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An unemployed man admittedly wasn’t paying attention when an Indiana judge last month told a pool of potential jurors that they had to return to Lake County Superior Court after lunch.

Now the unidentified 22-year-old has been ordered to spend two days carrying a sign back and forth in front of the courthouse that reads “I failed to appear for jury duty,” reports the Post-Tribune.

Judge Thomas Stefaniak Jr. told the man he is “the very person who should be on a jury. Youve got nothing else to do.

It isn’t the first time the judge has used this remedy on recalcitrant citizens, as an earlier ABAJournal.com post details:

Ind. Judge Gives No-Show Juror a Sign, Literally

TAMPA, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid about $3 million in federal income taxes in 2010, having earned more than seven times that from his investments. Those earnings, $21.7 million, put him among the wealthiest of American taxpayers. Romney’s campaign said Tuesday he followed all tax laws.

At the same time, Romney gave nearly $3 million to charity—about half of that amount to the Mormon Church—which helped lower his effective tax rate to a modest 14 percent, according to records his campaign released early Tuesday.

Romney’s income puts him in the top 0.006 percent of Americans, based on the most recent Internal Revenue Service data, from 2009. That ye

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If it is hard for you to manage your debt payments, then you must first try to choose an appropriate debt relief method that will help you repay your debts soon. But before you do so, try to use a debt calculator that will help you decide debt pay off method will help you fix your finance. Read all post…

Washington, DC: As years go, 2011 was a relatively quiet one on the Zimmer Knee Replacement front. A bid to add to the existing Zimmer Multi District Litigation (MDL) for pending NexGen lawsuits didn’t go through—and Zimmer has taken the offensive toward critics of its products by actually launching a lawsuit of its own against a legal firm in Ohio that represents one of the plaintiffs currently suing Zimmer.Aside from that, 2011 was uneventful, save for those patients having to deal with an allegedly defective Zimmer NexGen Knee Replacement component, and the impact such a failure is having on their lives. Read all post…

The chairman of the UKDetainee Inquiry said Wednesday that his panel will not complete their investigation into torture allegations against British intelligence agents. In his statement, Judge Peter Gibson said that the Secretary of State for Justice chose to conclude the investigation “in view of further Metropolitan Police investigations.” The Inquiry faced criticism from a variety of human rights groups for its lack of transparency. Last August, 10 human rights groups said they would boycott the investigation , arguing that it did not comply with the European Convention on Human Rights . Read all post…