• Wisconsin lawyer pressing bill to allow punitive damages against home resellers over claimed defects [Wisconsin State Journal] More: Dad29.
• Longer than her will? NY Times posts ten-page jury questionnaire in Brooke Astor inheritance case [“City Room”] “Supreme Court: No Constitutional Right to Peremptory Challenge” [Anne Reed]
• Georgia’s sex offender law, like Illinois’s, covers persons who never committed a sex crime [Balko]
• “The lawsuits over TVA’s coal ash spill have come from all over Roane County – except the spots closest to home.” [Knoxville News]
• Bootleg soap: residents smuggle detergents after enactment of Spokane phosphate ban [AP/Yahoo]
• UK: Elderly Hindu man in religious-accommodation bid for approval of open-air funeral pyre [Telegraph]
• No DUI, no one hurt, but harsh consequences anyway when Connecticut 18 year old is caught buying six-pack of beer [Fountain]
• Only one or two not covered previously at this site [“12 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits”, Oddee]

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