Exploring the nether regions of Stewart Baker’s head is fascinating, if a bit too dark and moist for my sensibilities. Still, he offers at Volokh Conspiracy the rationale for the unthinkable, sometimes the laughable, and he does it with a straight face. And in front of Congress! Again.
Baker offered testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, those great buncha guys who make sure that federal judges know how to deal with bad dudes like our clients, Continue reading
Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog lays out in a post he calls “To Tell the Truth: Which Doctor’s Signature is the Real One?” some evidence that whatever is happening on the defense side of personal injury medical examinations, it smells just as bad as any fraud being perpetrated by a scammer under indictment.
Over the transom this week sails medical reports allegedly signed under oath by one Joseph Tuvia, M.D., who’s been doing medical-legal reviews of radiology films since about 1996. He was reviewing, back then, a thousand films a year, and was doing 95% of it for the defense.
As you might guess from the title of this post, the questions today revolve again around potential perjury, Continue reading
Imagine some twisted sci-fi show where a team of ninja hitmen came to your home when some shiny iToy you bought that carried a “lifetime warranty” broke. They came to fulfill the warranty. Get it? Preposterous?
Lawprof Mike Dorf, in a post that I like to characterize as “I don’t know nothin’ about birthin’ no babies,” argues the meaning of a “lifetime warranty.”
But what if the advertisement or product packaging does not specify the life that the warranty references? Let’s consider a few possibilities: Continue reading
While people have pretended to be cops long before, the problem of fake cops took flight during the crack days of the 1980’s, when thieves would rob drug dealers by pretending to be police busting them. The “brilliance” of the scheme was that the victims of the robbery couldn’t run to the cops to complain, since the thieves stole their drugs and drug money.
Since then, others have come to realize the beauty of pretending to be cops in order to commit crimes, ranging from theft to rape. They use the submission to authority Continue reading
The other day, Rick Horowitz sent me a link to series of twits that were purportedly sent by a woman named Robyn Swirling, and then aggregated on Storify. They told a disturbing story of a child punched by a D.C. cop, and a woman who came to the child’s aid being arrested.
If you’ve never seen Real Housewives of New Jersey, consider yourself fortunate. I’m not so lucky, having been introduced to this exercise in narcissism, banality and stupidity by a woman who lives in my home who shall not be named. But that’s my problem.
One of the stars of the Bravo “reality” series is Teresa Giudice, who also did a stint on Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice, when they were apparently unable to get anyone who was relatively interesting to appear. Continue reading
It really shouldn’t require a business owner to mount seven video cameras around his place of business to protect himself from the police. On the other hand, had Donald Andrews not done so, he would be staring down a two to seven year sentence rather than pondering the ad damnum of his suit against the cops.
The video is, to be blunt, perfect. Via Cory Doctorow at Boing Boing, not to mention Turley and Reason, the video from Andrews’ head shop in Scotia, Continue reading
I’m going to take a charitable view that this was done in good fun, to get the guy noticed (which it appears to have done) and to make all other music videos look good in comparison.
I refuse to assume that he meant this to be taken seriously because, well, nobody could possibly think that. ‘Nuff said.
Sarah Chayes used to be the special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2010 to 2011. Remember the outrage when she went public by proclaiming how America has sacrificed liberty in the blind pursuit of safety from terrorism? Neither do I.
What about the former head of the TSA, Kip Hawley? Remember when he scrapped the absurd rules that made everyone’s life miserable and forced children and the elderly to be groped by blue-shirted agents who got their jobs off pizza boxes? Continue reading
Stephen Fairley, head of the Rainmaker Institute, Avvo’s Lawyernomics “columnist” and inspirational speaker, was called something new according to Courthouse News:
PHOENIX (CN) – A law firm claims in a RICO lawsuit that The Rainmaker Institute – which calls itself “the nation’s largest law-firm marketing provider” – charged it $49,000 to increase its visibility on Google, knowing that its work violated Google’s guidelines.
Seikaly & Stewart, of Farmington Hills, Mich., sued The Rainmaker Institute and its CEO Stephen Fairley, in Federal Court.
Seikaly & Stewart claim the defendants created Continue reading
