This video clip is of a lawyer questioning a man on whether he can tell the difference in hand signals that might have been used in traffic as related to his case.

You can tell that the lawyer is having a little fun with the questioning much to the dismay of the other side.

Was the lawyer out of order by doing so?

Does this seem very professional even though the vulgar hand signal might actually be relevant to the case?

How should the lawyer have handled it?

I’m still trying to figure out what this is warning against.

Do they want to keep you from urinating?

Maybe they want you to urinate but only in short bursts?

Even worse, this could be a threat as to what could happen to violators of the urinating rule.

Some people go too far for a “laugh”.

With the popularity of the Dark Knight movie, you just knew some crazies would come out an indeed they did.

Here’s the news story…

Detective Mike Mohney said Monday 20-year-old Spencer Taylor of Three Rivers has been booked for investigation of larceny and malicious destruction of property.Taylor is scheduled to be arraigned Aug. 5 in St. Joseph County District Court.

There is no telephone listing under his name in the Three Rivers area.

Mohney says officers who were dispatched early Sunday to the theater arrived to find employees restraining a man wearing a purple suit, a green wig and face paint in the style of Batman’s nemesis in “The Dark Knight.”

- source

I’ve been divorced and I gotta say, if the story below had actually worked I would be kicking myself right now for not trying it.

An Indian man took a new approach to the painful process of divorce recently.

Sanjib Saha decided it would be best if he hired an impersonator to act as his wife during divorce procedures in the eastern city of Kolkata.

Both Sanjib and his fake wife said they sought a mutual divorce which the court granted.

divorce Man Caught Using Impersonator to Divorce Wife pictureSanjib’s real wife found out later, when she was asked to leave their home.

She immediately appealed to a higher court charging her husband with cheating on her and faking their divorce. The court suspended the fake divorce leaving both Sanjib and his wife married once more.

“The case exposed the legal loopholes in our system,” Kaushik Chanda, lawyer of Saha’s real wife, said.

Sanjib Saha finds himself in a tough situation. If he now tries to get the divorce legally, the judge is likely to be very hard on him and rule in his wife’s favor. If he doesn’t get the divorce he has to live and stay with his wife, who he just tried to divorce with an impersonator.

How do you get away with something like this?

Unless there are no video tapes of the courtroom and you can convince a jury that your exwife is certifiable, I can’t see hwo he believed this would work.

“A” for effort though.

- Source

I know the concerns about skin damage and cancer but Spray Tanning has to be outlawed.

There is a perfectly good sun outside and you can protect yourself if you look into it.

You can even lay in bed and get a better tan than using the spray but some people still use it and are left looking like these guys…

It is a crime against eyes.

I say we ban it.

Most everyone has seen the “Naked Cowboy”, the street performer in Times Square, on TV or possibly in person.

Well now that same guy is suing the M&Ms candy company for trademark infringement.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $6 million lawsuit filed by the New York City street performer known as The Naked Cowboy against M&Ms candy maker Mars Inc can go forward on grounds of trademark infringement, a judge ruled on Monday.

Robert Burck — for 10 years a fixture in Times Square, who strums a white guitar while dressed only in white cowboy boots and hat and skimpy white underwear — filed the suit in February over video billboards depicting a blue M&M dressed in his signature outfit.

U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, ruling that Burck may proceed with his false endorsement claim, “for he plausibly alleges that consumers seeing defendants’ advertisements would conclude — incorrectly — that he had endorsed M&M candy.”

Chin dismissed Burck’s right to privacy claim, noting that New York law protects the name, portrait or picture of a living person but not that of a character or a role created by or performed by a living person.

Burck, who poses for photos with giggling tourists in return for dollars slipped into his boots, has trademarked his look and licensed his name and likeness to companies for endorsements and advertisements, including a Chevrolet commercial that appeared during a Super Bowl, the suit says.

In addition to Mars, Burck sued Chute Gerdeman Inc, the agency that created the ads with the Naked Cowboy M&M as well as ads with M&Ms dressed as other characters associated with New York, including the Statue of Liberty and King Kong.

Chin ordered attorneys for both sides to appear for a pretrial conference on July 11.

I think someone should sue “Naked Cowboy” for false advertising. He’s hardly naked while wearing those tighty-whiteys and cowboy boots.

I don’t want to name the exact case or people involved but I can’t seem to understand how this even happened. 

A man in Texas shoots two men in their backs after they robbed his neighbors house and tried to escape by crossing his lawn.

The man claimed that he feared for his life and that they were “attacking” even though the 911 operator urged him to stay in his house.

He ignored the advice given by the operator and went outside, ordered the two men to stop but when they didn’t, he shot them both.

And now a panel issues a no-bill after two weeks of testimony and he’s cleared by grand jury concluding that what he did was a justifiable use of deadly force and not murder.

Now I understand that in Texas, a person has a right to use deadly force to protect his property, but does that include a other people’s property?

If this man was fearing for his life, why did he go outside?

And who the hell was his lawyer because that guy is good!

If there was ever a book that contained every law ever made, it would make the Bible look like a pamphlet.

Here are even more outdated laws.

In Texas, it is still a “hanging offense” to steal cattle.

What’s funnier, the thought that these are real or that there was ever really a need for some of them?

Jerry Seinfeld is being sued by author Missy Chase Lapine after he made comments on the Late Show with David Letterman.

Seinfeld compared the author to three name killers like Mark David Chapman and James Earl Ray while making jokes to Letterman about the lawsuit Lapine has against his him and his wife over the plagarism of her cookbook.

The best part of the lawsuit is the changing of some wording in the paperwork that removed the wording of  ”Jerry Seinfeld is an enormously wealthy and well-known comedian” to “well-known actor”. The reason was to minimize the statements that defamed her.

CARLISLE, Pa. - A Pennsylvania man says he had one alternative when his brother didn’t show up to give him a ride to court: start walking. Stephen Shoemaker of Shippensburg was scheduled to appear at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for sentencing on a 2007 drunken-driving conviction.

Shoemaker, 33, doesn’t have a car or driver’s license. So he started walking to the Cumberland County Courthouse in Carlisle at dawn. He kept walking for about 25 miles in 90-plus-degree heat.

Shoemaker arrived about 3:30 p.m., after a detour to Carlisle Regional Medical Center, where he was treated for dehydration. Judge Edward Guido had issued an arrest warrant when Shoemaker failed to appear. Instead he agreed to defer sentencing until July. Guido says he hesitated only because “that means he’ll have to walk back to Shippensburg.”

Deputy Public Defender Anthony Adams volunteered to give Shoemaker a ride home.

- MSNBC

All that and the only thing the judge gives him is a later sentencing.

I have a feeling this guy will be back in court sooner for assaulting his brother though.

I have to give it to the guy for attempting to make it but has he never heard of a phone?

As a law student and avid gamer it is a joy to hear that Jack Thompson’s antics are no longer being tolerated.

Earlier this afternoon, Thompson walked out on his disciplinary hearing where the Florida Bar asked for “enhanced disbarment”. Hopefully preventing him from practicing law for the next ten years.

Before leaving though, Mr. Thompson filed a “Formal Objection to June 4 Sanctions Hearing” about 4,500 words.

You can read the whole story HERE at Kotaku.com

It’s a must read if you like the nonsensical ramblings of a madman.

It’s an old case but a funny one.

A case of a man who wears too many hats.

You gotta love when people who get too greedy get what they deserve.

Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead. Now he has four law firms after his money - and he hired all four.

Wyss’s boomerang litigation started in 2002, when he invited Carmelita McLaughlin to his office at 1600 Washington St. in Alton. Acting as her attorney when she bought a home in Alton and when she refinanced it, on both occasions she had chosen Centerre Title–a company that Wyss owned–to close her loans.

Read the whole story here. - link

Law student Michael Dodge graduated this weekend from the University of Mississippi with the first-ever certificate in Space Law.

Space law is an actual concern since people have been trying to sell property on the Mars for years now. But it also handles things like weaponization of space and the industrialization of privatized space. Also it keeps people from starting wars over who owns the moon.

My guess is Mr. Dodges’ first week is going to be full with all those calls from hillbillies who claim to have been illegally probed by extraterrestrials.

article found on io9.com 

I’m an Xbox Live player.

I play Halo, Call of Duty and the occasional Uno (mostly when drinking).

While I am not a “person of color”, one of the most offensive things I have seen on Xbox is the incredible amount of racism.

The most troubling thing about it is that the attacks are not always caused by an argument or anything that sets the offender off, it’s usually because they assume someone is a different race than them because of the way they talk or the subject of the conversation.

And I hear it from every age group, pre-teens all the way up to guys in their 40s just shouting hateful comments into their little headsets from the safety of their couches.

Even UFC light-heavyweight champion, Quentin “Rampage” Jackson deals with it while trying to relax and play a videogame while taking a break from smashing peoples faces in.

But even a World Class ass kicker like Rampage has to just sit there and take it because of the anonymity these idiots are lucky enough to have, otherwise I have a feeling there would be alot of very quiet racists sitting in their mothers basements with him in the room.

I propose a law goes into effect that allows all racists on Xbox to have their addresses sent directly to Mr. Jackson where he will be able to single-handedly fix this problem of online tough guys so that everyone else can get back to having a good time.

Guess the Crime!

1. Evading Police
2. Aggravated Assault
3. Excessive Speeds

1. Driving with a Suspended License
2. Assault with a Deadly Earlobe
3. Failure to appEAR

1. Attempted Theft of One-Eyed Willies’ Treasure
2. Wrongful Imprisonment of a Sloth
3. Obtaining Property with a Worthless Check

1. Domestic Battery on Beastman
2. Domestic Battery
3. Attempted Murder of all people of Eternia

1. Stopping
2. Collaborating
3. Spousal Abuse

All of these awesome mugshots found on MugshotDujour.com

Here is a personal law I’d like to enact immediately.

“Muffin-top” is a generally pejorative, slang term used to describe the phenomenon of overhanging flesh when it spills over the waistline of trousers or skirt in a manner that resembles the top of a muffin spilling over its paper casing. This generally occurs when an individual wears low-rise, hip-hugger pants, or midriff-baring tops that are too small.

This calls for fines or at least an immediate removal from public view.

Repeat offenders should be made to wear only burlap sacks.

If only it was this simple.

Law School in a box.

Because it would save alot of people from going to prison and recieving this one.

The fashion of wearing ones pants much lower than the pants companies ever designed them for has seen a decline in most areas of the country in the past few years but lately it seems that some areas still think its a problem.

So much so that they have been trying to pass laws against it.

That is one case that I would love take on.

Do you think “Sagging Pant” should be something you could get fined or even arrested for?

I want to welcome everyone (anyone) who has discovered this blog.

This thing is going to be my place for rants, thoughts, humor and everyday going-ons.

I never know what is gonna happen in this life of college, law and just being a regular/slightly irregular student.

To start off I would like to invite anyone who has stories of their Law Student experiences to feel free and contribute.

You can email me HERE with whatever you want or just leave a comment.