Tag: lawsuit
It's Not Sex, It's SeXXXercise!
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 01:47:43 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Stephanie Babines wants everyone to know she's all about fitness first. As a matter of fact she would like to earn a living helping women become more fit, trim, and limber. But the zoning officials in Adams Township, Pennsylvania don't want to let her open her business. What could possibly be objectionable about another having another fitness salon? According to the authorities in Adams Township, it's not the fitness, it's the method Babines plans on using to get the ladies fit. According to Babines, they're a bunch of narrow-minded blue noses and she's willing to go to court to prove her point.
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Too Good For His Own Good
MayorBob.
Posted to Sport on Wed Aug 27, 2008 at 06:45:28 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Imagine that IOC President Jacques Rogge had showed up at the Water Cube in Beijing and ordered Michael Phelps out of the water. Imagine that PGA put a ban on Tiger Woods. That sort of thing happened in microcosm in a youth baseball league in New Haven, Connecticut. It seems that nine-year-old Jericho Scott is too good to be playing with the rest of the kids in the league.
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Who Watches The Watchmen? Why, Fox Studios, Of Course
MayorBob.
Posted to Business on Thu Aug 21, 2008 at 12:59:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
If you've been to your local cineplex recently, chances are you saw the trailer for The Watchmen, scheduled for release in early 2009. Scheduled for release, but looking more and more like it might never see the inside of a movie house. Why? Because Fox Studios believes it has Warner Brothers outfoxed.
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You Can't Take Away A Job That You Offered Her When She Was A He
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 01:11:01 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's been about three years in the making, but a job discrimination case is about to go to trial that might have serious ramifications. The case is considered very significant because of who is being sued, what the cause for the case is, and the special circumstances involving the plaintiff. The outcome could affect federal employment practices and have far-reaching impacts to lower levels of government and into the commercial world.
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Please Make That Story Disappear
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Sun Aug 17, 2008 at 09:50:53 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Shakespear Feyissa is learning a few lessons. Lesson one is that your actions can have unintended consequences. Lesson two, once something gets reported on the internet, it's awfully tough to expunge. Feyissa, a practicing Seattle lawyer, says something that happened over ten years ago is causing him pain and anguish because it can easily be googled. He says the original controversy blew over, so how about deleting that report? Problem being that the report in question is in a school newspaper archive. And the student journalists say once reported, forever archived
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Will "Cable's Most Reprehensible Talking Head" Cost CNN Big Time?
MayorBob.
Posted to Media on Thu Aug 07, 2008 at 02:17:01 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Earlier this year, a New York judge ruled that NBC could be sued (pdf doc). What got the network in such hot water was the heavy-handed way they may have caused the suicide of someone caught up in Dateline's "To Catch A Predator" show. Now a second judge, this one in Florida, brought the gavel down on another media circus run with deadly results.
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All Your Privacy Belongs To Google
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Sun Aug 03, 2008 at 07:25:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's a misconception that Google ever said "Do No Evil." What the search giant, so ubiquitous it has become a verb describing its primary service, does say is "it is possible to make money without doing evil (scroll down to #6)." But there's a couple in Pittsburgh who don't agree with that. Aaron and Christine Boring believe that one Google feature has a less than noble effect - it has taken away their privacy. Google responds, "privacy doesn't exist." In the Borings' opinion, that is pretty evil.
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Love Me, Love My Monkey
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Wed Jul 23, 2008 at 06:48:41 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Debbie Rose suffers from social anxiety disorder. Her condition is such that Rose has a service animal. Rose's problem is convincing the places she goes to accept her service animal, a 10-year-old bonnet macaque.
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A Shocking Decision For Taser.
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Jun 12, 2008 at 05:21:39 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Law enforcement experts refer to the Taser as a non-lethal weapon. According to the company which manufactures it, the Taser is "a safer alternative to other uses of force." The device "protects life" and "dramatically reduces injury rates for law enforcement officers and suspects." Since its founding in 1993, Taser International's Electronic Control Devices have been used by law enforcement agencies without the company's words coming back to haunt them. Until now, that is, as a federal jury returned a verdict holding Taser responsible for the death of a person their devices were used to subdue.
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What's In A Name? Were You Born There Or Are You Just Gay?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Fri May 02, 2008 at 10:29:10 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Lesbos is the third-largest island in Greece. The natives (as well as those who emigrated from there) commonly refer to themselves as Lesbians. A problem has arisen because a Greek gay pride group chose to incorporate the "L" word into its title. A group of Lesbians have taken umbrage and are pursuing legal action against the gay pride group. At issue is who should have the right to call themselves lesbians: the gay women of the world or the 100,000 people living on the island plus the 250,000 expatriates who call Lesbos home.
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Are The Bigger Boobs In The Email Or On The School Board?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Tue Apr 29, 2008 at 06:14:40 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Beverly Plamp says she was inappropriately touched by her teacher back in 2006. She is suing for damages from the Mitchell School District of Mitchell, South Dakota. She wants to have some emails used as evidence in her case. However, her name and the incident involving her are not mentioned in the emails. The school district wants to have the emails sealed. Plamp's claim is that, even if they don't pertain to her case, they do draw a picture of a school district with rather lax and offensive attitudes towards sex - attitudes which could translate to a favorable verdict for Ms. Plamp.
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How Much Is That Puppy In Window (In Terms Of Pain & Suffering When It Dies)?
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Wed Mar 12, 2008 at 10:56:19 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
According to Debra Campanile, losing Misty, her canine companion of some 13 years, "was devastating." The Massachusetts resident said Misty was part of her family and not just a pet. She wants Massachusetts to formally recognize how deeply pet owners feel about the loss of their pets. This is why is fervently pushing for some legislation which would allow pet owners to recover civil damages whenever a pet dies because of other than old age. When Campanile says whenever, she means whenever. Under the law she is seeking, humans could be financially liable for pain and suffering due to the loss of a pet - whether that loss came about due to animal abuse, reckless driving, or a mistake made by the veterinarian.
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