A woman in the Kansas City area is having a really hard time getting out of jury duty thanks to one judge’s seeming obstinance and Missouri’s arms-crossed, brows-furrowed stance on exempting jurors who breastfeed and don’t have adequate childcare options.
A lengthy, detailed blind item over at Radar Online alleges that a "world-famous actress" (not pictured) overdosed on a drug-and-booze combination, and her seizure was caught on video. She's still alive, and the clip is being presented in court as part of a child custody battle. Eesh.
Her wig game has improved.
In August of 2011, Monica Contreras went to Nevada's Clark County family court with her two-year-old daughter on a routine divorce case. The case was resolved in a few minutes — Contreras' ex-husband never showed and it was dismissed — but as she was leaving, family court marshal Ron Fox ordered her into a waiting room …
Hey, hey, hep cat jurors! In today's modern and crazy courtroom, some words may come up that you don't quite understand. While in your everyday life, you could just let these words go, in court you gotta get wise to 'em because they may make the difference in a guilty/not guilty verdict. Ya dig, turkeys?
Lindsay Lohan is currently having the Mondayest Monday in the history of Mondays. After arriving 50 minutes late to her date with justice this morning, someone glitter-bombed her on her way into a Los Angeles courthouse.
When future generations look to you and ask, "Where were you, old timer, the day Lindsay Lohan missed her Saturday evening flight to Los Angeles with a court date looming Monday?" what will you say? That you were calmly enjoying your green St. Patrick's Day sugar cookies and didn't so much as lift a finger? Thought so.
Earlier today, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor included a written statement along with the court's rejection of a criminal case. In this unusual action, your favorite justice's letter condemned a federal prosecutor in Texas who behaved like a real dick.
An Atlantan man was denied his 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd choices for his vanity plate. James Cyrus Gilbert III wanted his vanity plate to read 4GAYLIB, GAYPWR, or GAYGUY. State officials denied his request saying none of those were available. Gilbert thought that sounded a little suspicious, so he got a lawyer.
Even after Justice Sotomayor performed a holiday miracle by waving her gavel at a grey flannel sky and causing sundry forms of contraception to snow down onto every tax-exempt piece of Catholic real estate in the land (that's how pop-up books in the future will tell it, so you better get on board with the legend now),…
Our legal system can sometimes seem like a lurching, inefficient machine that only works after a few well-placed blows from a wrench and some irrational pleading, but it's our legal system and we're stuck with it even when shit like this happens: a federal appeals court on Friday temporarily blocked a law that bans gay …
Those who — following comments made by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev — found themselves hopeful in regards to an end to Pussy Riot's legal drama will be unfortunately disappointed. The hearing that many suspected would lead to the band's release was scheduled for today, but, following a sudden decision by…
A contender for most spiteful father of 2012 has emerged and his name, according to the New York Post, is the late Frank Mandelbaum, whose death in 2007 has not prevented him from trying to shame his gay son from beyond the grave. Mandelbaum's will stipulated that his son Robert's future progeny would not receive any…
At this point, we have pretty strict measures for keeping track of the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders once they've served their time. But unfortunately there's one large organization that's managed to circumvent these rules and seems to be fine with some 200 suspected child molesters living more or less…
In news that will most likely desiccate the last little puddle of faith you have in human rationality, some enthusiastically religious parents in Queens are asking a judge to nullify a law that would keep their children out of school if classmates are carrying communicable diseases such as measles, mumps, and chicken…
A Michigan judge has come under fire for asking a woman to leave after she dared besot his precious courtroom with the horrific, abominable specter of breastfeeding her child. Fetch the special judicial smelling salts!
A jury has found Casey Anthony not guilty of murdering her daughter Caylee. She was also acquitted of child abuse and manslaughter, but convicted of four counts of providing false information to law enforcement.
In NYC courts, officers have taken to enforcing rules that prohibit boxer-baring trousers. "We don't care about fashion trends," says the president of the New York State Court Officers Association. One dude apparently stormed out rather than pull up his pants.
[Perugia, Italy, December 18: A policewoman/bailiff-type person seems to be propping up Amanda Knox as they return to the courtroom after a break in Knox's appeal of her murder conviction. Weird. Image via Getty.]
So far, 14 jurors have proffered excuses as to why they can't serve on the jury of accused killer Ingmar Guandique. These include watching too much TV, a wife who was recently mugged, and...hate crime bias.
