Law Humor

What did students study in Southern Colleges before the Civil War
With classes starting today and curriculum on my mind, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the curriculum of the antebellum southern college. In algebra class, they sometimes studied how terrible Yankees were...

Algebra for everyone: good or bad
BoardBuzz has been so busy this week keeping you up-to-date on a wide variety of issues it almost forgot to mention this article in USA Today. The article focused on a study by the Brookings Institute?s Tom Loveless which found that 38 percent of 8th graders are now taking Algebra or an equivalent advanced math course -- a dramatic increase since the early 1990?s...

Equality Bill makes Britain's web accessibility law harder to access
OPINION: The UK's law on web accessibility is being re-written in an apparent attempt to make it impenetrable. But even though algebra has replaced plain English, the duty to make information accessible to disabled people survives, thanks to a blind peer.

The Sky is Falling and NASA gets into a pissing match with a 13 year old
I just saw this story this morning and since I vaguely remember reading something about this a few years and again a few months ago, thought I would click on it. Supposedly, an asteroid is projected to come within a few thousand miles (which is close, relatively speaking) of Earth in about 20 or 30 years...

IT WAS ISLAM that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Eu
“IT WAS ISLAM… that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe’s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it [...

Operation Algebra child rape convictions in Scotland: open WiFi tracking, digital camera image forensics
"Child Abuse" is one of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse regularly invoked as a justification for ever more Government snooping and censorship of the internet, even though these problems have existed for thousands of years before the internet was invented...

The Civil Rights Act of 1871
Law bans discrimination enacted under color of state law

Heart of Atlanta v United States
Supreme Court Decision: Civil Rights Act Protected by Interstate Commerce Clause

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Civil / Human Rights
alleging violations of basic human and civil rights.

RC2 Corp to Pay $1.25 Million Civil Penalty
RC2 Corp to Pay $1.25 Million Civil Penalty >

Faulty Homes
Fleetwood Enterprises Inc. pays HUD $75,000 civil penalty for defective construction.

Health Plan Boycott
Connecticut chiropractic groups to pay $87,000 fine in civil suit.

Becker County
Faces Civil Rights Class Action by Inmates and their Attorneys

Marketing Spam
Member Source Media pays $200,000 civil penalty for deceptive online advertising.