Legal Juice
This a blog covers case law, news and events dealing with personal injury law.
Author: John Mesirow practices at Mesirow & Stravitz in Washington, D.C.
Blawg Related Categories: Tort Law • Injury & Accident Law • Solo / Small Firm • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Legal Juice
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What Happened To Personal Responsibility?
Darren Mirren, age 16, had an interview scheduled with a commercial cleaning company. He didn't show. When they called him, he said he didn't know how to find the office. So they rescheduled the…
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Part Two: Library Book Returned, Or Jail?
Remember that post about the woman who refused to return the "obscene" library book she checked out? (Hint: It was yesterday's post.) So do you think she returned the book, or was sent to…
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Choice: Return Library Book Or Go To Jail
Maine resident JoAn Karkos said she'll take jail. And it's not because she likes the book, "It's Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health." It's because "she claims [it] violates the…
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Digging Up Corpse Why?
For a skull bong, at least in part. True, gruesome, and bizarre. Here's the story, as reported from Texas by The Tribune: A Kingwood teenager that took part in a grave desecration earlier this…
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For Labor Day, A Story About A Working Man
Maybe Wayne Simpson should have just called the customer who he said gave him her cell phone number. Said Wayne: I honestly thought she fancied me. I certainly fancied her. She was gorgeous. She…
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An F-Bomber Himself?
Following up on yesterday's Legal Juice post, it appears that Captain Decker is an f-bomber himself, and an s-bomber! (The guy is probably an honorable public servant. Regular Juice readers know, though, that it…
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Busted For Dropping The F-Bomb At Wal-Mart?
Sure enough. Kathyrn Fridge, a 28-year-old Texas mom, as reported in the Galveston County Daily News, went with her 2-year-old daughter and mother to Wal-Mart on Aug. 4 to buy batteries just in case…
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Mayors Gone Mad?
Power corrupts, and absolute power ... So maybe Italian mayors don't have "absolute" power, but they recently obtained additional authority to enact new laws. Here are a few of them, as reported by Reuters:…
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Speeding, Kneeling Bird-Flipper
Australian Christian Marchesani has unambiguous contempt for speed cameras. Well, aside from the above photo, per the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: ... in January Marchesani sat on the fuel tank of his motorbike and rode…
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Cheerleaders Can't Wear School-Issued Cheering Uniforms In School?
If you have eyes, you've no doubt noticed that skirts have gotten pretty short lately. Some schools, like Monroe High School in Ohio, are stemming the upward creep of the hemline by instituting dress…