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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 379

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: The market for human body parts

This could have been a topic I covered for Halloween, but a particularly strange legal story appeared just last week in the news. And so here we are, at Christmas, discussing the market for human body parts. Of course, not everybody celebrates Christmas as warm, bright, or celebratory. Some people are tired, and some people are grieving. This week I’m doing something slightly counterintuitive and talking about death and things in packages despite it being Christmas. 

Birth and death are not strange. They are the most banal human experiences because this happens to every one of us. What is unusual is to die and have your body parts become inventory, a good to be traded. This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays, we’re going to look at three recent and connected cases where the law had to step in because people were selling body parts. 

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 364

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Sex Toy Legal Madness

Welcome to another edition of Weird and Wacky Wednesdays. The United States has no shortage of strange and ridiculous legal cases. This week’s selection focuses on sex toys. From a defamation case over a child’s toy to sports fans turning games into a spectacle to a multi-million dollar patent judgment, these stories show how bizarre the legal system can get.

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Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Volume 351

Cartoon-style illustration featuring a giant mound of pink slime on a plate, a shocked man in a suit, a stern construction worker, and a woman drinking bottled water next to a bag labeled "Flamin' Hot." Text above reads “Weird & Wacky Wednesdays – Pink Slime Edition.”

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays: Pink Slime edition

The law of defamation is particularly difficult to pin down. Even in law school, professors were reluctant to discuss it because the trends in the cases are hard to discern. Decisions regarding what constitutes defamation and whether it is actionable, as well as what would be considered reasonable damages, seem to be completely different from one jurisdiction to the next, from one judge to the next, and even when comparing two comparable cases.

Lawyers I know who practiced defamation either moved on to a different practice area or quit practicing law because they felt they could not properly advise their clients or give a clear statement of the probability of success bearing in mind the fickle decisions from the courts.

This week on Weird and Wacky Wednesdays we turn our attention to food defamation. Lawsuits often arise from something someone said (see my recent TikTok regarding Mayor Ken Sim). Today we discuss “Pink Slime,” snack food (my favourite topic) and fashion models drinking nothing but water. Let’s get started!

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