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…
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…
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.…
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…
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,…
Delilah aka “Dirty” Dancer enjoyed gyrating at the Friday night community gatherings held in the local Town Hall of Mainstreet, USA. Regrettably, Dirty’s 56 year old grooving was viewed by many members of the cozy community as a little too “unorthodox” for their “G Rated” children. Dirty Dirty’s dancing limelight was snuffed when she was…
In response to our “You’ve Got MAIL, AND a Contract?!” blog posting in May, one of our favorite Tilting readers asked for any tips on avoiding an e-mail signature that creates a written agreement.
Disclaiming Signatures. The Tilting team is not aware of any authoritative recommendation for language disclaiming the creation of an enforceable contract…
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