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The Daily Memo - 8/29/06
From one of QuizLaw’s favorite states (Arkansas) comes this little lesson - if you steal video games from your local Wal-mart (already a bad idea, since Wal-Mart all but runs Arkansas), you probably don’t want to try selling those games at a game store right next door to the Wal-mart you just jacked. (Engadget)
Matt LeBlanc is being sued, not for foisting two seasons of “Joey” on us, but for allegedly defaming a former scrump-buddy. (Zap2it)
Jackie Mason, reportedly “as Jewsish as a matzo ball or kosher salami,” is suing Jews for Jesus over pamphlets using his name and image. (CNN)
California prisons are about to get a whole lot more fun (for toppers, anyway), as the state legislature has passed a law allowing for in-prison distribution of condoms. (Yahoo)
To travel to Senator George “Macaca” Allen’s fundraiser, the President’s Secret Service agents tried to shut down heavily trafficked carpool lanes, which would’ve resulted in a D.C. and Virginia rush hour debacle, but the Virginia Department of Transportation manned up and said “not so much.” (WSOCTV)
The Tuesday Morning Quarterback’s brother will become the 7th Circuit’s chief judge this November. (The Legal Reader)
Judge tells a probation violator the obvious, namely, that when he was found unconscious with a 0.46 (!!!) blood-alcohol level, he had gone “beyond the ‘I-have-a-drinking-problem’ stage.” (WCCO)
The RIAA showed its lack of guts, withdrawing from one of its piracy cases just one day after the defendant filed a counterclaim, comparing the RIAA’s bullying method to extortion. (Recording Industry vs The People)
