News & Media
Alla Mafia, No Grazie
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
Professor "Under Investigation" for Using the Word "Nigger"
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
Yoga is Cultural Appropriation
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.
Facepalm: Mafia offers to help protect NY from ISIS
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
Affirmative Action in Action
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.
Fuck Roanoke
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.
UPDATED: I wasn't voting for Hillary anyway
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
Marc Randazza Free Speech Win for Dr. Steven Novella
First Amendment attorney Marc Randazza of Las Vegas has scored a particularly important win in a case involving Steven Novella, MD and Edward Tobinick, MD. Dr. Tobinick sued Dr. Novella and Yale University in Florida, not for defamation, but for claims of false advertising and trademark infringement … Read more …
Marc Randazza files brief on behalf of First Amendment Lawyers’ Association in Redskins Case
The First Amendment Lawyers Association (FALA) files an amicus (“friend of the Court”) brief in response to The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s (USPTO) controversial decision to strip the word “Redskins” of its long-standing trademark protection. The amicus brief was written by First Amendment attorney Marc J. Randazza of Las Vegas… Read More…
A Slanted View of Trademarks and Free Speech
by Jay Marshall Wolman Free speech and the Lanham Act (the federal law dealing with trademarks) has been a hot topic of late. There are two high profile matters in separate courts of appeals challenging the constitutionality of Section 2(a), which prohibits the registration of disparaging marks. In the Federal Circuit is the matter In re: Tam, in which the
Wait a Cotton Pickin' Minute: Free Speech and Employment
by Jay Marshall Wolman As an employment lawyer who works for a 1st Amendment firm, I try to keep up with developments in both areas. Sometimes, they overlap, as they did in my Twitter feed recently. (Blatant self-promotion, feel free to follow me @wolmanj ). In Trusz v.UBS Realty Investors, LLC, the Connecticut Supreme Court was asked to consider how it
On Broken Wrists and Suing Children
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
Those sneaky Chinamen*
*Chinamen is not the preferred nomenclature, Dude.
Watch porn on your lunch break, but no smoking dope
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
No First Amendment Right to Military Insubordination
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
Journalist Privilege (To trespass and run someone over?)
Tesla reports that two apparent Reno Gazette Journal reporters trespassed on Tesla’s property, and then ran their car into a Tesla employee who was trying to take down their tag number. (source) This is all Tesla’s side of the story, so I’ll see if there’s more to it. Here’s the Reno Gazette Journal’s side of the story The newspaper’s vehicle
Disagree with feminists? That is a crime in Canada
Yep, Canada has become such a politically correct sackless nation that you’re not allowed to disagree politically with feminists anymore. (source) Update: A reader correctly pointed out that this is not yet a conviction – just some prosecutor decided that this was a crime. We’ll see what the court and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms has to say about
VanderSloot v. Mother Jones – Brennan's Ghost in Rehnquist's Robes?
While it is only a trial court decision from a state court in Idaho, Vandersloot v. Mother Jones occupies a significant place in my thoughts lately. On its surface, the decision is a wonderful thing. The decision contains more than 50 pages of research and citations, showing that the judge went to great lengths to understand the law before ruling.
Steve Wynn Files Another Defamation Suit
Steve Wynn is a plaintiff in a new defamation suit — this time in Boston. The Boston Globe reports: In a lawsuit filed Monday in Suffolk Superior Court, Wynn Resorts Ltd. says unknown defendants defamed the company by providing subpoenas to the media related to a City of Boston lawsuit against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. The suit alleges the city’s
White People Like Yoga – No Whiteys Allowed
Everyone knows that White people love Yoga. (source) I guess. I love yoga. Rich milfs in yoga pants. My fucking office is located next to the rich-white-lady-in-yoga-pants capitol of the Southwest – the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Town Center Drive. I walk in that place and feel like a teenager on his way to the chalkboard sometimes. But,