Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Some laws are just laws.  Don’t kill people.  Don’t steal cars.  Or police cars.  Don’t deface property.  Don’t not pay your taxes.  But, with the Halloween season fast approaching, I thought it would be fun to find some laws that are specifically related to Halloween. Some are kind of boring, like in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware [...]

Wedded bliss.  Some achieve it, some don’t.  We hear a lot about what you should do when you’re planning a wedding – from centerpiece ideas to prenuptial agreements – but we don’t hear much about the weird marriage-related laws that nobody bothered to repeal.  In this case, there is a reason nobody repealed it – [...]

While there are many, many stories of romances that begin online ending in happily-ever-after, sometime the method doesn’t quite work.  In fact, sometimes the method is so far from working that lawyers are involved. Take, for instance, the example of Matthew Evans.  Evans was *this* close to canceling his subscription to the dating website in [...]

“Arrest that elephant!” We all know that if you take your dog for a walk in most places, they need to be on a leash, fair enough. In San Francisco, however, those laws look like little panzy girls. Evidentely, you can not walk your elephant down Market Street in San Fran unless they are on [...]