I find it amusing that the case Procter & Gamble Co. v. J. L. Prescott Co., a trademark dispute as to whether “Chas-O” and “Chipso” were too similar names for competing brands of soap, was dismissed because of unclean hands.
I quote from the Minnesota State Code
1.1496 State muffin
The blueberry muffin is adopted as the official muffin of the state of Minnesota.Minn. Stat. ยง 1.1496 (2005)
Interviews went well; am exhausted; got hand lotion splattered all over my suit by a passing car; more later.
I am kind of surprised that a law professor would write such a thing, and that a legitimate law review would publish it, but apparently the Michigan Law Review has done so. Here is the abstract what seems to be a fully serious analysis of Harry Potter and its comment on structures of government. This Essay examines what the Harry Potter series (and particularly the most recent book, The Half-Blood Prince) tells us about government and bureaucracy. There are two short answers. The first is that Rowling presents a government (The Ministry of Magic) that is 100% bureaucracy. There is no discernable executive or legislative branch, and no elections. There is a modified judicial function, but it appears to
courtesy of Craig’s List. My personal favorite:Just to clear things up, the following are NOT defenses to criminal
charges:
“I thought the cop was a prostitute.”
I quote today from Lynne Woods-Leber and Anthony Leber v. Hyatt hotels of Puerto Rico, Inc. (124 F.3d 47)SELYA, Circuit Judge.
This appeal arises out of an unwanted intrusion by a rabid mongoose into the opulent environs of a posh luxury hotel. During its sojourn, the animal bit a guest. The guest sued, but to no avail; the district court entered summary judgment in the hotelier’s favor. See Woods-Leber v. Hyatt Hotels of P.R., Inc., 951 F. Supp. 1028 (D.P.R. 1996). We affirm.
I. THE MONGOOSE ATTACK AND ITS SEQUELAE
Defendant-appellee Hyatt Hotels of Puerto Rico, Inc. (Hyatt) owns and operates the Cerromar Beach Hotel (the hotel) in Dorado, Puerto Rico. The hotel occupies a picturesque oceanfront setting. Its verdant grounds are
Today’s awful judicial pun (not to mention an intruiging factual scenario) comes courtesy of Justice Stone of California in People v. GleghornMay a person who enters the habitat of another at 3 o’clock in the morning for the announced purpose of killing him, and who commences to beat the startled sleeper’s bed with a stick and set fires under him, be entitled to use deadly force in self defense after the intended victim shoots him in the back with an arrow? Upon the basis of these bizarre facts, we hold that he may not, and instead, must suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (with apologies to William Shakespeare and Hamlet, Act III, sc. 1).193 Cal.App.3d 199 Reading