Miscellaneous

The Daily Memo - 3/10/08

Oh yeah ... remember that whole fired U.S. attorneys business from last year? Well Dahlia Lithwick does, and she makes the new book from one such fired dude sound like quite the interesting read. (Slate)

So it turns out that Obama might have kinda/sorta won Texas last week. But the main stream media would never mess up calling election votes, would they? (Daily Kos)

Bush vetoed a bill that would ban waterboarding because he loves him some torture. (CNN)

The "my tits are too big" defense got a Japanese model out of a conviction for property construction. (Yahoo! News)

A lawyer who used her client funds to feed her gambling addiction is now suing AC and Vegas casinos. (Overlawyered)

The Senate is making it harder for our children to get foreign toys? Just because they make kids sick? Ridiculous. (FindLaw)

Raise your hand if you feel bad for the D.C. law firm that bought itself a Porsche Cayenne S, only to have the car spontaneously catch fire? ... Bueller? ... Bueller? (Law.com)

Just cause a guy takes a car on a slightly longer-than-normal test drive, he gets arrested for stealing the car? Sheesh -- who knew 6200 kilometers was too much? (Mercury (the voice of Tasmania))

Full post as published by Quiz Law on March 10, 2008 (boomark / email).