After 10 years of marriage, some couples need to try something to reignite their passion. But this? Arthur Friedman told his wife that he wanted to watch her have sex with other men and women. So she did, and decided to go German – German Blinov, that is, one of…
4real. Yes, for real. Pat and Sheena Wheaton named their son “4real.” Only one problem – in New Zealand all children must be registered with the government within two months of their birth. When the Wheaton’s registered 4real, it was rejected because names beginning with numbers are against the rules!…
Kathryn Smith, 49, of Connecticut, had been dating Stephen Schnell for about 4 years. Schnell knew Smith and her 20-year-old son Nicholas Taylor were not doing too well, so he often gave her cash, took the two of them out to dinner, and bought Smith cigarettes. How did Smith and…
Dr. Byron Timberlake, an otolaryngologist in Front Royal, Viriginia, was found to have sexually molested 6 young male patients. His sentence – PROBATION. Oh, and he couldn’t see patients under 18. A few year later, his probation was lifted, as were the restrictions on his license. He’s been practicing in…
From the case of Salinero v. Pon, 124 Cal.App.3d 120, 177 Cal. Rptr. 204 (1981): The owner of a six-story apartment building hired an independent contractor, the plaintiff’s employer, to wash the windows of the building. No safety devices – from which window washers could be suspended – had been…
That’s what Natasha Riley, not pleased with the way things were going for her client, said to Judge Mangano in the Brooklyn Family Court during a custody proceeding. But Judge Mangano would have the last laugh. Because most lawyers aren’t dumb enough to address a judge that way [even if…
This is insane. It all started on May 25, 2003 in New Zealand when a cat named Lui started licking his balls – really. This led his owner to take him to the vet, where things went from bad to worse, ending with Lui dying 11 days later. Litigation involving…
For real. MCA Records put out a song called “Barbie Girl.”(If you haven’t heard the song, lucky you. Not only does it SUCK, it becomes stuck in your head.) Anyway, it doesnt’ paint poor little Barbie in the best light, so Mattel sued MCA for using Barbie’s name without permission.…
Sometimes a little effort goes a long way. Just ask one lawyer, Mr. Puricelli (who represented a man successfully in a civil rights case), who got upbraided for repeatedly failing to fix typos in his court filings. The judge described Mr. Puricelli’s written work as “careless, to the point of…
So said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes of the United States Supreme Court in a case that blew me away when I first encountered it in law school. The case is Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Virginia passed a law allowing the state to forcibly sterilize certain “mental defectives”…