I am interrupting my series of blog posts on Week 4 of my Tiger Law course because, in the last 24 hours, major newsworthy events have occurred in both the Tiger King saga and in the George Floyd case. Among other things, a court granted Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue full control of Joe Exotic’s roadside zoo, giving Jeff Lowe (the current owner of Joe Exotic’s zoo) 120 days to vacate the premises! In addition, as you may have already heard, all four police officers involved in the death of George Floyd have now been charged in Mr Floyd’s murder. I am in the process of recording some videos to explain the legal aspects of these new developments (e.g. the law of fraudulent transfers and the felony murder rule); in the meantime, I took the extraordinary step of updating my course homepage as follows:
