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Beer and DUI checkpoints don’t mix, especially if you happen to be tossing back a brewski while behind the wheel. David Caruso learned that the hard way over the weekend. No, not the famous David Caruso of CSI and NYPD Blue fame. This David Caruso, 51, of Coventry, Conn., had his license suspended for a prior drunken driving arrest, The Hartford Courant reports. But that apparently didn’t stop Caruso from hopping into a car and allegedly doing something quite stupid....

In the summer of 2014, Brandon Duncan and Aaron Harvey were arrested in connection to their rap lyrics and social media posts and were accused of violating an obscure California law making it illegal to promote gang activity. They were kept in detention for months, before their charges were ultimately dismissed. Now the two are suing, alleging that their arrests violated their First and Fourth Amendment rights. Both men were arrested by San Diego police and accused of promoting gang violence....

If “$2 undecillion” dollars sounds to you like a made-up amount, you’re not too far off. Although 2 undecillion is an actual number – its a 2 followed by 36 zeros – in dollars it represents more money than exists in the entire world. Nonetheless, that’s the amount that New Yorker Anton Purisima is seeking in damages from an equally astounding number of defendants. Along with the the City of New York, the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority, and a “‘Latina’ Dog Owner,” Purisima’s complaint, filed in New York’s Southern District Court, also lists an eye-popping number of unnamed defendants: “Does 1 to 1000,” to be precise....

A federal judge is allowing a federal civil rights lawsuit to go forward by Peter Solomon who says that a rodent bit him on the penis. Solomon filed the suit contending the county exercised “deliberate indifference to his health and safety in failing to adequately protect him from rodents.” Solomon was being held in a Long Island jail at the time of the alleged rodent biting. U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt denied a motion by Nassau County arguing that Solomon’s lawsuit should be dismissed by summary judgment....

What do you do when your kids won’t get out of bed and go to school? Send them to their room. No wait, that won’t work. Take away their cell phone? Pull out your hair? When all else fails, call the cops. You think that’s a joke? So did a California appeals court in People v. R.M. “Mouthy 17-Year-Old” The state First District Court of Appeal could have called it the case of the “mouthy 17-year-old....

You could tell that this lawsuit was absurd from the caption alone. The list of defendants stretched over seven pages. The list of council, in much smaller type, filled four more pages. The list of defendants’ firms included a Who’s Who of BigLaw, including MoFo, Latham & Watkins, and Kirkland & Ellis. The defendants included domestic carriers and handset manufacturers (Sprint, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Motorola), software providers (Microsoft and Yahoo!) and foreign carriers (Vodaphone and T-Mobile)....

According to one formerly needy law student, Georgetown Law rocks. Jordan Rothman, founder of Student Debt Diaries, says Georgetown did him a solid on the cost of education. In his chronicle, he explains how he got through law school with need-based financial aid and work-study jobs. His experience is also a study in how students can get need-based aid even at the priciest law schools. Here’s how it works: Rothman says Georgetown, which ranks high and expensive among law schools, gave him 40 percent of the cost of tuition....

Every year, without fail, there will always be scandals that result from in-house attorneys dropping the ball, or maybe just not doing their jobs well enough. Maybe you can’t always blame the attorneys for the mistakes of the top level brass; after all, most in-house attorneys are relegated to specific functions rather than top level decisions. Basically, if you’ve read between the lines, it’s the general counsel that are to blame....

What should you wear to OCI (law school “on-campus interviews”)? For guys, it seems relatively simple. Slap on a conservative suit and a tie, a pair of nice shoes, and you’re good to go. For gals, it seems a little more complicated. Pant suit? Skirt suit? Flats? Pumps? Blouses? Knit shells? A lot of what you end up wearing to your interviews is dependent on what you’re comfortable with and what kind of firms you’ll be meeting with....

Maybe you’ve failed the bar exam … multiple times. Or you passed the bar, but after getting laid off from a $30,000/year job, you’ve realized that the state of legal affairs in your state leaves little hope for the future. Maybe you’re a third-year law student, with few job prospects, and you’re trying to figure out where to set up your refrigerator box for a few months of post-grad homelessness....

Yahoo has named Arthur Chong to replace Ronald Bell, who resigned as general counsel after a report that the company’s legal team failed to properly investigate a huge data breach disclosed last year. That data breach of 500 million Yahoo accounts contributed to a $350 million discount in Verizon’s offer to purchase the company’s internet business. It also resulted in federal indictments against two Russian spies and mercenary hackers. As Yahoo prepares for the transition with Verizon, Chong will have his work cut out for him....

You’ve been invited by some of the partners at the firm to play golf. Wonderful! Or maybe not so wonderful. After all, for some of you, when someone says “tee time,” you automatically think of Earl Grey, scones and lemon curd. But a lot of attorney events can occur on the golf course - meetings, charity tournaments, etc. So, what do you do if you’re a golf virgin? Is business golfing the same as leisure golfing?...

A CEO may be the highest ranking corporate officer, but they are not immune from liability for their actions (though they may act like it sometimes). Fortunately for them, getting fired can be just as lucrative as getting hired. However, where there are rewards, there are usually risks. For in-house counsel, policing your company’s CEO could prove rather helpful in preventing the next Uber-style CEO debacle. But what can anyone do to stop a CEO from behaving badly short of calling the authorities?...

Airbnb is not liable for information that users post in breach of their leases, a federal judge said in Los Angeles. U.S. Judge Dolly Gee said that the web-based service is protected by the Communications Decency Act, which shields internet service providers from liability for user content. “Here, what allegedly makes the listings ‘unlawful,’ ‘illegal,’ or ‘offending’ is that they advertise rentals that violate Aimco’s lease agreements,” Gee said. “Airbnb hosts, not Airbnb, are responsible for providing the actual listing information....

In politics, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again … and maybe change your name to Cesar Chavez? That’s the tactic being employed by one Arizona congressional candidate, who came up short in previous runs for political office under his given name Scott Fistler. What’s the story behind Cesar Chavez (the candidate, not the legendary labor activist) and can you really change your name to Cesar Chavez just to try to win an election?...

There was once a man who was on his way to take the bar exam for the third time. He decided to stop for coffee and unfortunately locked his keys in his car. He never made it to the exam, not that day, nor at any point since then. A good friend of mine was taking the California bar exam with me. She lived in Long Beach. I lived in Pasadena....

File this one under: law students being law students. Two Boalt Hall law students were charged with beheading an exotic bird in Las Vegas. With so many things to do in Vegas, why behead an exotic bird? Eric Cuellar and Justin Teixeira were arrested in Las Vegas after being caught on tape killing the exotic 14-year-old helmeted guinea fowl. Ironically, the killing happened at the Flamingo Hotel. The two law students are shown on tape throwing the bird back and forth while laughing and discussing how they would kill it, writes David Lat of Above the Law....

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was arrested on suspicion of a DWI and possession of controlled substances Sunday night. He was released from jail about 1:30 p.m. Monday. Police in Carmel, Indiana, pulled Irsay over for driving too slow, stopping in the road, and failing to signal a turn, according to The Indianapolis Star. After being pulled over, Irsay allegedly failed several sobriety tests and was taken into custody. In addition, officers also found evidence in Irsay’s car that led to his arrest on suspicion of possession of controlled substances....

Jones Day has a mysterious history, which started more than 100 years ago when a founding partner was murdered in Cleveland. Today, the firm is a multi-billion dollar business with some 2,500 lawyers around the world. But mystery again surrounds the law firm as a former partner has sued over a secretive “black box” compensation system. Wendy Moore, on behalf of other female attorneys, claims the firm has a “code of silence” about pay that discriminates against women....

Remember Ralph Nader? Sure you do. He was the spotlight third party candidate before Ron Paul and his libertarian ilk swept into the national scene, and he ran in the 2004 presidential election and (spoiler alert) did not become our 44th President. What happened? Well, some would argue that his Green Party platform of legalizing marijuana and environmental justice was too liberal for a recently post-9/11 America, but Nader blames the FEC....