Legal Commentary

Chargers Doctor Loses Malpractice Case And Investigated By Federal Authorities

Posted on January 10, 2011
There is an interesting case involving the team doctor to the San Diego Chargers, Dr. David Chao. Kathleen Adams, a former patient, was awarded $2.2 million by an arbitration panel due to Chao botched hip surgery in 2007 in which he lacerated her femoral artery, vein and nerve...

Looking For a Few Good Sheep

Posted on January 09, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger The U.S. Army is using the mandatory Soldier Fitness Tracker to measure the “spiritual” fitness of soldiers as part of the $125 million Comprehensive Soldier Fitness (CSF) program. Soldiers are required to answer if they pray, if they attend religious services, and if they find comfort in religious [...

Which is Darker, the A or B Square?

Posted on January 09, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Answer below the fold. As you might have suspected, they’re the same shade of grey. To see this click on the video below. OK, I see it, but I don’t believe it. There’s another explanation here...

Angel of the Morning

Posted on January 09, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Angel of The Morning Today we have Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts in glorious STEREO! Enjoy.

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And I Leave Fido and Rover the Sum of ?

Posted on January 09, 2011
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Pet owners may be getting new rights if Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick signs the new pet trust bill into law. Under the statute, a pet owner will be able to designate a guardian for their animals in their will and to provide funds for their upkeep...

Miss. Governor Frees Sisters Who Robbed $11 ? But With A Catch

Posted on January 08, 2011
Submitted by Mark Esposito, Guest Blogger Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, preparing for a run for President, has granted clemency to two African-American sisters serving life sentences for an armed robbery 17 years ago. The sisters were convicted of robbing at gunpoint two men who were driving them to a nightclub in northern Mississippi in 1993...

Egypt Demands Return of ?Cleopatra?s Needle.?

Posted on January 08, 2011
Submitted by Mark M. Esposito, Guest Blogger Dr. Zahi Hawass is none too happy with New York Mayor Bloomberg. The Secretary General of Egypt’s Supreme Council on Antiquities has sent the Mayor a letter demanding the City preserve a 3500 year old obelisk known as “Cleopatra’s Needle”  or send it back...

Let Civil Liberties & Freedom Ring!

Posted on January 08, 2011
Submitted by Elaine Magliaro, Guest Blogger In his speech Restoring British Liberties (dated January 7, 2011), Britain?s Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg talked about the freedom and the ?hard-won liberties? that people in Britain have held dear. He talked about the standards of a nation that have been the hallmarks of a civilized society to [...

Kentucky v. King

Posted on January 08, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Oral arguments will be presented next week in a case involving the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment. The idea behind the exigent circumstances exception is to relieve the police from the necessity of getting a warrant in cases involving emergencies...

Mr. Custer

Posted on January 08, 2011
-Submitted by David Drumm (Nal), Guest Blogger Mr. Custer Today, we present Larry Verne in glorious STEREO! Your listening enjoyment is maximized using headphones/earbuds.

Is it Time to Ban All Automatic Weapons?

Posted on January 08, 2011
Submitted by Guest Blogger, Lawrence Rafferty In light of the tragic shooting today in Arizona, I have to wonder aloud if automatic weapons should be banned by this country.  I realize that the 2nd Amendment right to own a gun is strongly defended by the NRA and other right-wing groups, but I am sick and tired [...

The Pope Embraces The Big Bang As God?s Plan

Posted on January 07, 2011
In an important statement, Pope Benedict has stated that such theories as the Big Bang theory is evidence of God’s design. This is a far cry from the reaction to prior theories of scientists like Galileo. The statement occurs as researchers in Geneva at CERN are attempting to recreate conditions at the formation of the [...

Police Officer Goes to Hospital of Comatose Teenager Heading into Surgery . . . To Give Mother a Ticket for Jaywalking

Posted on January 07, 2011
The mother of Takara Davis, 13, was in shock as she rushed with Takara to surgery after she was hit by a car on her way back from school. Takara was a in coma and doctors were rushing to save her life when a Las Vegas police officer pulled Kellie Obong aside ...

Driving Miss Delilah: Leading Israeli Rabbi Bans Women From Driving

Posted on January 07, 2011
The chief rabbi in the city of Holon, Avraham Yosef, has issued a religious decree banning women from driving — again bringing extremists in both Islam and Judaism to a mutually agreeable position with regard to women’s rights. Yosef insisted that, absent an emergency, women should not drive because it undermines modesty and chastity...

The Exorcist Files: Catholic Church Agrees To Reality Show With the Discovery Channel

Posted on January 07, 2011
The Vatican is teaming up with the Discovery Channel in a reality show based on the Vatican’s case files and interviews with its top exorcists. While Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon might have had to wait for a Vatican murder to get access to the Vatican files, Discovery can do so with the promise of a [...

Jets Appeal Fine Over Dolphin Trip

Posted on January 06, 2011
When the New York Jets were fined just $100,000 for the infamous tripping of Miami’s Nolan Carroll by Jets coach Sal Alosi, many of us remarked how relatively light the punishment was for such an unsportsmanlike act. It appears, however, that even that fine is too much for the management of the Jets, which is [...

Video: San Francisco Police Shoot Man in Wheelchair

Posted on January 06, 2011
In the video below, police appear to shoot a man in a wheelchair who was armed with knives and may have stabbed an officer. There are a number of questions raised by this video over the use of lethal force. What is curious is that citizens were next to the man when the police arrive [...

Scalia Publicly Rejects the Use of the 14th Amendment to Bar Discrimination Against Women and Gays

Posted on January 06, 2011
While the legal profession debates the propriety of his decision to participate in the educational sessions for conservative new members of Congress, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is also causing a stir over his public statement that the 14th Amendment does not prohibit discrimination against women or gays...

Federal Court Clears Way For Jury Trial on Whether There Is A Different Standard for Blacks and Whites In The Use of the N-Word

Posted on January 06, 2011
While academics and commentators line up to denounce the plan of New South publishers to edit out the n-word from Huckleberry Finn, a federal jury is set to decide whether there is a different standard for a white person as opposed to a black person in using the n-word in the work place...

Mainstream Pakistani Islamic Groups Praise Assassin of Governor and Warn Others That They Would Be Killed For Opposing Blasphemy Prosecutions

Posted on January 06, 2011
The mainstream Islamic organizations have rallied in response to the assassination of of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province by one of his bodyguards. However, they are not rallying to denounce the killing but to celebrate it because Taseer had stood up against the country’s notorious blasphemy laws...

Colorado Senator Accused of Causing Wreck and Putting Grandson Back Into Car Seat After Being Ejected

Posted on January 06, 2011
Colorado Senator Suzanne Williams (Dem. Aurora) is being accused of an extraordinary act in Amarillo, Texas. Police allege that, after her 3-year-old grandson was ejected in a head-on accident, Williams placed him back into a seat in her SUV after the wreck...

Scalia Agrees To Speak To New Conservative Members on the Constitution

Posted on January 05, 2011
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia is again in the midst of controversy with his decision to accept an invitation from Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to speak to incoming conservative members about the Constitution as part of their training. Bachmann, the founder of the House’s Tea Party Caucus, is leading efforts to repeal health care and seek [...

Ninth Circuit Declares Mount Soledad Cross To Be Unconstitutional

Posted on January 05, 2011
In a ruling that could reach the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit has held that San Diego’s Mount Soledad cross is unconstitutional. The 43-foot cross was erected in 1913 to honor veterans of the Korean war. The case is Trunk v. City of San Diego, 2011 U...

Vermont Police Officer Accused of Stealing Neighbor?s Television From Under Christmas Tree

Posted on January 05, 2011
In Barre, Vermont, Patrol Officer Zak Winston, 34, is facing a bizarre criminal charge that he first stole his neighbor’s television from under her Christmas tree and then, after police came to his house, tossed the TV into the Winooski River. Winston insists that he is innocent...

Video: Police Officer Shown Beating and Then Pepper Spraying a Man in St. Louis

Posted on January 05, 2011
There is a public outcry over the video below showing St. Louis City police officer Dustin Ries beating a man with his baton outside of a St. Louis gas station. The police officer insisted that the man was drunk and unruly but the officer seems to use his baton immediately after grabbing the man and [...

Publisher Announces Intention to Edit Huckleberry Finn To Remove N-Word

Posted on January 04, 2011
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are widely viewed as an American classic. However, the editors of NewSouth Books have decided that they need to do some editing. The editors have decided to remove the “n” word from the book and replace it with “slave...

Vermont Supreme Court Decides Not To Disbar Former Traffic Court Judge Who Caused Accident with Biker, Left Scene of Accident, Falsely Blamed Wife, and Gave False Statement To Police

Posted on January 04, 2011
Vermont lawyer Melvin Neisner Jr. has been suspended but not disbarred after he caused a car accident in September 2007 and then had his wife falsely claim that she was the driver — even watching as she was arrested and charged with the accident...

California Supreme Court Allows Warrantless Searches of Cell Phones

Posted on January 04, 2011
The California Supreme Court has handed down an important ruling that allows police to search an arrested person’s cellphone without a warrant — a ruling that will allow police access to a wide array of information now kept on modern cellphones...

Why Doesn?t Senator Graham want to ever leave Afghanistan?

Posted on January 03, 2011
SUBMITTED BY LAWRENCE RAFFERTY, GUEST BLOGGER I had a very peaceful Sunday afternoon watching my beloved Bears take it on the chin against their biggest rival, the Green Bay Packers.  It was sadly peaceful until I read a story that quoted Sen. Lindsey Graham on Meet the Press as stating that he wanted the United States [...

Happy Feet, Unhappy Landing: Penguin Chooses Poor Escape Route From German Zoo

Posted on January 03, 2011
A penguin in Germany has learned the meaning of “out of frying pan and into the fire.” The penguin named Leona succeeded in escaping from her enclosure only to find itself in the Lion’s den with a bunch of sleeping lions. I am not sure what passes for swearing among African Penguins, but I am [...

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