Legal Issues
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Jesus Christ Beats Jury Duty
Jesus Christ was excused from jury duty in Birmingham, Alabama last week for being disruptive. According to court officials, Christ kept asking questions instead of answering them. »
Carbon Sequestration
With financially compelled environmental reform underway, companies are looking for ways to reduce their green house gas (GHG) emissions. Underground carbon sequestration is one of those ways. This post will outline the basic concept, sans lots of technical science, of how carbon is sequestered. »
Legal Poetry
Plaintiff brought action in tort against defendants for damage to his "beautiful oak tree" caused when defendant struck it with an automobile. »
Easterbrook on Patent Damages
Lost-profits damages are designed to give the patent holder the economic benefits it would have enjoyed had its intellectual property been respected »
Legal Humor: “Party On” in State Court
Going with my recent fascination with humorous court opinions, I found this little beauty: Noble v. Bradford 789 F. Supp. 395 (1992). Basically, the case is about removal jurisdiction, which the District Judge comically denies. »
Dufree on Inventions
An invention exists most importantly as a tangible structure or a series of drawings. A verbal portrayal is usually an afterthought written to satisfy the requirements of patent law. This conversion of machine to words allows for unintended idea gaps which cannot be satisfactorily filled. Often the invention is novel and words do not... »
A Brief History of Legal Dress in England
You may be interested to know that up until recently, lawyers and judges wore wigs to court. The first rules governing judicial dress were formally prescribed in 1635 under the Judges' Rules. According to the Judges' Rules, an appropriately dressed judge of this time would have worn a black robe faced with miniver (light... »
Can you sue yourself?
Well, apparently you can try. In Lodi v. Lodi, plaintiff and defendant Orestre Lodi tried to sue himself for an “Action to Quiet Title Equity” in regards to an estate he was the beneficiary of. Lodi properly served himself, and when he failed to respond, moved for default judgement against himself. The trial court, in Shasta... »
Excessively Funny Damages
laintiff demands the following relief... (1) "989 thousand billion trillion dollars; (2) everything the City of New York owns; (3) everything the State of New York owns; and (4) release from state prison without parole. »
Scalia on Golf
It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States ... to decide What Is Golf.... and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a 'fundamental' aspect of golf. »