Category Archives: Law, suits and order

Other people’s legal problems, aside from my own.

Fighting the gerrymander

Marc Elias, the voting rights warrior who, with his group of litigators, smack immediate lawsuits on any state screwing around with their redistricting maps, sent this item today on his weekly Democracy Docket report on our monumental voting rights battle. … Continue reading

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Who “required dozens of stuffed animals to be arranged nightly on his bed”?

There are days when I wonder if the person who compiles the Harper’s Weekly Review is smoking something. But he or she probably is not. Here are the facts: A former member of the Royal Protection Command alleged that Andrew … Continue reading

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Child slavery, candies and go-go boots?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: Nestlé, who along with Cargill, Barry Callebaut, Mars, Olam, Hershey, and Mondelēz was sued for child slavery in the Ivory Coast, announced that they intended to “focus on [the candies’] personalities rather than their gender.” “I … Continue reading

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