NASCAR discrimination lawsuit follow-up

SI.com reports that NASCAR has suspended two of the officials named in the Mauricia Grant race and gender discrimination lawsuit. According to SI.com, the two officials, whom NASCAR declined to identify, “have been placed on administrative leave for violating company policy”.
The SI.com story also contains this chuckle-inducing tidbit: one of the officials Grant accuses of [...]

The world is full of freaks

Some of them are federal judges:
Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, acknowledged in an interview with The Times that he had posted the materials, which included a photo of naked women on all fours painted to look like cows and a video of a half-dressed man cavorting with a [...]

Former NASCAR employee sues over racist, sexist treatment

A lawsuit by a former NASCAR employee alleges a disturbing pattern of racist and sexist harassment and discrimination, including co-workers who referred to her as “Nappy Headed Mo” and “Queen Sheba” and told her she worked on “colored people time”, and a supervisor who made repeated references to the Ku Klux Klan. Mauricia Grant, an [...]

Elon Law clears first accreditation hurdle

I am delighted to report that the American Bar Association Section of Legal Education has granted provisional approval to Elon Law School.

Judge to suspended student: Tough noogies

A New York State judge has ruled against a 9th grader who sued over a nine-month suspension he received for giving his teacher “noogies”. Legal experts are divided on whether the decision would affect atomic wedgies, wet willies, nipple cripples, swirlies, or other popular junior high school pranks.

Something to cheer about

Though I’m now a few thousand miles from San Francisco, I join in celebrating the state Supreme Court’s ruling in the same-sex marriage case. My personal view is that the government ought to get out of the business of certifying anyone’s personal relationship (and, concomitantly, stop conditioning legal rights, privileges, and benefits on marital status). [...]

There’s more than one way to skin a fatcat

IOZ offers a sensible proposal for corporate law reform:
Clearly the solution [to exhorbitant CEO pay] is not to seek legal tools through which executive compensation may be regulated based on some performance metric or blah blah blah, but rather is to make CEOs themselves illegal. My estimation, based on my experience with CEOs of all [...]

A police department, a district attorney, and a court with apparently nothing to do

Thanks to my good friend (and loyal Debris reader) Stuart Lichten for bringing this decision to my attention (and also suggesting the post title). It seems like an April Fool’s joke, but it is absolutely real. The case involved a man charged with criminal damage to property, under the most absurd circumstances:
[T]he alleged facts are [...]

Cheese, Flies, & Business Organizations

BYU law professor Gordon Smith has embarked on a fascinating study of business organization and relations among cheesemakers in Wisconsin. What a great idea — he’ll undoubtedly have loads of fun collecting his data, and the study promises to shed light on the interesting, and underexamined, world of business cooperatives. And it gives me a [...]

Bankruptcy examiner slams O’Melveney

I freely confess to wallowing in schadenfreude over this story.