Morning Docket: 08.27.08
* Those Bratz got a spanking, but not as severe a spanking as Mattel hoped. The jury awarded Mattel $100 million, rather than the $1 billion Quinn Emanuel’s John Quinn had requested. [CNN]
* U.S. District Judge John D. Bates rules Harriet Miers must testify before Congress. The big moment could come as early as next month. [Washington Post]
* Eight of the sixty judges sacked by former Pakistani president Pervez Musharaff have been reinstated. The others are still twiddling their thumbs. [BBC News]
* Barry Bonds wants to knock his case out of the park. His lawyers have moved to dismiss most of the government’s case against him for lying to a grand jury about steroid use. [Associated Press]
* In Mexico City, abortion is legal in theory, but not often in practice. Now the Mexican Supreme Court is considering overturning the one-year-old abortion law. [International Herald Tribune]
* Colorado U.S. attorney files charges in the Obama murder plot. The last name of one of the accused is Adolf. [Smoking Gun]
* How is Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick still in office? [Washington Post]
* Update in the case of the alleged half-ton murderess. Her attorney says she’s too fat to have killed her nephew. [CNN]
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Comments
Mayra Lizbeth Rosales is making me firsty!
Don't talk smack about Kwame's demise! Like all great civil rights leaders, he's being removed from power before his work was done. The torch will be picked up by the citizens of Detroit and his fire will burn bright! You can jail a person, but you can't jail an ideology.
From the CNN article:
"Jamie Rosales, the boy's 20-year-old mother, believes the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler, said Oscar Vega, her attorney. She faces one felony count of injury to a child, which carries a life sentence and 10,000 in fines."
That picture is disgusting, now where did I put that harpoon . . .
#2 is right on the money. It's merely a way to punish Kwame for Obama's success.
"Jamie Rosales, the boy's 20-year-old mother, believes the death was possibly caused by the morbidly obese woman rolling onto the toddler, said Oscar Vega, her attorney."
nice
Enough with that picture! WRONG WRONG WRONG!
Kwame is a throwback to the old-school corrupt politician. Bribery, police on the take, using his position as mayor to build a personal fortune and doing this all right under the nose of the public. It should be a movie.
Damn that Kilpatrick. Another corrupt Irish politician.
9, bingo, if I hadn't seen his picture, I would assume this story was about some crony of the Daley machine in Chicago.
"ouch"
-the stool
That picture should be entitled "THE GULC"
She reminds me of someone I used to work with from Baker's Bratislava office.
Before her attorney can try out the fat defense, first they have to figure out how to get her through the door of her apartment and into the jail.
Home detention might work, if they could custom make an ankle bracelet that big.
I don't buy the rollover defense. I takes a crew of 6 to roll this woman over in bed. Without help, she would lie there like a turtle. A very large turtle.
More likely the infant was crying and fatso swatted it with a tree like arm or a hand the size of a Virginia Ham.
Jonathan Livingston SeaGULC
I wonder if those laid off Pakistani judges got decent severance.
I can tell you, without equivocation, that this is one of the biggest bitches I've ever seen in life.