Business Issues with a Legal Slant
Last Saturday afternoon Jaime Jaramillo, batting coach for the Irving Irrelevants, was pitching during batting practice when the Mountain Ranch practice facility collapsed on him. Several Irrelevant players and some twenty members of the media who were covering the practice were inside the facility with Jaime when it collapsed.
Initial media reports implicated Irrelevant management…
If you have been visiting Tilting the Scales for any length of time, you know by now that we are big fans of quirky lawsuits and the incredible facts from which they are spawned. In fact, over the past couple of years, we have spent countless hours scouring the web for the most ludicrous cases…
The 81st Texas Legislature that began in January ended with an exhausting five-day filibuster of the voter identification bill, a legislative logjam of other major legislation left for debate until late in the session, a frantic last ditch attempt to save much of that legislation, and a final-day meltdown in the Senate. The 2009 session…
Experiencing a malaise from mold, allergy-ridden Jayda Byrd believed that her apartment was infested with the filthy fungus. Unfortunately, Jayda’s landlord Sylvester ignored her pleas for deliverance from the mold. At her wit’s end, Jayda twitted her twenty twitter compatriots. The tweet read, “Who said sleeping in a moldy apartment was bad for you? Sylvester…
During far happier times, Jessica Simpleton purchased a front row, 50-yard line ticket for a Cowboy’s game at their new $1.1 billion Arlington stadium. At the time, Simpleton was dating Tony Roentgen, the Cowboy’s team radiologist. However, as a result of their recent (and messy) breakup, Simpleton is no longer a Cowboy’s fan and is…
On the Fourth of July, Jerry Jetski was operating his brand new 250 hp Kawasaki jet ski on Lake Woebegone. Jerry spotted his good friend, Sarah Splash, near the shore. In a playful mood, Jerry took off accelerating at a high rate of speed on a collision course with Sarah only to make a last…
With unemployment rates skyrocketing, Ivana Hyre, the HR manager for Binge and Purr Cat Food Company, was facing a swell of well-qualified job applicants for three recently advertised positions. With her department already short-staffed, Hyre knew that interviewing all of these candidates would take weeks. To sort through the mountain of resumes, Hyre searched social…
Times were good in the coal business and Conspiring Coal’s cost benefit analysis revealed greater profits could be had if it could run Noharmin Mines out of business. A jury found that’s exactly what Conspiring Coal did and awarded Noharmin Mines $50 million in damages. Desperately needing to dig out of this deep hole, Dastardly…
I have always enjoyed a good prank, particularly one with an element of revenge. Maybe it’s just the “good old day” syndrome, but it seems like kids’ pranks these days lack creativity. As I drive my 6-year-old to his T-Ball game each Saturday morning, we count the number of houses between mine and the field…
Ward and June recently received their property valuations from Comfort County. Their broker son Beaver Cleaver told them that, because county property valuations are intended to reflect the market value of the property as of January 1 this year, widespread foreclosures, declining building permits and high office vacancy rates should send Comfort County property values…
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