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It’s official: You can successfully file for workers’ comp if you’re injured while having sex on a business trip. Well, at least you can in Australia. Under very particular circumstances. And if the injury wasn’t caused by sex. OK, so this “rule” won’t work in every situation, but at least there’s hope for people who go on a business trip, get a little action, and then get injured. The injury happened in 2007 while an Australian woman was on a business trip....

Before launching their careers, many legal professionals nurtured secret ambitions to practice law in new, avant garde ways. Then they got smacked with the monotony of motion practice. Equine Law: Another interesting area of practice that’s rather niche is equine law. John Fabiani at Fabiani Cohen & Hall devotes a small portion of his practice to horses. Fabiani’s position is almost enviable because expertise in that particular area required him to delve deep into an area of law that most people would consider a “rich man’s " hobby....

A misbehaving juror in Florida has received the worst sentence in the world: He’ll have to report for more jury duty. Vishnu P. Singh was selected as a juror in a rape and first-degree murder trial in October. However, curiosity got the better of Singh, and he performed independent research of the murder on the Internet, reports the Tampa Bay Times. A fellow juror turned him in. Jury members are expected to base their decision on what is presented during the trial and to make an independent judgment....

So what are the best Valentines gifts for lawyers? It’s not an easy question. Lawyers can be a particular and eccentric bunch. And Valentine’s Day can be a landmine of a holiday. To help you out, we scoured the internet for answers, and found that lot of the feedback on Valentine’s gifts for lawyers was negative. For example: Sexy underwear is out, because lawyers have to work too much and so they are out of shape and won’t look good in the underwear, said Bitterlawyer....

The next time you see a bottle of Crest mouthwash, take a moment to appreciate the angles of the bottle. Particularly the trapezoidal-shaped surface near the top. Crest really cares about that trapezoid, so much that its parent company, Proctor and Gamble, tried to patent it, Patently-O reports. We say tried, because the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that P&G did not succeed. In 2006, Timothy Owens filed a patent design application (‘172 application) that was the continuation of a 2004 application (‘709 application)....

Oh how the tides have turned. California, once a bastion for anti-vaccination activists, adopted one of the toughest vaccination laws in the country this week. On Tuesday, Governor Jerry Brown signed the new legislation, which requires all children attending public schools to be vaccinated against polio, measles, hepatitis B and other preventable diseases. Importantly, the law removes exemptions based personal and religious objections to vaccination. Currently, more than 80,000 students escape vaccination under personal belief exemptions....

Chad Johnson has been slapped with a 30-day jail sentence after the ex-NFL star slapped his male lawyer on the butt at a court hearing on Monday. Johnson, 35, was already in hot water for violating the terms of his probation that he received for head-butting his ex-wife, “Basketball Wives” star Evelyn Lozada. And things were actually looking favorable for Johnson, who’d agreed to a plea deal that avoided jail....

A federal appeals court ruled that cheerleading is not a sport. In an ironic twist, women cheer the decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals as it means that Quinnipiac University in Connecticut discriminated against women when it replaced women’s volleyball with cheerleading. Though the court did find that someday, “with better organization” and “defined rules,” cheerleading may achieve sport status, reports Reuters. Generally, Title IX is a chapter in the Equal Opportunity in Education Act that requires equal opportunities for men and women in school programs and activities....

It’s a war against the hungry! Good Samaritans are being ticketed, fined, and jailed for opening up their hearts and feeding the homeless and hungry. Joan Cheever, founder of the nonprofit mobile food truck Chow Train, has fed homeless people for the last 10 years. Last week, San Antonio police officers gave Cheever a ticket with a potential fine of $2,000 for transporting and serving food without a permit. Cheever does have a permit for her food truck....

We often hear stories of landlords from hell, especially since the landlord is generally in the position of power in the landlord-tenant relationship. But, tenants can also be problematic, and sometimes evicting them can be difficult. Take for example, Lisa Palmer, who has been living in Hunter College’s Manhattan dormitory since the spring semester of 2016. The problem? Palmer hasn’t been a student for some while, yet refuses to leave her dorm room....

An order by the trial court vacating a default judgment entered against a defendant is affirmed as plaintiff’s contention confuses the court’s power to reconsider the merits of the entered judgment itself, or to reconsider interim orders which have been subsumed within that judgment, with its power to reconsider an order which it is specifically authorized to make in the first instance after entry of the judgment under Code of Civil Proc....

In In re Moses, No. A124814, the First District faced a challenge to Governor Schwarzenneger’s reversal of the Parole Board’s third decision to grant parole to a defendant convicted of second-degree murder nearly thirty years ago. Although the defendant’s bahavior in prison has been exemplary, has almost a spotless disciplinary record, and has accepted responsibility and shown remorse, the Governor found that defendant’s release on parole posed an unreasonable risk of danger to public safety....

Stewart v. Union Carbide Corp., B216193, concerned plaintiffs’ suit for fraud, negligence, and strict products liability on failure to warn and design defect theories, claiming that exposure to asbestos from joint compounds contained in drywalls caused him to suffer from mesothelioma. Smith v. Adventist Health System/West, F057211, concerned a challenge to the trial court’s denial of defendants’ motion to strike pursuant to California’s anti-SLAPP statute, in a physician’s suit against defendant and its affiliates for summarily suspending his privileges at a hospital for a brief time in 2004 and for failing to process his October 2007 reapplication for privileges at the hospital....

It seems Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno may not have broken the law in his handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sex scandal. But police say Paterno’s actions did not live up to his famous mantra of “success with honor.” Sandusky, Paterno’s former defensive coordinator, is accused of sexually abusing eight boys over a 15-year period. Several alleged incidents took place at Penn State. Paterno admits he knew about one such incident....

The D.C. Circuit ruled for Esquire Magazine on Tuesday, putting the final nail in a defamation suit against the publication for satirizing a “birther” book’s release. Larry Klayman, the attorney for “birther” publisher and conservative website founder Joseph Farah, called the court’s decision to uphold the lower court’s dismissal of the case “dishonest,” reports Examiner.com. What exactly did the court think of Esquire’s article? The fight between Esquire and Farah began back in 2011, when Esquire published an article by Mark Warren on its website lambasting the release of a book by Jerome Corsi (and published by Farah’s WorldNetDaily (WND) Books) entitled “Where’s the Birth Certificate?...

Sequester, debt-ceilings, defaults and bailouts. When will it end? Since 2008, the markets have been in a constant state of doubt and upheaval, and because of the delays of litigation, we’re still hearing about 2008 bailouts now. Earlier this summer, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled that Ben Bernanke could be deposed about his involvement in his decision to bailout AIG in 2008. The government swiftly filed a petition for writ of mandamus, which the Federal Circuit granted....

You better watch out. Yeah, you better cry. You better pout. I’m telling you why. Because Santa Claus may not be comin’ to town anytime soon if the estate of songwriter J. Fred Coots has anything to say about it. The Coots family is heaping some coal over the holiday season and has filed a federal lawsuit against EMI, the current publisher of “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town.” They want their holiday cheer back – and the money that goes with it....

As Aaron Hernandez’s fiancee takes the stand in his murder trial on Friday, let’s take a look at where the case stands now, and where it might go. Shayanna Jenkins testified this morning that she got rid of a box that the ex-Patriots star asked her to remove from his home following the murder of Odin Lloyd. Prosecutors already accused Jenkins of lying to a grand jury, so how does her testimony fit in with the evidence the prosecution has presented so far?...

After announcing his candidacy only a few days earlier, Republican Mark Schimel has pulled out of the race against his estranged wife, Democrat Michelle Schimel. The couple separated last year after 32 years of marriage, NBC New York reports. They had two children together. Michelle is serving her third term in the New York State Assembly. Mark was competing for her spot. So why did the Republican candidate suddenly decide to exit the race for the State Assembly seat?...

After being indicted on misdemeanor domestic assault charges last week, Johnny Manziel turned himself in to Highland Park police in Texas yesterday, posing for a mug shot and posting $1,500 bond before being released. The former Texas A&M Aggies and Cleveland Browns QB is scheduled to appear back in court this morning. The charge stems from a January incident during which Manziel’s then girlfriend Colleen Crowley claims he restrained, beat, and threatened to kill her....