Milbarge managed to turn the rules of Civ Pro into a love poem.
A flowchart to determine if a work is in the public domain.
Warning all geeks: A vendor in a Stormtrooper suit (with a plastic laser gun) at a Star Wars con in Janesville, FL, was surrounded by police after someone called the police and said that there was an "armed robber" in fancy white armor at the local Ramada.
Google is watching.
Centinel points out another case where no good deed goes unpunished:
If the plaintiffs bar wants a clue as to why many people hold them in contempt, it need look no further than a suit filed today in California. Evidently, the show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition built a house for a couple who had taken in 5 orphaned teenagers. The teenagers allege that the couple then began making their lives miserable in a successful attempt to force them out.
So what do the kids do (with the help of an enterprising lawyer)? They file suit against ABC because ABC's got the money, not the couple. The kids claim ABC promised them a home, and therefore ABC owes them a home. Here's hoping that someone explains to their attorney the legal difference between a "promise" and a "contract."
Another no good deed goes unpunished story from Overlawyered:
Three years after getting drunk, blowing through a stop sign and triggering a wreck that left her passenger critically injured, a former Idaho resident has filed a $1.5 million claim against Washington's Pend Oreille County for not detaining her before she caused the crash." Ashlen Lee, 17 at the time of the accident, says in her claim that a county sheriff's deputy let her off with a warning in the wee hours although he could see she'd been drinking and neither she nor her passenger was wearing a seat belt.(Yes, I know letting her drive straight home with a warning may not have been a good deed, particularly in hindsight. But the officer was trying to be nice, so it counts.)
In another drinking-related issue, an interesting perspective from the Agitator:
Glynn Birch, MADD's national president, "concedes that these parties [parent-sponsored drinking parties that require guests to spend the night to preclude drunk driving] keep the roads safe, yet he opposes them anyway because he opposes underage drinking. So not only has MADD's mission changed from keeping the roads safe to preventing consumption of alcohol, they'll support a position that cuts down on the latter even when it increases the likelihood of drunk driving fatalities."
Has the agenda shifted from being against drunk driving to being against alcohol? If so, will being against alcohol per se help the cause or backfire?
Iowa Voice reports a new low for Kelo cases:
The Fairfield County Weekly reports that now, not only is the city of New London kicking out the families who wanted to stay, but they are now planning on paying them prices for their properties based on the year 2000. New London is in the middle of a housing bubble that has yet to burst, and there is no way they can buy a similar property for the money being offered. . .
If you're up for it, recent posts from the Becker-Posner blog discuss affirmative action and the 10 Commandment Cases.
Loose links sink . . . oh, nevermind.
According to the majority, if an individual subscribes to an Internet E-group and that E-group is determined to have an illegal purpose, the government has probable cause to obtain a warrant to search the subscriber's home. This is the case even when (1) an individual's e-mail address remains on the E-group subscriber list only for fourteen days and (2) there is no particularized evidence indicating that the individual visited the E-group subsequent to subscription or participated in the E-group's functions in any way.
Somehow I don't think this is gonna work. (via L-Cubed.) (Side note: even if it does, couldn't the US just take it back via Kelo? Sounds like a discussion question to me).
If you're looking for a good response to lawyer-bashing, Objective Justice points out this quote:
I shall not rest until every German sees that it is a shameful thing to be
a lawyer.
-Adolf Hitler
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