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Trials

Marxist Economics

From a complaint filed September 7, 2012, by Stephanie Kirschner and Brad J. Kane against the owners and operators of Eden Memorial Park, a cemetery in Mission Hills, California. In…

Fiend Request

From comments on the Facebook page of the Jefferson County, Alabama, sheriff’s office, posted last January in response to a photo of Dustin McCombs, who was wanted on charges of…

Notes From Underground

Translated by Alan Yuhas,

From a May 23 expert-witness statement submitted as evidence in the trial of three members of the Russian activist collective Pussy Riot, who were sentenced in August to two years…

Killing the Competition

by Barry C. Lynn,

How the new monopolies are destroying open markets

Tiny Little Laws

by Kathy Dobie,

A plague of sexual violence in Indian country

Contempt of Court

by Aaron Wider,

From a deposition given over two days last year by Aaron Wider, CEO of HTFC, a mortgage investor, to Robert Bodzin, a lawyer for GMAC Bank. In February, U.S. District…