Estate Planning

Shot in the back 3 times, Omaha woman "played dead"
Until the shooter drove off. Then she managed to walk to a nearby house and get help. (Most people in that situation wouldn't "act dead" because they would, in fact, already BE dead...

I Swear to God, Soon We're Going to Lose All of Our Rights
It's those damn activist judges, you know. First they start chipping away at our civil liberties, and now we can't even have proper sex with a dead person. Jeezum Crow. Wisconsin law bans sex with dead bodies, the state Supreme...

I say you he dead
Just another reason why this might be the funniest show on television. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I say you he dead", url: "http://apublicdefender.com/2008/07/23/i-say-you-he-dead/" });

An Extra Serving of Sausages
There is so much dead animal waiting to be ground into tasty interthingy links this week that I'm celebrating the bounty with an extra peek into the smokehouse. Some of this, though, isn't really ready for consumption yet — it's tough going...

Speaking of Dead Hand Pills
Apropos my prior post on the law governing dead hand poison pills, here is a new research paper, Is There Power Behind the Dead Hand? An Empirical Investigation of Dead Hand Poison Pills, by KATHERINE GLEASON, University of New Orleans - Department of Economics and Finance, and MARK KLOCK, George Washington University - Department of Finance: Dead hand poison pills prevent potential hostile...

One dead, three injured after truck plows through San Mateo, California grocery store parking lot
San Mateo, California A construction truck barreled down a hill and through a crowded San Mateo parking lot Monday, leaving one person dead and three others injured. The black container truck “apparently had some type of mechanical failure” while driving down 43rd Avenue, a residential street that dead-ends into a parking lot for Mollie Stone¹s grocery, said [...

Child Support
Finding the Noncustodial Parent ( Deadbeat Dads )

Oklahoma Bacterial Outbreak
One Person Dead, 14 Hospitalized

TACA Airlines
Five Dead, 65 Injured in Crash

Raptiva
3 Patients Dead from Therapy-Related PML

Sudan Plane Crash
100 People Believed Dead

Train Crash
25 Dead, 135 Injured in LA Rail Disaster

Plane Crash
Children of Dead Passenger Awarded $4.5 Million