We often talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but here’s a case of robbing getting even more out of hand. In DNAInfo, Erin Meyer describes a man who committed one crime for another in her story, “Student Stole Laptops To Pay Court Fees From Burglary Case, Officials Say.” The laptops were stolen from a health…
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Some groups are so desperate for attention, they’ll do whatever they can to attract publicity. Even the Ku Klux Klan has its own promotional plan, though it seems like fiction. Dana Wachter’s story “KKK drops recruitment candy bags in Oconee Co. neighborhood” for Fox Carolina describes how people in a suburban area found bags of
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Often, it seems attorneys wished judges would get bad press and get scrutinized by the public, when they make a “bad” decision against their client. Well it looks like Cook County jail is helping them achieve that. The Chicago Sun-Times has an article by Robert Herguth and Dane Placko about judges getting upset because they have to show their
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You never know what will work with the media. Usually people think of using groundbreaking technology to create attention-grabbing publicity, but here’s something that tremendous national and local attention that has nothing to do with tech: goats. Heather Cherone in DNA Info says that’s how O’Hare took care of its weeds. Actually, llamas, burros, sheep, and camels helped the goats
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McDonald’s is a huge, established company, but it’s still making public relations mistakes that you would expect from a start-up business. The latest is its internal website for employees, where several posts talked about the negative effects of fast food, the same kind of food that McDonald’s has been selling for years. If the company had
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McDonald’s doesn’t always get a break. It’s been criticized, mocked, and has had its share of controversy, especially when it was featured in the documentary film Super Size Me, which followed Morgan Spurlock’s failing health as he only ate fast food every day. Well they seem to be doing a good job trying to counter the
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The legal website Above the Lawcan make lawyers laugh about their stories or cry if they’re in there when they get bad coverage. The site got my attention when I saw “Red Bull Gives You…Cardiac Arrest?”because of the title and what appeared to be an absurd lawsuit. A man drank a Red Bull then died of a heart
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You never know who’s going to be brought into the blame game. Earlier this month, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG), which was responsible for promoting Michael Jackson’s concerts, was found not liable for his death according to Hannah Karp and Eric Schwartzel in the Wall Street Journal. AEG hired Doctor Conrad Murray as Jackson’s personal doctor, and even though he was convicted
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Attorneys tend to be very careful, scrutinize information and documents, and try to not make mistakes because they can be costly and have negative affects on the case they’re working on, their clients, and their own reputation. That’s usually true, except when it comes to one of the most famous authors in the world. Apparently
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Even though the Miley Cyrus “twerking” incident occurred last month, people are still talking about it. One recent article is in Time magazine called, “The People vs. Miley Cyrus: FCC Complaints Aired” by Noah Rayman, in which he lists some of the complaints sent in to the FCC after Cyrus’ and Robin Thicke’s performance aired
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