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Research from the Sydney-based Brain and Mind Research Institute (BMRI) found law students’ psychological distress was caused by the “competitive, isolating and adversarial learning environment” of law schools. Similar findings have been revealed in American research where students reported law school as competitive, alienating and a place where they lost...
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A member of the Miami International Airport security team is on administrative leave after he used a baton to beat a colleague who made light of the size of his package after he walked through a scanner. Forty-four-year-old Rolando Negrin was arrested over the alleged assault, which took place...
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Holly Hill, Florida: Two men stand accused of breaking into an apartment and threatening to kill or harm its resident, because of an unsettled legal bill. The Daytona Beach News Journal reported Holly Hill Police Chief Mark Barker as saying: They demanded $3,200 the victim owed to attorney Ron...
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates: An Indian flight attendant and her cabin services supervisor were convicted of “coercion to commit sin” on the basis of saucy text messages that they exchanged with each other. The pair were originally sentenced to six months in jail, but an appeal reduced the sentence...
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Jordan S. Christensen’s sentence of a year in jail and three year’s probation last Friday included an unusual stipulation: he is not allowed to date member’s of the opposite sex without the permission of his probation agent. The 19-year-old (18 at the time of the crime) was charged with...
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A Memphis attorney has admitted to removing part of another man’s nose with his teeth in an altercation at a popular restaurant. NBC reports that the Greg Herbers filed suit against attorney Mark Lambert, alleging that Lambert bit off and swallowed part of his nose during an altercation in...
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I can’t imagine the hell this poor husband had to go through, only in the end to finally be exonerated in the death of his wife. It’s even worse than he originally thought–the murderer was, in fact, an elk. Poor Ingemar Westlund. Way back in September 2008, he found...
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Stanley G. Hilton is living proof of the seemingly endless supply of litigants with potentially questionable motivations in the United States....
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Minnesota stoners might want to think twice about puffing their herb through water pipes as the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision on Thursday that bong water is “a preparation, compound, mixture, or substance containing a controlled substance, regardless of purity.” While the substance that people tend...
