Tag Archives: Law and Rights

Reason number 258 why global trade kicks ass. Could the WTO be the agent of change that finishes off irrational marijuana laws in this country? Tim Wu, who teaches intellectual property and international trade at University of Virginia Law School, thinks it’s a good possibility: The irrationality of U.S. marijuana …

Okay, it’s true, I’ve taken the week off thus far from the MJ affair, the limits of my tolerance having been reached for morbid psychological disorders and tawdry testimony touching upon (no pun intended) groping, masturbation, pornography, alcohol, emotional manipulation, 13 year-old cancer patients and 46 year-old men in the …

Alex Zivojinovich, aka Lifeson, guitarist with Rush, is scheduled to stand trial May 16 on two third-degree felony assault charges stemming from an altercation with Collier County deputies at the Ritz-Carlton in Naples, Florida, on New Year’s Eve 2004. “I think it’s (the case) going to trial,” said Lifeson’s defense …

Michael Jackson didn’t arrive on time for his trial this morning and an angry Superior Court Judge Rodney S. Melville issued an arrest warrant and said he would also revoke Jackson’s $3 million bail unless he appeared in court within one hour after the 8:30 a.m. scheduled start time. Time …

Political correctness has taken another jump off the deep end... this time in Norway.

We mentioned last week that enterprising locals are making bucks on the Michael Jackson trial renting out parking spaces and vantage points, and restaurants and stores are doing record business as well. Specialists are also raking in the dough. Sketch artist Bill Robles and two colleagues are providing the only …

Yesterday the 14 year-old younger brother of Michael Jackson’s accuser took the stand and made some shocking accusations: “I saw directly onto the bed,” the boy testified about the first of the two 2003 incidents. “I saw my brother was outside the covers. I saw Michael’s left hand in my …

Martha Stewart is back home after five months in a W.Va. federal prison. Obviously there is a vast reserve of media commentary, speculation, and explication on the meaning of it all. All I’m going to say is that Stewart’s one obvious flaw, an inability to relate to her employees and …

The Michael Jackson trial continued yesterday with testimony from the 18 year-old sister of the alleged victim of sexual abuse, who said she and her two brothers were given alcohol by MJ in the wine cellar of his Neverland Valley Ranch, the entrance to which was hidden behind a jukebox …

After opening statements in which prosecutor Tom Sneddon characterized Jackson as Jeffrey Dahmer and defense attorney Thomas Mesereau painted a portrait of St Francis of Assisi, the main action has centered around TV reporter Martin Bashir’s documentary Living With Michael Jackson, which aired on ABC in the U.S. three days …