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Blog: Law

  1. Fight Club Junior

    Posted on May 12, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (3)

    When two dogs are in a cage to fight each other, it’s illegal. When two children are in a cage to fight each other, it’s part of the fastest growing sport in America: “ultimate fighting.” Read full article »

  2. To Catch a Thief

    Posted on May 6, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (9)

    A stranger steals your personal property. Instead of reporting the theft to authorities, you confront the suspect yourself. Your possessions are returned. You bypass the inconvenience of a police investigation and court appearances, and the offender goes without punishment. Read full article »

  3. Killer Doctor

    Posted on April 3, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (13)

    If your doctor was a convicted killer, would you trust him with your life?

    Karl Svensson’s future as a doctor seemed certain when he was accepted to medical school at Sweden’s prestigious Karolinska Institute. Famed for choosing the annual winners of the Nobel Prize in medicine, Karolinska hand-picked its medical students, selecting an elite group best suited for grappling with the ethics of life-or-death decisions and leading lives devoted to saving others. But four months into Svensson’s studies, the 31 year-old’s future became unhinged by his past: would-be doctor Karl Svensson had killed a man. Read full article »

  4. Foul Ball

    Posted on March 25, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (29)

    Laura Kerod had great seats. She and her husband Kevin were cheering for their local New Jersey minor league baseball team—the Trenton Thunder —sitting enviably close to the dugout. Ms. Kerod turned to check the score board, then turned back. “And boom, it hit me,” she said of the foul ball that slammed into her face, ripping her lip, shattering her teeth, and fracturing her palate. Read full article »

  5. Samaritan or Killer?

    Posted on March 20, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (15)

    It’s possible to be a Good Samaritan. But is it possible to be a not-good-enough Samaritan? A Canadian woman was recently confronted with that question when two killers accused her of not doing enough to save a man they had beaten and left for dead. Read full article »

  6. Driven

    Posted on March 18, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (8)

    How responsible are you for another person’s actions? If you loan your car to a friend, and the friend gets into an accident, it’s generally understood that as the owner of the car, you’ll be held legally liable to some degree.

    But if you loan your car to a friend, and the friend uses the car to drive three other people to a house where they commit murder, are you just as guilty as those who took part in the crime, even though you weren’t even there? Read full article »

  7. Gone Baby Gone

    Posted on March 11, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (102)

    At 7:30 on a Monday morning, a teenage girl holding a newborn baby approached a bus stop in Sacramento. The bus stop is only a few miles from the California state capitol building, where a law called the “SSB” was enacted—the safely surrendered baby law. The SSB allows a desperate mother to give up an unwanted baby within three days of birth, no questions asked, no prosecution for child abandonment, and hopefully no infant left in a trash dumpster, the kind of tragic scenario the law was designed to discourage. Read full article »

  8. Shame Game

    Posted on February 19, 2008 by Kathy McManus Comments (6)

    If you want to send a message, the old saying goes, use Western Union. In Arizona, authorities who want to send a message to drunk drivers are using public humiliation, by posting the drivers’ photos on a website and on huge highway billboards with this scarlet letter taunt: Drive Drunk…See Your Mug Shot Here. Read full article »