A leading federal US judge has announced that he is opposed to execution by lethal injection -- and would prefer to introduce the guillotine instead. Judge Alex Kozinski, a prominent and controversial judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, is a conservative appointed by President Reagan. His Cou
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A former IBM employee who is deaf is suing his lawyer for wrongly interpreting his sign language after settling his discrimination case for $200,000 rather than the amount he claims to have asked for – $200m. James Wang, 49, argues his lawyer, Andrew Rozynski, exaggerated his understanding of sign
Police in Thailand have arrested a man after he attempted to smuggle six vials of human semen across the border to Laos. Authorities discovered the load in a nitrogen tank in the man’s bag as he was passing through the town of Nong Khai.
Judges in India’s Supreme Court have thrown out a lawsuit because no one can understand it. The case was filled with so much jargon that it was incomprehensible.
A lawyer who drunkenly harassed diners in a Thai restaurant before launching a foul-mouthed tirade at police and patrons was eventually banned from a total of 225 bars and restaurants. Leon Monastirski was arrested last February after police were called by bosses at a Thai restaurant where he was re
Celeb couple Victoria and David Beckham have registered their five-year-old daughter Harper's name as a trademark. According to European intellectual property office records, Victoria Beckham registered The Harper Beckham trademark in February.
The artist who sculpted Wall Street’s famous “Charging Bull” statue claims New York City has violated his legal rights by allowing the “Fearless Girl” statue to be installed opposite his work. Italian-born Arturo Di Modica has complained that the other artwork, installed without his permis
A Ugandan activist, Dr Stella Nyanzi, has been charged with cyber harassment over a Facebook post in which she referred to President Yoweri Museveni as "a pair of buttocks", a reference which her official charge sheet has described as "obscene or indecent". Unexpectedly, there is no mention in the o
An Australian rapper called '2pec' ran up a £360 bill in a seafood restaurant, before diving into the sea and swimming off to avoid paying, a Queensland court has heard. Police gave chase on jetskis and apprehended the man.
Three suspected burglars of short stature, all members of the self-styled ‘Irish mob midgets’, have been arrested after CCTV cameras filmed them illegally entering a house through a pet flap in the front door. The three men are known members of the criminal organisation that operates in the Bost
Uruguay is to start selling pot in pharmacies from July this year. It will be the first country in the world to sell cannabis over the counter for recreational purposes.
A lawyer in Chicago, Illinois has published 25 lessons from his 16 years administrating legal guidance and referral website Illinois Lawyers. Having supported around 350,000 people in that time, Michael Helfand shared his 25 Lessons From Being A Chicago Lawyer on his blog.
The Yamuna and Ganges rivers in India are legal persons, a court has ruled. A division bench of Uttarakhand High Court made the ruling just one week after a river in New Zealand became the first in the world to be recognised as having the legal rights of a person.
An artificial intelligence expert "married" a robot of his own creation in a simple ceremony on Friday. Zheng Jiajia, 31, married his robot Yingying after failing to find a human wife, the Qianjiang Evening News reports.
A Florida “doctor” who became infamous for injecting her patients' rear ends with tyre fluid has been sentenced to a decade behind bars. Oneal Ron Morris, known as the “Fix-a-Flat doctor”, was jailed after one of her butt-injections went horribly wrong, the Washington Post reports.