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Choice: Return Library Book Or Go To Jail

Maine resident JoAn Karkos said she’ll take jail. And it’s not because she likes the book, “It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health.” It’s because “she claims [it] violates the city’s obscenity ordinance,” per The Sun Journal. What she’s doing is just “civil disobedience.” It’s not…

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An F-Bomber Himself?

Following up on yesterday’s Legal Juice post, it appears that Captain Decker is an f-bomber himself, and an s-bomber! (The guy is probably an honorable public servant. Regular Juice readers know, though, that it irks the Juice when people make a big deal about so-called “bad” words.) As reported in…

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Mayors Gone Mad?

Power corrupts, and absolute power … So maybe Italian mayors don’t have “absolute” power, but they recently obtained additional authority to enact new laws. Here are a few of them, as reported by Reuters: In Eraclea, near Venice, building sandcastles is now illegal In Capri, it is illegal to leave…

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