A very interesting torts case has settled in Lake Forest, Illinois where George Baldwin, 22, has been given a $2.5 million settlement after he went to a party at the house of Lauralee Pfeifer, who had two high school friends of Baldwin. Baldwin and a friend than drank beer in their girl’s bedroom. He was paralyzed when he and a drunk friend (who was driving) crashed their car. It is a very rare case of a homeowner being successfully sued by someone other than a a third party victim. He is also suing his former friend who drove the car.
Month: February 2009
In the last week, the Obama Administration has supported the Bush Administration in a variety of cases to the great disappointment of many civil libertarians, historians, and academics. This includes an effort to kill litigation that has sought millions of missing emails in the Bush Administration.
It has often been remarked that being a member of the Bush Administration would hardly be a resume advantage, particularly in scandalized agencies like the Justice Department. It turns out that many ex-Bush people are finding themselves radioactive in the job market, which is itself smaller than usual in the economic crisis that they helped create. Only 25 to 30 percent of 3,000 political appointees who served President George W. Bush have found work.
Continue reading “Will Work For Food or Favors: Roughly 70% of Bush Appointees Remain Unemployed”
John Forrester, a prisoner at Monroe Correctional Complex in Washington state succeeded in castrating himself with a shaving razor this week. It was the second attempt by the man and only the latest case of self-mutilation by prisoners.
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There appears to be no professional courtesy between counsel and rodents at the Palm Beach County Courthouse. The court is overrun with mice that are falling from the ceilings and running across the floor during trials.
Continue reading “The Pitter Patter of Little Litigator Feet: Florida Courthouse Overrun With Mice”
In Louisville, Kentucky, Robert Datillo, 37, took his own life as police deployed tear gas after a 10-hour standoff. He was accused of wounding – 39-year-old Cpl. Dan Lawhorn and 32-year-old Officer Keith Broady.
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It was bad enough when Nigel Haskett was shot at McDonald’s in Little Rock, Arkansas. The worker had rushed to helped a woman who was struck by a man and was shot three times. He was then told by Claims specialist Misty Thompson with insurance company Ramsey, Krug, Farrell and Lensing responded, that he had no right to worker’s compensation for his injuries. Hasket required three surgeries at a cost of $300,000 in medical bills and six months recovery.
Continue reading “McDonald’s Worker Denied Worker’s Compensation After Being Shot on Videotape”
The police are reportedly close to making an arrest in the unsolved murder case of Chandra Levy after eight years. Police are reportedly seeking an arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique, who is in jail for assaulting two women in Rock Park. That is the same park where Levy’s remains were found.
Continue reading “Police Move to Arrest Suspect in Chandra Levy Murder”
Jangir Sultan, 32 has sued the city of New York after he was allegedly searched 21 times in the subway because of this Middle Eastern appearance. He is actually a New York native of Kashmiri descent.
Camden Arkansas police are dealing with a new form of a nickel plated hand-gun. An 18-year-old man walked into the BancorpSouth with a bag of nickels but forget that, with the $88 of nickels, he had left a .44-caliber handgun. He was arrested and then a bad day took a turn for the worst.
Antoinette Basso has filed a lawsuit alleging that she alleges that she was severely injured by a failing inebriated Santa Clause. The allegedly stewed Santa was Daniel Aulwes, who Basso claims fell on her and pushing her face first into the sidewalk outside of a Chicago restaurant.
Continue reading “Santa Slip and Fall: Chicago Woman Sues Allegedly Drunk Santa For Falling On Her”
A frequent commentator on local television in Las Vegas, Douglas Crawford, 53, admits to stealing roughly $400,000 from his client, charging for work never performed, and violating court orders. Despite 65 violations of the Rule of Professional Conduct, the Nevada Supreme Court declared him to be addicted to both gambling and drug and rejected calls for disbarment. Instead, it suspended him for five years.
Utah state Sen. Chris Buttars, R-West Jordan, has been removed from a judicial committee that he chaired after comparing gay activists to radical Muslims and saying that gay activists are “probably the greatest threat to America going down.”
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Chip Harrison was driving in Oklahoma City when he was stopped by a member of the Oklahoma City Police Department for displaying a sign on his car critical of President Obama. The officer confiscated the sign saying “Abort Obama Not the Unborn” under the theory that the Secret Service might view it as a threat on the President’s life — ignoring that he would first have to be returned to a fetal state .
We have yet another case of a person who was scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by Nigerian con artists. This one involved a love scam. The middle-aged divorcee in Edmonton was conned out of $300,000 before realizing that she had found larceny rather than love. The Nigerians con artist even took money for a fake son’s funeral.
Continue reading “False Flame Scam: Woman Conned Out of $300,000 in Nigerian Love Scam”