Category Archive: General

Jan 15 2013

Why On Earth Would Lindsay Lohan Use This Lawyer?

Everyone knows that Lindsay Lohan’s life has been a train wreck these past few years – numerous arrests, gossip-page scandals, a scathing article about her behavior in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. But the Lohan train may have gone completely over the cliff that the movie star fired her California attorney Shawn Holley to …

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Dec 30 2012

Newtown Shooting Lawsuit a Shameless Publicity Stunt Doomed to Fail

OK, so I was enjoying taking off the last few days of the year with the intention of firing up the old blog in early January. Then all of a sudden a news story comes across one of my feeds telling me that some lawyer has filed a notice of intention to file a claim …

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Dec 05 2012

Schools Now Have a Million Reasons to Deal With Cyberbullying

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit(which covers NY) upheld a $1 million award under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in favor of Anthony Zeno, who endured assaults, racist taunting and threats that a jury found should have been squarely addressed by officials at Pine Plains Central School District …

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Nov 06 2012

Woman Sentenced to Wear Sign Declaring Herself an “Idiot” – Constitutional?

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A Cleveland OH woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a school bus that was unloading children will have to stand at an intersection wearing a sign saying: “Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.” Court records show a Cleveland Municipal Court judge yesterday ordered 32-year-old Shena …

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Oct 27 2012

Paul Ceglia Arrested on Fraud Charges Stemming From Facebook Lawsuit -No Shock There!

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Paul Ceglia,the plaintiff, in a bizarre case brought against Facebook in a Western New York Federal Court was arrested by the US Attorney’s Office yesterday. Ceglia claimed in court that he had a contract from back in 2003 that proved that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg promised him 50% of the company Zuckerberg was developing. He …

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