Don’t cry over bad reviews

Monday, March 8th, 2010

We all know how bad it hurts when someone negatively comments on your work, but don’t they say “learn from your mistakes”, not “attempt to burry them in an enraged public display”? Well, law professor Karin Calvo-Goller didn’t get the memo. After writing a book entitled Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal ...

Bank screws up; tries to sue Google so word doesn’t get out

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

A small bank in Wyoming made a double-oops last month.  They sent some sensitive information to the wrong Gmail address, but also included a document that shouldn't have been sent at all.  They didn't want their customers to learn of the breach, so they've sued Google.  Huh? A customer of the ...

How to look bad: File a bad lawsuit, lose, then appeal anyhow

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Sedgwick Claims Management looked bad, then worse, now awful.  A guy was upset with the company so he took some pictures of Sedgwick and put them on fake "wanted" posters.  Sedgwick responded by hiring a big national law firm (Lord Locke) to go after the guy, who chose to defend ...

A moldy apartment, a tweet, and $50,000

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

This one is a perfect example of the Streisand Effect -- a company that has a small problem, they try to hide it, and it explodes! A woman in Chicago, Amanda Bonnen, was having some problems with her apartment so she sent the following Tweet: "Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment ...

The Borings can go back to being boring

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Almost a year after they sued Google for including their home in StreetView, the U.S. District Court has dismissed the lawsuit that Aaron and Christine Boring had brought against Google. As expected, this lawsuit has done two things: Shown even more people their house (which they claim has lowered the value -- ...