Legalese

3 Toronto lawyers lost their jobs after an epic-sounding "night of debauchery." Now one's suing for wrongful…

Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson were partners for 32 years. Yet when he died suddenly and his Lisbeth Salander…

When Coke was confronted for promoting sugary Vitaminwater as a health beverage, their reaction was basically,…

The parents of a 14-year-old kicked off his Junior High basketball team when he wouldn't cut his hair are planning…

The nursing student expelled by her college after she posted a picture of herself holding a placenta to Facebook is…

A man described rather snidely as "a single, unemployed computer technician," was denied a legal name change.…

Times Square's litigious "Naked Cowboy" - aka Robert Burck - has issued a cease-and-desist order to self-styled "Nake…

We'll just let this sink in: "Last week the Chicago Bar Association held a What Not To Wear Fashion Show."

France, for years notoriously laissez-faire when it came to domestic abuse, is making up for lost time: with…

The vast majority of Parisiennes are breaking the law. Because, legally, women aren't allowed to wear pants:

Dannon has settled a suspicious-sounding false-advertising class-action lawsuit, reimbursing customers who,…

The case of Amanda Kurowski, a New Hampshire 10-year-old whom the courts have ordered out of home-schooling and into…

A horrible case of accused neglect has taken a baby from her parents and raised questions about exactly why they…

An Australian party-planning company, Pinkalicious, specializing in dances "for lesbian and bisexual women" has won…

Calling one's wife ugly may soon become a criminal offense under Malaysia's Domestic Violence Act. Women's…

Marhaba, a mother of four, has been abandoned by her husband in her Tajikistan village. The problem? The marriage,…

When Janice Langbehn's partner of 18 years suffered an aneurysm, Langbehn and their children were not allowed to…

Polyamory advocates now want their marriages recognized. Good luck with that!

Whether or not pregnant women should be served alcohol when pregnant, and more to the point, whether they should…

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