Vol. 56 No. 4
Trial Magazine
Hearsay
The Lighter Side of the Law
April 2020“No one was here, and we were in desperate need of pies. Left money, took pies. Thanks!”
An anonymous note found by the Ballwin, Mo., police department after a Honey Baked Ham store was left unlocked over a holiday. Cash for the “stolen” pies was left with the note.
“Let’s say . . . the hiring person is younger, [and] says . . . ‘OK, boomer’ . . . So is that actionable?”
U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts referencing a popular internet meme about generational divides in oral arguments for Babb v. Wilkie, an employment age discrimination case.
“[A] fun snowball fight is a fun snowball fight. And that’s not something we enforce this ordinance [on].”
Wausau, Wisc., deputy chief of police Matthew Barnes setting the record straight about a much-mocked town ordinance that includes snowballs as objects that cannot be thrown on public property.
