Posted on July 23, 2008 by yojoe
Recently the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller. The case involved a challenge to Washington, D.C.’s ban on handguns, brought by policeman who was denied a permit to keep a handgun in his home. The Court held,
The Second Amendment protects an [...]
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Posted on July 23, 2008 by yojoe
The Cal athletic department has finally succeeded in ejecting a group of longhairs who had been living in trees in an area the university had selected for construction of a new $140-million sports-training center. A judge in Alameda County ruled,
late Tuesday, Miller orders the injunction that has been in place since February 2007 to be [...]
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Posted on July 18, 2008 by yojoe
Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn is doing his best impression of Mike “I’m not gay. I’m heterosexual” Piazza. According to TMZ, Quinn’s lawyer has sent a cease-and-desist letter to a homosexual-dating website demanding that photos of Quinn be removed from the advertisement.
The message: Brady Quinn is not gay. Evidently Quinn is willing to go [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by yojoe
From Lowering the Bar,
We learned last month about the Knoxville man who sued his church claiming he had been injured in a fall caused by the holy spirit. (It wasn’t capitalized in the complaint). Matthew Lincoln did not blame the spirit, however (let alone sue it), instead arguing that the church is liable for negligent [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by yojoe
Jonathan Lee Riches© (known as the JLR on Dreadnaught) the litigious inmate from Florida has reappeared in the news. The JLR has sued venture capitalist Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures:
“Khosla’s fund invests in prison buildings. I’m suffering from no medical treatment. This is a conspiracy. Bhutto was killed on my birthday. I can’t see outside, [...]
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Posted on July 15, 2008 by yojoe
Update on former USC wide receiver Mike Williams.
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Posted on July 3, 2008 by yojoe
This title of this post does seem a bit confounding. Either the agent is with the
Federal Bureau of Investigation or a member of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, one would think. As it turns out, this “agent” is neither. In reality he is the owner of a failed trucking company, former wedding minister, and former [...]
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Posted on July 2, 2008 by yojoe
Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich is one of the Marines charged with a crime relating to the killing of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq. Previously, the government attempted to subpoena unaired portions of an interview he did with CBS, for the program 60 Minutes. The military judge denied the request for the tapes. The government appealed [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2008 by yojoe
In 1988, Dr. James E. Hansen, a NASA scientist, testified before the Senate about the impending doom of global warming. Dr. Hansen made much of that day’s temperature, which was 98 degrees, to add some theatrics to his message.
Dr. Hansen testified again on 23 June 2008, this time before Congress, stressing that,
the world has long [...]
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Posted on June 17, 2008 by yojoe
In a hearing on 17JUN08, a military judge, Col Stephen Folsom, USMC, dismissed all charges against LtCol Jeffrey Chessani. Col Folsom ruled that the decision to charge LtCol Chessani was a product of unlawful command influence (UCI). Col Folsom ruled,
the participation of Col. John Ewers as an investigator and report writer in the [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by yojoe
From Legal Blog Watch comes this story,
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover will convene a conference in September to lay plans to prosecute President Bush and other high administration officials for war crimes. “This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,” says MSL’s dean Lawrence Velvel [...]
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Posted on June 16, 2008 by yojoe
Defense lawyers for LtCol Jeffrey Chessani believe all charges may be dropped. They base this on a signal from the military judge, Col Folsom, who previously scheduled a hearing for two days and has now changed the session to last one hour. At this session the military judge will rule on the motion [...]
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