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Calling court cases "the trial of the century" is a traditional bit of American hyperbole, like calling a circus "The Greatest Show on Earth". Nearly every juicy tabloid trial in our history was called the "trial of the century" by somebody. "Every time I turn around, there's a new trial of the century," said defense attorney F. Lee Bailey.
Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
But in a bizarre twist, opponents of Obamacare aren't challenging the constitutionality of the law. Instead, they're asking Obamacare's strange new Supreme Court case
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Michael A. Cicconetti (born 1951) is a retired Municipal Court judge who presided in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio, United States, dispensing a unique brand of what he calls creative justice. The judge often left the choice of penalty to the defendant , who was faced with spending time in jail or undergoing one of Cicconetti's unusual punishments.
The Weak, Weird Case Against a Supposed 'Orgasm Cult' Elizabeth Nolan Brown. February 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM. Illustration: Lex Villena; Isselee, Inara Prusakova, Dreamstime, Inara Prusakova ...
Private Eye had covered the case of a Mr J. Arkell, whom the Eye accused of receiving kickbacks from a debt collection agency in his role as retail credit manager at Granada Group. [8] [9] The plaintiff's lawyers wrote a letter which concluded "His attitude to damages will be governed by the nature of your reply." The magazine's response was ...
Amid weeks of intense testimony in Johnny Depp‘s ongoing defamation trial against Amber Heard, one witness left the courtroom shocked by an unusual reaction to a question about the actor.