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At a recent slumber party, three 13-year-old girls stripped down to their bras and panties and began snapping candids of each other with their cell phones.  The giggling girls then sent the photos to some of their classmates.  The teens thought it was just harmless, innocent fun.  Local law enforcement thought it was child pornography.…

For most of the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was considered nearly impossible to have an enforceable non-compete in Texas. After clarification by the Texas Supreme Court in 2006, non-competition agreements in Texas found new life.

This April the Texas Supreme Court again affirmed that noncompetition agreements are alive and enforceable in this great…

It is a magnificent April day and the ballpark has that palpable air of excitement that only opening day can bring.  For on this one day, everyone is still batting a thousand and your team is undefeated despite the fact that the owner refuses to pay for good pitching.  The stands are filled with the…

A year ago Standup Stanley bought Hotel 8 Properties. Stan’s banker Betty Maekit-hapen was able to get him the purchase money and an operating line of credit loan from DaytonaMac Bank. Hotel 8 was able to use its valuable Arizona real estate and cash flow as collateral without Stan’s personal liability so long as Hotel…

Snidely Whiplash, a personal injury lawyer, was trying to get business from his friend “Attila” who is a chiropractor. Attila’s common law wife Hun loves mud-wrestling matches.  “If I could arrange something to please Hun,” thinks Snidely, “surely Attila will send me some business!”

Snidely learns that the world mud wrestling playoffs are coming to…

It’s March and NCAA Madness is in full swing. Cindy Rella, your office manager, is now a water cooler fixture bragging about her imminent victory in the office basketball bracket.  Sitting at your cubicle bitter that your team lost in the first round, and even more bitter that Cindy, the office sports idiot, used the…

Marianne Haste and William Arryme developed a close relationship through a popular online dating service.  After dating for several months, Marianne and William recognized that they were meant for each other and scheduled a Valentine’s Day wedding.  After a beautiful, fairytale wedding, the newlyweds were whisked away in a limousine to live happily every after. …

After her favorite team was perfect in the preseason, Lily Lions just knew that this was their Super Bowl year.  Because she couldn’t go to the game, Lily decided to purchase a gigantic, 70” Sony plasma TV to watch the big game with her friends.  Unfortunately for Lily, the day after she purchased the TV,…

With times getting tougher, Greeda Greenshade at ShortCircuit City noticed that her customers were paying their invoices much later. So, Greeda hired an outside firm StrongArm Collectors to collect the aging receivables. ShortCircuit did get a little concerned, however, when one of its best customers Delia Dish called to complain about StrongArm’s collectors who left…