court cases

Here are three recent cases from the UK. I want you to pass sentence. No googling to look up what each defendant actually got. Case A Two businessmen perpetrated a series of mortgage frauds worth £750M (yes, million). Case B A guy twice drove his Range Rover up mount Snowdon (Wales's...

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-teen-shot-dead-loud-music-20121126,0,4320738.story

My girlfriend is a real estate agent - in Kingston, Ontario - she once related a story to me she came across in a training course early in her career. The story involves the sale of an alleged hunted house and the buyers subsequent legal action against the seller for non-disclosure of this...

http://www.businessinsider.com/berlusconi-sentenced-to-4-years-in-jail-2012-10 I wonder if he'll ever do a single day.

Link to BBC story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626 The prosecution claimed that the scientists made a falsely reassuring statement. I understood that (accurately) predicting earthquakes was impossible. To me this sounds like the Italian judiciary acting to placate an unhappy...

Based on the facts we have this point (which I realize is incomplete), if you had to make a decision, how would you find? There's a lot of speculation here; some wild, some potentially valid. What we do know: - GZ calls 911 to report a "suspicious person" walking the streets of his...

Apparently bawdy houses are not, strictly speaking, illegal in Ontario; but certain activities related to prostitution are illegal. Pimping, street soliciting, warping the fragile minds of minors, those are all illegal. Most Canadians recognize that making all prostitution illegal is a futile...

Dave The Happy Singer has kindly been blogging about the case currently running in the New South Wales Supreme Court: Australian Vaccination Network vs. the Health Care Complaints Commission. A highlight: Read more: AVN vs. HCCC

From the San Antonio Express-News: Church [of Scientology] suddenly drops its bid to muzzle couple Biery's critics "newtralized" in Medina Valley prayer ruling

Here is a really funny article on Lexology about this. You may have to log in (free) to read the whole thing. I first read it since I subscribe but I just intermittently got to view it while not logged in. It's worth a read--the article is pretty anti-woo, hilarious. *chuckle* Essentially...

Author and psychic Noreen Renier was asked by both myself --- as posted on her Facebook page --- and by a reporter 7 days ago if she saw herself winning her second appeal now before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Virginia. She apparently doesn't wish to publicly...

Indian courts challenge Facebook, Google content NEW DELHI - US companies Facebook, Google and Yahoo, and other internet firms, have been ordered by two Indian courts to remove material considered religiously offensive, the latest skirmish in a growing battle over website content in the world's...

Mitt Romney and Ron Paul... http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/24/us-usa-campaign-virginia-idUSTRE7BN09E20111224 What the frak is going on in VA? What does it mean when 4 of 6 supposedly viable candidates are excluded from the ballot entirely (VA prohibits write-ins during primaries)? Is...

I wonder what happened afterword. Is he in jail? My searches turn up nothing.

I looked but didn't see a thread. I apologize if this a duplicate. Amazing especially in light of the fact his campaign was focused in large part on the seemingly systemic corruption in that office.

Story. I'll admit I'm not familiar with the laws surrounding the case but I my opinion a private organization should not be obligated to continue to employ a public figure that is publically expressing views the organization doesn't want to be associated with. Could someone familiar with the...

Hi, For the last week I have been watching the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal doctor. I got interested because I wanted to know details about how propofol is being used and all the technicalities about it. So far I am almost becoming an expert on propofol with all the...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44596501/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Italian scientists are being sued by the government because they didn't warn the public of an impending earthquake that killed 300+ in 2009. I didn't know that seismology had advanced so far that they could make accurate...

Kind of a bizarre legal situation. It seems that scientists did not expect some small earthquake tremors to amount to much, and told the public to be calm. Unfortunately they were wrong and now are being sued (along with town officials)...

More than 3 years after self-proclaimed missing person “super psychic” detective Noreen Renier filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy --- her second bankruptcy in 15 years according to Florida media --- a Virginia based U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge this week closed the case and issued a 17-page memorandum...

I thought this case was somewhat interesting. Essentially this woman had taken 1-2 days FMLA leave to help her sick husband. Then she applied for vacation (apparently) to go on a religious healing pilgramage and took it. Then she applied for FMLA to take her husband on a religious healing...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41258574/ns/business-consumer_news/ This is a class-action lawsuit because the plaintiff claims that Taco Bell's 'seasoned beef' is not 100% beef. This seems like the dumbest lawsuit I've heard in a while. Doesn't the USDA regulate this stuff? If it's good enough...

I found this interesting. http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/10/22/31283.htm Bloody shame all round, hope resolves well cj x

Well, so far the Herald has kept many of us in Scotland amused with the day-by-day legaltainment that is Tommy & Gail Sheridan's perjury trial, however I thought it perhaps time to flag it up for discussion and make the wider masses aware of it. Quick summary for our North American cousins...

Police in the Australian state of Victoria have used, for the first time, Facebook to serve notice of a court order upon a defendant. Finding the man, who is accused of harassing his ex-wife, proved too difficult so the police decided to use the woman's Facebook account to officially serve the...

From Huffington Post: I keep going back to the way torture is defined (in the CAT and in U.S. law), which includes that it be done by government officials. The obvious intent of the law is to prohibit governments from committing torture. (Non government torture, is a matter for state...

One aspect of the John Freshwater controversy is now settled with the two parties agreeing to a settlement. Freshwater, a science teacher, was accused of "branding" his students with a Christian cross and teaching creationism. Full: THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Full: Mount Vernon News...

Simon Singh has been sued by the British Chiropractic Association and lost the first round. Bill so far: about £100k. Now he's appealing this egregious judgment. See thread British Chiropractic Association v Simon Singh, and Blue Wode's posting 251. Singh has put out the following statement...

On January 23, 1897, "Zona Heaster was found dead in West Virginia, leading to the case of the Greenbrier Ghost and perhaps the only murder conviction in American judiciary history based on the alleged testimony of a ghost." See...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7605142.stm Unfortunate but probably inevitable.