I might as well go ahead an do it, I can't get much deader.
You are even BETTER than the girl of my dreams. You are real!
Why doesn't Mitt invoke the names of George Washington, Herbert Hoover and Thomas Jefferson who were also fabulously rich?
I'm starting a fund to give Newt a one way ticket to the Moon. It's probably a good idea if we all kicked in.
Factoid: The first American soldier to die in the Iraq war was Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez . He was an illegal immigrant. For that matter, so was the war.
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That was the description of four East Haven, Connecticut, police officers who were arrested after a federal grand jury returned an indictment containing charges of conspiring to violate, and violating, the civil rights of members of the East Haven community. All four have pleaded not guilty in Federal District Court and three have been released on bail, ranging from $100,000 to $300,000; the fourth is awaiting completion of his paperwork.-----------------------------------------------------------
Thou Shalt Not [Allegedly] Steal: Tennessean Judge Accused Of Stealing Money Raised For Ten Commandments Display
Published 1, January 26, 2012 Bizarre , Criminal law , Lawyering 37 Comments
Hawkins County (Tenn.) Sessions Court Judge James “Jay” Taylor appears to attract investigations the way motor homes attract tornados. He has been sued in various civil lawsuits and has now been hit with five criminal charges, including stealing money that he raised for a “Citizens Heritage Display” including the Ten Commandments to be placed in the lobby of the Hawkins County Justice Center. He is continuing his push for reelection as well as his performances as part of “The Redeemed Southern Gospel Singing Quartet.”------------------------------------------------------------
English Court Rules That Company Violated Copyright Protections By Selling Its Own Photo Of A London Bus Resembling Someone’s Photo Of A London Bus
Published 1, January 27, 2012 Academics , Bizarre , Free Speech , International , Media ,Society 4 Comments
We have often discussed the ever-widening scope of copyright and trademark laws. This trend has prompted lawsuit over usinggeneric images or terms, obvious parodies, or names. Now, an English court has ruled in favor of UK souvenir maker Temple Island Collection Ltd against New English Teas for using a picture of a London bus. Not a picture taken by Temple Island, mind you: Taking its own picture of a London bus that the court deemed as too close to a picture of a London bus taken by Temple Island. The Defendant used photoshop software to alter the image.---------------------------------------------------------------
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U.S. SUPREME COURT
Justice Thomas Recalls Time as 'Lonely Kid' Before He Was Recruited to Holy Cross
Jan 27, 2012, 07:17 am CST
LEGAL ETHICS
Embattled Judge Refuses to Recuse Himself From Hearing Cases
Jan 26, 2012, 04:59 pm CST
EDUCATION LAW
Dad Gets Protection Order Against 4th-Grader, Calls Child's Alleged Threats a Serious School Issue
Jan 26, 2012, 03:24 pm CSTCONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Will Hustler Magazine Pay $19.6M, $250K or Zip for Running Nude Photos of Slain Woman Without OK?
Jan 26, 2012, 02:53 pm CST
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If you understand this then you know how super pacs work:
 | In late 2011, television viewers expressed outrage over the pageant industry’s tendency to sexualize children. After all, with mothers dressing their daughters like surgically-enhanced country singers, fake breasts and all, or hookers with hearts of gold, how could viewers be anything but horrified? In all honesty, some of these little girls look like complete prosti-tots. This backdrop brings us to today’s Lawsuit of the Day, where the mother of one of these tiara-toting toddlers alleges that a well-known celebrity gossip site had a hand in scandalizing her daughter…. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
signs for a good laugh:
Sign over a Gynecologist's Office:
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In a Podiatrist's office:"Time wounds all heels."**************************
On a Septic Tank Truck:"Yesterday's Meals on Wheels"**************************
At a Proctologist's door:"To expedite your visit, please back in."**************************
On a Plumber's truck:"We repair what your husband fixed."**************************
On another Plumber's truck:"Don't sleep with a drip. Call your plumber."**************************
On a Church's Bill board:"7 days without God makes one weak."**************************
At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee :"Invite us to your next blowout."**************************
At a Towing company:"We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."**************************
On an Electrician's truck:"Let us remove your shorts."***************************
In a Nonsmoking Area:"If we see smoke,We will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."**************************
On a Maternity Room door:"Push. Push. Push."**************************
At an Optometrist's Office:"If you don't see what you're looking for,You've come to the right place."**************************
On a Taxidermist's window:"We really know our stuff."**************************
On a Fence:"Salesmen welcome! Dog food is expensive!"**************************
At a Car Dealership:"The best way to get back on your feet - miss a car payment."**************************
Outside a Muffler Shop:"No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."**************************
In a Veterinarian's waiting room:"Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"**************************
At the Electric Company:"We would be delighted if you send in your payment.However, if you don't, you will be."**************************
In a Restaurant window:"Don't stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up."**************************
In the front yard of a Funeral Home:"Drive carefully. We'll wait."**************************
At a Propane Filling Station:"Thank heaven for little grills."**************************
CHICAGO RADIATOR SHOP:"Best place in town to take a leak."**********************
Sign on the back of another Septic Tank Truck:"Caution - This Truck is full of Political Promises."
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New Orleans Police Turn to Private Security Cams for Evidence
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Although New Orleans has scrapped its oft-ridiculed public crime camera system, police detectives are increasingly turning to private security cameras to catch images of villains in the act, reports the Times-Picayune. Since last summer, the nonprofit ProjectNOLA has donated 75 high-definition cameras to homeowners in high-crime areas, on the condition that they be aimed at the street. The nonprofit group's volunteers already monitor crime scanners, but now they can link remotely to any camera in the area and send fresh footage via cell phone to detectives.
ProjectNOLA founder Bryan Lagarde, a former police officer and district attorney's office employee, started ProjectNOLA because he "got sick of telling crime victims, 'Sorry, we have no evidence.'"Other cities, such as Chicago and Atlanta, combine public-private systems more formally, by compiling maps of all private surveillance systems or creating integrated systems that allow police departments, under certain conditions, to view live footage from thousands of private systems.
Editor: But they still don't want you to use your phone cell video to capture what THEY are doing. Even if it's doing their job arresting bad guys!!
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Bush/Cheney would have had her water boarded.
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And it doesn't cost Obama a penny:
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My favorite model, "Kramer", has a calendar coming out soon. Be the first on your block to own one.
A has to already be very comfortable with his masculinity when he chooses to own a shih tzu, much less two:
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BAM! Counsel Win $21 Million in Fees From Clients Who Wouldn't Pay
Texas Lawyer
January 30, 2012
Alan Loewinsohn, a partner in Dallas' Loewinsohn, Flegle & Deary
Image: Thomas Phillips
Image: Thomas Phillips
"BAM!"
That's what it sounds like when three Dallas plaintiffs lawyers and their firms win a judgment ordering wealthy former clients to pony up more than $21 million in legal fees. But the attorneys didn't win the full amount they had sought.
The Jan. 10 judgment in Campbell Harrison & Dagley, et al. v. Albert G. Hill III, et al. arises from a lengthy and complicated fee dispute.
The lawyers and firms that wanted to be paid were Lisa Blue and Baron and Blue; Charla G. Aldous and the Aldous Law Firm; and Stephen F. Malouf and the Law Offices of Stephen F. Malouf — collectively known as BAM in the judgment.
BAM had represented Albert G. Hill III, Erin Nance Hill and their minor children (collectively Hill III) in the 2010 settlement of Hill v. Hunt, et al.
But Hill III refused to pay BAM. In a Feb. 16, 2011, response, Hill III alleged the dispute was a "naked effort to extract additional benefits not bargained for in their" fee agreements. BAM wanted millions "in attorney fees for no more than six months work," including portions of funds intended in the settlement agreement for the benefit of Al III's minor children, Hill III alleged.
"As a trial lawyer you do the best you can for your client and hope they treat you right. And if they don't, your remedy is the courts," says Alan Loewinsohn, a partner in Dallas' Loewinsohn, Flegle & Deary who represents BAM.
The background to the fee dispute is as follows, according to U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor's Dec. 31, 2011, order: The court severed the attorneys' fee dispute from Hunt , after Hill III challenged the validity of the contingent-fee agreements with BAM and the amount owed.
BAM filed an amended complaint in intervention against Hill III for breach of contract, anticipatory breach of contract and quantum meruit — allegations the defendants denied.
BAM also moved to compel arbitration to settle the dispute under the terms of the contingent-fee contracts with Hill III, which Hill III opposed, according to a Jan. 17, 2011, agreement between the parties. Both sides later agreed to have U.S. Magistrate Judge Renée Harris Toliver hear the case.
Hill III filed a first amended counter-complaint against BAM and cross-complaint against Malouf individually alleging breach of fiduciary duty, professional negligence, duress, breach of oral contract and fraud, according to O'Connor's Dec. 31, 2011, order. BAM and Malouf denied the allegations and moved for summary judgment on Hill III's counter-claims, which Toliver later dismissed.
Toliver entered findings of fact and conclusions of law on June 15, 2011, ruling that BAM's fee agreement with Hill III was valid and binding and that Hill III had breached the agreement.
Toliver also wrote that the fair market value of Hill III's "gross affirmative recovery" in the Huntsettlement was $112,357, 232, of which BAM was entitled to a 30 percent contingent fee totaling $33,707,232, according to O'Connor's December order.
Both parties filed objections to Toliver's report with O'Connor. On Dec. 31, 2011, O'Connor reduced the attorneys' fee recovery to $21,942,961 after sustaining some of Hill III's objections regarding the contingent fee.
In his Jan. 10 judgment, O'Connor gave Hill III 30 days to either pay BAM 30 percent of the fair market value of their gross affirmative recovery in the trust dispute settlement in Hunt or pay BAM 30 percent of the amounts that Hill III receives from the Hunt settlement as Hill III receives them. [See O'Connor's judgment and the order.]
Loewinsohn says his clients are pleased with the resolution of the fee dispute, which he describes as a disagreement between "lawyers who did a fantastic job for a client and a client who didn't want to pay and alleged everything in the book to get out of paying."
Loewinsohn explains that the Hill III defendants likely are better off choosing O'Connor's first payment option "because there was a determination as to the current fair market value to the settlement [Hill III] obtained. And there was a substantial discount in making that calculation over what we believe the actual monies are that will be received over time."
Iian D. Jablon, a partner in Los Angeles' Irell & Manella who represents the Hill III defendants, did not return a telephone call seeking comment. Phone listings for the Hill defendants could not be located.
Blue, Aldous and Malouf decline comment.
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Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Murdering Former Law Partner's Ex-Wife
Texas Lawyer
January 30, 2012
Handcuffed and sitting beside his defense attorney, Dallas plaintiffs lawyer Scott Marshall pleaded guilty on Jan. 20 to murdering Staci Michelle Montgomery, the ex-wife of Marshall's former law partner Bady Sassin. Marshall received a 40-year sentence.
On Dec. 20, 2009, Marshall shot and killed Montgomery at his Addison home.
At the emotional plea hearing before Judge Don Adams in Dallas County Criminal District Court No. 2, Marshall kept his head down and did not speak as Montgomery's mother, Donna Cowey, gave her victim impact statement.
"You did this because you were mad at other people. You were mad at her," Cowey said. "But you hurt other people. . . . She was supposed to be home making cookies that day," Cowey said, explaining that she had a tradition of making Christmas cookies with her daughters.
"I don't sleep nights anymore . . .," Cowey said. "My youngest daughter, she'll never be the same. She's 21."
Sassin, a Dallas solo, also gave an impact statement. "I think you need to get down on your knees and beg for forgiveness" from Montgomery's family members, Sassin said.
He also said Marshall needs to beg for forgiveness from his own parents, who sat in the courtroom at the hearing. "They had dreams and aspirations when they were young. And they got you," Sassin said. "And look at what you've done."
Before finishing, Sassin added, "If you did this to get back at me . . . you win."
At the time of Montgomery's murder, Marshall was involved in litigation with Sassin, who had sued Marshall over the break-up of their former firm Marshall Sassin. That case settled in June 2010, according to a motion for nonsuit filed in Dallas County's 101st District Court.
At the Jan. 20 hearing, Marshall also pleaded guilty to drug charges connected to the murder. "The lesson is the evil of drugs," Marshall's attorney Gary Unell said after the hearing. "They destroy lives, even attorneys' lives."
Marshall "has been wanting to plead the case for some time" and did not want to put the families through a trial, Unell said. After Unell and the state could not pick a jury last December, Unell said Marshall offered to plead guilty. Many of the venire members were struck for cause during voir dire, he noted. "Some of the jurors said they couldn't be fair to an attorney-defendant," Unell said. "It was a complicated case."
Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Rachael Jones, who prosecuted Marshall, says the plea bargain was a just resolution of the case. [See the plea bargain and the confession.]
Had the case gone to trial, Jones says she would have argued that Montgomery's death was related to the legal dispute Marshall had with Sassin. Jones alleges Marshall had hoped to use Montgomery to get information that would help him in the suit, but Montgomery would not tell him anything.
Montgomery "still cared a great deal about Bady. And because he [Marshall] knew how much she cared . . . killing her would strike at the heart of Bady. . . . [K]illing Staci was more punishment than killing Bady because Bady would have to live with that for the rest of his life,'' Jones says of her theory of the case.
Sassin did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
But Unell denies that Marshall killed Montgomery for revenge.
"There's certainly no evidence, and certainly nothing that Marshall [has] ever said that indicated he did this out of some desire for revenge," Unell says. "It would have been an interesting trial."
Marshall's parents — John Webster Marshall and Beverly Harrison Marshall — declined comment before the plea hearing.
Last month, Cowey filed a wrongful-death suit against Marshall, his parents and his 92-year-old grandmother, Kay Wiser. In answers recently filed with the court, Marshall and his parents deny the allegations in the civil suit; Wiser has not yet filed an answer.
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Rare color photos depict Hitler's world
The recently discovered images show the luxurious private life of the Nazi leader. Buried in jars after the war
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Man gives up lottery jackpot in bizarre saga
A 76-year-old walks away from millions after his winning ticket raises eyebrows. What happens to the money now
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Erin Brockovich probes mysterious illness
An outbreak of unsettling symptoms among one town's teens may be linked to a 1970 event, she says. Suspicion
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Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner is one of America’s most lauded judges and legal thinkers. An economics degree from Yale, president of the Harvard Law Review, and clerk to Justice William Brennan, Posner has the brains and the pedigree to move American jurisprudence. And move it he has. A conservative in reaction to his experience on the Supreme Court he’s drawn the ire of this blog for insensitvity to Constitutional rights of citizens. In addition, he’s one of the main proponents of the “law and economics” movement which advocates the analysis of law using economic principles. As you guessed, he’s no enemy of big corporations and business in general.
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Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger
Seventh Circuit Judge Richard Posner is one of America’s most lauded judges and legal thinkers. An economics degree from Yale, president of the Harvard Law Review, and clerk to Justice William Brennan, Posner has the brains and the pedigree to move American jurisprudence. And move it he has. A conservative in reaction to his experience on the Supreme Court he’s drawn the ire of this blog for insensitvity to Constitutional rights of citizens. In addition, he’s one of the main proponents of the “law and economics” movement which advocates the analysis of law using economic principles. As you guessed, he’s no enemy of big corporations and business in general. -------------------------------------------------------
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