October 2008 Archives » Askthejudge

College presidents from 100 well-known U.S. universities are calling for a discussion about lowering the legal drinking age from 21 to 18.  Did you ever think this would be a serious debate? Schools including Syracuse, Tufts, Duke and Dartmouth universities are among those schools pushing the discussion …

You didn’t misread this. Jennifer Thornburg of North Carolina legally changed her name in October, 2008 to CutoutDissection.com. This is maybe the first case of its kind where a URL is taken as a legal name. Jennifer started opposing animal dissections when she was in …

Dos Palos High School freshman Donald Miller lost his lawsuit against the school for discipline imposed for wearing a T-shirt that he considered showed support for U.S. troops in Iraq. The shirt had an image of a gun on the front and the back included the statement …

  It’s not just teens texting behind the wheel that has everyone concerned. On September 12, 2008, a commuter-train engineer in Los Angeles, California ran a red signal and collided head-on into a Union Pacific freight train. During his shift on the Metrolink train, 46-year-old Robert Sanchez …