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A really tragic case. On the one hand, rape is a horrendous crime, and it would have been wonderful if Brooks had been convicted and spent life in prison. And if Lewis had stabbed and killed Brooks in self-defense... well played. On the other hand, we've pretty much universally decided as a society ...

In lighter news: I often peek at dismissed pro se lawsuits against the CIA. The CIA attracts some really interesting kooks. And so we have Ronald Satish Emrit v. CIA . Mr. Emrit's neatly-typed complaint makes the following request: The plaintiff is seeking declaratory relief according to Rule 57 of ...

And two more things: The fact that the PSTF is mortally wounded doesn't do too much damage to the rest of the Affordable Care Act, because those other agencies that don't have unfixable legal flaws can approve many of the same things. It's just slower. Both Congress and the President really should h...

Thanks for the analysis! In my mind, the base problem here is that our health insurance in the US is tied up with our employers. It shouldn’t be. Agreed. I should have also mentioned where the Appointments Clause came into this and invalidated a different decision to require coverage of 'PrEP drugs...

The judge ruled that claims backed by zero evidence must be honored if religious people believe them to be true. This is a Big Problem. I hate the outcome. But it's not something that this judge pulled out of a hat. In fact, under current federal law and Supreme Court precedent, I'd say that the ju...

US v. Larry Johnson

In which the Tenth Circuit painstakingly answers the hot question on everyone's minds: Do you legally "possess" a gun by sitting on it?

In view of all the circumstances here, a reasonable person would not believe that he or she was free to leave a house while an officer repeatedly fired at the front door. -- Mark and Sherrie Campbell v. Cheatam County Sheriff's Department et al, Sixth Circuit opinion (Believe it or not, a member of...

Let me add a little more explanation to the earlier discussion. Spoiler: GEICO still isn't firmly on the hook here. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; this is not legal advice. Not to be taken internally. May cause drowsiness; alcohol may intensify this effect. Consult your own attorney before having un...

Some good old-fashioned tax-denying silliness from the Fifth Circuit. As is so often the case, it involves a defendant who developed radical new views about the nature of income taxation, immediately after receiving a large sum of money subject to income taxation. US v. Thomas Selgas and John Green ...

It's been an extremely nasty strike, and that's an extremely one-sided article. The government says this is reimbursement for security guards, security cameras, repairs, and production lost because of the strike, plus buses for carrying scabs across picket lines. The payment is because of a settleme...

Another one that falls into the category of "darkly funny and also interesting": US v. David Walsh, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals The opening sentences of the opinion lay out the darkly funny part: At 71 years old, David Walsh robbed a bank with a firearm and nearly robbed another a few...

Do. Not. Advertise. Your. Crimes. On. Social. Media. US v. Paris Steele, Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Between July 2016 and January 2017, Paris Steele sold five guns and nearly 35 grams of crack cocaine to a confidential informant with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on C...

A case that manages to be both darkly funny and really interesting: US v. Anthony Oisoni Ozomaro. District Court docket (RECAP) Appellate court docket (PACER) Mr. Ozomaro was charged with meth-related crimes. He was in rather bad mental shape and had to undergo a psychological evaluation, but he was...

Another biased judicial rejection of GIL's fundamental rights! In the Klayman v. Porter et al case in the Southern District of Florida, Judge Singhal has dismissed the case due to claim splitting (in other words, "litigating the same damn thing again"). The present case involves both the s...

Crime ProTip: If you are a felon who cannot carry a firearm, and if you are a known gang member in a town where the anti-gang unit is well-known to follow gang members' social media, and if you are carrying a gun in a fanny pack while at a heavily-patrolled fairgrounds, consider the benefits of not ...

Kenneth Crawford Jr., a sovcit from the Third Circuit who helped people file fraudulent tax returns, will spend roughly 78 months in federal prison bemoaning the unfairness of it all. Crawford’s brief strains credulity and appears to endorse “sovereign citizen” arguments. [...] Appellant Br. 1–2 (“I...

To me, the truly amazing thing is that the judge actually managed to f*** up so badly that she lost her absolute immunity. A quick summary of the two forms of federal-court immunity from civil suit that apply in this case: Judges get "absolute immunity". A judge cannot normally be sued for...

As with many sovcit cases, this one is deeply disturbing and yet still oddly funny. A child's father allegedly strangled his child. The child was placed in foster care. The child's mother then showed up at the foster family's house, along with a "lawyer" who presented sovcit-style document...

Klayman update!

In Klayman v. Porter et al in the Southern District of Florida, Klayman responds to his foes' motion to dismiss.

He doesn't seem happy.

Don't forget that the USFL's $1 got tripled to $3. Victory!

I was told the story that an NFL attorney had presented a $5 bill to a USFL attorney. According to Wikipedia, this is false; there was actually a check for $3.76 (the seventy-six cents was interest).

I did not read the original petition (at least not enough so I could remember) or most of the stuff between the paragraph above and the conclusion (in short everything) but I suspect the international trade is just his attempt to squeeze into the rules for a rehearing petition. This sort of argumen...

From the "definition of chutzpah " file: Ricardo Barraza pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute drugs in 2005. After his guilty plea, but before sentencing, he fled to Mexico, and stayed there for over a decade. By 2019, he had developed life-threatening kidney disease and renal failur...

I'm so glad that he has someone paying attention to the little details for him....like the fact that his case has been transferred to the ED of ARK, and he's still filing in the WD of TEN... That's one thing I won't blame him for. The judge entered the transfer order on June 1. The NOTICE OF OBSTRU...

Mr. Parsons is terribly fond of Article 30 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations: 1. The private residence of a diplomatic agent shall enjoy the same inviolability and protection as the premises of the mission. 2. His papers, correspondence and, except as provided in paragraph 3 of articl...

Pop-A-Squat Update: JUSTICE HAS BEEN OBSTRUCTED. Our intrepid ambassador filed a document claiming that the prison has obstructed justice twice. First, the prison allegedly failed to deliver a certified copy of his petition that the court mailed to him in April. Second, the prison allegedly failed t...