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That no straight thinking person would believe that a skin cream would actually rejuvenate the skin as advertised would not eliminate elemen...

Damn hippies: Best interests of seven-year-old boy required that his 60-year-old maternal grandparents, who had been asked by father to ta...

In a prosecution for seduction, evidence that the prosecutrix allowed men to kiss her good-night and hug her does not indicate a want of cha...

True Story. Courts will take judicial notice that whisky is intoxicating. State ex rel. Springer v. Bliss, 185 P.2d 220 (Okla. 1947)

This week's headnote comes from Paul Clement, the former Solicitor General who is defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which de...

This week I decided to do something different for the Headnote of the Week.  Instead of giving you a quote from a real case, I wanted to giv...

Just kidding. A wife is not required to spend all her time in household duties and may engage in work outside the home, and, where she doe...

I was pleased to learn this week that my headnotes of the week have at least one fan out there... The privilege against self-incrimination...

Location of a person's garbage, standing alone, does not establish whether a search of the garbage was reasonable; rather, the analysis ...

This one is just kind of funny (to law dorks).  Non lawyers probably don't know Rule 11, which may diminish the humor.  Briefly, Rule 11...

It is a matter of common knowledge that usually there is no love like a mother's love. Perkins v. Perkins , 293 S.W.2d 889 (Ark. 1956)

For those paying attention in Egypt... In order to preserve order when unpopular speech disrupts it, the police may not silence the rabble...

I found out this week why I have so many family law cases.  It's not really complicated, but without knowing the context of the courts, ...

This week's headnote is topically relevant to something near and dear to my heart: the sad state of the American legal profession.  Spec...

Normally I wait until Friday (or Thursday on a furlough week) to post the "Headnote of the Week" but this one was too good to hold...

A writer of parody must be wary as his shafts may miss the mark, be cruel without purpose, and inflict real hurt where only laughter was int...

A drunken man is as much entitled to a safe toilet as a sober one, and much more in need of it. Cooper v. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp. , ...

The label "mayo 7," as applied to an imitation, low calorie mayonnaise, would not create likelihood of confusion with the Mayo Cl...

Since this is, in theory, a law-related blog, I came up with a new, recurring (and short) post: Headnotes of the Week.  A headnote i s a bri...