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ACLU, Anal Sex / Butt Sex, Federalist Society, Gay, Gay Marriage, Lunacy, Rudeness, Vicious Infighting, William Eskridge
An ATL Public Service Announcement: 'The Wages of Sin Is Death!' (Romans 6:23)
Apperances can be deceiving. The smiling woman above looks like a sweet old lady (or perhaps she’s middle-aged). But don’t be fooled. This pleasant-looking woman opened a can of whoop-ass at the final panel discussion of the Federalist Society National Lawyers Convention. She rained hellfire and brimstone upon the audience, and placed at least two […] -
Ann Coulter, Crime, Food, John Paul Stevens, Lunacy, Rank Stupidity, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
And Stay Away from Ann Coulter's Creme Brulee
Earlier this year, controversial blonde pundit Ann Coulter joked about putting rat poison in Justice John Paul Stevens’s creme brulee. Did Coulter give someone an idea? Check out this story, from the Star-Telegram of Forth Worth: When federal appellate Judge Danny Boggs said at a Friday legal conference at Las Colinas that physical assaults aimed […] - Sponsored
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Celebrities, Fashion, Lunacy, Naomi Campbell, Racism, Violence
Naomi Campbell: Supermodel or "Superbigot"?
How do you solve a problem like Naomi — besides deporting her skinny black ass? Repeated brushes with the law have not deterred the British-born beauty from beating the crap out of the hired help. Here’s the latest: Naomi Campbell might be spending more time in courtrooms than on catwalks these days. The supermodel was […]
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Biglaw, Crime, Drugs, Lunacy, Morning Docket, Rap
Morning Docket: 10.27.06
* Look, pal, we don’t do it that way around here. Instead, we give all our girls years of self-esteem-destroying mixed messages, double standards, and hypocrisy. [AP via FindLaw] * Pleasssseee come back! We swear it won’t suck this time. We’ll give you a real office! [National Law Journal] * This is for stealing my […]
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Celebrities, Cellphones, Crime, Lunacy, Naomi Campbell, Violence
Naomi Campbell Must Be Stopped
We love supermodels around here. Based on their fabulosity, we’d let them get away with murder. Okay, not literally — which is why something must be done about Naomi Campbell. Past brushes with the law have not deterred the ebony-skinned beauty. She has moved beyond the point of being entertaining Page Six fodder; she now […] -
Copyright, Lawsuit of the Day, Lunacy, Music
Lawsuit of the Day: And We Wrote "The Joshua Tree"
Unchallenged by offering customers the choice of paper or plastic, one young store clerk has decided to venture into copyright law. From Punknews.org: Paul McPike, a 32-year-old grocery store employee in Medford, OR, has sued Green Day, claiming he wrote the lyrics and composed the melodies for the band’s highly acclaimed 2004 album, American Idiot. […] -
Bad Ideas, Jack Thompson, Lunacy, Practice Pointers, State Judges, Violence
ATL Practice Pointers: How to Deal With Defeat
Here at Above the Law, we’re not all about silliness. We have a serious and more practical side, too. Last month, in honor of fall recruiting season, we shared with you our Top Ten Interview Tips. This is what’s known in the trade as “service journalism,” or what U.S. News and World Report calls “news […] -
Gay, Lawsuit of the Day, Lunacy, Rank Stupidity
This Little Piggee Went to Market -- And Came Home With Anti-Gay Propaganda
In yesterday’s Lawsuit of the Day post, we wondered where on earth Martha Louise Piggee, former part-time instructor of cosmetology at Carl Sandburg College, dug up the anti-gay comics she foisted on her gay students. One of you enlightened us: These are the cartoon “tracts” of Jack Chick. He has them all online, in case […] - Sponsored
Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now
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Lunacy, Pro Se Litigants, Rudeness
Best Notice of Appeal Ever
It would be hard to find a court filing more boring than the notice of appeal. For all you non-lawyers, it’s the document by which a losing litigant gives notice of her intention to appeal. The notice of appeal gets filed with the court and served on the opposing party. Usually the notice of appeal […] -
Advice for the Lawlame, Biglaw, Lunacy, NYLawyer.com
Advice for the Lawlame: My Senior Partner Is a Freak Show
Time for another installment of Advice for the Lawlame, the closest thing that Above the Law has to an “advice column.” We take the questions submitted to NYLawyer.com’s popular advice columns, including “Advice for the Lawlorn,” and offer our own take on them. (We’ve been at this for quite some time now. For the Advice […] -
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And You Thought American Judges Were Crazy
And now, a dispatch from our ancestral homeland, the Philippines: A Philippine judge who said he consulted imaginary mystic dwarves has failed to convince the Supreme Court to allow him to keep his job. Florentino Floro was appealing against a three-year inquiry which led to his removal due to incompetence and bias. He told investigators […]
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