Justice prevails! You may recall that I wrote recently about Judge Roy L. Pearson – the guy who was suing a dry cleaner’s for losing his pants for a couple days and was asking for 67 million dollars. Well, he lost. “Judge Bartnoff has spoken loudly in suggesting that, while…
In the course of doing some research this week, I discovered that Indiana is one of only three states that does not require automobile dealer’s to post a bond of some kind. See, look for yourself by clicking here. Being in the minority isn’t always a bad thing; sometimes Indiana…
I have been really, really busy lately… and it’s been a while since I wrote a blog entry. I have a couple topics that I hope to write on soon, but today I thought I’d put my 13 year-old son to work and perhaps obtain an amusing blog entry at…
Q: I purchased a new car six months ago. The gas mileage is horrible. I am probably getting 75% of what I’m supposed to get. I’ve taken it in to the dealer and reported this problem many times, and they just tell me they can’t find anything wrong. Do I…
Roy L. Pearson, Jr., an administrative hearings judge in the District of Columbia, took several suits to Custom Cleaners in Washington, D.C. for alteration. One of the pairs of pants was missing when he returned to pick them up two days later. So Pearson asked the cleaners to pay for…
So far in this series, we have determined that the Indiana Motor Vehicle Protection Act, Indiana’s lemon law, is the least consumer friendly of our neighboring states’ lemon laws with regard to: the deduction the manufacturer receives for the mileage on a vehicle in a buyback situation (Part 1) and…
Haven’t you ever wished the bank would make a mistake and through some glitch deposit about a hundred thousand dollars in your account? And then never find out? Tell me you’ve never thought about that! Anyway, that happened to George Costanza, oops, I mean George J. Costa of La Vista,…
Indiana car owners shouldn’t be surprised, but Indiana’s “In God We Trust” license plate has been challenged in court. Actually, the fact that there is no extra charge for it is being challenged. Sadly, I’m not surprised. I just wrote about how much I liked the new license plate a…
I received a mailer recently from Equifax. The mailer was selling Equifax’s credit monitoring tool called Credit Watch Gold. It had a couple of “Identifact(s)” listed which contained a few statements that made me go “Hmmmm?”: * identity theft is now surpassing drug trafficking as the nations’s #1 crime *…
If you live in Indiana, or anywhere along the spring break travel route to Florida, you’ve probably seen quite a few cars with the new Indiana “In God We Trust” license plate. Actually, I’ve been amazed at how many I’ve seen. It’s almost like it’s Indiana’s new license plate. I…