Posts tagged Rants and Raves

• More on the $67,000,000 Dollar Pants Case

  Ben Glass | May 02, 2007 8:43 AM | 5 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I know many are probably starting to read about the crazy lawyer (a judge, no less) who is suing a dry cleaners here in Washington, D.C. I've blogged about it (as have others) and it's starting to pick up some national momentum. Just wanted everyone to know that on the various lawyer listserves this guy is receiving universal condemnation! Since he is suing pro se, he's actually a good example...

• Sorry, another stupid lawsuit

  Ben Glass | August 12, 2007 5:23 AM | 3 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Seems a Houston man used 1-800 Flowers to send his love interest flowers and a card. Problem was, it wasn't his wife. So, to be careful, Leroy Greer told the flower delivery company to not send him a receipt. They didn't. But they did send a thank you card to his home later.Guess what happened next?Yes. His wife, curious, calls the flower company and gets receipt faxed over. Then she files for...

• Disciplinary investigation into $65,000,000 dry cleaner lawsuit?

  Ben Glass | May 09, 2007 1:29 PM | 3 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Jon Haber, CEO of the American Association for Justice has written a letter to the District of Columbia Bar, asking that it open an investigation into Judge Roy Pearson, for his pursuit of the $65,000,000 dry cleaner lawsuit.We have previously commented on this lawsuit and posted some of actual pleadings. Jon Haber letter to District of Columbia Bar Association May 8, 2007 Mr. James...

• Virginia Police Shooting Case Heats Up

  Ben Glass | January 14, 2007 10:39 PM | 3 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The sad case of Salvatore Culosi, the local optometrist gunned down by a Fairfax County SWAT team last year when they went to arrest him for allegedly running a gambling ring got sadder as investigators confirmed that the SWAT team should never have been there for his arrest in the first place.According to published reports, a police review says Fairfax County police went overboard in using a...

• The idiots running Little League baseball

  Ben Glass | July 30, 2007 2:12 PM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  There is an interesting article in Sunday's Washington Post. It seems that the father of an eight-year-old Little League or was umpiring game, most probably as a volunteer, when a situation occurred that caused him to want to go look up the official rules in the Little League rulebook. He checked the Little League website first with no success. To make a long story very short what he found...

• Middle School "No Touch" Rule is Nuts

  Ben Glass | June 20, 2007 6:13 AM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  OK, OK, this might not be directly related to the law but it is about life, so I'm writing about it. It's bad enough when schools ban dodgeball, soccer, football and the like. My seven year old tells me that when they play kickball, they can't throw the ball at the runnner to get them "out." (Those games on Jayhawk Street in Annandale would have gone on forever without being able to throw the...

• Another $67,000,000 Embarassment for Lawyers

  Ben Glass | April 26, 2007 9:01 AM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Washington Post's Marc Fisher has an article on the front section of today's Metro section of a very disturbing tale of a lawyer (and judge, no less) who is making a mockery of the judicial process.According to Fisher's piece, Washington D.C. Lawyer and Administrative Law Judge Roy Pearson took a pair of pants to a local dry cleaners for repair. When things didn't turn out as he wanted he...

• Doctors' Lawyers Want Web Site Shut Down

  Ben Glass | April 20, 2006 4:49 PM | 2 CommentsNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  I could not have made this story up!. My friend, New York Medical Malpractice Attorney Gerry Oginski has a terrific consumer oriented medical malpractice website. He, like I, use our web site to fight our little battle agains the MILLIONS of dollars spent by the insurance industry to get mis-information out there about insurance claims, medical malpractice lawsuits and the like. His website is...

• Virginia Tech Shooting

  Ben Glass | April 16, 2007 12:34 PM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Our prayers go out to the victims and families of this morning's shooting at Virginia Tech. While none of my children attend Virginia Tech our family has many friends who's children do attend. My kids have friends there.We hope all are safe and that those who are injured do recover.

• $1 Billion Lawsuit Filed

  Ben Glass | March 13, 2007 11:44 AM | 1 CommentNorthern Virginia, VA Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Today's headlines in national news reports a whopping one BILLION dollar lawsuit filed.Gee...does that sound like too much? Should there be a cap on the recovery of the plaintiff?Is this going to stifle business? Are insurance rates going to go up?Is this a travesty?.... another case of some poor schmuck plaintiff bringing a biz to it's knees?Nah, it's just Biz v. BizViacom v. GoogleYou won't be...