Good job, Florida! You're in the news for something that doesn't involve something terrible, horrible, or downright terrifying. Gooooo team! Read… 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." Read on Gawker 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. Read… 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. Read… 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… Read… 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? Read… 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. Read… 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. Read… 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. Read… 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 … Read… 12/22/12 6:00pm 12/22/12 6:00pm

Sarah Childs of Denham Springs, LA is apparently in some sort of feud with her entire neighborhood and so she used this holiday season to display her dissatisfaction. I know this is childish and ridiculous but there's something about it that makes me happy. Wouldn't the world be a better place if we all settled… Read… 12/21/12 12:00am 12/21/12 12:00am

You know the moment. You're about halfway through an episode of L & O and it hits you — I've totally seen this before! Rooney Mara beat up fat people because she USED TO BE FAT! Duh! Makes so much sense, especially now that I've seen the episode 50 times. Case closed, bitches! Read… 11/14/12 11:30pm 11/14/12 11:30pm

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… Read… 10/01/12 12:00pm 10/01/12 12:00pm

California will once again carry the marching band baton for the rest of America with news that it has become the first state to ban "therapy" practices that seek to change the sexual orientation of minors after Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill into law on Saturday. The bill, SB1172 by Sen. Ted Lieu (above) of Los Angeles… Read… 9/30/12 3:00pm 9/30/12 3:00pm

35-22-30. Measurements of an old-school pinup girl, sure. But my point in raising those numbers is a different one. These numbers can actually be used to highlight the special challenges that most women, in particular those who have or want families, face in Biglaw (i.e., very large firms that pay top salaries). I… Read… 8/31/12 1:45pm 8/31/12 1:45pm

Last week, 71-year-old assemblyman Vito J. Lopez, who has headed the Brooklyn Democratic Party since 2005, had his committee chairmanship taken away after being accused of sexually harassing two female office staffers. Although Sheldon Silver, the Assembly speaker, also officially censured Lopez, reduced the size of… Read… 8/30/12 10:25am 8/30/12 10:25am

Texas, the state that's so stubborn it literally has a monument to stubbornness (the Alamo), may reconsider something, and that something is a 2001 law that allows prosecutors to charge prostitutes with a felony and send them to prison after three misdemeanor convictions. According to the American Statesman, Texas has… Read… 8/26/12 6:00pm 8/26/12 6:00pm

Vietnam could, through an interesting confluence of government policy and national journalism, be on track to legalize same-sex marriage, something that would set it apart from other countries in Southeast Asia where the issue, according to the AP, hasn't really been up for debate. The Justice Ministry recently… Read… 7/29/12 4:00pm 7/29/12 4:00pm

There are divorce lawyers and then there are divorce lawyers, the latter and emphasized of which hang out in super secret clubhouses, keep stashes of Sports Illustrated under the floorboards, and assure all clients that, just as soon as they learn the secret handshake, all the secrets of divorce court prejudices will… Read… 7/23/12 1:15pm 7/23/12 1:15pm

How would you like to be required by law to visit your elderly parents? That could soon be the case in China, where they are discussing requiring children to "often visit" or "send respects to" aging parents. Does sending flowers on holidays count? According to state television, 33 percent of people in a recent survey said … Read… 6/29/12 9:30am 6/29/12 9:30am