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“I’m So Drunk… On Great Memories! Warwick High Prom 2009” To help shake off the awkward photograph and the interminable slow dances, prom organizers at a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania high school handed out more than 400 commemorative shot glasses to junior and senior prom-goers earlier this month. The buzz started at Warwick High School, which held its prom on May 2. Several adults served on a prom committee that ultimately made the decision to go with shot glasses as a parting gift, according to WGAL-Pennsylvania....

The seedy underworld of fight promotion has always been legally murky. After all, the most visible face of boxing promotion, Don King, once pistol-whipped and stomped a former employee to death over $600. So it’s no surprise that one promotion company would accuse another of shady dealings, and it’s also no surprise that teasing the facts out of so much bluster would be difficult, if not impossible. And so it is now that “Sugar” Shane Mosley’s promotional company, Pound for Pound Promotions, is suing Oscar De La Hoya’s promotional company, Golden Boy Promotions, asking for $15 million in back pay, breach of contract, and bad faith damages....

There is very little doubt that the University of California values diversity at all its campuses statewide, however due to the state’s ban on affirmative action, the universities’ admissions systems have been race-neutral. However, a UCLA professor who’s been studying the data has filed a lawsuit because he has been refused updated data, and because he believes that schools have fell back into having admissions policies basically implementing affirmative action. Given the recentness of the Harvard race-based admissions trial, this recent lawsuit against the UC Regents is garnering a lot of attention....

It may be called Greedy Associates, but this blog is geared toward law students, too. After all, if students work really hard, brush their teeth, and say their prayers, they too can have the privilege of billing 2,000 hours a year and getting yelled at by senior partners. Law school rankings were chief among our most popular law school posts in 2014. Sprinkled among those were some other posts, like preparing for the rigors of law school life....

As the price of tickets go up, so do the opportunities to profit from them illegally. The latest example: former Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter, who allegedly participated in a ticket scam worth millions of dollars, CBS reports. According to the investigation, Art Schlichter and Anita Barney, of Dublin, Ohio, whose husband co-founded Wendy’s, accepted money for hundreds of thousands of dollars, supposedly in exchange for producing tickets to sporting events....

A suspected burglar and attempted murderer has brought a lawsuit against the man he allegedly tried to kill. Apparently, the burglar did not like that his intended victim shot back at him, reports CBS News. You know this country is overly litigious when even suspected criminals can sue their alleged victims for violence. The plaintiff/criminal suspect, Samuel Cutrufelli, allegedly kicked in the door of 90-year-old Jay Leone’s California home. Leone was ordered not to move as Cutrufelli scoured the house for valuables....

In a petition for review of a Surface Transportation Board order concluding that a public railroad must obtain authorization from the Board to abandon certain railroad trackage, the petition is granted where the Board lacked jurisdiction to approve or deny applications for abandonment pursuant to 49 U.S.C. section 10903. Read Consolidated Rail Corp. v. STB, No. 07-1401 Appellate Information Argued April 20, 2009 Decided June 26, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Henderson...

The director of a Florida Crime Stoppers program in Miami is heading to jail for eating evidence. Yeah, eating evidence. And it wasn’t a weed brownie. Richard Masten, the executive director of Miami-Dade’s Crime Stoppers hotline, swallowed a piece of paper containing important information in protest of a court order. So why was he sentenced to jail? Masten ate a piece of paper related to a cocaine possession case that he was ordered to hand over to a judge....

In re Amber M., No. D055539, concerned an appeal from the trial court’s denial of petitioner’s request for a stay of dependency proceedings involving his two children under section 522(b) of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act. The court of appeals reversed, holding that 1) liberally construing petitioner’s application for a stay, it met the requirements of section 522(b) or at minimum substantially complied with the requirements of section 522(b); and 2) assuming it did not meet the requirements of section 522(b), the court abused its discretion in denying a stay....

The most significant aspect of a suit against Texas Tech by former football coach Mike Leach was dismissed by a Texas appeals court on Friday. The court ruled that the breach of contract claim could not move forward, but that Leach could still go after non-monetary claims. Leach was fired in 2009 after a controversy involving a player who was allegedly held captive in a dark storage shed. Leach was fired on Dec....

If you’re the kind of grandparent that would jump at the chance to help your grandchildren (and let’s face it, what grandparent isn’t?), you’ll want to be a little more careful lending a helping hand this summer. The ever-popular grandparent scam – wherein scammers pose as grandchildren in desperate need for financial help – is booming again, thanks to kids travelling on summer vacation. So be on guard, grandparents, and know how to stay safe from the grandparent scam this summer....

It is a sad state of affairs between a man and a woman when things disintegrate to the point where she had to do something very, very bad to get his attention. At least, that is what Abby Toll must have thought when she taped her boyfriend’s dog to the refrigerator. Upside down. That last part was just mean. According to Denver ABC7 News, Ms. Toll was convicted of felony animal cruelty and was sentenced on July 9....

If your all-you-can-eat bacon festival fails to deliver all-you-can-eat bacon, you have to expect that bacon lovers are going to be pretty upset. However, if one of those upset bacon lovers is an attorney, you might find yourself facing more than just a few angry phone calls. You could be facing accusations of false advertising. Seems like it’d be pretty hard to go wrong with beer, bacon and music. And according to The Frederick News Post, the Beer Bacon Music festival in Frederick, Maryland, promised all-you-can-eat bacon, 10 bands, and over 100 varieties of beer from 30 different breweries....

‘Legal ops’ can conjure up the image of a sniper, clothed with clandestine legitimacy and a laser-focused rifle. It’s a fair analogy, as legal operations professionals gain more power in corporate legal departments around the world. Ten years ago, not many corporate counsel knew they existed. Today, they are key members of legal teams trained to work fast and cut costs. With the formation of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium, there are more than 600 card-carrying members of the organization....

Beware, millennials – the brands are seizing your means of communication. Or trying to at least. Procter & Gamble Company has apparently filed for trademarks on all our favorite sentences: LOL, WTF, and NBD. FML. The largest consumer goods company in the world, according to the trademark application, wants to use popular internet acronyms to sell personal and household-use goods, gambling that millennial consumers are so vapid that once they see an Insta catch phrase on a pack of toilet paper, they’ll pony up....

There are some crazy Valentine’s Day stories out there, but this one takes the cake. A woman in Skokie, Illinois, was arrested after she allegedly bit off a large piece of her boyfriend’s tongue. And she didn’t bite off his tongue as he attacked her, or as a way of defending herself either. According to NBC News, police reports indicate that she bit off her boyfriend’s tongue as he was trying to show her some tenderness and affection....

So you want to be a lawyer? You’re not alone. If you are seeking admittance to the class of 2016, you are one of 55,670 people who have applied for this upcoming school year, according to data released by the LSAC. That may sound like a lot, but that represents a 13.4 percent drop from last year. That’s good news for you (less competition). Here is some more: applications are down 18....

Workers at McDonald’s franchises in California might soon have a reason to say “I’m lovin’ it,” now that the company has agreed to a pay out $3.75 million to settle a lawsuit against the world’s largest fast food chain. The suit sought to hold McDonald’s Corp. accountable, as a joint employer, for the alleged wage and hour violations of a Bay Area franchisee. The settlement marks the first time McDonald’s has agreed to pick up the tab for one of its franchisees, according to Reuters....

Law schools’ job-placement data for recent graduates is often incomplete or self-serving, and “raise a red flag” about whether law schools can be trusted to change their reporting practices, a new report says. The attorneys say in a press release that new litigation is being brought against law schools in California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois and New York. They concern allegations that many schools hire their own graduates for temporary jobs and count law grads working in non-legal jobs as employed....

Smashing Pumpkins. Not the band, the activity. It is a seasonal act of vandalism that spikes this time of year, and Grants Pass, Oregon definitely got their fair share of pumpkins spiked. Jacob Solomon and Adrian Ochoa, both 19, have been arrested on multiple counts of criminal mischief. They are being held in connection with vandalizing over 50 vehicles in mid October, from the 7th until the 23rd, by stealing pumpkins from outdoor supermarket displays and throwing them at cars, smashing windows and denting exteriors....