- Court declines to dismiss stripper’s suit blaming her DUI crash on club that made her drink with customers [Heller/OnPoint News, earlier]
- Served 23 years in Wisconsin prison, then cleared by DNA evidence [Innocence Project]
- Headlines we didn’t make up: “Grad Student Threatens to Sue Over Destruction of Rare Lizard Dung” [ABA Journal, U.K. case]
- Wisconsin middle school suspends teacher Betsy Ramsdale because her Facebook photo shows her with gun [Never Yet Melted] http://is.gd/iQaj
- David Ogden, now up for a high Department of Justice post, assisted in Clinton-Reno era’s ghastly RICO suit against tobacco companies (maybe on-orders-from-superiors, given the extent to which the whole thing was wired by hotshot outside lawyers suing the industry) [Carrie Johnson, WaPo]
- You’d think they’d learn: appliance energy-use mandates led to lousy clothes-washer and dishwasher designs, but more of the same on the horizon [Kazman, CEI “Open Market”]
- Walks out of psychiatric hospital and kills himself, state of New Jersey ordered to pay $600K to survivors [Newark Star-Ledger]
- Why there was a market for burned out light bulbs in the former Soviet Union [Tyler Cowen]
Filed under: Facebook, guns, Innocence Project, New Jersey, psychiatry, strippers and exotic dancers, Wisconsin, zero tolerance
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“The judge ruled the family was entitled to $400,000 to compensate his mother for the loss of companionship, advice and household help he would have provided…”
Uh, yeah. A sword wielding parent killing psychopath can be such a help around the house.
Teacher with firearm-photo: I’m not going to dive in to any legal arguments of right or wrong. I just wish I could be privy to the discussion and reasoning that took place during the meeting(s) which ultimately ended with a phrase such as, “Then it’s settled, who’s going to be the one to tell her she’s fired?”
God forbid that she might want the job of Coach for the Rifle Team.
Yes. Some schools still have Rifle Teams! If I decided to become a teacher I wonder if they would look in my yearbook? Every one of us on the Rifle Team had exactly the same pose on our team pictures.