The Silly Side of Law - Inaugural Edition
In honor of April Fool's Day, I am introducing a new monthly feature I'm calling the "Silly Side of Law". Look for it on the first day of each month.
Especially with all the doom and gloom swirling around us these days, I figure it can't hurt any of us to take a little time to find and enjoy the lighter side of this thing we call Law. Sometimes crazy things happen in the law, sometimes the folks embroiled in a legal dispute do crazy things, and sometimes the lawyers themselves are good for a few laughs.
- From a fellow University of Michigan alumnus David Mills (click here for the background story) comes Courtoons, which I found LOL HILARIOUS. Every business day (M-F), David puts up a new law-related cartoon.
- From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog comes this story about the process of suing God which asks the question: Does an All-Knowing God Need Notice of a Lawsuit?
- For those of you who missed it last Fall, here is the Hurricane Ike apology letter from Jeff Murphey to Dale Markland regarding cancellation of depositions. And in the interests of fairness, Mr. Markland's viewpoint about it all.
- Sometimes a Judge just has to call it the way it is - you're just not making any sense!
- From Legal Blog Watch comes the Weirdest Legal Cases of 2008
That's it for this time.
Recently I came across some of the very weird laws of UK. It made me wonder when and under which circumstances these laws were invented. What’s more surprising is that the laws still exist.
http://legallaw.sosblog.com/llblog-b1/UKs-Silly-Laws-b1-p17.htm