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Judicial Follies: Murphy’s lawyer (opens the original)
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The fates were not kind to the folks who tried to put George Garewal where he belonged. Garewal was tried under California law, but the only law that seemed to apply to the man prosecuting him was Murphy’s Law — which of course states that, if anything can go wrong, it will. As the court of appeal would later explain, the facts of Garewal’s crime were “ugly.” On Valentine’s Day, 1981, Garewal and two companions were surprised by the owner of a house while committing a burglary in El Centro, a fa
Judicial Follies: Copy-wrongs (opens the original)
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As I’ve written about before, back in 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law Congress passed in 1998 that had quickly been renamed the “Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.” The name change was in honor of one of Congress’ most famous members, himself a successful songwriter, who had just expired because of an unfortunate skiing mishap with a tree. The Bono Act (also known by some less-flattering names) extended existing copyrights for 20 years — and permanently made them good for 95 years
Judicial Follies: Copy-wrongs (opens the original)
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As I’ve written about before, back in 2003 the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a law Congress passed in 1998 that had quickly been renamed the “Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.” The name change was in honor of one of Congress’ most famous members, himself a successful songwriter, who had just expired because of an unfortunate skiing mishap with a tree. The Bono Act (also known by some less-flattering names) extended existing copyrights for 20 years — and permanently made them good for 95 years
Judicial Follies: Short and to the point (opens the original)
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In 1959, a Los Angeles jury awarded a woman named Eunice Garbutt $25,000 for injuries she had sustained when she sat on a chair in a Los Angeles store. Mrs. Garbutt, was five feet, four inches tall, and weighed about two hundred pounds. She had had surgery on the end of her spine, and a store employee told her to sit on a chair shaped out of mainly out of one continuous piece of chrome-plated metal tubing. (When viewed from the side such chairs somewhat resembled an “S”). Mrs. Garbutt, because o
Judicial Follies: Finders…but not keepers (opens the original)
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It’s not a point often commented upon (except, perhaps, by tax protesters), but Americans today accept government monitoring of our finances that our ancestors would have found astonishing. Have you sold any gold, gems, or rare coins to a pawnshop lately? If so, the shop owner likely filed a report of the transaction with the government. Do you have, say, $10,000 in cash to deposit in your local bank? Once again, a report will surely be filed with Uncle Sam. And you’d better not try to split up
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