Posted in criminal law, dissent, torts, torture on November 4, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The really choice fact missing from this article is: it was the same officer who tazered the protester last year.
A Chinese college student shocked by a Eugene police officer’s Taser stun gun a few hours after the student moved into his new apartment has contacted attorneys to represent him in the case.
The male [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, dissent, education, privilege, property, torts on January 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The intruders were allegedly trying to steal marijuana that the homeowner was growing:
Lt. Gary Trupe, coordinator for the Potter-Randall Special Crimes Unit, said Monday that the home was targeted because of marijuana plants that were being grown there.
Arcay and the roommate are now wanted by police for possession of 25 to 35 marijuana plants. The [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, education, politics, privilege, property, torts, tagged castle doctrine, map, update on January 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I realize the insanity of trusting Wikipedia for any kind of exhaustive legal analysis. But they’ve got a great list, and the list (for the most part) links to the relevant statutes. If I was really going to be serious about this I’d take the time to look up state murder law for all 50 [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, privilege, property, torts on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This one has a Joe Horn mention. I guess the lesson is, if you want to gun down random people in Texas, you have to claim that you felt threatened. It’s probably not enough to say you did it because they were stealing someone else’s stuff.
A Kingsland man Wednesday was indicted on charges of criminally [...]
Posted in castle doctrine, criminal law, privilege, property, torts, tagged alabama, castle doctrine, Murder on January 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The unfortunate thing about bright-line rules is that sometimes they give you an answer that you’re not going to like.
In most other states, police would have taken Malik in to answer a few questions. Certainly that’s not an unreasonable request, especially if someone’s dead.
Not so in Alabama.
The legislature approved a strict version of the so-called [...]
Posted in advertising, criminal law, economics, ethics, media, torts, tv, tagged O'Reilly on January 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I bet Crazy Bill can just throw money at this problem until it goes away, like he did with that falafel thing.
The incident was triggered when O’Reilly–with a Fox News crew shooting–was screaming at Obama National Trip Director Marvin Nicholson “Move” so he could get Obama’s attention, according to several eyewitnesses. “O’Reilly was yelling at [...]
Posted in advertising, contracts, economics, ethics, fair use, first sale doctrine, free (or not) software, property, technology, torts on September 4, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So I’ve seen this sort of story in a number of places. At first it was just one guy, and then it was some folks in Sweden, but now it seems like an actual corporation in the US formed explicitly for this purpose is promoting the news too, this time on CNN:
An iPhone that [...]
