Odd / Tags / Court

ODD / NEWS Fri Oct 26, 2007 @ 3:34pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- A plumber and a millionaire squared off in Mississippi over a woman. The woman chose the rich guy. The plumber sued the millionaire and won more than $750,000. Now Jerry Fitch Sr., a businessman from Holly Springs, Miss., wants the Supreme Court to ste.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Oct 1, 2007 @ 11:12am neoform

New York Post -- A hard-partying Wall Street trader and his ex-girlfriend are in court over an allegedly broken $100,000 promise to keep on the straight and narrow. In recently filed court papers, Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a p.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Sep 28, 2007 @ 9:26am neoform

SF Gate -- He's now got a human name — Matthew Hiasl Pan — but he's having trouble getting his day in court. Animal rights activists campaigning to get Pan, a 26-year-old chimpanzee, legally declared a person vowed Thursday to take their challenge to Austria'.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Apr 19, 2007 @ 3:57pm neoform

USA Today -- Faced with complaints that his donkey was too loud, attorney Gregory Shamoun decided to bring his case directly to the court: He had the donkey testify. Buddy the donkey appeared in court Wednesday. He walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the pi.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:19pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Justin Brady wanted a new name, and state District Court Judge Jerald Valentine has granted his request. His new name is Ynot Bubba. Bubba said after Monday's court proceeding that he had no celebration plans and instead planned to spend the day notifying.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:57am neoform

Yahoo News -- A man who arrived at court drunk for a drunken-driving hearing was again charged with driving under the influence, police said. Paul H. Zeigler, 45, of Glen Rock, appeared at a preliminary hearing at the Shrewsbury district court on March 26 for a DUI.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Mar 1, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

Yahoo News -- An attorney challenging the authority of the city's police chief wants the department's police dog to appear in court as an exhibit, because he says the dog and the chief have criminal justice degrees from the same online school. The issue gives "one p.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jan 5, 2007 @ 9:52am mrmdc

ABC News -- A Welsh man who was banned from paying a 650 pound ($1,600) court debt in bronze one pence pieces says he will pay up, but he will use silver five pence pieces instead... Read More

ODD / NEWS Thu Jan 4, 2007 @ 8:40am neoform

Reuters -- A French court ruled Tuesday that an organization with far-right links can continue offering pork soup to the homeless, rejecting police complaints that the food distribution was racist... Read More

ODD / NEWS Sun Nov 19, 2006 @ 3:31pm neoform

Reuters -- A court in Germany rejected a man's compensation claim against an airline after a cabin crew ordered him off a plane because other passengers were offended by his smell, authorities said Thursday... Read More

ODD / NEWS Wed Nov 15, 2006 @ 8:22am neoform

DailyRecord.co.uk -- A DRUNK man shot his partner twice - and then married her seven months later. A court heard yesterday how Robert Silvestro, 43, pulled out an air pistol and fired two pellets into Lesley Stevenson's head and chest... Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

Yahoo News -- Note to defendants: Don't tell the judge to kiss the body part you sit on. The South Carolina Court of Appeals has upheld a judge's contempt order against a St. Matthews woman who signed a court document with just such an instruction and told a probati.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Jul 6, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Yahoo News -- When a St. Louis man was charged with driving without a license, he didn't hire a good lawyer. Instead, he attempted to bribe a court clerk with beer, according to police. That night, he took some Bud Select to the home of a court clerk and suggeste.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 12:52pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Convicted sex offenders in Sweden are free to read pornography in their cells following a court ruling that has angered the prison service. The Supreme Administrative Court in Stockholm last week ruled that the Swedish Prison and Probation Service had.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Jun 4, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Three German teenagers have been spared paying hefty damages after a court ruled it could not prove an ostrich farmer's claim that their festive firecrackers made one of his birds impotent. Court proceedings in the eastern town of Bautzen ended Monday.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:19am neoform

Yahoo News -- A woman portraying a police officer as a TV extra took her part one step too far by entering a courtroom where her son faced a weapons charge, police said. Kimberly Chapman was working as an extra Monday on the Spike TV series "The Kill Point," starrin.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon May 14, 2007 @ 12:27pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Bald men in Germany have no right to state-funded wigs, according to a new court ruling. A court in the southwestern state of Rhineland-Palatinate rejected an appeal by a man to have the costs of his hairpiece paid for by a statutory health insurer, sa.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon May 7, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay 100,000 reals (US$49,400; euro36,400) to an alcoholic beer taster who drank about a liter and a half (3.2 pints) of beer each day. The unidentified employee alleged that the company did not provid.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Mon Mar 19, 2007 @ 10:00pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A Russian court on Monday convicted six men for selling forged copies of number plates and passes reserved for senior Kremlin officials and the presidential bodyguard. The gang had sold special number plates and passes with a flashing blue light -- kno.. Read More

ODD / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 11:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A truck driver who was once jailed for armed robbery posed as an army officer, mixed with the top brass and talked his way into high-level security meetings, an Australian court has been told. Peter Bennett, 54, started his 10-month fantasy military c.. Read More