Sense And Nonsense
Why doesn't the hammer come down more often on ridiculous, frivolous litigation?
Non-Sequiturs: 09.12.16
* Interesting attorney ethics complaint filled with allegations of racial slurs and anti-Semitic language. [Legal Profession Blog] * Attention associates: This is who you should thank for your raises. (Hint: you're welcome.) [3 Geeks and a Law Blog] * The justices on the Supreme Court sure do have a lot in common. [Empirical SCOTUS] * This lawyer is blowing up what you expect from a general counsel. [Big Law Business] * Does the Supreme Court lag behind the other two branches of the federal government when it comes to reporting potential conflicts of interest? [Fix the Court] * Watch out for your cases being deemed frivolous lawsuits by Judge Clay Land. [Law and More]
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Non-Sequiturs: 09.12.16
* Interesting attorney ethics complaint filled with allegations of racial slurs and anti-Semitic language. [Legal Profession Blog] * Attention associates: This is who you should thank for your raises. (Hint: you're welcome.) [3 Geeks and a Law Blog] * The justices on the Supreme Court sure do have a lot in common. [Empirical SCOTUS] * This lawyer is blowing up what you expect from a general counsel. [Big Law Business] * Does the Supreme Court lag behind the other two branches of the federal government when it comes to reporting potential conflicts of interest? [Fix the Court] * Watch out for your cases being deemed frivolous lawsuits by Judge Clay Land. [Law and More]
Top 10 Frivolous Lawsuits List Is… Frivolous, But Funny
The top frivolous suits of the year may be a dumb list, but some of these cases are pretty funny.
Morning Docket: 12.24.14
* The Thomas M. Cooley Law School is planning to sell one of its academic buildings for an asking price of $8.15 million. Dear Lord, the school will lose some of its library square footage. NOOOOOOOOO! [Lansing State Journal] * Contrary to his client's hit anthem, Pharrell's lawyer isn't happy. He says YouTube has been "blithely" ignoring his requests to take down music for which it lacks performance rights, and it may result in a $1B lawsuit. [Hollywood Reporter] * Clifford Sloan, the State Department's special envoy on Guantánamo Bay, appointed in 2013 to help shut down the detention center, is returning to the loving arms of Skadden's partnership on January 1, 2015. Gitmo is still open. Oops. [Am Law Daily] * After 30 years, the Food and Drug Administration decided to lift its lifetime ban on blood donation for gay men. Now gay men just have to abstain from doing gay things for a year -- like having sex with other men -- to donate blood. Yay? [WSJ Law Blog] * If you've been wondering what the most ridiculous lawsuits of 2014 are, we've got you covered. These are the top 10 most absurd cases filed over the course of the past year. You may remember some of these from our coverage. [Faces of Lawsuit Abuse]
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Morning Docket: 11.16.12
* BP agreed to plead guilty to 14 charges and pay $4.5B in fines, but before going through with it, several Biglaw firms helped the company sell off assets to fund litigation- and spill-related costs. [Am Law Daily] * According to HBR Consulting, compensation for in-house attorneys has risen over the past year — including bonuses, which went up to $62,500. Sorry, but Biglaw isn’t following suit. [Corporate Counsel] * It’s better to leave well enough alone: Pryor Cashman was ordered to pay more than $21K in legal fees for filing a frivolous motion over its repeated attempts to dismiss a case. [New York Law Journal] * Judge Susan McDunn, who claimed that her “life [was] being ruined” by the secret lawsuits of many powerful Chicagoans, has resigned. Looks like her $182K salary wasn’t enough to buy crazy pills. [Chicago Tribune] * James T. Hayes Jr., the ICE agent who accused his superior of subjecting male employees to her “sexually offensive behavior,” settled his discrimination lawsuit against the government for $175,000. [Washington Post]
Infographic of the Day: American Litigiousness Statistics That Will Make You Angry
Exactly how over-litigious is the United States? THIS much.
Non-Sequiturs: 07.03.12
* Nothing says justice like for-profit probation companies. [New York Times] * Was this really a courtroom exchange involving Redskins tight end Fred Davis, or was it a weird performance art piece/Abbott and Costello comedy routine? [Washingtonian] * There is no such thing as a free trip to Disney World. Well, technically there is. There are many, in fact, at least until you get caught. [Legal Juice] * The insane legal fight between the Oatmeal and Charles Carreon continues to get weirder. Oh yeah, and serial suer extraordinaire Jonathan Lee Riches has hopped into the fray as well. [Lowering the Bar] * Kim Dotcom says the order to go after Megaupload came all the way from the top. WHAT DOES JOE BIDEN WANT??? [TorrentFreak] * RIP Andy Griffith, a.k.a. Matlock, one of the most famous television attorneys of all time. My grandmother is probably very sad today. [WSJ Law Blog]
Hide Your Donations, Hide Your Comic; They Are Suing Everybody Up in Here
The attorney for FunnyJunk should really take some lessons in effective internet PR and the Streisand effect.
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Potential Lawsuit of the Day: War of the Web Comics
This is why you don't pick fights with people who are internet famous and professionally sarcastic…
Morning Docket: 01.03.12
* Obama took a break from his vacation to sign the NDAA. But don’t worry, as long as he’s president, he’ll never indefinitely detain American citizens. Oh boy, we get a one-year guarantee. [New York Times] * “By your powers combined, I am Captain Primary!” Four Republican presidential candidates are joining forces to assist Rick […]
Morning Docket: 10.11.11
* The legal sector lost 1,300 jobs in September. And because that’s not depressing enough, lawyers now have to compete for jobs with computers. Guess it’s time to learn binary. [WSJ Law Blog] * Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week kicked off yesterday in West Virginia. Too bad this campaign isn’t in Michigan, where a woman is […]
Morning Docket: 10.11.11
* The legal sector lost 1,300 jobs in September. And because that’s not depressing enough, lawyers now have to compete for jobs with computers. Guess it’s time to learn binary. [WSJ Law Blog] * Lawsuit Abuse Awareness Week kicked off yesterday in West Virginia. Too bad this campaign isn’t in Michigan, where a woman is […]