Legal Commentary

Oh, There It Is: Oil Plume Found 22 Miles Long and 3000 Feet Deep Despite Administration?s Public Statements

Posted on August 20, 2010
Faced with widespread criticism over its response to the BP oil spill and the President’s plan to lift the ban on drilling along the pristine areas off our East Coast, the Obama Administration launched a public campaign with officials like Carol Browner proclaiming that the oil seemed to just disappear...

Seattle?s Judge Judy Suspended For Abusive Courtroom Conduct

Posted on August 20, 2010
Judge Judith Raub Eiler has been billed Seattle’s Judge Judy — abrasive and grandstanding. Her reviews, however, have become increasingly harsh from her colleagues who suspended her for her abusive treatment of lawyers and parties. Eiler is widely criticized for her sarcastic and rude treatment of individuals in her courtroom, including hurling insults ala Judge [...

Skating Star Kurt Browning Burns Mansion With Leaf Blower

Posted on August 20, 2010
Canadian figure skating champion Kurt Browning has helped teach people around the world how to do a triple axel. He can now add a lesson on how not to dry out your Porsche convertible. Browning virtually burned down his mansion and caused 10 fire trucks to fight the blaze after he dried out his Porsche [...

Wanted: Medicine Man for Uncle Sam

Posted on August 20, 2010
Are you a medicine man looking for gainful employment with excellent medical benefits? Perhaps you should consider an exciting career with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which is looking for their own medicine man to administer to Native American inmates...

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Right-Wing Internet Host At Center of Violent Speech Case

Posted on August 19, 2010
The conviction of right-wing Internet radio host Harold C. Turner of threatening three federal judges sets the stage for an interesting appellate fight over the first amendment. The case involving some of the best known Seventh Circuit judges — William J...

Lawyer Gets $6 Million After Colleague Falls On Her On Dance Floor

Posted on August 19, 2010
A Vancouver lawyer has secured a remarkably large award of $6 million for injuries sustained when a colleague at the law firm of Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang LLP fell back on her while dancing. What is striking is that Michelle Marie Danicek, 32 was able to get full payment for her future earnings as [...

Red Squirrel, Grey Squirrel, and Dead Squirrel: English Man Drowns Squirrel in Defiance of State

Posted on August 19, 2010
Norris Atthey, founder of The Morpeth Red Squirrel Action Group, was intent on making a statement about humane culling (some would say killing) of squirrels. Thus, in a move designed to provoke the authorities, he publicly announced his drowning of a grey squirrel...

Bartender Flambé: Virginia Police Arrest Flaming Bartenders

Posted on August 19, 2010
No, this is not a case involving an unconstitutional crackdown on a gay bar. Two fire-breathing bartenders — Tegee Rogers, 33, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, — are the center of an interesting legal fight. The two men face up to 45 years in prison each for performing flaming bar tricks at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern [...

650 Million Year Old Fossil or 650 Million Year Miscalculation?

Posted on August 19, 2010
Scientists believe that they have found the oldest record of animal life on Earth: 650 Million year old fossil sponges in Australia. For their part, Creationists this week believe they have found an almost 650 million year miscalculation by scientists who seem to forget that the Earth is only 5000 years old — as established [...

Turns Out The ?New Dawn? Is A Lot Like The ?Old Dawn?

Posted on August 19, 2010
The Administration has heralded the withdrawal of the last combat troops from Iraq as evidence that it is partially keeping campaign promises to pull out of Iraq. What has been largely ignored in coverage is not only that 50,000 military personnel remain but the Administration is going to double the number of security contractors to [...

The Last Full Measure of Depravity: Developers Push For Gettysburg Casino

Posted on August 18, 2010
We have followed earlier controversies involving the development of Civil War battlefields and historic areas by Disney, Walmart, and other corporations — often with the help of local politicians bent on trading their heritage for short-term gains...

?Death By Hooker?: English Banker Tricks Katie?s Lovely Escorts Into Carrying Out Real Execution

Posted on August 18, 2010
English Police are dealing with a truly bizarre crime. Colin Birch, 44, was an assistant Vice President at Deutsche Bank in London who was recently laid off. He arranged for two escorts to meet him in the forest to punish him and carry out a faux execution...

Louisiana Man Charged With 473 Counts of Sexual Assault on Underage Relative

Posted on August 18, 2010
Among accused child molesters, Holland McMorris, 63 in Tioga, La. may set a record. He was charged with 473 counts of sexual assault after he allegedly molested an underage relative for more than three years. The molestation allegedly occurred from May, 2006 until August 2009...

Did Lou Gehrig Have Lou Gehrig?s Disease?

Posted on August 18, 2010
The New York Times has an interesting article that explores recent suggestions that Yankees legend Lou Gehrig may not have had Lou Gehrig’s disease. It turns out that “the luckiest man on the face of the earth? may have been felled by concussions or brain trauma...

Mass Vampire Bat Attacks Reported in Peru

Posted on August 18, 2010
Just when you have overcome those childhood fears of bats . . . . four children have died in Peru from an outbreak of rabies spread by vampire bats. Residents of the Amazon have reported “mass vampire attacks.” The bats usually feed on livestock but are now turning on humans, particularly after the destruction of [...

American Taliban: Meet Michael Voris

Posted on August 18, 2010
Meet Michael Voris who believes that the country needs a dictator who is “benevolent” and most importantly a Catholic. Voris advocates Catholic rule for the nation in this video, which surprisingly does not appear to be a joke. Voris’s call for a “benevolent dictatorship” of a Catholic ruler is part of a video that has [...

Taliban Stone Couple To Death ? With Support of Our Allies

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Taliban resume public executions on Sunday by stoning to death a young couple who had committed the crime of falling in love and eloping. The couple — Khayyam, 25, and Siddiqa, 19 — publicly proclaimed their love for each other and reportedly refused to yield to the fanatics who are retaking control of the [...

Anzio Landing: Italian Police Investigate Topless ?Attractive Woman? Putting On Sun Lotion

Posted on August 17, 2010
While the French are cracking down on people walking around in bathing suits, the Italian are dealing with the case of the over-oiled sun bather. Anzio beach has not seen such fierce fighting since the Fifth Army’s VI Corps landed in 1944. The cause was a single Italian woman who was putting on sun lotion [...

Oh Canada: Government Criticized After Ex-Sex Offender Found Administering Bizarre Penile Test on Children

Posted on August 17, 2010
What would be the most sought after job for an ex-sex offender. According to the article below, an ex-offender got a job operating a bizarre device used in Canada called the penile plethysmography (PPG) on children. It has been used for 25 years before finally be stopped by the Canadian government...

Government Cover Up: France Cracking Down on Tourists in Bathing Suits

Posted on August 17, 2010
It appears that it is not simply Muslim countries arresting people for walking around in bathing suits after complaints of tourists walking around with “hairy chests.” French officials are now threatening male tourists in France with $48 fines for walking around without their shirts on and may soon bring sanctioning women walking around in bikinis [...

Expanding the Flock: Researchers Find Over 1000 Brits Are Offspring of Catholic Priests

Posted on August 17, 2010
At least 1000 British citizens use the term “father” with special meaning in reference to Catholic priests. Research has found that at least 1000 Brits are the children of Catholic priests. The research has increased calls for the Church to abandon celibacy rules — a position voiced recently by a pastor in the United States [...

Not So Suttle: Man Charged With Relieving Himself on Officer?s Shoe

Posted on August 17, 2010
Tyrelle Suttle, 21, is facing a rare felony: urinating on the shoe and leg of an officer. The alleged crime occurred after his arrest for public drunkenness and criminal mischief in Northhampton, Pa. Suttle allegedly expressed himself on an officer’s shoes while in a holding cell...

Ohio Man Allegedly Rapes Teen Who Then Has His Child ? Then (Ten Years Later) He Allegedly Molests The Daughter

Posted on August 16, 2010
There is a highly disturbing case out of Ohio where Richard Stephson, 55, is facing molestation charges that he allegedly abused his daughter for years. That is bad enough. However, police charge that this was the child that resulted from Stephson raping and impregnating a teenage girl years before...

Mr. Sloppy Plows Truck Into Crowd and Kills Eight Bystanders

Posted on August 16, 2010
The death of eight people and injuring of dozens of others at the California 200 desert race races some serious liability questions. The accident occurred after Brett M. Sloppy, 28, (unfortunate name in this instance) lost control of his modified 2000 Ford Ranger and went airborne...

Packing Heat: Men Arrested After Allegedly Hiding Sawed Off Shotgun in Stroller With 8-Month Old Baby

Posted on August 16, 2010
Daryl McGregory, 19, and Michael Nelson, 22, are facing charges after police found that they were pushing a stroller around with not just a baby but a sawed-off shotgun. They allegedly put the shotgun in a duffel bag underneath McGregory’s 8-month-old child...

The Ice Man: Oregon Man Arrested for Making Dry Ice Bombs

Posted on August 16, 2010
Douglas Kaynor, 59, is facing some charges that make him sound like he is an al qaeda operative. Kaynor was arrested for an act tried by countless teenagers: making a bomb out of dry ice and soda bottles. He is now facing, however, some serious charges and a long potential jail stint...

English Social Workers Pay For Prostitutes and Lap Dances for Welfare Clients

Posted on August 16, 2010
Public relief officials in England have approved funding prostitutes and lap dances for the disabled as legitimate expenses under social services regulations. In one case, local officials paid off on the use of public funds for a prostitute in Amsterdam...

Following The Paper Trail

Posted on August 15, 2010
This is either the most incriminating paper trail or the worst frame job in history. At moments like this, deny everything.

Heretical Hit: Catholic Pastor?s Video Challenging Church Doctrine Goes Viral

Posted on August 15, 2010
Rev. Joseph Breen, longtime pastor of St. Edward Catholic Church in Nashville has become a hit with a video that some conservative Catholics are calling nothing short of heresy. On the video, Breen challenges the Church’s rules on celibate priests, birth control and papal authority...

Denver Police Department Fight Efforts to Fire Officer Who Is Shown Attacking Man Speaking on a Cell Phone

Posted on August 15, 2010
There is a controversy in Denver over the handling of a police camera and the appropriate punishment of an officer shown beating two men. The incident was caught on Denver’s High Activity Location Observation video surveillance (H.A.L.O) system...

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