The Leagle Beagle™ from The Sullivan Firm

March 2020

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Downtown Chicago

Terry & his associates recently settled a “NURSING HOME VIOLATION” for well into the six figures. Have an issue? Just call.

CORONAVIRUS — CAN I BE QUARANTINED?

Yes!! Illinois gives the Department of Public Health “supreme authority” in matters of quarantine & isolation, including the power to close a place and/or make it off-limits to “prevent the probable spread of a dangerously contagious or infectious disease “. ILCS 2305. But there are protections of the courts built into the law also, including that, if the Department fails to get the person’s consent, it must, within 48 hours, get a court order that must be proven by “clear & convincing evidence”. And the law also allows physical exams, tests, & lab specimens, along with emergency access to medical records. So…now you know!

CORONAVIRUS UPDATE

As you should know by now , there is a new medical name for the virus: “Covid-19.”This tag comes from the World Health Organization and is now used throughout the media. It seems inevitable but an Arizona audiovisual company is named Covid. Its poor CEO could only say that the naming was “unfortunate” , and yes, “surreal”!

NEW LAW FOR ILLINOIS WINE- LOVERS?

Maybe so, if Illinois passes a proposal which would remove the stupid stranglehold that the wholesalers have had, keeping any retailer from another state from delivering wine to your house without you going through those wholesalers. Currently only the vineyard can do so, keeping you from enjoying what you want and costing the state millions of dollars in taxes and costs to defend a likely unconstitutional pending lawsuit. Senate Bill 3830, sponsored by Sen. Feigenholtz, opposed by liquor wholesalers for obvious reasons, would nonetheless create a huge market for consumer wine delivery.

JUSTICE DELAYED…….

The State of Virginia still has a law that makes it a crime for unmarried people to have sex. But just this past week, their House of Delegates voted to repeal the ban. Some seemed to think that the law seriously affected the credibility of Virginia’s tourism slogan: “Virginia is for lovers.”

THEY SAID IT

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.” – Author Douglas Adams

“You can teach someone how to dance, but you can’t teach someone how to boogie.” – Actress Rosie Perez

“Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain

“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.” – H.L. Menchen

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

“I am not the kind of person women fall in love with. I sort of grow on them, like a fungus.” Jeff Bezos

Random Useless Facts

Don’t be fooled by any holiday decorations showing lady leprechauns. In traditional Irish folk tales, there are no female leprechauns, only nattily attired little guys.
What kind of bow can’t be tied? A rainbow!
St Patrick’s Day has been observed by the Irish as a religious holiday for more than 1,000 years.
How is a good friend like a four-leaf clover? They’re hard to find!
Children actually grow faster in the spring than during other times of the year.
On this day, people usually eat corned beef and cabbage, and they wear green. However, corned beef is an English dish and not Irish.
Why did the leprechaun walk out of the house? He wanted to sit on the Paddy O’!
According to legend leprechauns dance the Irish jig so much they wear out their shoes.
Tornadoes are the most common in spring.
Why do leprechauns recycle? They like to go green!

The longest recorded sneezing fit lasted 978 days.
The original name for the butterfly was the flutterby.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice cream in your back pocket.
Your thumb is the same length as your nose.
Antarctica has only one ATM.
Lobsters and grasshoppers cannot feel pain.
Pirates thought having an earring would improve their eyesight.
In Arizona, donkeys are not allowed to sleep in bathtubs.
Four thousand people are injured by teapots every year.
Termites eat through wood twice as fast when listening to rock music.

Ketchup was used as medicine in the 1830's.
For each minute of the day, 1 billion tons of rain falls on the earth.
There is a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill 6 cats.
Justin Timberlake had a company figure out his concerts' carbon footprints and paid to have trees and bushes planted in those cities to offset carbon impact during his nationwide tour.
Apples come from the same family as roses.
Sharks were around long before dinosaurs.
Scientists have actually performed brain surgery on cockroaches.
You can grow a bonsai tree that will actually fruit miniature oranges.

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
Boston has the worst drivers out of the nation's 200 largest cities. Kansas City has the best drivers.
A snail can sleep for three years.
There's an island full of wild monkeys off the coast of South Carolina called Morgan Island, and it's not open to humans.

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Leagle Beagle March 2020