And we continue with the "you can't make this stuff up" files

http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/18/v-print/3872420/lawsuit-employee-rift-led-to-kc.html


PS - if you're on the jury: what is the extent of the damages? on what theory?

From the "you can't make this stuff up" files:

Several court and legal related programs were criticized this week in one Republican senator's annual "Wastebook," which chronicles the top 100 projects that voters might consider a waste of tax dollars. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) singled out a Michigan program that was literally "flushing down taxpayer dollars," when Michigan used $10,000 from the Department of Transportation for 400 talking urinal cakes to fight drunk driving, the report said.

For the male Michiganders, one of the messages, read by a female voice, says: "Listen up. That’s right! I'm talking to you. Had a few drinks? Maybe a few too many? Then do yourself and everyone else a favor. Call a sober friend or a cab. Oh, and don't forget. Wash your hands."

And you still wonder why I make fun of Florida . . .

http://news.yahoo.com/man-dies-live-roach-eating-contest-fla-215822212.html

Palsgraf will live forever . . .

http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/09/28/TraynomDismiss_12.pdf

New tool for comparing law schools

http://www.nerdwallet.com/education/compareschools/law/

Once again, everything counts . . .

See, they really ARE arguing about font size!

http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202570758746&In_voter_ID_case_how_big_is_the_letter_of_the_law

The only reason I don't grade like this is I don't know if top or bottom is "A"

http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/12/a_guide_to_grad.html

Where do I begin????

http://cdn.abovethelaw.com/uploads/2012/09/Smoot-response.pdf

Touche!

http://www.tnr.com/article/magazine/books-and-arts/106441/scalia-garner-reading-the-law-textual-originalism?page=0,0

Can't wait to see the actual documents

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/lindsay-lohan-lawyers-plagiarized-lawsuit-documents-pit-bull-people-article-1.1137162

The facts are fun, but what do you think of the actual issue pleading in the 3 counts?

http://www.scribd.com/doc/102847205/Peters-v-Easter-Complaint

See, I wasn't kidding: grammar matters

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/07/i_wont_hire_people_who_use_poo.html

For those of you who laugh when I question your FB pics:

http://abovethelaw.com/2012/07/so-you-want-to-be-a-supreme-court-justice-dont-sniff-glue/#more-176665

And for today's exercise in New York sections 50 and 51 . . .

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99811215/Edme-v-Internet-Brands-et-al-Complaint

When, o when, will drafting for pr die??

The judge's sensible order in the Lance Armstrong suit:

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/sports/20120709armstrongsuit/Armstrong_order.pdf

and the suit from Scribd (Play find the factual basis for a cause of action in it!) :

http://www.scribd.com/doc/99603350/Armstrong-v-USADA-Complaint

For those of you who know I teach Hemingway in Arts and Hum classes:

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA

TAMPA DIVISION

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

  CASE NO.: 8:11-cr-269-T-23AEP

v.

CRISTIE FAY BOTTORFF
JERRY ALAN BOTTORFF
LUIS ANGEL LOPEZ
                                                                     /

ORDER

     Jerry Alan Bottorff stands accused of murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and a firearm offense.  For four months the parties have known with particularity when the trial begins – July 9, 2012; the parties requested the special setting.  Nonetheless, Bottorff’s counsel asks (Doc. 127) to suspend the trial on Friday, July 20th:
   
          Undersigned counsel, a perennial contestant in the Ernest Hemingway
          Look-alike Contest, is scheduled to appear as a semi-finalist at Sloppy
          Joe’s Bar in Key West, Florida at 6:30 P.M. on Friday, July 20, 2012.

          In order to be able to be in Key West at the appointed hour, undersigned
          counsel has planned to depart St. Petersburg after the trial recesses on
          Thursday, July 19, 2012, and drive toward Key West[,] arriving on
          July 20, 2012.

          Undersigned counsel has secured a block of six rooms to accommodate
          family, friends, and fans and has had to pay non-refundable deposits.

     Between a murder-for-hire trial and an annual look-alike contest, surely Hemingway, a perfervid admirer of “grace under pressure,” would choose the trial. At his most robust, Hemingway exemplified the intrepid defense lawyer:


          He works like hell, and through it. . . .  He has the most profound
          bravery. . . . He has had pain[] and the kind of poverty that you don’t
          believe[;] he has had about eight times the normal allotment of
          responsibilities.  And he has never once compromised.  He has never
          turned off on an easier path than the one he staked himself.  It takes courage.
Dorothy Parker, The Artist’s Reward, THE NEW YORKER, Nov. 30, 1929, at 28-30 (describing
Hemingway).  Perhaps a lawyer who evokes Hemingway can resist relaxing frolic in favor
of solemn duty.
     Or, at least, “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”
     Best of luck to counsel in next year’s contest.  The motion (Doc. 127) is DENIED.

Anyone see a problem here?

http://media.al.com/bn/other/holloway%20lawsuit.pdf

School still matters

duh!

http://www.tmz.com/2012/06/18/hangover-2-warner-brother-louis-vuitton/


http://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/cases/show.php?db=special&id=189

Doesn't it seem that . . .

if you are going to be involved in internet demands, you should at least understand how the internet works?

http://gawker.com/5918116/funnyjunks-lawyer-surprised-by-internets-negative-response-to-his-legal-threats-wants-to-pull-plug-on-oatmeals-charity-fundraiser