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Justice For The Sensuous Italian Sunbather

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, January 2nd, 2011. Filed under In The News, Legal

Back in August, I wrote about this story out of Italy:
A TOPLESS sunbather is being investigated by police after being accused of sensuously rubbing sun cream on herself on a public beach.
Police were called to a beach at Anzio south of Rome by a furious mother who said the way the “attractive” [...]

Best Criminal Defense Ever

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, August 12th, 2010. Filed under In The News, Legal

I can’t honestly say I’ve ever had a case like this, but I certainly wouldn’t turn this client away:
A TOPLESS sunbather is being investigated by police after being accused of sensuously rubbing sun cream on herself on a public beach.
Police were called to a beach at Anzio south of Rome by a furious mother who [...]

Is Modern Law Really Based On The Ten Commandments ? No, It’s Not

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 15th, 2010. Filed under History, Individual Liberty, Legal, Religion

One blogger undertook the task:
As we ramp up to the mid-term elections in November 2010 — sure to be just a warmup to the insanity that will be the Presidential election in 2012 — you can bet your bottom shekel that we’ll be hearing from a lot of “family values” politicians decrying [...]

Ken Cuccinelli Files Virginia’s Response To Motion To Dismiss ObamaCare Lawsuit

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, June 8th, 2010. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Ken Cuccinelli, Legal, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Virginia, Virginia Politics

Virginia’s Attorney General has filed his response to the Motion to Dismiss filed by the Federal Government in the lawsuit to declare ObamaCare unconstitutional:
RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II told a federal judge Monday that he should let a suit challenging the constitutionality of the federal health-care law proceed and deny a request [...]

Christian Conservatives Declare War On The Judiciary

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, May 31st, 2010. Filed under Legal, Politics

The California judiciary is under attack in what might be described as a holy war:
SAN DIEGO – A group of conservative attorneys say they are on a mission from God to unseat four California judges in a rare challenge that is turning a traditionally snooze-button election into what both sides call a battle for the [...]

The Saga Of The $ 65 Million Pants Comes To A (Final) End

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 28th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, Legal, Washington DC

It seems like I’ve been blogging about Roy Pearson, the former District of Columbia Administrative Law Judge who sued a dry cleaner for $ 65 million over a missing pair of pants, since I started blogging, but it looks like we won’t have Roy to kick around anymore:
Former administrative law judge Roy Pearson Jr. just [...]

Contra Rand Paul: The Libertarian And Constitutional Case For The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, May 21st, 2010. Filed under 2010 Elections, Elections, History, Individual Liberty, Legal, Libertarians, Political Parties, Politics, Property Rights, Right to Contract

Made by several of the most prominent libertarian scholars out there:
“I think Rand Paul is wrong about the Civil Rights Act,” libertarian Cato Institute scholar Brink Lindsey wrote in an e-mail. “As a general matter, people should be free to deal or not deal with others as they choose. And that means [...]

First Lawsuits Filed Against Arizona Immigration Law

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, April 29th, 2010. Filed under Immigration, In The News, Individual Liberty, Legal, Politics

And so, it begins:
PHOENIX — An Arizona police officer and a Latino group filed the first legal challenges of Arizona’s sweeping new law cracking down on illegal immigration Thursday.
Fifteen-year Tucson police veteran Martin Escobar argues there’s no way for officers to confirm people’s immigration status without impeding investigations. The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District [...]

Saudi Lawyer To File Suit Over Danish Mohammed Cartoons

by Doug Mataconis @ Sunday, April 25th, 2010. Filed under Dumbasses, England, Foreign Affairs, Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Islam, Legal, Religion, Saudi Arabia

A Saudi lawyer is saying he is going to file a lawsuit in England against the creators of the Danish Mohammed cartoons:
UP TO 95,000 descendants of the prophet Muhammad are planning to bring a libel action in Britain over “blasphemous” cartoons of the founder of Islam, even though they were published in the Danish press.
The [...]

Jury Orders Boy Scouts To Pay $ 18.5 Million In Sex Abuse Cover Up

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 24th, 2010. Filed under In The News, Legal

The Catholic Church isn’t the only institution with a history of covering up sexual abuse:
PORTLAND, Ore. – A jury on Friday ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million to a man sexually abused by a former assistant Scoutmaster in what is believed to be the largest such award against the organization.
Lawyers for [...]

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