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There are just so many angles to this story.  Its got bumbling cops, feisty old Jewish ladies, mahjong, and all of a sudden, one of my oldest publications is relevant!  Condo Casino!  (c’mon, click it and download it, get my SSRN rankings up!) So first the story, then the law stuff. Lee Delnick, Bernice Diamond, Helen Greenspan and Zelda King do what

Someone added fake Black Friday posters to his local Target bulletin board.  (source)

It seems that not all Princeton students are politically correct idiots who can’t string together a coherent sentence. While the victim studies types are whining to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from a building, because he apparently harbored racist views, there are at least a few who paid attention in their high school classes. (source) Academic discourse consists of reasoned arguments.

This is sort of a sad story.  David Mech was once known as “Dave Pounder,” a porn actor.  I do not know him personally, but everything I can find out about him suggests that he is a pretty smart guy.  (example) He has a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from Arizona State University, and is enrolled

I have a friend who came to the United States from Chile, fleeing the Pinochet regime.  I see the irony in fleeing Chile to the United States because of Pinochet, but lets set that aside.   On September 12, 2001, he called me to tell me he was going to give up his law practice to join the military, the

Giovanni Gambino, dalla famiglia Gambino, cioè una famiglia famosa per la sua criminalità, ha offerto aiuto agli stati uniti per risolvere il problema di ISIS. (rif) Forse ha preso l’idea da Toto Riina che ha offerto la stessa cosa all’europa. (rif) Non abbiamo bisogno di una terrorista per difenderci dagli altri.  È come se il Ku Klux Klan avesse offerto

A Kansas professor is “under investigation” because the word “nigger” touched her lips, and this supposedly left a student “in tears.” (source) The professor was teaching a seminar about how to address racial issues. She admitted her view that she didn’t experience racism, so it was hard for her to fully understand it. Here is what she allegedly said: “As

Are you fucking shitting me?  A Yoga class for disabled people has been cancelled – because white people.  (source) I think its high time we have a Yoga class, in blackface, where we eat foie gras, and listen to Ted Nugent.  I hate three of the four of those things, but fuck it… anything to annoy millennial crybabies.

Giovanni Gambino claims that ISIS is afraid of the Mafia, and that is why they haven’t set up in Sicily.  (source) “The mafia has a bad reputation, but much of that’s undeserved,” says Gambino, who moved to Brooklyn in 1988. “As with everything in life, there are good, bad and ugly parts – the rise of global terrorism gives the

This “firefighter” was allowed to graduate from the Academy, despite being woefully unqualified.  But, she did have two overwhelming qualifications:  She had a vagina and she had a critical mass of melanin.  What she did not have was any semblance of the physical ability to do the job.  But, don’t let that get in the way of remedying past discrimination.

Mayor Bowers of Roanoke, VA is “reminded that President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt compelled to sequester Japanese foreign nationals after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the threat of harm to America from Isis now is just as real and serious as that from our enemies then.” Mind.  Blown.    

But, you can bet your ass I won’t vote for her, even if Trump is running against her.  Comedians made fun of her, so she tried to get the video taken down.  (source) UPDATE:  At least two commenters noted that they are skeptical.  I should have been.  The source is not great, the terms used in the source are a

by Jay Marshall Wolman It seems Eric Turkewitz and Jack Marshall are at it again, this time over the aunt (or first-cousin once removed) who sued a boy (now 12, but 8 at the time of injury) when he greeted her in a fashion that resulted in a wrist fracture.  (Disclaimer:  Marc has represented Eric, and I’ve known Jack for years as

*Chinamen is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude.

At least in Sicily it is. Good ol’ “Giuseppe Z” was minding his own business, watching a little porn on his lunch break, when some bastone in culo decided that this was too much for him to bear. Giuseppe lost his job, but he sued FIAT to get his job back. At the trial level, Giuseppe lost – with the

In Wayne v. James, a Mormon airman flipped out that there were gay weddings at West Point’s chapel. In reaction to being reprimanded, he claimed that he had a right to express his sincerely held religious opinion under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and under the First Amendment. Both arguments failed. RFRA provides that the government “shall not substantially burden