Consumer Law

Call for Contributions: 2008 RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit (Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008)
The RIPS Teach-In Kit is back! Your kit contributions are currently being accepted for the 15th Annual RIPS-SIS Teach-In Kit. The RIPS sponsored National Legal Research Teach-In campaign has provided the popular Teach-In Resource Kit for many years as a...

MCCAINS COMING TO TOWN
I just got word that John McCain is scheduled to come to town for a fund raiser on February 22. What’s ironic is the 22nd is the last day to file in Indiana and it’s also Washington’s Birthday...

Fatherly love knows no limit
An Ohio man was recently in court over charges that he had been going around town cutting the catalytic converters off of cars. Thirty-year-old Brent Leisgang was apparently trying to teach his 12-year-old son a craft, so he let the…

Sears Tower "Sprinting" for a New Tenant
Wow, first Chi-Town became the U.S. choice for the 2016 Olympics and now the U.S. Olympic Committee may be coming to town. Come, come, we're a midwestern, backwater town...not international nor cosmopolitan...

Rhode Island Traffic Courts
We have completed the traffic courts in Rhode Island section of our traffic court directory site. Well, we think so anyway. At first we missed some municipal courts, but we added them recently and are pretty sure we got them all...

2008 National Legal Research Teach-In Kit Now Online
AALL's Research Instruction and Patron Services (RIPS) Special Interest Section has published the 2008 National Legal Research Teach-In Kit, the 16th annual edition! [Past Kits] Congratulations to the Teach-In Committee, led by Jennifer S...

Stacy Schneider
Stacy Schneider offers to be Britney Spears Lawyer for Free

Music Teacher
Town of Brookline agrees to $150,000 settlement after the former employee exploited a freshman student.

Burst Drain Pipe
Town of Smithtown agrees to pay homeowners $260,000 property damage settlement.

Suspended and Fired
Town of Alton agrees to pay former police chief $10,000 wrongful termination settlement.

Landfill Eminent Domain
Surry County pays $800,000 settlement to purchase farm land for town dump.