Findlaw.com: Mitch Torbett was arrested in Tennessee for a crime committed by his identical – and deceased – twin brother. He’s suing authorities for the 36 hours he spent in jail and according to this article, he won’t likely win.
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Did you know the Department of Justice has the whale police? I didn’t until I read this story called “Corzine Steals Billions Sans Charges, Errant Whale Watcher Faces Prison.” Instead of prosecuting the people who stole money from MF Global investors or the people in the Justice Department and the Bureau of Alcohol [...] CBS Tampa: “A 10-year-old child was arrested and charged with felony burglary after stealing a bicycle while leaving his tricycle at the scene of the crime in order to get away successfully.” ABA Journal: Halloween can be fertile ground for lawsuits. There have been suits over neighbors’ Halloween displays, suits over haunted house injuries, and suits claiming sexual harassment due to remarks about Halloween costumes, according to an article in the New York State Bar Association Journal. Cases from the last several years include: • A Florida [...] Scribd.com: When the former owner of the Dallas Mavericks sold the team, he retained 5% ownership. A few years after selling the team, he filed multiple lawsuits accusing the new owner of mismanaging the team and even doing illegal things with the money. Yesterday the owner of the Dallas Mavericks fired back with probably the [...] ABA Journal: A North Carolina man who robbed a bank proved to be a cooperative criminal. James Verone passed a note to the teller that asked for a dollar. Then he sat down and waited for police to arrive, WCNC.com reports. Verone wanted to get arrested to get prison health care. [...] North Jersey.com: “At Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the average stagehand salary and benefits package is $290,000 a year. To repeat, that is the average compensation of all the workers who move musicians’ chairs into place and hang lights, not the pay of the top five. . . [...] Investors Business Daily: “Prognosticators who wrote the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, global warming report in 2007 predicted an inevitable, century-long rise in global temperatures of two degrees or more. Only higher temperatures were foreseen. Moderate or even lower temperatures, as we’re experiencing now, weren’t even listed as a possibility. [...] Sadly, this is a true story. The Smoking Gun reports “A 13-year-old boy was arrested Friday for using a permanent marker while in class at his Oklahoma City middle school, a violation of an obscure city ordinance.” The boy’s teacher signed the police complaint that caused the cops to arrest the boy and take him [...] Arizona Republic: “the Glendale City Council approved a $197 million deal to keep the financially struggling Phoenix Coyotes at the city’s arena. . . . The agreement also requires Glendale to wire $100 million to Hulsizer quickly, perhaps in the next few weeks, which would help him purchase the team from the NHL [...] Gas 2.0: “California has plans for an 800-mile high-speed rail system running the length of the Golden State, and initial estimates place the cost somewhere around $45 billion . . . . Even a 800 mile journey begins with the first step, and California has been trying to find the area most receptive [...] If you want the best example ever of how the United States has gone from a country of freedom and limited government to a country that is a nanny state and government control of everything, here it is. The federal Highway Administration issued a regulation that requires every street sign in the United [...] Aol News: “A driver convicted of manslaughter for killing a 14-year-old Connecticut boy is suing the victim’s parents for negligence, claiming they let their son ride his bike on a busy road without a helmet.” New York Times: “They dangle from the arms of many New Yorkers, a nearly ubiquitous emblem of empathy with the environment: synthetic, reusable grocery bags, another must-have accessory for the socially conscious. . . . . reports from around the country have trickled in recently about reusable bags, mostly made in China, that [...] The Macomb Daily: “The father of a former student at Warren Consolidated Schools has sued the district, claiming that her African-American daughter was the victim of racial bias and harassment by the teacher reading aloud of passages from a book about slavery. Jamey Petree, representing Jala Petree, says that excerpts [four paragraphs] from [...] If you want a reason why the federal government should not touch our national health care system, look no further than the U.S. Postal Service. It’s a government run monopoly that provides less and less service at an ever increasing cost. USPS lost a mere $3.8 billion for the fiscal year ending September [...] On Point: “A Florida man who says he was injured from eating the leaves of a grilled artichoke has filed a lawsuit that may test whether a restaurant has a duty to explain to patrons how to eat unfamiliar food items.” The complaint alleges that the restaurant’s staff did not ask “Plaintiff whether [...] Despite the voters of America voting loud and clear that they do not want the federal government to waste tax dollars, President Obama intends to take his entourage to Mumbai despite the fact his trip will be the single most expensive trip in the history of mankind. A reasonable person would cancel the [...] The Sun News: “Harry Pavilack – the Myrtle Beach lawyer perhaps best-known for his television commercials and billboards urging potential clients to ‘Call Pavilack Today!’ – is $72.5 million in debt and is facing allegations in bankruptcy court that he could be hoarding cash and hiding assets from creditors, court records show.” [...] The dad estimates that the sales taxes his kids pumpkin stand may collect would be about $10. Nevertheless, the Idaho State Tax Commission is demanding that the 4 & 6 year old owners of a pumpkin stand obtain a permit to sell their products. The revenuers said that its the law and it isn’t fair [...] This is not a joke. An idiot who is also a prosecutor who has convicted all violent criminals in Wayne County, Michigan, and who seeks more preps to send up the river is asking for a law that would make it a crime for parents to miss their parent teacher conference. How about [...] Washington Examiner: “It’s a classic David and Goliath story: A white-shoe law firm staffed with hundreds of D.C.’s most-powerful lawyers has moved to shutter a hamburger eatery on the grounds that the lawyers didn’t like the aroma of cooking meat wafting into their offices. So far, Goliath is winning.” [...] Hollywood can never create stories are bizarre as real life events. Cop stops dude and smells marijuana. Cop searches dude and finds a bag of weed in dude’s crack plus 27 pieces of rock cocaine. Dude admits the pot is his but says he is not the owner of the cocaine. Can you spell E C O T E R R O R I S M? London Telegraph: “what I could never have imagined was how quickly public disgust – even among greenies – would reach such a pitch that the campaigners would be compelled to withdraw it from the internet.”
The Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog: “a 17 year old baseball pitcher, received a $52,703 verdict for the right arm fracture he suffered while throwing a pitch in a baseball game.” He claimed the pitcher’s mound was too high and deep. It only took the idiots on the jury one hour to find the [...] Associated Press: “The Senate unanimously passed a bill late Wednesday to require television stations and cable companies to keep commercials at the same volume as the programs they interrupt.” Nothing, absolutely nothing is as inefficient and wasteful as the government spending other people’s money. Case in point – the Los Angeles City Controller said, “I’m disappointed that we’ve only created or retained 55 jobs after receiving $111 million.” For those who want the nanny state to have complete control over our lives [...] More evidence that many educators are complete idiots, if not downright dangerous and harmful to children. NBC Miami: “The 8-year-old boy hasn’t been in school for a year and will likely miss another year if the Broward County School Board has its way. Burgos was suspended from school in November after a teacher [...] Boston Herald: “The family of the Dover High School student shocked in his electrical trades class last school year has filed a lawsuit alleging negligence on the parts of the teacher, school district and City of Dover.” Wall St. Journal: “At $578 million—or about $140,000 per student—the 24-acre Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex . . . is the most expensive school ever constructed in U.S. history. . . . this city’s Staples sports and entertainment center cost $375 million. . . . the school district is currently running a [...] |
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