It’s true that pit bulls aren’t as dangerous as they’re sometimes made out to be. But that doesn’t mean they’re qualified to “babysit” an infant. That was the excuse James R. Irvine gave his girlfriend when she found him outside her home in Palm Coast, Florida, after she’d asked him to watch her baby. The 10-month-old was allegedly left alone in the house while Irvine went out and got drunk....
In plaintiff’s negligence action against a nurse and the hospital that employed the nurse alleging that he sustained injury after falling from a walker because the nurse placed the plaintiff on the walker and left him unattended, judgment of the trial court is reversed in part where: 1) the question of nurse’s alleged negligence for the fall poses a question of common knowledge, and therefore does not require expert opinion testimony; and 2) trial court’s judgment that denied plaintiff’s attempt to amend his complaint to add causes of action for battery, fraud and elder abuse is affirmed....
Reading about low test scores is like reading the obituaries: nobody really likes to see the bad news. But the truth is hard sometimes, and scores on the Multistate Bar Exam for July hit their lowest in 34 years. At an average score of 139.5, it’s a miracle anybody passed the Bar Exam. The good news is – hopefully – you’re not on the bar exam obituary page. If you are, maybe you’ll get lucky in the next life....
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals announced in its press release that it will begin offering oral argument audio recordings online. The recordings will be free of charge and will be posted on the court’s website by 3:00 p.m. the same day of the oral argument. Be on the lookout for this much appreciated level of public access as it becomes available starting in the court’s 2013-2014 term on September 9, 2013....
The cat formerly known as Navarro (new name: Oliver) is lucky he has have nine lives. Navarro was saved when cops heard the cat’s cries during a traffic stop of his owner, Gary Korkuc. Cheektowaga, New York native Korkuc was pulled over for running a stop sign when police heard the normally black and white cat in the trunk of his car. Upon inspection, they found Korkuc’s feline marinating in oil, crushed peppers and chili peppers, reports Yahoo News....
When a student is in need of special education services, typically, it is the parents’ local school district that covers the cost of the free appropriate public education (FAPE) that is mandated by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Per the California Education Code, the burden shifts to juvenile hall if the student is incarcerated, however. And when that student reaches the age of eighteen, he is transferred to the county jail....
Wheelabrator designs, sells, and licenses some process (phosphate-based treatment systems) that keep heavy metals from industrial waste (such as incinerator ash) from leaching into drinking water. Forrester does too. Both have patents on their proprietary methods. Wheelabrator licensed its system to a company that sublicensed it to a Taiwanese company, Kobin. That company was unhappy with the product, however, because it stank. Forrester, meanwhile, took that opportunity to develop a less smelly alternative, which it sold to Kobin, despite the existing deal with Wheelabrator....
In plaintiff’s suit against the Navy brought under the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, decision of the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals denying plaintiff’s claim for additional costs incurred in connection with is contract to perform roofing work at a Naval facility is reversed and remanded as, plaintiff’s interpretation of the contract as requiring waterproofing paint of the parapet walls was within the zone of reasonableness, and plaintiff is entitled to compensation for the additional costs incurred....
The only things certain in life are death and taxes. This applies to Super Bowl winners too. Just about every state has some version of a “jock tax” that extracts money from pro athletes who play in the state, reports Forbes. And the same is true in Louisiana. Nonresidents must allocate a portion of their compensation to the State of Louisiana for any personal services rendered within state borders, according to Louisiana law....
A woman has brought suit in a California court to avoid having one of three babies aborted in utero. Yes, you read that one right. The case shines a rather troubling light in that area of the law generally known as surrogacy law: contracts having to do with the births of children. It goes to show you just how far contract law can apply – the very limits of decency....
As the bulk of world leaders convene today at the United Nations to sign broad and sweeping climate reforms agreed to last year, global climate change and the environment are back on the minds of the public. The final hammering out of the “Paris Agreement” talks will likely be remembered as a highlight in President Obama’s career. Earthjustice Headquarters: Staff Attorney, Clean Energy If you live in the Bay Area and love everything green, then you should apply to Earthjustice – because the earth needs a good lawyer....
A big bundle of lawyers are bankrolling both the Obama and Romney campaigns, as the 2012 presidential election is set to be the most expensive in U.S. history. Together, lawyers and law firms are the No. 3 donors by industry to Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP candidate, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Lawyers play an even bigger role in President Barack Obama’s fundraising, coming in at No. 2....
The California Supreme Court declined to hear the case of Vergara v. California, one of the most significant teacher’s tenure cases to date. This means that the state appeals court decision is undisturbed, preserving many employment rights for teachers. Passion in the Court The decision not hear Vergara was a contentious one as evidenced by the split in the court. An attorney who represented some of the plaintiffs in the Vergara suit told reporters that he’d never before seen dissenting statements like the ones given this last Monday in any previous Supreme Court denials....
Verizon has acquired Yahoo’s operating business and formed a new company called “Oath.” “Oath” as in swear an oath, like “I’ll be damned if I give up my Yahoo email!” Fortunately, nothing is likely to happen to your Yahoo email after all. Oath, which includes Yahoo and AOL, will focus on advertising. It won’t impact the law business directly, although 2,100 workers will be laid off in the transition. Advertising for Verizon Verizon said Oath will “continue to build the industry’s most advanced and open advertising solutions, with brands such as One by AOL and BrightRoll that span across mobile, video, search, native and programmatic ads....
As a law student you probably kept a rough tally in your head of the ridiculous amount of time you spent in the library (it’s been over 15 years and I still remember), so you’d think keeping track of your time at work would be easier. Not so. Keeping track of billable hours is a task in and of itself, and without a plan, you are headed for trouble. After all, without an accurate tally of the hours you’re billing, how are you going to get that hefty bonus at the end of the year?...
Toe sucking is probably something that should be kept in the bedroom and out of the Walmart. Joey Leaphart, a registered sex offender, approached an 18-year-old woman in a Georgia Walmart on Tuesday and pretended to be part of America’s Funniest Home Videos. As part of his fraudulent story, he told the woman he would pay $100 of her shopping bill if she would participate in a prank with him....
Is this the real life, or is this just fantasy for 29-year-old Robert Wilkinson? The Canadian crooner is getting his six minutes of fame, as his drunken rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” following a DUI arrest has gone viral. Wilkinson, of Edson, Alberta, first tells Royal Canadian Mounted Police he is not “sort of intoxicated, as you proclaim” in the video taken inside a police cruiser on Nov. 27, Canada’s National Post reports....
Ever wish you could bill your clients for your “thinking time”? One California attorney claims that that’s exactly what his firm had him do. He’s now suing them for wrongfully terminating him after he failed to meet his billable hour quota. Richard Unitan, the attorney in question, says that the firm simply has unrealistic billing requirements. He says that his former employers are committing billing fraud, and he was only fired because he refused to follow suit....
Wardrobe malfunction. Nipplegate. The Janet Jackson case. Whatever you want to call Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl halftime show nip slip, it is ready to fade from the nation’s consciousness. After 7 years. Finally. The Federal Communications Commission had fined CBS $550,000 for the mid-day peep show. But last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit threw it out. For the second time. Traditionally, the F.C.C. had excused “fleeting material....
This is fun: Above the Law just ran a caption contest on a photo of some dude’s (or very hairy lady’s) leg, which is now adorned with a tattoo of a law review citation: 11 Ohio St. J. Crim. L. 827 (2014). We (read: I) have nothing better to do with our lives, so we dug up the article, the author, and then wondered what other terrible law-related things people could get tatted on their bodies....
