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Should they have seen this coming?

Walter Olson — Thu, 19 Mar 2015 11:08:14 +0000

“A Bucks County company offering clairvoyant and psychic services is suing two of its former service providers for allegedly diverting business away from the company when they were under contract.” According to the suit, the providers shifted affiliation to a competing psychic services company and began to participate in its operations before they were contractually at liberty to do so, in one case allegedly carrying over a stage name and likeness she had used at the old firm. [Pennsylvania Record]

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January 3 roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 03 Jan 2014 04:06:59 +0000

Taxpayers on hook: “N.J. boy left blind and brain-damaged after being beaten by father awarded $166M by jury” [Newark Star-Ledger]
“Psychic Love Spell Center stole my money, lawyer alleges in lawsuit” [Houston; ABA Journal]
“You can’t win these suits… Move on with your life.” Good advice for someone falsely accused of rape? [Roxanne Jones, CNN]
Critical look at California judge’s lead paint ruling [Daniel Fisher/Forbes, earlier here, here]
$6 check and apology over “F-word”: “Pub owner’s sarcastic response to Starbucks cease-and-desist letter goes viral” [ABA Journal]
Suburb doesn’t want to accept public transit, but feds force its hand by use of controversial disparate impact theory [Dayton Daily News]
Randy Barnett: libertarianism as a vehicle for moderation, toleration and social peace [Chapman Law Review/SSRN; one of my favorite academic papers from last year]

Tags: Child Protective Services, disparate impact, lead paint, nastygrams, New Jersey, psychics

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“Psychic sued for failing to lift love curse”

Walter Olson — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 12:09:22 +0000

“A North Hollywood woman has filed suit against her psychic reader, claiming the medium fraudulently took her $11,000 without lifting a curse on the plaintiff’s love life.” [Molly McDonough, ABA Journal; our all-time-classic psychic fraud lawsuit]

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“Suit claims $250K scam by psychic in Mendham”

Walter Olson — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:29:29 +0000

“Charles W. Silveira, in a lawsuit filed in Morristown on Monday, claims Ava T. Miller of Mendham required large cash payments to buy enough gold to make a statue that would ward off the negativity allegedly surrounding him.” [Morristown, N.J. Daily Record via Obscure Store, Newark Star-Ledger] For another New Jersey lawsuit over disappointment with psychic services with even more colorful facts, see Jun. 20, 2001.

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Great Moments in Voir Dire

Andrew Grossman — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:45:39 +0000

Newsweek reports on Laura Day, a $10,000-per-month psychic to the powerful, who’s gained a few clients in the legal profession:

A Manhattan attorney who serves as special counsel to several white-shoe law firms has used Day’s insights to help her select juries and anticipate the opposing team’s arguments. “Day saves me thousands of minutes on my cell phone” working a case, says the attorney, who also didn’t want to be publicly identified.

Day denies that she has psychic powers, per se; rather, she has “intuition,” a term more palatable to her clients, “red-meat-eating, Barneys-shopping, Type A personalities.” (The $10,000-a-Month Psychic, Newsweek, Jun 30.)

Tags: jury selection, psychics

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