Judge: Ma’am, you need to leave this courtroom and return properly dressed.
Woman: Properly dressed for what exactly? Walking up to a podium for two minutes?
Judge: Properly dressed to appear before a court of law. This is not a gym, and it is not your living room.
Woman: I’m here to handle my case, Your Honor, not walk a runway. I didn’t think yoga clothes were going to become the issue.
Judge: The issue is respect. Respect for this court, for these proceedings, and for the people in this room.
Woman: I do respect the court. I just don’t respect pretending workout clothes are somehow offensive.
Judge: I’m not going to stand here and argue with you about basic courtroom decorum.
Woman: I’m not arguing either, sir, but this is ridiculous. I’m fully covered, I’m on time, and I’m here for my hearing.
Judge: And yet instead of listening, you’re challenging the court at every turn.
Woman: Because nobody told me there was some invisible fashion rule attached to showing up.
Judge: Common sense is not an invisible rule, ma’am.
Woman: So now this is about common sense?
Judge: One more word and I will hold you in contempt.
Woman: …
Judge: That’s what I thought. You may step out, change into something appropriate, and come back when you’re prepared to conduct yourself properly.
Woman: So I’m being sent home over clothes?
Judge: No, ma’am. You’re being sent out over your attitude and your clothes.
Woman: …Understood.
Judge: Good. Bailiff, escort her out. We’ll recall the case when she’s ready to respect the courtroom.
Paul Allen said Bill Gates tried to cut his Microsoft stake to almost nothing while he was fighting cancer.
Allen kept the shares.
They later made him worth $40 billion.
In the video below, Allen explains what he heard while walking past Gates’s office during radiation therapy.
“They were basically talking about how they were planning to dilute my share down to almost nothing.”
Steve Ballmer was in the room. Allen walked in and confronted them.
Ballmer came to his house later that night to apologize. Gates did not.
Allen left Microsoft shortly after, but he kept all of his shares.
He was 30, cancer-free, and still owned nearly a third of the company. When Microsoft went public, that stake made him one of the richest people on Earth.
At one point, Allen was worth an estimated $40 billion.
Could you ever trust your co-founder again after hearing that conversation?
A man’s 10.5-year prison sentence for manslaughter was tossed out after AI was used at his sentencing hearing.
The family of Christopher Pelkey gave several victim impact statements in court — but the one that stood out was a statement from Pelkey himself, even though he died in a roadrage incident in 2021.
Pelkey’s sister wrote what she believed he would have said if he were alive and had an AI-generated version of him read it in court. But lawyers for Gabriel Paul Horcasitas, the man convicted in Pelkey’s killing, appealed his sentencing because of this AI video — and they won.
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Supreme Court justices hearing a landmark case over whether state and local governments can sue fossil fuel companies for climate change damages spent a lot of time Monday whether they have jurisdiction over the issue
BREAKING: Caleb Flynn, convicted of murdering his wife Ashley Flynn, maintains his innocence during his sentencing hearing.
"I have unfortunately lied about a lot of things over the last couple of years. But as I stand here before God, who is my ultimate judge... I did not kill my wife.
"I will continue to fight for my innocence as long as the Lord allows me to do this."
"I did not kill my wife."