Hallowe’en legal humor [Carbolic Smoke Ball]
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Calm down, it’s just a satire [Scott Ott/Scrappleface in D.C. Examiner]
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Electronic Arts surely has better lawyers than the ones who signed off on this contest (h/t cirocco), which merely asks for a standard grip-and-grin photo, but can be read to require photos of “acts of lust” upon booth models. And that’s not even taking account of the Alfred Ravas of the world, since Comic-Con is in San Diego, and thus subject to the Unruh Act…
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- U.K.: “Families told doormats are health and safety risk” [Telegraph]
- Montana judge holds onto case for 34 years before finally issuing ruling [Popehat]
- Free speech and the web: panel from American Constitution Society convention [Above the Law]
- “Driver with ‘0′ license plates wrongly issued dozens of tickets” [Chicago Tribune, Obscure Store]
- Florida judge who presided over Anna Nicole Smith custody case accused in civil suit of looting elderly widow’s assets; probe however led to no criminal charges [Miami Herald, Bob Norman/Broward Palm Beach New Times]
- Economist/YouGov poll finds public supportive of limiting medical malpractice payouts [Point of Law]
- Someone writing San Francisco docket reports may have pawkish sense of humor [Lowering the Bar; Arcata, Calif. Eye's famously droll police blotter, mentioned in this space five years ago]
- Suing over co-worker’s perfume [two years ago on Overlawyered]
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This Green Bag piece is too good not to share, but does demonstrate the problem of failing to adhere to the text of a statute. (h/t M.F.N.)
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Pretty sure this is just a parody [Above the Law]
I’ve heard more than a few jokes that started out that way, but this one, from Nicole Black at Legal Antics, did make me laugh.
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“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail. If it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.” — H.L. Mencken (via Melissa Gomez). The excellent Yale Book of Quotations (Fred Shapiro & Joseph Epstein) says the quote is found in Mencken’s A Little Book in C Major, ch. 4 (1916).
A New York Daily News compilation; I don’t see any stories we’ve overlooked previously.
Or at least famous ones: a bit of fluff from WalletPop.
Per Free Refills America, “the only thing better than winning a lawsuit is winning a lawsuit you didn’t even know about. God Bless America!” (via Karlsgodt).
Uncomfortably funny, from The Onion.
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The Long Island man smuggled it out of a pet store under his jacket and used credit card fraud for another aquarium acquisition, notes Lowering the Bar. When the next fish you steal/Is a dangerous eel/That’s a moray….
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Desiderata from the web, mostly off-topic:
- How the mighty have fallen: A German solar power company offered to buy out GM’s Opel subsidiary, which survived the worst of the Great Depression, two World Wars, Nazi expropriation, allied bombing, and Soviet takeover, for a billion Euros, but GM had to front the Euros on credit. Fortunately the American government intervened, offering billions of Euros with no preconditions. The linked article, translated from French, is recommended to those who find “Engrish” funny, as well as those who want to know what Europeans think of stupid Americans, safe in the knowledge that their articles won’t be translated into Engrish;
- That was pretty long for a microblog, wasn’t it? This is shorter: The Mos Eisley Spaceport of the Blogosphere;
- A very funny web comic (a la xkcd) explaining the mortgage crisis – strong language (Via Nancy Friedman);
- Out of the mouths of babes, a Christmas parable, complete with dinosaurs;
- Disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer observes that “sunlight is the best disinfectant” (Via Above the Law);
- Money for nothing. Focus groups where participants get cash for attendance may come with a catch;
- Buy a lemon of a used car, go directly to jail, and get a tax lien from the IRS – an automotive horror story from TaxProf Blog;
- What Barack Obama isn’t telling about contacts with Rod Blagojevich.
We’ll have something of substance up later today.
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Before your weekend begins, though this may be old news to some, I wanted to share this shocking story of waste, fraud, and abuse committed by staff at the United States Attorney’s office for the Central District of California, all on the taxpayer’s dime: Remembering The Greatest Prosecutor Practical Joke Ever.
Fortunately no one’s life, liberty, or property was lost in the perpetration of this act.
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