Featured Legal News (Nov. 16, ‘06) Terror on the Highway Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 Even Halloween fun has been hampered by the war on terror. Controversial Democratic activist and defense lawyer Tom Connolly from Portland, Maine, is facing criminal charges for dressing up like Osama Bin Laden on Oct. 31 and hanging out on a highway overpass with a fake assault rifle and other fake weapons. His lawyer says there's no way people thought Connolly was an actual terrorist, but the police and prosecutor disagree. After all, it was dark and he was holding a sign about the Taxpayer Bill of Rights, or TABOR, which apparently some people may have thought read "Taliban." The prosecutor on the case, Stephanie Anderson, said, "Halloween or not, in this day and age you do not get to dress as an international terrorist and wave what appears to be an AK-47 at rush hour traffic." Tell us what you think by visiting our comments page. Send any news items to news@lawdragon.com. The Show Must Go On Posted on Thursday, November 16, 2006 We haven't read the play "Fuggedaboudit: A Little Mobster Comedy," so we don't know how offensive it is to Italian-Americans. But we do know that the play is still scheduled to go forward this weekend at a middle school in Batavia, Ill., after a federal judge rejected a lawsuit brought by one of the student's mothers. "I think the play was a total, from cover to cover, annihilation of Italian-Americans," the mother reportedly said. U.S. District Court Judge John Grady, however, sided with the school on free-speech grounds. The play was written by one of the middle school's teachers. An attorney for the school, Anthony Scariano, said that the play isn't offensive because the only characters portrayed as "clowns" in the play are two FBI agents. That sounds like a stereotype, too, doesn't it? Tell us what you think by visiting our comments page. Send any news items to news@lawdragon.com. Page: 1 of 1 pages for this article
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