Posted on 21 August 2008
Floridians are in the wet seat as Hurricane Fay left residents in Central Florida wrecked. The streets flooded and that’s the “good” news out of this soggy saga. The bad news is that alligators and snakes are swimming in the streets, creating a dangerous environment for people.
“We have removed alligators, we have removed snakes and [...]
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Tags: Florida, hurricane, weather, wildlife
Posted on 12 August 2008
Is it just me or does something seem really wrong with this? Stolen goods recovered by police are being auctioned off by the officers at a site called Propertyroom.com. Supposedly, when items are found and no one claims these items, they become merchandise on a Website. However, I have questions… First, are there any [...]
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Tags: auction, police, stolen goods
Posted on 05 August 2008
Born on November 27, 1962 in Brooklyn, New York, Victoria Gotti is the daughter of infamous John Gotti, the Gambino crime boss who was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and murder. And now her brother, John A. Junior Gotti was recently arrested for racketeering and complicity in the slaying of people years ago. [...]
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Tags: advance money, Lawsuit, memoir, publishing company
Posted on 05 August 2008
Talk about a good day in court. Mary Winkler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the 2006 shooting death of her Church of Christ minister hubby in 2006, is not only out of jail after 12 days and two months in a mental health facility but she has now been granted custody over her [...]
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Tags: courtroom, custody attorney., law, trial, voluntary manslaughter
Posted on 31 July 2008
We’ve all been whispering about Scientology for years. We’ve all witnessed Tom Cruise slowly and then abruptly lose his sanity. We watched Katie Holmes turn into a mannequin overnight. We heard rumors about strange and mysterious things going on in Cruise’s home that were Scientology-related “rituals.” We imagined chickens and space suits and helmets with [...]
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Tags: big business, Lawsuit, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO), scientology
Posted on 29 July 2008
Chucking the old phrase, “just tell em’ what they want to hear” right out the window is famed Wyoming trial lawyer Gerry Spence. Having begun his own blog, Spence is brutally honest with his readers, questioning the law, speaking out about the unfairness of the legal system and referring to law school and the bar exam as [...]
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Tags: bar exams, blog, Gerry Spence, law schools, lawyer, trial
Posted on 29 July 2008
Feeling tired? Feeling sexually inadequate? Is it affecting your work performance? If so, don’t worry because if you end up getting booted from the job, you can file a discrimination claim and actually pull it off.
Why?
Because the U.S. Court of Appeals for D.C. Circuit expanded their qualifiers under the nation’s anti-discrimination law for federal employees. [...]
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Tags: Anti-discrimination law, employment, federal employees, sleep deprivation
Posted on 29 July 2008
On Tuesday, around 12 noonish, Los Angeles got hit with an earthquake, causing quite a stir amongst wanna-be practicing lawyers. Rocking the building full of already jittery law students at work, taking their bar exam, the earthquake strikes. As quoted on Abovethe law. com from a tipster, “Earthquake just hit LA (5.8) and the epicenter was just next to Ontario, CA where the [...]
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Tags: California Bar Exam, earthquake, law students
Posted on 24 July 2008
The Bush Administration gets a whole lotta flack over…well, many things (rightfully so) and hitting the news often is the belief that the United States CIA torture detainees. Although Bush and his team deny these allegations, memos that contradict such statements were made public by the American Civil Liberties Union, which obtained the three CIA-related [...]
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Tags: Bush Administration, CIA, law, Legal Documents
Posted on 24 July 2008
Once upon a time in New York, a black man named John White was found guilty of fatally shooting a white teen. However, in December, 2007, one of the jurors came out of the courtroom closet, so to speak, stating that he helped convict the man for shooting and killing the boy but felt pressured [...]
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Tags: appeal, jury duty, law, murder, trial