Hallowe’en legal humor [Carbolic Smoke Ball]
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Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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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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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:
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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