N-gated Hacker NewsMar 11
🤔 Oh boy, another riveting piece from the ivory tower of Harvard Law Review, unraveling the mystery of what a "tort" is. Thank goodness they dug into that nail-biter! 💤 Spoiler alert: it’s not a pastry. 🥐
https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-139/what-is-a-tort/ #HackerNews #HarvardLaw #TortLaw #LegalHumor #IvoryTower #HackerNews #ngated
What is a Tort? - Harvard Law Review

What is a tort, and what is tort law for? On one leading scholarly account, torts are legal liability rules that seek to promote the welfare of society at large by disincentivizing socially suboptimal behavior and distributing the costs of accidents to those who can best bear them.

Harvard Law Review
TheJestPressJul 17, 2025

Supreme Court Shocks: Attempted Murder Definitely Not Gentle Hobby After All

#Satire #SupremeCourt #MobsterNews #ObviousVerdicts #LegalHumor By: TheJestPress.com In a stunning 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court delivered a decisive rebuke to Vincent "The Not-So-Sneaky" Romano, a Genovese crime family associate, after he argued that attempted murder is not, in fact, a "violent" crime. Legal experts are calling this “the least surprising moment in Supreme Court history”…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/17/supreme-court-shocks-attempted-murder-definitely-not-gentle-hobby-after-all/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Supreme Court Shocks: Attempted Murder Definitely Not Gentle Hobby After All

#Satire #SupremeCourt #MobsterNews #ObviousVerdicts #LegalHumor By: TheJestPress.com In a stunning 9-0 decision, the Supreme Court delivered a decisive rebuke to Vincent “The Not-So-Sneaky&#8…

THEJESTPRESS.COM
TheJestPressJul 15, 2025

Court Rules Dead Can’t Be Killed, Zombie Lawsuit Officially Deadlocked

#LegalHumor #UndeadLaw #ObjectionOverruled #ZombieRights #SatireNews By: TheJestPress.com In a landmark ruling that will undoubtedly send shivers down the spines of both horror movie directors and aspiring necromancers, the Court of Appeal confirmed today that it is, in fact, not possible to legally kill a person who is already dead. The case, known as *Common Sense v. Obviousness*, arose after an…

http://thejestpress.com/2025/07/15/court-rules-dead-cant-be-killed-zombie-lawsuit-officially-deadlocked/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Court Rules Dead Can’t Be Killed, Zombie Lawsuit Officially Deadlocked

#LegalHumor #UndeadLaw #ObjectionOverruled #ZombieRights #SatireNews By: TheJestPress.com In a landmark ruling that will undoubtedly send shivers down the spines of both horror movie directors and …

THEJESTPRESS.COM
N-gated Hacker NewsJul 5, 2025
🚨🧑‍⚖️ "California court discovers humans have hands for something other than texting while driving. Groundbreaking! Meanwhile, access to the actual brilliant article is a no-go. Clearly, they’ve taken ‘hands-free’ to a whole new level. 📵😂"
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-05/holding-your-cell-to-navigate-while-driving-is-illegal-court-says #CaliforniaCourt #HandsFree #Innovation #TextingWhileDriving #LegalHumor #Groundbreaking #HackerNews #ngated
Holding your cellphone while driving for navigation is illegal, California court rules

A California appeals court ruled this week that holding a phone while driving, even while looking at a map to navigate, is still illegal.

Los Angeles Times
Sir Thomas Goodwin, M.S.Jun 26, 2025

Watching Supreme Court justices navigate political neutrality is like watching a giraffe attempt stealth mode or drunk penguins on ice, hilarious if it weren't deciding your rights. It's admirable in theory, but the execution leaves much to be desired.

#SupremeCourt, #JudicialEthics, #PoliticalSatire, #LegalHumor, #ConstitutionalCrisis

https://medium.com/@coaching_13901/how-our-supreme-court-became-americas-most-elite-dumpster-fire-a9bd1add9525

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 6, 2025
🎉 Behold, the Open WebUI License! Because nothing screams "we trust our users" like swapping the BSD-3 license for one with a shiny new CLA! 🚀 Dive into the world of "free, fair, and sustainable" software by signing away your rights—it's like a hug, but with legal documents! 😂
https://docs.openwebui.com/license/ #OpenWebUILicense #FreeSoftware #CLA #TrustYourUsers #LegalHumor #HackerNews #ngated
⚖️ Open WebUI License | Open WebUI

Keeping Open WebUI Free, Fair, and Sustainable

N-gated Hacker NewsMay 2, 2025
📰 Ars Technica bravely tackles the world-shattering issue of not plastering mythical creatures on your legal docs. Because nothing says "serious legal professional" like a purple dragon in a three-piece suit, right? 🐉💼 #CuttingEdgeJournalism
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/dont-watermark-your-legal-pdfs-with-purple-dragons-in-suits/ #ArsTechnica #LegalHumor #MythicalCreatures #PurpleDragon #CuttingEdgeJournalism #HackerNews #ngated
Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

There’s a time and there’s a place. Federal court is neither.

Ars Technica
Show threadiptMar 24, 2025

This is a post ("post") by me ("iam-py-test", "ipt", hereon me) on the social media software Mastodon ("Mastodon") which is part of the Fediverse ("Fediverse"). This post includes a hyperlink ("link") to a website ("the website").

#LegalHumor

iptMar 7, 2025

AMERICAN OVERSIGHT v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY gets shortened to Oversight v. Efficiency by Court Listener...

#AmericanOversightvUSDepartmentOfGovernemtnEfficiency #USDOGEService #LegalHumor

LezDo TechMed LLCOct 18, 2024

When your client claims they have all the evidence but... 😅

Every attorney knows the struggle! 😬

#lezdotechmed #legalhumor #attorneylife #legalmeme