Chief Foley of the Randolph, Massachusetts Fire Department was angry when two children died in a fire in his town. He told reporters about his belief that budget cuts had affected his Department’s ability to fight the fire. When the Board of Selectman suspended him for 15 days because of his comments, he sued. This [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2011
Case of the Week – 11/20/11 – Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Patton
Neal Patton was charged with shooting his brother at a bus stop. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court decides if he was denied a fair trial when the prosecutor in his closing argument asked the jury ” to send a message” that a witness did the right thing and that Patton cannot get away with murder. Commonwealth [...]
Case of the Week – 11/13/11 – Schmidt v. Gateway Community Fellowship
A church group sponsors an outdoor auto show in the parking lot of a local shopping mall to expose people to the teaching of Jesus Christ. A woman stops in and steps into a pot hole twisting her ankle. She sues the church and the mall. The North Dakota Supreme Court determines whether the church [...]
Case of the Week – 11/6/11 – In re Nicholas S
Nicholas S was a high school student in Arizona who got in trouble at school for using a cell phone, calling his teacher a few bad words, and disobeying his teacher. In addition to receiving a suspension he was criminally charged with abusing a teacher, a crime in Arizona. He defended the criminal charges on [...]