An obscenity case in Georgia that centered around unsolicited sext messages has been tossed out of court, because current state law does not cover electronic images. » 2/24/14 10:30pm 2/24/14 10:30pm

A federal judge in Virginia has struck down the state's gay-marriage ban. "Gay and lesbian individuals share the same capacity as heterosexual individuals to form, preserve and celebrate loving, intimate and lasting relationships," wrote U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen in the decision. "Such relationships are… » 2/13/14 11:20pm 2/13/14 11:20pm

According to Alabama state law, a woman has the right to breastfeed in public. But that didn't stop an official from booting a Mobile woman out of court for doing just that. » 2/04/14 11:30pm 2/04/14 11:30pm

Good job, Florida! You're in the news for something that doesn't involve something terrible, horrible, or downright terrifying. Gooooo team! » 8/06/13 9:30am 8/06/13 9:30am

A supervisor at a white-shoe law firm accused of sexually harassing one of his employees allegedly sent the woman laminated, illustrated erotic poems with lines like, “I enjoy you so. Your thick legs and all of the voluptuous plumpness that accents your womanhood." » 7/13/13 2:14pm 7/13/13 2:14pm

Tennessee Circuit Judge Royce Taylor of Rutherford County is strictly anti-elbow, according to a recent memo he sent out that specifically addressed the women in his courtroom. » 6/14/13 5:00pm 6/14/13 5:00pm

There was a lot of concentrated public kissing yesterday in Turkey, which, depending on your threshold for watching other people trade tiny food particles in public, was either an inoffensive spectacle or a reason not to ever participate in a kiss protest. » 5/26/13 12:30pm 5/26/13 12:30pm

Earlier this week, we found out that Indonesia would finally be doing something about all the out-of-wedlock sex and black magic that its citizens are enjoying, probably simultaneously, since a proper, married household hardly seems like the place for the occult. A new criminal code currently making the legislative… » 5/24/13 10:00am 5/24/13 10:00am

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? » 5/21/13 3:45pm 5/21/13 3:45pm

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. » 2/25/13 9:30pm 2/25/13 9:30pm

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. » 1/22/13 11:45pm 1/22/13 11:45pm

Yesterday in the Brooklyn Supreme Court, Angus Pascall, a 35-year-old formerly decorated NYC EMT who stands accused of sexually assaulting five women, came face-to-face again with one of the women he allegedly raped. » 1/11/13 10:25am 1/11/13 10:25am

Norma and Bob Clark, a couple joined in matrimony five decades ago, were going about their business one fine Northern California day. It was a day like any other — Norma was shaping a new big wave gun surfboard so she could wax major lip at Mavericks and Bob was rendering notable literary quotations — "...yes I said yes … » 12/22/12 6:00pm 12/22/12 6:00pm