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Law. Litigation. Comedy.
3 lawyer ladies discuss ridiculous laws and funny court cases--unscripted. And all while taste-testing a drink related in some way to that week's theme.
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey talk about a law that's "finger-lickin' good" and that time a couple of drunk dudes stole a penguin.
Featured Drink: Flying Goose
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
Georgia's Finger Lickin' Good Fried Chicken Law
Visitor Arrested for Eating Chicken with Fork
Weirdest Laws in Every State
Theft of Dirk the Penguin
Stolen Fairy Penguin 'Home and Safe'
Kidnapped Penguin 'Dirk'
British Tourists Up Before Magistrate
Tourists Fined for Stealing Penguin
Blue Penguins
Penguins Have us Beat as Romantic Partners
9 Enchanting Facts About Fairy Penguins
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It's Halloween on Lawsalooza!! This week, Shawna, Lindsey, and Miranda discuss trick-or-treating laws and practical considerations when making your own costume.
Featured Drink: Boozy Screamsicle Shakes (aka, "Halloween Drink")
For more information on the law or cases discussed, check out the following links:
Weird Laws that will take the Scare Out of Halloween
Chesapeake, Virginia Trick-or-Treaters Over 12 Could Face Jail Time
Code of Ordinances, Chesapeake, VA
Weird Halloween Laws to Make You Cackle
10 Unusual State Laws to Curb the Fun on Halloween
Here are the Rules and Some Safety Tips for Trick-or-Treating
5 Strange Halloween Laws Still on the Books
4 Bizarre but Real Halloween Law Suits
Ferlito v. Johnson & Johnson
Durmon v. Billings
Purtell v. Mason
Google Scholar: Case
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On this week's episode...Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey discuss practical tips for safety when avoiding spooky monsters and the dangers of being caught as a werewolf in Europe.
Featured Drink: Monster Smash
For more information on the laws or case discussed, check out the following links:
Monster Definition and Meaning
Rules About Monsters
A Federal Organ Grab Without Consent
Werewolf Witch Trials
Before America had Witch Trials, Europe had Werewolf Trials
Werewolf Trials
The Brutal Werewolf Trials of 16th Century Europe
Werewolf Trials: Witch Trials with a Hairy Twist
The Werewolf Trials (Buzzfeed Article)
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Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey love the bats!! (Well, Miranda does, at least...) On this week's episode, the ladies of Lawsalooza talk about what to do--or NOT do--if a bat gets into your home.
Featured Drink: Bat Tears
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
Bat Removal Regulations in NC
Bats in Your Attic? NC Law Says it's Illegal to Remove Them
Learning About Bats
Be on the Lookout for Bats
Homeowner Gets Attacked by Bats (full episode)
Judge Gino Brogden from Personal Injury Court
Histoplasmosis
Woman Bitten by Bat at Home Depot
Woman Bitten by Bat While Shopping
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Spooky season continues this week on Lawsalooza! Miranda discusses the importance of selecting a government-approved necromancer, and Shawna talks about a house that has everything--6 bedrooms, 4.5 bathroom...and 3 resident ghosts. Featuring special guest, Chris Pedersen.
Featured Drink: Haunted Mansion
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
Ghostly Laws You Didn't Know About
San Francisco Police Code Section 1300, et seq.
Necromancy Facts
Fortunetelling Permits Freely Available in San Francisco
Why do San Francisco Psychics Need Permits from the Police
Home at Center of Haunted House Legal Case Available for $1.9M
Look Inside Hudson Valley, NY Home that's Legally Haunted
The Haunted House on the Hudson
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In this week's episode... Miranda, Lindsey, and Shawna discuss best practices for ghost hunting as well as options for when your ghost pirate husband turns into an energy vampire. (Yes, you read that last part correctly!)
Featured Drink: Liquefied Ghost
Bonus Drink: Drunk Ghost
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
Beware of Trespassing or Loitering Charges
'Ghost Hunter' Arrested for Trespassing
How to Hunt Ghosts
What is Ghost Hunting?
The Do's and Don't's of Ghost Hunting
The Shady Science of Ghost Hunting
Woman Marries the Ghost of a 300-Year-Old Pirate
Woman Marries Pirate Ghost
She Says She Married Pirate Ghost, She Wants You to Stop Saying She's Crazy
Irish Woman, Ghost Pirate
Irish Woman Who Married Ghost
Love is Dead: Woman Divorces 300-Year-Old Pirate Ghost
Can Vampires Still Count as Ghosts
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It's spooky season on Lawsalooza! This week, Lindsey talks about the importance of being neighborly during ginseng season, Shawna tells a story about an assault on a scarecrow, and Miranda discusses her love of birds.
Featured Drink: Pumpkin Spice White Russian
For more information on the law and cases discussed, check out the following links:
Sweetpotato is One Word
Ginseng Regulation
National Forests in North Carolina
USDA.GOV
Collection and Sale of Ginseng, NC Administrative Code
NC Plant Friends
North Carolina Ginseng Law and Regulations
10 Strange But True Cases Involving Scarecrows
The Seattle Star
Harrisburg Telegraph
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In this week's episode...Shawna, Lindsey, and Miranda discuss plans to colonize Mars and a UFO conspiracy theory turned assassination plot.
Featured Drink: Alien Secretion
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
Law on Mars? Why Elon Musk is Writing the Red Planet's Constitution
No, Mars is Not a Free Planet
OUT THERE
UFO Fan Ruled Unfit for Trial
Bellport Man Who Conspired to Kill GOP Officials with Radium in Toothpaste Wins Transfer Order
Long Island's UFO Plot Trial
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This week on Lawsalooza...and just in time for cuffing season, Shawna, Lindsey, and Miranda discuss the unregulated world of dating apps and a really, REALLY bad date.
Featured Drink: Golden Cellphone
For more information on the law or case discussed, check out the following links:
This Cuffing Season, It's Time to Consider the Privacy of Dating Apps
34 Surprising Online Dating Statistics in 2022
Grindr's Chinese Owner Says to Sell Dating App
Grindr's New Owners Are Straight, They Say That's OK
Top 20 Most Ridiculous Lawsuits Ever
Some Dude is Suing his Date for Texting Too Much During a Movie
Woman Pays Date $17.31 He Sued Her Over Texting in Theater
Texas Man Sues His Date for Texting
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey discuss the nefarious world of murder for hire and a hilarious website called "Rent-A-Hitman."
Featured Drink: Italian Hitman
For more information on the law or case discussed this week, check out the following links:
Michigan Law - Solicitation to Commit Murder
A Michigan Woman Tried to Hire a Hitman
Meet the Man who Accidentally Started a Murder Hiring Website
Michigan Woman Who Used Rent-A-Hitman Sent to Prison
Website Reports 14-Year-Old Girl After She Attempts to Hire a Hitman
Wendy Wein Going to Prison
Rent-A-Hitman
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey discuss fantasy football and two scandals that rocked the NFL. Miranda goes on a rant about Tom Brady.
Featured Drink: Victory Drink
For more information on the law or cases discussed this week, check out the following links:
Fantasy Sports Aren't Illegal Gambling
Destroying Spygate Tapes "Was the Right Thing to Do"
8 Scandals that Rocked the NFL
Spygate
Deflategate
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This week on Lawsalooza...Miranda, Shawna, and Lindsey discuss an LSD-laced CIA conspiracy, a joke that led to a 500-issue magazine, and a parrot that definitely "ain't no snitch." The girls play a game in which Miranda wins 5 street creds.
This week's featured drink: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
For more information on the law or cases (or conspiracy theory!) discussed this week, check out the following links:
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wikipedia
The CIA's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test That Went Horribly Wrong
Project MK-ULTRA and the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
2021 Louisiana Laws Revised Statutes
The 5 Dumbest Drug Laws in America
High Times
High Times Wikipedia
500 Issues of High Times: the World's Most Notorious Magazine
Baking Bad: A Potted History of "High Times"
High Times: A 40 Year History
Parrot Seized by Cops for Warning Druggie Owner
Parrot Warns Brazilian Drug Dealers of Police Raid
Funniest Court Cases of All Time - Readers' Digest
Drones Seized over HMP Pentonville
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna makes not one, but TWO, featured drinks. Miranda discusses the "kidfluencer" bill and attempts to make her cat a celebrity. Lindsey talks about that time Mila Kunis was sued over a chicken.
Featured Drink: John Daly and Tomb Raider
For more information on the law and case discussed this week, check out the following links:
Do Social Media Stars Have Protection?
Law Protects Privacy, Finances of Child Stars
Coogan Law
"Kidfluencers" and Social Media
Ukranian Singer Sues Mila Kunis over Pet Chicken
Ukranian Singer Suing Mila Kunis Over Theft of Chicken
Mila Kunis: Actor Jokes About Stealing a Chicken
Mila Kunis: That Ukranian Chick's Pollo Loco!
Woman Claims Actress Stole Pet Chicken
Give Me Green Card (Official Video)
Woman Suing Actress Mila Kunis
Kristina Karo Facebook Page
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In this episode, the ladies of Lawsalooza discuss criminal "enticement" and that time a man was forced to marry a goat. (Miranda and Lindsey are still scarred about the goat.)
Featured Drink: Love Potion
For more information about the law or case discussed, please check out the following links:
Seduction Under Promise of Marriage
Seduction as a Crime
What Constitutes Seduction
AZ Man Includes Animals, Computers in Gay Marriage Lawsuit
Human-Animal Marriage
Sudanese Goat Marriage Incident
Sudan's Goat Wife Chokes to Death
Sudan Man Forced to Marry Goat
Nigeria Abroad Posts Facebook
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This week on Lawsalooza...Lindsey, Miranda, and Shawna take a deep dive into the mystical, mythical world of sasquatches. Do these creatures exist in the real world? You decide, apparently!!*
*Research optional
Featured Drink: Unicorn Cocktail
For more information on the laws and case discussed, please check out the following links:
10 Bizarre Legal Actions Regarding Mythical Creatures
5 Creatures that May Not Exist, but Government Action Protects them Anyways
Killing Bigfoot is Punishable by Law in Washington
Oklahoma State Lawmaker Introduces Bigfoot Hunting Season
Bigfoot Researcher Lawsuit Tossed Out by Canada Court
Hiker Sues after State Tells her Scary Creature was a Bear
Is Bigfoot Real? Woman Sues California
California Woman's Bigfoot is Real Lawsuit
The Bigfoot Lawsuit Against California
Bigfoot Sightings Database
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna, Lindsey, and Miranda talk about a bad day at work in Japan, and that time the Price is Right Wheel uncovered a scammer!
Featured Drink: Bad Day at Work
For more information on the law or case discussed during this episode, check out the following links:
Obesity in Japan: Can Metabo Law Prevent It?
Strange Employment Laws from Around the World
Big Government, Small Bellies
The Price is Right, but the Contestant is a Fraud
Caught on the Price is Right
Ex-Postal Worker Nabbed for Fraud
Woman Claimed Disability to Get Money
NC Woman Pleads Guilty to Fraud After Price is Right Appearance
Bonus Drink Recipe: Unemployment Benefit
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LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED (thanks, Shawna!!), some content may not be appropriate for all listeners.
This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna talks about a very ahem "adult" law from Texas, and Lindsey tells a story about the sordid past of an American talk show host. Miranda struggles to open a bottle of wine.
Featured Drink: Menage a Trois Rose Wine
For more information about the case or law discussed, check out the following links:
What is the Texas ...
Texas Obscenity Statute
Is That a Perfectly Legal Model?
Jerry Springer in the News
The Untold Truth of Jerry Springer
Vault Video
Jerry Springer Admits Paying
Jerry Springer for Governor
The $25 Check that Ruined Jerry Springer's Political Career
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This week on Lawsalooza...Lindsey, Shawna, and Miranda solve a murder case from Miami and talk about the time pregnant women were almost allowed to kill whoever they wanted.
Featured Drink: Red Death
For more information on the law and case discussed in this episode, be sure to check out the following links:
NH Senate Bill 66 (2017)
Pregnant Women Loophole
NH Republicans Accidentally Pass Law Allowing Pregnant Women to Murder
The Liquid Matthew Murder
Cryptic Clues Left Near Body
Liquid Matthew
The Mysterious Clues of the Liquid Matthew Case
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This week on Lawsalooza...Shawna, Miranda, and Lindsey discuss the fate of competition bullfrogs and that one time France tried to excommunicate a bunch of rats.
Featured drink: Mouse Trap
For more information on the law and case discussed in this episode, check out the following links:
Frog Jumping Contest
Competitive Frog Jumping is Alive and Well
The Crazy World of Competitive Frog Jumping
World Famous Frog Jumping Contest
The History of the Calaveras Frog Jumping Competition
Welcome to Froggyland
California Fish and Game Code
You Can't do What There?
The Trial of the Rats of Autun
Rats on Trial
NOTHING IN THIS EPISODE SHOULD BE CONSTRUED AS LEGAL ADVICE
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