Part of the ongoing coverage of court decisions which show conscious disregard of justice: Bizarre Court Ruling Allows Union to Forge Membership Cards and Face No Consequence definitely qualifies for the list.

From the release: A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday issued a ruling that will, at least temporarily, allow the United Domestic ( Read more... )

I have criticized the Logan Act as essentially unconstitutional before, and now I have my test case: John Kerry has been meeting with the Iranian government telling them to wait out the Trump administration. So the dance goes like this ( Read more... )

A Boggs Violation is a double standard in arguments: you allow your side freedoms you do not allow the other, and consistently construe the other's argument so that you can maintain the conclusion that they are stupid, venal, and evil ( Read more... )

Lawyers can be stupid: it's part of the allowance for a group tasked with interpreting and applying laws.

Latest example: the "dog in the manger" (reference) attitude of the Justice Department to universities using the Kindle for studentsCorrect response of the universities: "Shove it up your jumper. We're using it. By the time your lawsuit gets ( Read more... )

For its public database, the British government wants the DNA of everybody -- including tourists. Think of it as a new spot on the entrance form. For those who want the short version, I was alerted by this comment from Pearce, who brought up the disturbing question:

"Everybody, guilty or innocent, should expect their DNA to be on file for ( Read more... )

Why? Because even for those who like to read book reviews, book reviewers are too timid, too formulaic, and too boring most of the time.

Not to mention the moments when an author decides to sue the reviewer for a negative review. Being sued for having an opinion is uncomfortable even if you win ( Read more... )

From Engaget, the funny scene of the week:

Romanian president Traian Basescu has a bigger reason than most to owe the Microsoft founder a debt of gratitude: he claims that rampant software piracy in the Eastern European nation was the single biggest factor in developing a healthy IT industry. Yes, believe it or not, a head-of-state actually stood ( Read more... )

Evidently, the ACLU is acting up again, their latest attempt being to pretend to be unable to read. A small town mayor is deciding to enforce statutes against hiring illegal aliens and against renting to them, and they are attacking -- not those who passed them, but those who enforce them ( Read more... )

Here is a classic example. In this case, it was hounding a small businessman who put a bumper sticker on his car, hoping to get a little attention.

Just so you know, even the most minimal analysis proves that the FEC was ignoring its own statutes at the behest of a party activist. This proves that lawyers are, perhaps, uniquely UNQUALIFIED to ( Read more... )

It's hard to believe, but the following merits a hearing on whether the judge went too far by the Florida Supreme Court:

The 11 defendants were due to appear in court on Dec. 3, 2004 on traffic charges but had mistakenly been directed to another courtroom. When they failed to appear in Sloop's courtroom even though two other judges and a bailiff ( Read more... )