News Roundup 9.09.09
September 9, 2009
Ladies, keep hope alive: After more than a decade of legal separation, Hugh Hefner is seeking an official return to full-fledged bachelor status. The 83-year-old Playboy founder filed for divorce on Friday from his wife and former Playmate, Kimberly. [HuffPost]
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The people have spoken. The Douchiest Law School has officially been crowned. Tucker Max fans, rejoice. [Above the Law]
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Kissing is now banned in some parts of France. Blame the swine. [BBC]
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Think that Nino Scalia and Ricky Martin have nothing in common? Think again. [NYT]
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Speaking of the Supremes, a new Gallup poll has found that half of Americans believe the court is “about right” ideologically, representing an all-time high and an increase of 7% over last year. It remains unclear to what extent Ricky Martin influenced the results. [ABA Journal]
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Get it while it’s hot—on so many levels: Bernie Madoff’s former $7 million Palm Beach weekend shack is up for sale through the U.S. Marshals Service. The Marshals have packed away items such as clothing, artistic birds nests mounted in the living room rafters, along with statues, figurines and paintings of bulls, explaining “We’ve taken away things that screamed Bernie Madoff.” Good luck with that. [Bloomberg]
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Glenn Beck’s lawyers are now on the public prowl for “defamatory domains” involving their client, spurred on by the recent creation of “GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990.com,” the site that promotes for parody purposes the false rumor that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Never heard of it until now? Neither did we. Nice job, lawyers. [Gawker]
