Category Archives: Legal Affairs

In Defense of Innocence

Sed nec de sus­pi­cionibus debere aliquem damnari diuus Tra­ianus Adsidio Seuero rescrip­sit: satius enim esse impuni­tum relin­qui fac­i­nus nocen­tis quam inno­cen­tem damnari.” — a per­son ought not to be con­demned on sus­pi­cion; for it was prefer­able that the crime of a guilty man should go unpun­ished than an inno­cent man be con­demned. Tra­jan writ­ing to

The Right To Waste My Own Money

In one of my favorite Two and A Half Men episodes (of which there are many), Char­lie takes Jake to the horse rac­ing track instead of help­ing him with his book report. Jake has $14 to spend and he needs some advice from Uncle Char­lie. Char­lie rec­om­mends putting his money where the other smart money

A Tale of Two Tragedies

Any­one who doesn’t live under a rock has been bom­barded by a media assault over the last few days regard­ing the acquit­tal of Casey Anthony. For weeks, news about the trial has been per­va­sive on sites like CNN where appar­ently their mar­ket research shows that the peo­ple who go to CNN.com just can’t get enough

What Do Spending Habits Tell Us About Being A Supreme Court Justice?

As most peo­ple know, Pres­i­dent Obama recently tapped Sonia Sotomayer to be the next Supreme Court Jus­tice. There’s been quite a bit of dis­cus­sion regard­ing her legal the­o­ries, recent com­ments on white men and Latina women and her over­all abil­ity to do the job. I per­son­ally doubt that she is ter­ri­bly dan­ger­ous even though she

It’s About Damn Time

All charges in the Duke (non)-rape case have been dropped.  This has obvi­ously been the result of an over­reach­ing DA, one that now stands to get dis­barred because of his actions.  Three young men’s lives have been trashed in the media and beyond all on the account of an accuser with seri­ous cred­i­bil­ity issues and

Suing Telemarketers for Fun and Money

Yup, you read it right, you can sue tele­mar­keters when they ille­gally call you and they have to pay $500 a pop.  These days, you don’t read much that is actu­ally friendly to the con­sumer or end user so this makes it even bet­ter news.  I might start answer­ing the phone again.