Myron Helms is a reserve officer with the Laurel Police Department. Now, to add to his list of accomplishments, he has been arrested for having sex with a woman in a public pool in Connersville, Indiana. Apparently, Helms and his lovebird (identified as Victoria Cross, 40) were having some adult play time at the Roberts Park Family Aquatic Center, reports WLWT-TV. Note that the public pool facility has the word “family” in it....
In a dispute between owners of neighboring parcels involving the use of a roadway, trial court judgment is affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded where: 1) the trial court balanced all the hardships and acted within its discretion in denying the injunction; 2) the court did not err in failing to award damages; 3) the court’s decision is remanded so that the trial court can clarify their judgment with regard to the width of the easement and roadway; 4) the court’s erred in granting judgment against plaintiff on their second cause of action to quiet title; and 5) the trial court properly held that that the Bjorklunds’ Code of Civil Procedure section 998 offer is valid....
The happiest place on earth might be in Anaheim, California, or Orlando, Florida, or wherever you might happen across hundreds of knockoff wax Disney figures, each stuffed with about a pound of crystallized ice methamphetamine. “This is a family-based theme, a Disney theme,” DEA Atlanta Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy told Atlanta’s Fox 5, “but there’s nothing good about what this would do to any family if this hit the street....
In an action against prison administrators for indifference to plaintiff’s medical needs, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where: 1) no administrative remedies were available for plaintiff to exhaust; and 2) plaintiff, who was acting pro se, was plainly and reasonably confused over whether defendants’ summary judgment motion remained pending. Read Malik v. Dist. of Colum., No. 08-7046 Appellate Information Argued May 1, 2009 Decided August 4, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Garland...
It’s just something about those pot cookies that Kinman Chan blames for his strange behavior. Chan, 30, of San Francisco claimed he began acting strangely after he had eaten a double dose of his medical marijuana cookies. According to the Associated Press, Chan was on a flight from Philadelphia to Los Angeles when he began making odd gestures. According to the criminal complaint he also allegedly began screaming in the airliner’s restroom then fought with flight crew members who tried to sit him down before the flight was diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport....
In the recently filed civil suit in New Mexico against Roosevelt County Sheriff Marlin Parker, the town of Elida’s mayor, Durward Dixon, alleges the sheriff challenged him to a fist fight in the middle of the road. Dixon and Parker are at odds over Parker’s alleged interference with the Elida police department’s enforcement of law and order. The lawsuit specifically claims that Sheriff Parker returned a dog to its owner after Elida police had taken the dog away for killing chickens....
It’s the best holiday of the year, a chance to blow off steam and stuff yourself with sugar. As with so many holidays, though, Halloween often comes with an office party. Sure, you’d rather be trick-or-treating with your kids, haunting a bar downtown, or just catching up on billable hours. But the office party is also a chance to impress your colleagues, even if it is just with your brilliant costume....
His strong sense of smell led New Jersey Officer Thomas Lucasiewicz to detect the largest pot growing ring in the state. The odor of marijuana smoke was wafting from a chimney, yielding to a $10 million pot bust. According to the New Jersey Star Ledger, the cops sniffed out $10 million worth of marijuana plants. The smell of marijuana came from a chimney where the unusable parts of the pot plants were being burned....
Welcome to the first in a series about this year’s California ballot propositions. Hopefully we can help sort out the wheat from the chaff when it comes to claims about what these propositions do and don’t do. Rudely interrupting my “Law & Order” marathons are commercials for Proposition 46, which I’m told was written by “trial lawyers” seeking more money. Those grubby trial lawyers! They’re apparently behind all bad things, according to the Chamber of Commerce....
This is the second in a series about this year’s California ballot propositions. Hopefully we can help sort out the wheat from the chaff when it comes to claims about what these propositions do and don’t do. In case you missed it, here’s our discussion of Proposition 46. After years of brutal, “tough on crime” punishment, the United States – and California – has decided that maybe mandatory minimums, harsh sentences for nonviolent drug offenses, and Draconian recidivism statutes aren’t the way to go after all....
In 2011, the Navy was faced with a situation of “overmanning” and need to “optimize the quality of the navy,” so it did the military’s version of a layoff and created an Enlisted Retention Board, which resulted in the honorable discharge of many sailors. The Navy notified sailors about positions that were overmanned, quotas, and gave them the ability to convert to an undermanned position. After this process, 2,946 sailors were chosen for separation, and sailors were honorably discharged....
Would you like some granola with your semen-tainted yogurt? No? Garcia had been handing out what was supposed to be yogurt samples at the Sunflower Market. A woman got a taste of the sample. She realized it wasn’t yogurt. It was something else, reports KASA-TV. The yogurt was actually tainted with Garcia’s semen, a fact that was verified through a DNA test, KASA-TV reports. Now, Garcia has been indicted by a federal grand jury....
Standing desks have been around for a few years and their fad appeal has worn off enough that employers are seeing them as a legitimate solution. It’s no secret that sitting for 8+ hours a day is bad for you and a standing desk offers a solution that won’t impact work productivity. Sure, the studies indicate that a standing desk will make you healthier. The real question now is what will partners think if you request a standing desk?...
Want to give back to the next generation, to make the world a better place for the youth? You can. And you don’t even have to drop out of the law and take up a second career teaching disadvantaged youth in the inner city, despite your love for “Freedom Writers.” (Or “Dangerous Minds,” or “Stand and Deliver,” or “To Sir, With Love,” or “Blackboard Jungle,” or even “Welcome Back, Kotter.”)...
If you’re as comfortable watching a runway as you are drafting a contract, or as familiar with department stores as you are with the civil procedure, maybe it’s time to look for a job in fashion and retail law. As part of our affiliate partnership with Indeed, and just in time for Paris Fashion Week, we’re bringing you the three coolest jobs we could find. Get your LV bags ready if you’re looking to apply to Louis Vuitton....
You don’t even need to spend a minute in virtual reality to know that the future is here. And with all the new technology, as always, there are new challenges. RFID implants, while not so new anymore, have still not been utilized to their fullest potential, especially by employers in the U.S. However, one employer in Wisconsin is looking to change that by setting an example. Three Square Media rolled out a program for employees to get implanted with an RFID device....
Are you a 1L that’s thinking about going home for Thanksgiving? Or maybe you’re more reasonable and you’re thinking that going home for the winter break after exams is a good idea. Regardless of whether or not you have been shaped into the reasonably prudent person your law profs have promised to make you yet, if you plan to go home for the holidays, you can get a few reasonably prudent tips below....
A Texas woman shot her husband in the stomach to defend her pet cat, investigators say. A purr-fect defense, perhaps? Probably not under the laws of Texas – or in any other state, for that matter. Deputies arrested Audrey Deen Miller, 42, of Spring, Texas, after the shooting Tuesday morning, Houston’s KHOU-TV reports. Her husband was treated at a hospital and released later that day. Miller shot her husband after he allegedly threatened to shoot one of her pet cats with a pellet gun, deputies said....
If your name is Petri Haussila, I’ve got news for you: you’re the second highest-paid person in Finland. Sweet, congratulations! Apparently, Mr. Haussila is the head of White & Case’s capital markets practice and is in charge of the BigLaw firm’s Helsinki office. Oh, and he raked in approximately $4.9 million in taxable income last year. The only person that has him beat in Finland is another attorney, former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who made about $11 million....
Yahoo has wrapped up its investigation into the 2014 data breach that saw 500 million accounts compromised. Now the heads have started to roll, but they’re not the heads you might have expected. Yahoo general counsel Ronald Bell seems to have taken the blame for the hacking, resigning on Wednesday after the investigation concluded that his legal team had enough information to justify further investigation but did not take action....
