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TIL the Amistad case, wherein the Supreme Court granted the return of slaves to Africa, is credited with being the first civil rights case in the U.S. John Quincy Adams, who argued the case, was 72 yrs old, almost blind, a Congressman, and had not argued a case as a lawyer in more than 30 years.

by whatilearned September 6, 2022, 11:17 pm

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Lawyers of Reddit : what was your most difficult case to win?

by QuestionGuy September 5, 2022, 12:34 am

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TIL The term “Basket Case” comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 4:45 pm

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TIL That a prisoner attempted to sue Satan and his Staff. One of several reasons the case was dismissed was that that Satan was a foreign prince. And if sued as a defendant, he would be able to claim sovereign immunity from suit.

by whatilearned September 3, 2022, 2:03 pm

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TIL about de Clérambault’s Syndrome, a disorder where someone has delusions of another person being infatuated with them. One case involved a woman who believed King George V of England was communicating his love for her by moving the curtains at Buckingham Palace.

by whatilearned August 15, 2022, 7:17 pm

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TIL of ‘Newman Day’, an unofficial holiday at some US Colleges, including Princeton and Yale, in which students aim to drink 24 cans of beer in 24 hours. Based on an apocryphal remark by Paul Newman, about “24 hours in a day and 24 cans in a case”, the actor (an alcoholic) abhorred the ‘holiday’.

by whatilearned August 2, 2022, 8:28 pm

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TIL Sigmund Freud was awarded the Goethe Prize for literature in 1930. Editor Adam Phillips asserts that Freud should be read like ‘any great novelist’. His case of Dora uses modern literary techniques and has been compared to the novels of Marcel Proust, Henry James, and James Joyce

by whatilearned August 1, 2022, 6:58 am

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What is something you’ve witnessed that has given you the worst case of second hand embarrassment?

by QuestionGuy July 31, 2022, 2:27 am

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TIL in 2005 pro golfer John Daly sued a Florida newspaper for saying he failed “the scoundrel sniff test”. The case was thrown out because Daly couldn’t disprove any of the statements made in the article.

by whatilearned July 29, 2022, 12:06 am

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How do you get over a case of the Mondays?

by QuestionGuy July 25, 2022, 3:00 pm

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A lawyer was screwing around in his office when Satan appeared. “I can make you win every case in your career with incredible sex. In exchange you will give me your soul, your wife’s soul, your children’s souls, your parent’s souls, your grandparent’s souls and the souls of all your friends!”

by cringeyjokesman July 25, 2022, 8:25 am

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True crime junkies of reddit, what is a case or story you’ve heard that actually kept you up at night?

by QuestionGuy July 22, 2022, 4:17 am

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