Results tagged “appellatecourts”

White is black. Black is white. Microsoft is opening retail stores at a time when brick and mortar stores seem to be crumbling around us, meanwhile Starbucks is introducing instant coffee while old-growth roaster Peet's profits are up. Trust no one today, folks. Especially not this guy.

Even if she's your student. Because that's not ethically wrong at all. At all. It is, however, quite legal, according to today's ruling by a Washington Court Of Appeals panel holding that state law does not specifically prohibit a teacher from having sex with his or her eighteen-year-old student(s). The decision came after the trio of judges reviewed Matthew Hirschfelder's case; Hirschfelder was a choir teacher solidly into his thirties when he had sex with one of his students, a delicate flower aged eighteen years. Yes, he was committing adultery. Yes, the fling happened on school grounds. (Whoa.) And apparently, yes, the sex was not explicitly illegal.