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We thought the weirdest pet marijuana story was the “stoner dog” story from 2012. Veterinarians in Colorado said they were seeing increased cases of dogs high on marijuana after eating pot brownies their owners have left laying around. Certainly some of those dogs needed marijuana for medical reasons, though, right? Dogs suffer from some of the same pains in old age that humans do. Why not ease their symptoms? That’s what a Nevada state senator wants to do: Legalize medical pot for pets....

One resident of the Trump Palace tower in Miami, Florida, has filed a lawsuit against the condo tower. However, unlike most lawsuits these days against a Trump entity, there’s nothing political about this one. The case is due to a cleaning crew that threw away 15 paintings, which were worth approximately $80,000. According to one report, the plaintiff, Ronny Lustigman, is an art dealer and collector. Last year, he had the paintings delivered to his condo....

The New Jersey Transit authority wanted to take down an Atlantic City billboard that featured “near nudity,” but a Superior Court judge said not so fast. The Atlantic City billboard is on New Jersey Transit land to advertise the Resorts Casino and the new musical Moonshine, about the 1920s. The specific location is along the Atlantic City Expressway over a NJ Transit train station. The sign features a women’s derriere covered with only a very thin beaded skirt....

Conviction of defendant for failing to comply with defendant’s obligation to register annually as a convicted sex offender is affirmed where: 1) defendant’s argument that the trial court had a sua sponte duty to instruct the jury that his severe depression was a defense to his failure to register is rejected as such a defense was unavailable to defendant; 2) trial court’s instruction that severe depression does not excuse the duty to register was incorrect but the error did not prejudice defendant; 3) any failure on the part of defense trial counsel to object or request an instruction was not prejudicial; and 4) trial court did not act unreasonably in imposing a lower term....

A lawyer has been appointed to represent pit bull on trial for his life. The offending canine is facing charges after a near deadly attack on a five-year-old boy. Lawyer appointments usually don’t make news, even to represent defendants who attacked children. However, the defendant, Kno, is facing the death penalty. A Georgia judge appointed lawyer Claude Kicklighter to represent the pit bull who is facing euthanasia after an attack on a child that required two surgeries, reports the ABA Journal....

The advent of new technology typically provides novel considerations of applying age-old laws. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the GPS tracking of a suspect without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment’s ban on “unreasonable searches and seizures,” upholding the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeal’s opinion from 2010. The case, U.S. v. Jones, stemmed from police action in which officers tracked the movements of suspected cocaine dealer Antoine Jones for over a month without a warrant....

In a petition for review of the SEC’s affirmance of the National Association of Securities Dealers’ award of restitution against petitioner-securities representative, the petition is granted where the SEC completely failed to articulate any meaningful standards governing the level of causation required under Principle 5 of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Sanction Guidelines. Read Siegel v. SEC, No. 08-1379 Appellate Information Argued September 14, 2009 Decided January 12, 2010 Judges...

The Free the Nipple campaign might’ve worked in Fort Collins, Colorado, but women’s nipples must still be covered in the Live Free or Die state. In a 3-2 vote, the New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld the convictions of three women arrested for going topless on a Laconia beach, ruling that the indecent exposure ordinance banning baring female breasts was constitutional. “We have found that the ordinance does not violate the defendants’ constitutional rights to equal protection or freedom of speech under the State and Federal Constitutions,” the court announced....

There’s a new trend in office furniture. It’s the treadmill desk. Basically you are walking on a treadmill with an attached desk in front of you. It’s part of a movement to decrease sedentary lifestyle while boosting health and increasing productivity while at work. Thanks to Dr. James Levine of the Mayo Clinic, treadmills are getting dusted off and finding a new use now as treadmill desks become the new trend in geek culture....

In a bizarre killing, William Stringer has been charged in connection to the shooting death of a neighbor. William Stringer, 75, claims the killing was in self-defense against an intruder. He told police that he shot and killed his 47 year-old neighbor Alan Farringer. Stringer then dug a grave behind the house and called a neighbor to help him move the body, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. When authorities arrived at Stringer’s Mt....

Daytime dog visits do not amount to pet harboring, says a Bronx judge. A New York civil court found that tenants did not violate a settlement agreement or their lease by allowing their sister’s dog to visit periodically during the day. Cookie, a Pomeranian recently registered as a service dog, has been the subject of a protracted landlord-tenant dispute. But the landlord lost his eviction case after his witnesses admitted at an evidentiary hearing that they never heard the dog bark at night....

The DC Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion this morning upholding the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act in Seven-Sky v. Holder. With a little luck - and a Supreme Court grant of certiorari - this will be the last time that we write about a circuit court ruling on the individual mandate. The latest addition to the appellate opinion bank means that 6 of 13 appellate circuits have produced some kind of opinion on the Affordable Care Act, whether on the constitutionality of the individual mandate or standing to challenge the law....

As sad as it is, dead baby scams really do work. After all, scammers are profiting off a stranger’s goodwill. A picture of a cute baby is comparable to the picture of an adorable puppy. Both can melt even the coldest of hearts. And when you say that the baby has recently died - and you need money for a funeral - tugging on heartstrings can loosen people’s purse strings....

When a person suffers from a condition that has an effect on their digestion, it can lead to embarrassment at work as a result of frequent, prolonged, or particularly odorous, trips to the bathroom. Unfortunately, courts are not very forgiving when it comes to employment discrimination claims that involve flatulence. Even when those claims are based on disabilities causing the gas, or preventing an employee from being able to hold the gas until an appropriate time or place, courts routinely dismissed these claims....

Trial court’s judgment enjoining Governor Schwarzenegger and other defendants from enforcing Senate Bill No. 1137 sections 1-12 that sought to amend the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (hereafter Proposition 36) is affirmed where: 1) certain challenged sections of the Senate Bill 1137 allowing incarceration for drug-related probation violations, when that sanction would be prohibited by Proposition 36, cannot be deemed to be consistent with the purposes of the Proposition; and 2) Senate Bill 1137’s provision for a popular vote, if any part of Senate Bill 1137 is invalidated, is itself invalid....

Clark Moffat is the latest in a series of law school graduates to become victims of circumstance. He and a handful of other students who graduated from San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law (TJSL) are suing their alma mater on causes of action that essentially amount to fraud. They allege that the school intentionally inflated their employment numbers in order to make law school seem more appealing. Moffat’s case is particularly sympathetic because he has never once been able to find work in the legal field and he has never made more than $25,000 a year....

Jazz Pharmaceuticals lost its recent appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit related to its narcolepsy drug Xyrem, which had several of its “subsets” of Xyrem patents invalidated by PTAB. The drug, which utilizes an illicit drug more commonly known as GHB, or the date rape drug, is, under the Controlled Substances Act, a Schedule III drug. The drug was only approved by the FDA under “restricted distribution regulations....

In a petition for review of the Federal Maritime Commission’s order requiring agents of Ocean Transportation Intermediaries (OTIs) to be licensed, the petition is granted, where the Commission does not possess statutory authority to require agents of OTIs who are not themselves OTIs to obtain licenses. Read Landstar Express Am., Inc. v. Federal Maritime Comm’n., No. 08-1067 Appellate Information Argued April 21, 2009 Decided June 26, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Kavanaugh...

We love lawyer jokes, right? How is this one? What’s the difference between a lawyer and a vulture? The lawyer gets frequent flyer miles. Even better: My lawyer didn’t want to marry his wife for her money. But there was no other way to get it. Alas, these jokes may never go away and let’s be honest; we kind of enjoy them from time-to-time. However, not all lawyers are greedy. The Taproot Foundation has developed a social responsibility ranking system for office professionals....

The story of attorney Rebekah Nett has understandably been making the rounds. Really, who can resist laughing? She told a judge that her court is “composed of a bunch of ignoramus, bigoted Catholic beasts that carry the sword of the church.” We may find it funny, but Minnesota Bankruptcy Judge Nancy Dreher (the “black-robed bigot” and “Catholic Knight Witch Hunter”) is taking the claims very seriously. Judge Dreher has asked Nett and her client to show cause why they should not be fined $10,000 a piece....