Hawaii Cops Decide They Probably Don't Need to Have Sex With Hookers
Oh good; at least some law enforcement officials are coming to their senses about the world's stupidest law ever.
Federal Judge Enjoys Ogling Lawyers Who Dress Like 'Ignorant Sluts'
But those aren't his words, you see. He's just paraphrasing other female lawyers and, um, Jane Curtin.
Want to Have Sex While Divorcing? You May Need a Court Order in MA
Divorce can be hell. A relationship is ending, there's paperwork galore, and then you have to decide who gets what. And it gets exponentially harder if kids are involved. Well, someone's finally thinking of the children! Massachusetts State Senator Richard J. Ross has introduced a new bill that, if passed, will require …
Yet Another Law School Lectures Women on How to Not Dress Slutty
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Question to all the lady lawyers out there (sorry, I like the alliteration): How often do your superiors lecture you on your professional dress? Judging by all these tips we get about memos that lecture women on appropriate office wear, it's all the damn time.
Georgia Court Dismisses 'Unwanted Sexting' Case Due to Antiquated Law
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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.
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…
Trailer for ‘Salacious’ Amanda Knox Movie Heavy on the Slut-Shaming
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The trailer for The Face of an Angel, an adaptation of the book by Barbie Latza Nardeau called Angel Face about the Amanda Knox saga, is out and it is as salacious and exploitative as any slapdash Lifetime movie about a recent murder trial except it features some pretty notable talent like Daniel Bruhl, Cara…
Breastfeeding Mother Kicked Out Of Courtroom In Alabama
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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.
Law Firm Forced To Work With "Uppity Bitch" Who Was A Grammar Nazi
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The breakup of a small law firm in Texas has revealed some gross and amazing details and none of it is pretty.
Woman Attorney Launches Saudi Arabia's First All-Lady Law Firm
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Just a few months after Saudi Arabia allowed women to serve in court, the first licensed woman attorney Bayan Mahmoud Al-Zahran has just opened the first female law firm, dedicated to representing women and bringing women's rights issues into the courts. YES.
Women have continually been neglected by the court system…
18-Year-Old Florida Teen Becomes Youngest To Pass Bar Exam in UK
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Good job, Florida! You're in the news for something that doesn't involve something terrible, horrible, or downright terrifying. Gooooo team!
Man Accused Of Sending Employee Illustrated, Laminated Erotic Poems
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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."
Tennessee Judge Says Lady Lawyers Shouldn't Show Their Elbows
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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.
Public Kissers Protest PDA Warning from Turkish Subway Officials
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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.
Boozy Painting Classes Shut Down in Brooklyn (Update)
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The boozy painting hipster art club in Williamsburg achieved the sort of vintage coolness that so many hipsters try (and fail) to achieve: on Thursday night, the NYPD shut down the popular art-and-wine class, calling it an “illegal speakeasy.”
Indonesian Lawmakers Consider Stricter Laws Against Sexy Black Magic
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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…
Wack Courtrooms Look to Urban Dictionary for Help With Slang
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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?
More Outrage in India: Rape of a Five-Year-Old Girl Incites Protests
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Protesters in India have once again taken to the streets to express their outrage at the way law enforcements officials have reportedly mishandled a case of sexual assault, this time against a five-year-old girl who remains in stable condition at a hospital after a 22-year-old man was arrested under the suspicion that…
What's The Monsanto Protection Act And Why Is It All Over Facebook?
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You may have noticed a petition hosted on food advocacy groups like Food Democracy Now circulating on social media for the last week. If you're anything like me, you blithely scrolled over it in your search for the perfect gif, or whatever other dumbass thing was at the forefront of your brain. But here's
Sonia Sotomayor Brilliantly Shuts Down Racist Federal Prosecutor
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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.