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COURTHOUSE OF HORROR
10/31/2025
COURTHOUSE OF HORROR
OA1203 - Happy Halloween! We take shelter from a year of ghoulish legal news in the COURTHOUSE OF HORROR, a cabinet of macabre legal curiosities including: “SO I TRADEMARKED AN AXE MURDERER”: The historic Lizzie Borden House takes a whack at a nearby coffee shop “THE BONE DETECTOR”: Recent patent bar survivor Jenessa Seymour brings us the unbelievable story of the spookiest--and silliest!--lie detector ever registered by the US Patent & Trademark Office “ATTACK OF THE TORTIOUS CLOWNS”: Can you sue a haunted house for your fright-related injuries? “THE GREENBRIER GHOST”: The bizarre tale of how a victim’s testimony from beyond the grave helped to convict her killer in an 1896 West Virginia murder trial “CANDYMAN 5: SUMMARY JUDGMENT”: In a tasty conclusion to last year’s Halloween footnote on consumers disappointed with the spookiness of their seasonal treats, a Florida federal judge finds as a matter of law that there is no wrong way to make a Reese’s. Finally, we close on a serious note with Jenessa’s guide to how every registered voter can do their part next week to change the plot of our ongoing American horror story. , No. 23-2000 (1st Cir.)(Selya, J.)(11/15/2024) “, (3/21/2025) “,” Cara Giaimo, Atlas Obscura (5/16/2017) Patent #1749090, H.A. Shelby (filed 8/10/1927) “,” Greenbrier Historical Society, Arabeth Balseko (1/20/2022) (10/12/2022)(Wallach, J.) , FLSD No. 24-60831 (9/19/2025)(Damian, J.) Daniel Nichanian, Bolts (10/1/2025) Check out the OA for all the places to go and things to do!
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