exciting thing in the world. Some obnoxious-yet-boring lawyers blather endlessly to you about how this corporation did something bad but no wait a minute it was that corporation that...

Their flappy-heads are flapping again

Posted on June 01, 2009
You know, I now see why the South Park movie tried to teach us to blame Canada. It was just a peremptory attack to Canada trying to blame "South Park:" Two Calgary teenagers have been handed absolute discharges in an...

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Would You Hire This Guy? (Part 5)

Posted on May 29, 2009
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of our five-part series where we ask the question "would you hire this guy?" The ads featured in each part of this series come from a recent Esquire piece (with a hat tip to Overlawyered),...

Would You Hire This Guy? (Part 4)

Posted on May 29, 2009
Welcome to our five-part series where we ask the question "would you hire this guy?" The ads featured in each part of this series come from a recent Esquire piece (with a hat tip to Overlawyered), and they're all gems....

His last name's practically "blunt," so what do you expect?

Posted on May 29, 2009
Corie Blount is a former NBA player. Now he's a convicted drug felon. He's just been sentenced to a year in the clink after pleading guilty to two counts of marijuana possession (which he pled to in order to avoid...

Would You Hire This Guy? (Part 3)

Posted on May 28, 2009
Welcome to our five-part series where we ask the question "would you hire this guy?" The ads featured in each part of this series come from a recent Esquire piece (with a hat tip to Overlawyered), and they're all gems....

Barbie's Dream House ain't got nuthin on BarBe's BBQ Joint

Posted on May 28, 2009
This place right here is K.T.'s Barbecue, in Reading, Ohio. Dunno if the barbecue there is any good, but their new advertising is top notch. Owner Kenny Tessel was having trouble with business, which had dropped 40% thanks to the...

Would You Hire This Guy? (Part 2)

Posted on May 27, 2009
Welcome to our five-part series where we ask the question "would you hire this guy?" The ads featured in each part of this series come from a recent Esquire piece (with a hat tip to Overlawyered), and they're all gems....

Suddenly there's a whole lot more work for the Legislature to do...

Posted on May 27, 2009
Massachusetts' state Senate has finally moved forward in enacting legislation that would ban folks from texting while driving. While similar bills have come up before, the state Senate has always shot them down: Similar legislation passed overwhelmingly last year in...

Sue-per-man is not amused!

Posted on May 26, 2009
Everyone's favorite litigant, Jonathan Lee Riches, is back. And as always, it's a peach. The Guinness Book of World Records plans to name Riches the most litigious human being ever. And so, of course, he's suing them to prevent this....

Would You Hire This Guy? (Part 1)

Posted on May 26, 2009
Welcome to our five-part series where we ask the question "would you hire this guy?" The ads featured in each part of this series come from a recent Esquire piece (with a hat tip to Overlawyered), and they're all gems....

BREAKING: California Supreme Court Upholds Discrimination

Posted on May 26, 2009
California's high court has upheld last year's passage of Proposition 8, meaning gay marriage is officially no longer legal in California. Because the gays getting married is what caused our state to be on the brink of financial ruin, don't...

Of course, it is a waste of a perfectly good pint of ice cream

Posted on May 22, 2009
Dustin keeps trying to tell me that his new home of Portland, Maine is a wonderful place. Yeah, sounds great: A woman who threw a pint of ice cream through a store window after a clerk refused to sell her...

I'll gladly give you a beating today for a cheeseburger today

Posted on May 22, 2009
Fran MacLaren is suing her local McDonald's because ... well, I'm not sure. Last April, she was having lunch at the McDonald's and, as she left, she gave a cheeseburger to a homeless man chilling in the parking lot. He...

The latest in criminal defense theory

Posted on May 21, 2009
Willie James Maye, of Buffalo, has crafted an interesting new legal argument. Last month, he was busted for selling weed out of his car. He had parked his Chevy Suburban across from a local bar, and was selling his goods...

The best Florida story of the week...

Posted on May 21, 2009
I've been posting Florida stories all week, but this right here is the winner. A car thief was almost busted by the victim of said theft. The victim (who "only wants to be known as Mustafa because he is concerned...

The latest edition of "Some Headlines Speak for Themselves"

Posted on May 20, 2009
From TCPalm.com: Man, 66, arrested after hunting hog to celebrate son's release from jail Florida, natch....

You can't spell "menage a trois" without three of the letters in "murder"

Posted on May 20, 2009
Florida. Menage a trois. Of course it ended in death. Last August, the body of Nestor Estefani was found in the home of his boyfriend, Dr. Cody Smith. Smith wasn't home at the time and, it seeks, Estefani picked up...

If things go well I might be showing her my O-face

Posted on May 19, 2009
This is just silly. A woman in Eugene, Oregon is embroiled in a battle with the University of Oregon over the school's football stadium. Specifically, McKay Sohlberg is pissed off about the big three-story "O" that's plastered on the side...

W@ should i say 2 ans his Q?

Posted on May 19, 2009
Turns out judges don't like it when witnesses text-message from the stand. While the judge and attorneys conferred, a courtroom spectator passed a note to a defense attorney saying the witness, Sky Development chief operating officer Gavin Sussman, appeared to...

It's funny cause it's true

Posted on May 19, 2009
The always solid Overlawyered dug up this great quote from the Yale Book of Quotations which I just had to reprint: The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail. If it were not for this penalty,...

This is the best political story ever

Posted on May 18, 2009
What's not to love about a story that starts like this: His résumé includes four years in the U.S. Senate, a seriously homophobic voting record, and a tab with "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Palfrey. Her résumé includes such prestigious titles...

Yeah, this is a big Obama disappointment

Posted on May 18, 2009
"The Daily Show" called Bush and his cronies out on all their bullshit for eight years. And it's good to see that they're willing to call out Obama when he's responsible for some bullshit of his own. The Daily Show...

The Real Law School Rankings

Posted on May 15, 2009
Sure, the U.S. News & World Report rankings may be the ones every looks at when seeing how "good" a law school is, but the more important rankings are the brand new Party Law School Rankings. Arizona State comes in...

Look, in these tough economic times, she's just trying to teach the lil' ones to appreciate what they have

Posted on May 14, 2009
A March story from WMAR-TV: A kindergarten teacher in Connecticut has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat food the child had thrown in a garbage can. Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O'Donnell, a teacher at Park City Magnet School...

Yeah. But What a Way To Go

Posted on May 13, 2009
In the be careful what you wish for department: Have you ever wanted to be fucked by a jackhammer? Maybe you should rethink that: Sheriff's investigators have closed the unsettling case of a 49-year-old female construction worker found dead in...

It's a good thing there's not much call for lawyering up in Maine...

Posted on May 13, 2009
...because if Michael Harman is any indication, the lawyers up there are idiots. Harman has failed to pay at least three parking tickets that have been slapped on his truck. So when the Bangor police found his truck, recently, they...

Florida women do it with brains!

Posted on May 12, 2009
Sheila Sue Williams is the kind of woman I want to marry, because she's smart and industrious -- when she was recently looking for a pay phone to call her mother, and was unable to find one, she did the...

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