We have an extraordinary breakthrough in the fights against AIDS. U.S. scientists have reported that they have isolated three powerful antibodies for HIV — one of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains.
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Category: Torts
This video (on YouTube) raises a long-standing question of the liability for stupid pranks. This woman is clearly and understandably traumatized by what appears a well-orchestrated prank by what appears to be a television show, She clearly did not consent and is clearly harmed emotionally by the prank.
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A bizarre scene in Ocean City, Maryland looked like it has the makings of the opening of an episode of Six Feet Under. A woman was sunbathing when she was stabbed by a flying beach umbrella in the leg.
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The Naked Cowboy has previously fought against rivals to protect his unique brand in New York. Now, however, he is facing a new menace: the Naked Cowgirl. It sounds like a struggle more befitting the Garden of Eden than Madison Square Garden but both naked cow people are pulling out their briefs.
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The amazing videotape below shows an encounter of Rep. Etheridge (D, NC-02) with college students outside a Nancy Pelosi Fundraiser. The students are presumably conservative activists but Etheridge quickly turns physical after the students ask the congressman to confirm that he supports the Obama agenda.
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England is facing a rather novel legal issue: Toni Ebdon has opened up a type of Internet dairy . . . using her own breast milk. The 26-year-old nursing mother is selling her excess milk — raising obvious legal questions. Most of her customers apparently are men.
Recently we saw how the lawsuit filed by former George Mason Clinical professor Kyndra Rotunda (wife of constitutional law professor Ron Rotunda) against George Mason Law School and Dean Daniel Polsby (left) was largely dismissed by U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema. At the time, I expressed doubt that Rotunda would want to go forward to trial on the remaining state counts. Now, it appears that Rotunda has settled the lawsuit without any payment of money. The settlement involves unreported “equitable relief.”
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This is a graphic video but I offer it to my torts students as an example of the disconnect between legal and common judgment. I am told that Logan Lacy was attempting a squat at Sr. Nationals in Chicago when he vomited on the head judge and then passed out. Here is the kicker: they reportedly let him make a third attempt.
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Things were not-so-pleasant in a wedding in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina this week when Downing Deese, 26, pulled up in a boat with friends on Shem Creek. Deese says that he was “inspired” by the wedding to repeatedly expose himself during both the ceremony and reception.
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Questions have been raised over the police actions leading to the falling of porn actor and murder suspect Stephen Clancy Hill (aka Steve Driver) off a cliff in California. Police reportedly tasered Hill despite the fact that he was perched on the cliff, but the video below is unclear whether he jumped or fell.
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This video reportedly shows Los Angeles police menacing riders in a “critical mass” bike protest against British Petroleum by sticking out their feet. According to the cyclists, when one person filming the scene objected, he was arrested.
In Camden, New Jersey, a 17-year-old high school student has pleaded guilty to defecating in a classmate’s soda during an auto-shop class.
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Kim Flemming thought that losing Jake, her 12-year-old yellow Labrador, in Aurora, Ontario was bad enough. That was until she received a letter from State Farm Insurance demanding that she pay for the dented bumper on the car that killed Jake.
Long Beach police are investigating a beach tragedy after one of its officers rushed to help a drowning man — only to run over a sunbather and crush his spine.
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The legal situation over the Deepwater Horizon explosion appears to be getting more serious as accounts emerged that there was a serious argument between Transocean and BP officials shortly before the blast — with references to the possible use of the blowout preventer. One BP official, Robert Kaluza, has become the first known person associated with the blast to invoke the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to refuse to answer questions.