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Never rent property to queens. Sovereign immunity and all that. A Family Rented Their RV to the QAnon Queen. She Won’t Give It Back. (from Vice) The first few paragraphs: The so-called QAnon Queen of Canada won’t return an RV she rented for her convoy, despite the owners asking for it back after she...

In unrelated sovcit nuttery, we have JACQUELINE GRAHAM and her "Terra Foundation". She appears to have used a variant of the classic "three/five-letters scheme" to practice mortgage fraud. As the Seventh Circuit put it: Jacqueline Graham approached struggling homeowners with an o...

A lawyer for Krasner called the contempt vote "undemocratic" because he has already submitted a response to the subpoena in a court filing asking a judge to squash it. Ah yes, the dreaded Motion to Squash. (Seriously, I'll allow the reporter that one; they probably got the statement over ...

We see a lot of complicated and outrageous legal scheming here. But sometimes it's nice to get back to the classics. Like people who are extremely convinced that they don't owe federal income taxes, for, well, reasons. It used to be that these people would sometimes be on the receiving end of length...

If you're looking for a silver lining: Throwing the Twitter moderation floodgates wide open would tank the userbase, tank the advertising revenue, and tank the value of the company. Maybe you think that Elon would be okay with that. I doubt it, but let's assume it for the moment. But Elon's gone scr...

He claims that the law library is closed due to a lockdown and that this places him at an unfair advantage. This one may actually have merit. So he reserves the right to file "a Memorandum and Addendum subsequent to reopening of the Law Library." That might.... He complains again about th...

"That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if that pays off for him."

There's a discussion of The Onion's amicus brief over in the "Legal funions" topic.

Well, it's no wonder he didn't get it on time--he doesn't know where he lives. (the area in British Columbia of which he speaks is ChilCOtin, not ChilOCtin). No, that was my typo. Fixed. (Ambassador Parsons' documents are filed on paper rather than electronically, so I had to type in the quotes rat...

New activity! With bonus legal tangent! When last we left our intrepid incarcerated ambassador, his 2241 case had been transferred from the Western District of Tennessee (where he had incorrectly filed it) to the Eastern District of Arkansas (where the Bureau of Prisons is providing his ambassadoria...

Idle speculation on the bird site that Musk's recent endorsement of Russia in the Ukrainian conflict is tied to a Russian investment in the Twitter deal, causing it to move forward. Probably BS, but :shrug: That makes little to no sense. There are people on Twitter who think that everything that El...

Bona vacantia. De bonis asportatis. Writ of certiorari. De minimis. Jus accrescendi. Forum non conveniens. Corpus juris. Ad hominem tu quoque. Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Quod est demonstrandum. Actus reus. Scandalum magnatum. Pactum reservati dominii. And just to quickly hit the legal meanings: Bon...

bob wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 3:25 pm The Onion(!) filed a SCOTUS amicus brief in Novak v. City of Parma.

Seriously. Stop what you're doing. Read that.

As an aside: If you're the sort of person who reads this Fogbow thread, and you do not currently subscribe to the Short Circuit Newsletter, then you should reconsider your choices. It's a weekly list of interesting appellate decisions to read. As examples, the "judge conducts prayer service pri...

I have to give him credit: he seems to have found a genuine weakness in the DC code . So long as he can keep filing new cases faster than courts can dismiss the old ones, the employer-garnishment mechanism breaks down. Of course, that will lead to yet more negative consequences later. But when the g...

For your consideration: US v. Wright , a recent forfeiture case from the 9th Circuit that borders on but does not quite reach "legal funion." SCENE: DINGY INTERROGATION ROOM US Government: "We have you dead to rights, Mr. Wright! Your dastardly Las Vegas crime wave has come to an end!...

Mahindra & Mahindra, LTD, et al v. FCA US, LLC is an interesting case from the Sixth Circuit involving "trade dress infringement" -- making your product look too much like another, in this case an offroad vehicle that looked too much like a Jeep. And it analyzes the "safe distanc...

As an aside, the history of the US federal court system (and the circuit courts) explains why federal law used to be even harsher about not allowing interlocutory appeals -- appeals in the middle of the case. And why GIL would not be a happy camper in those older times. It is one thing for a modern ...

My recollection is that the notice of intent to appeal is required. I think this is so the court can prepare the record to be sent to the higher court. Something like that, anyway. No. In the US federal system and many state systems, when you want to appeal a district court's decision, you file you...

This is one of GIL's tics. He cannot bring himself to simply file a document that will send a case to another judge or judges (whether that be an appeal, a mandamus motion, a Demand for Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card, whatever). He is compelled to first file a completely redundant and legally meaningless...

It is unlikely the typical judge is aware of Klayman's bar problems. So if Klayman files in a non-Florida court, and then seeks PHV status based on his valid Florida license, the court would likely approve the PHV application because it would have no reason not to. And by the time his opponents and...

But Klayman ought to know the real burden is the fitness requirement: he ought to know he'll never convince the DC Bar he's fit. Especially after repeatedly suing them. In other words, this ruling essentially is a death sentence for his DC license. But but: Florida doesn't seem to care. Klayman can...

I try to look on the bright side. As legal kooks start to rack up sanctions and vex-lit orders, their legal 'attentions' often shift away from whatever private citizens they were originally harassing, and towards the judicial institutions imposing the sanctions and the vex-lit orders. For judicial i...

This is my shocked face.

I am shocked.

Well, actually, not shocked.

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 ...