Washington Post metro columnist Mark Fisher covered today's trial in the case of the famous $65 million pants lawsuit. After questioning eight witnesses, Pearson spent two hours telling his own story, but as he came to the part about when Soo Chung finally told him she had found the missing pants, the tale of the […]
You may recall the story of the Washington, D.C., administrative law judge who was suing his cleaners for losing his favorite pair of suit pants. He was suing for $67 million. Well, he's apparently come to his senses. Now he has decided he'll settle for a mere $54 million.
Paris Hilton is going back to the slammer. Yawn. It was wall-to-wall Paris earlier today as I got ready for work on both Fox News and MSNBC. CNN was better, cutting into the Parismania for occasional coverage of President Bush in Europe and the aftermath of the failed Senate effort at passing comprehensive immigration reform. […]
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for having a different recollection of events than Tim Russert. The case was a joke from the beginning. An out-of-control prosecutor -- I'm looking at you Patrick Fitzgerald -- apparently figured he had to get someone for something and Libby lost the coin […]
Courtesy of Patterico comes this story about a lawyer and his pants. The lawyer took his suit pants to a dry cleaners and they lost them. It happens. But then the lawyer sued -- and what a lawsuit it is. He wants $67 million. For one pair of pants. How does he come up with […]
The silly liberals on the Supreme Court (and the whichever way the wind blows Anthony Kennedy), have ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and the Environmental Protection Agency has to seriously consider regulating its production. This particular argument has been bugging me to no end. Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Heck, let's try […]
Apparently the judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are a bunch of masochists; they love the repeated beatings laid down on them by the Supreme Court. The latest case is Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v. Glover. Quin Hilyer of The American Spectator explains: In its decision, the 9th Circuit majority determined that […]
Good news from a Massachusetts state appeals court: Cops are allowed to follow fresh footprints in the snow away from the scene of the crime. Second, the NFL may be in serious legal trouble for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Advice to lawyers: read the law you're using completely before sending out legal documents.
I got done reading Jan Crawford Greenburg's excellent book "Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle For Control of the United States Supreme Court" last week. I strongly suggest that you pick it up if you're at all interested in the Supreme Court. Greenburg has more than capably outlined the past 30-some years of […]
I've been wanting to point out this op-ed piece by one of the lawyers in the case of Harper v. Poway Unified School District, but haven't got around to it. For those who haven't been following the case, Tyler Chase Harper was sent to detention for wearing a T-shirt in response to the Gay, Lesbian, […]