[chesebert]

Is this really common knowledge ??

It is a matter of common knowledge and well established that groups of students are for the most part exuberant, boisterous, and hilarious, and that they do not ordinarily keep regular hours and are addicted to the use and abuse of vibrant and sonorous musical instruments.
City of Long Beach v. California Lambda Chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity, 63 Cal.Rptr. 419 (1967)

How about this one

Since freedom of speech is not absolute, local legislators, judicial officers and municipal employer might be able to justify restriction on playing of rock and roll music in bar, e.g., by showing that liquor and rock and roll music were explosive mixture.
Reed v. Village of Shorewood, 704 F.2d 943 (1983) (emphasis added).



You can find the rest here West Headnote of the Day

 

[Uncle Erik]

I don't have the citation here, but it used to be a misdemeanor to publicly display a hypnotized person in Oregon. The Legislature took it off the books a couple sessions ago, but we always found it amusing. I made a couple attempts to find out what the history of that was, but never found out.

It's still illegal to possess a gray machine up there. +1 to anyone who knows what a gray machine is!

 

[G-man]

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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik /img/forum/go_quote.gif I don't have the citation here, but it used to be a misdemeanor to publicly display a hypnotized person in Oregon. The Legislature took it off the books a couple sessions ago, but we always found it amusing. I made a couple attempts to find out what the history of that was, but never found out. It's still illegal to possess a gray machine up there. +1 to anyone who knows what a gray machine is!

from what i could gather online, a gray machine is to do with gambling, in which you play against a machine, eg poker:

Gray Machines likely the next target for gambling expansion WV

 

[vcoheda]

custom and culture is the main driving force of laws, not reason.

 

[G-man]

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Originally Posted by vcoheda /img/forum/go_quote.gif custom and culture is the main driving force of laws, not reason.

lol that is a bit extreme. surely most customs (and i say most, not all) are drawn from reason. yes, saying that killing a man is wrong may be derived from many year old customs, but it is there because there is a reasoning behind it.

 

[vcoheda]

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Originally Posted by gautam /img/forum/go_quote.gif lol that is a bit extreme.

you're right. i left out the most important factor -- ideology.

 

[G-man]

Quote:

Originally Posted by vcoheda /img/forum/go_quote.gif you're right. i left out the most important factor -- ideology.

that, again is derived mainly from reasoning.

 

[malldian]

There is certainly an argument against both ideas - I tend to think of ideology in today's culture as far removed from reason. Derived maybe but in the end it really doesn't matter - reason is in the eyes of the beholder.

 

[G-man]

Quote:

Originally Posted by malldian /img/forum/go_quote.gif There is certainly an argument against both ideas - I tend to think of ideology in today's culture as far removed from reason. Derived maybe but in the end it really doesn't matter - reason is in the eyes of the beholder.

so in the end we have to trust the mass public. we are doomed.

 

[malldian]

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Originally Posted by gautam /img/forum/go_quote.gif so in the end we have to trust the mass public. we are doomed.

Why so pessimistic? The masses have been doing a completely reasonable job for a long long time. Dissenters and doomsayers have been proved wrong time and time again... no reason to suspect that now is any different from the years before it.

 

[chesebert]

let's keep this thread on the lighter side

I swear you can't even make this stuff up:

In Louisiana, commanding precedent, factually on all fours, is called a "Goose case"; such precedent is also known as a "Spotted Horse case" or "Spotted Dog case" in Alabama, a "Cow case" in Kansas, and a "White Horse case" or a "White Pony case" in Texas.
Hays v. State of La., 936 F.Supp. 360 (1996).


Dog does not have fundamental right to travel.
City of Akron v. Tipton, 559 N.E.2d 1385 (1990).

 

[Redo]

Trial court should have inquired into defendant's religious belief and should have allowed a full record to be developed for appeal before convicting him of contempt for appearing in court for trial dressed "like a chicken," especially in view of defendant's statement that "this is a spiritual attire and it is my religious belief and I have never worn anything else in court but this when I am on trial."
State v. Hodges, 695 S.W.2d 171 (1985)

 

[Samgotit]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Redo /img/forum/go_quote.gif Trial court should have inquired into defendant's religious belief and should have allowed a full record to be developed for appeal before convicting him of contempt for appearing in court for trial dressed "like a chicken," especially in view of defendant's statement that "this is a spiritual attire and it is my religious belief and I have never worn anything else in court but this when I am on trial." State v. Hodges, 695 S.W.2d 171 (1985)

There's a no religious discussion policy here. You're going to offend the chickenist, the entire poultry belt, and even some eggnostics. Are you trying to ruffle some feathers?

 

[vcoheda]

plenty of stupidity here.

Dumb Laws in United States. Crazy United States Laws. We have weird laws, strange laws, and just plain crazy laws!