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For its fiscal year 2009/2010, the City of Mesa, Arizona, expects to spend $408.6 million and collect $245 million in revenue, which is a deficit of $164.6 million. Mesa’s left hand announced that all 3,400 employees would take a 2 percent pay cut just after Mesa’s right hand gave 1,600 employees a 5 [...] Four young men from the Bronx were arrested by the snowball police and charged with weapons possession, attempted assault, menacing and harassment when one of them threw a snowball that hit a New York City transit officer. The member of New York’s finest, protecting and serving, did what any member of the governing [...] A California court jury awarded a permanently injured 14 year old girl $24.3 million in damages because a big-rig truck owned by Freeway Transport Inc., ran over her. The jury award was the largest of its kind ever for a Sacramento County personal injury lawsuit. The driver of the truck that ran over [...] Here’s another outrageous lawsuit that drives people nuts. City of Detriot worker Susan McBride cannot stand her co-worker’s perfume so she complaints to management that does not solve the problem. Susan does what every other money hungry red-blooded American would do – she lawyers up and sues the city for violating her rights [...] Tomorrow the citizens of Switzerland will vote on whether to give all Swiss animals increased legal rights, including the right to be represented by an attorney. I’m not kidding! Switzerland currently gives its animals more protections that perhaps any other country in the world. If the referendum passes, all of Switzerland’s cantons (territorial [...] Because the California legislature did not have the funds to purchase a fiddle for every legislator to play while California spirals down the economic death hole, the members of the Assembly spent their time considering and passing a new law intended to solve California’s financial woes by asking citizens to swear off swearing [...] New York Times: “in the two years since the Education Department began an intensive effort to root out such teachers from the more than 55,000 who have tenure, officials have managed to fire only three for incompetence. . . . . The city’s effort includes eight full-time lawyers, known as the Teacher Performance [...] I just learned from a post on Above the Law that Tajudeen “Taj” Oladiran, a current candidate for Arizona Attorney General, has the dubious distinction of filing a motion in federal district court last year that was one of Above the Law’s five best motions of 2009. Above the Law says this about [...] 5ksdk.com reports about a woman charge with attempted murder. She allegedly tried to kill her husband after he refused to give her part of their income tax refund. An auto mechanic was sentenced to six years in prison for defrauding customers. He routinely put a dead rat in a customer’s car and charged to repair the alleged rodent damage. The entrepreneurial dude charged 25 insurance companies over four years for 236 jobs he never performed. The guy’s wife pleaded guilty to 10 tax [...] From the government workers are hired for life department. The LA Weekly story called “LAUSD’s Dance of the Lemons” explains how difficult to impossible it is for the Los Angeles Unified School District to fire a teacher. The LAUSD attempted to fire 74 year old 4th grade teacher Shirley Loftis, but gave up [...] This story in not recent news, but I just heard about it because the City of New York is appealing the verdict that it must pay a cop $4.5 million after he shot himself when the chair he was sitting on collapsed. The New York Injury Cases Blog has a good summary of [...] In 2006 a first grade boy touched the inside of the pants of a first grade girl sitting in front of him in his Brockton School District elementary school in Massachusetts. The girl told the teacher who told the principal (mistake number1). The principal told the police (mistake number 2), the Department of [...] A timely commentary in the Philadelphia Inquirer on February 10, 2010, raises a point that is probably going through the minds of many people who have suffered in the blizzards this winter in the United States. Instead of empowering the federal food police to prevent kids from eating candy bars in school, why [...] From the keeping America safe department. The Associated Press reports that an 11 year old boy got mad at a fellow student and used a pencil to inflict a scratch on the other student. Police charged the perpetrator with attempted assault, a felony, and possession of a weapon, a misdemeanor. Will the police [...] The Smoking Gun: “Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two Virginia college students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday’s blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops in Harrisonburg, where they attend James Madison University. . . . When police [...] Thanks to the State of South Carolina U.S. citizens can sleep better at night knowing that the State’s new subversive registration law is in effect. Subversive organizations must register with the South Carolina Secretary of State or be subject to a fine of up to $25,000 or imprisonment up to ten years, or [...] More from the we are doomed department. The other day the Department of Justice placed an ad seeking 10 trial lawyers who are mentally retarded. See “U.S. Department of Justice Seeks to Hire Mentally Retarded Trial Lawyers for Voting Division.” Maybe the DOJ could loan one of its newly hired retarded trial lawyers [...] A tennis ball-sized meteorite fell from the sky through a roof in an office building and landed in a doctor’s office. The doctor has been told that the meteorite could be worth $25,000 to $50,000. The Smithsonian Institution offered $5,000. Apparently the landlord believes he owns the meteorite because it feel on his [...] An Associated Press story reports that a 19 year old girl in New Zealand auctioned her virginity to the highest bidder on a New Zealand website. The girl intends to use the money to pay school tuition. The girl claims that she accepted a bid for more than 45,000 ($32,000) New Zealand dollars. A police [...] From the United States is doomed department. There is evidence of hope and change at the United States Department of Justice today. The U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, is seeking up to 10 experienced attorneys for the position of Trial Attorney in the Voting Section in Washington, D.C. These attorneys will [...] KGO TV 7: “Janet Maitland is nothing if not a good telephone services consumer. Back about a decade ago, she got her long distance phone service through Costco. It was called TTI and it offered a smoking deal. ‘They offered a deal where it was 5.4 cents a minute and they broke it [...] It’s easy to see why New York City has a $4 billion deficit. New York City bureaucrats are idiots. Years ago the teachers’ union negotiated a deal with the NY Department of Education where teachers who were fired were not actually fired, but sent to the “rubber room” to sit for 7 hours [...] Nobody could make this up. President Obama is considering using the power of the federal government to force the NCAA to drop the BCS bowl system and go to a tradional playoff system for division I football. What makes this so scary is it proves what many people have feared, which is that [...] MercuryNews.com: “State Controller John Chiang issued a stern warning Friday about California’s cash reserves, telling legislative leaders and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger they must act on nearly $9 billion in budget cuts the governor is seeking by March — or the state will run out of cash to pay its bills. Without making those cuts — [...] ElPasoTimes.com: “Four months ago, Teresa Fuller endured a severe beating at the hands of her 15-year-old son after he refused to do his chores. She said she received multiple concussions and has a scattered memory of the last three months of 2009. Not only does she have to live with the lingering physical [...] The audacity of government tax and spenders is illustrated by the outrageous claim made by the City of New York that a New Mexico based internet company violated federal laws intended for organized crime when the company refused to give purchaser information to NY tax collectors. Consider the chilling affect when an online [...] The Volokh Conspiracy: “the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Wisconsin prison’s rule forbidding inmates to play Dungeons & Dragons or possess D&D publications and materials . . . . The prison’s rationale for the ban is that playing D&D might stimulate ‘gang activity’ by inmates. But the government conceded that [...] Southwest Riverside News Network: “A parent complaint that a dictionary in her son’s classroom at Oak Meadows Elementary contained the term and definition for “oral sex” prompted school officials in the Menifee Union School District to pull all copies of the book from its fourth and fifth grade classrooms last week. Copies of [...] Suits and Sentences: “Marine Cpl. Raheem G. Green was convicted at court-martial of various offenses involving a fellow Marine . . . who says he groped her repeatedly. One of the offenses was use of indecent language, contravening Article 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. And this is what Green said; [...] |
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