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The owners of a Bering Sea crab boat turned sea-faring strip club are facing federal charges for allegedly dumping sewage into an Alaska harbor. Darren Byler and Kimberly Riedel Byler, proprietors of The Wild Alaskan, have been indicted on three counts of piping human waste from the floating bar’s bathrooms into St. Herman Harbor in Kodiak, violating the federal Refuse Act. The former crabbing boat has been in trouble with the law seemingly since its inception as a floating strip club....

Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger, the boardroom lawyer for the New Celebrity Apprentice, happens to know the boss on the popular television show. What are the odds? The governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is taking over the show for Donald Trump. But if you want to become an entertainment lawyer, it is all about connections or “networking.” Just ask. The Hollywood Reporter did: Give Me a Line Close enough: Arnold is Patrick’s uncle. It definitely helped that Patrick is a bona fide entertainment lawyer....

A 45-year-old Houston Texans fan died after he fell from a three-story escalator at Reliant Stadium in the Texans’ final tuneup before the NFL regular season. The unidentified fan allegedly fell to his death while “horse-playing” on the escalator. Police say that the man was trying to slide down the outside of the handrail on the escalator when he fell three stories, landing on the pavement, reports CBS. Not surprisingly, it’s suspected that alcohol may have played a role in the incident, reports the CBS....

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) last week released the second half of a report on corruption among track and field athletes and agencies, and it did not limit its criticism to a single country. Instead, the report centers on the corruption of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), which allegedly allowed athletes with dirty blood tests to continue competing. Did the institutions fail intentionally? The new report indicates that they did, reports National Public Radio and that state and international agencies were involved in a corruption conspiracy....

The Securities and Exchange Commission is tightening rules on cybersecurity, but in a way it’s like that horse already left the barn. The SEC announced its plans after the massive Equifax data breach, which compromised the personal information of 145 million Americans last year. But what was worse, the SEC failed to disclose that it was hacked a year earlier. Now the agency wants us to increase cybersecurity? Breach Notification According to reports, the SEC is updating its guidelines regarding breach notification and disclosure....

You need a job. Many do, but you’re creeping into desperation territory here. We can’t testify that mass mailing actually works, but like any urban legend, we totally know somebody who knows somebody that it worked for. He mass mailed his materials to all the BigLaw firms he could find and ended up with a six-figure salary in Manhattan – the financial holy grail of gigs, even if some might question the sanity of a BigLaw lifestyle....

Who knew Instagram would be the latest crime-solving tool to help cops make an arrest? Convicted felon Dupree Johnson’s selfies on Instagram led police to a group allegedly responsible for 30 to 40 burglaries in Palm Beach County, Florida, the Sun Sentinel reports. Johnson’s arrest on 142 charges of being a felon in possession of weapons or ammunition isn’t the first time police have used Instagram to thwart crime. So this begs the question: Can your attention-seeking selfies land you jail?...

Weinberger v. Morris, B215819, concerned a challenge to an order finding a trustee the beneficiary of the trust, in plaintiff’s claims regarding the construction of his deceased mother’s trust instrument against the trustee and others. In affirming the judgment, the court held that, although the law generally implies a requirement for the prompt distribution of an estate under the language of Estate of Newman, such a requirement under the language in this trust cannot be implied as the trust contemplated ongoing management until a final distribution, at the trustee’s discretion, to a then-living beneficiary, which is also consistent with the fundamental purpose of the trust which expressly provides that the testator had intentionally omitted to provide for plaintiff....

The White House has announced President Donald Trump’s pick for the vacant seat on D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: Gregory Katsas, the current deputy counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office. If Katsas is confirmed by the Senate, the conservative seat vacated by Judge Janice Rogers Brown will be filled by another conservative. Katsas, whose distinguished legal career has never included serving as a justice, is expected to be questioned as to his prior casework as an attorney, as well as his motivations and politics, given his close ties to the current White House....

The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims judgment affirming the decision of the Board of Veterans’ Appeals (Board) denying petitioner’s service-connection for an eye disability is affirmed as absent some challenge to the expertise of a Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)expert, there are no statutory or other requirement that VA must present some affirmative evidence of a physician’s qualifications in every case as a precondition for the Board’s reliance upon that physician’s opinion....

In an action seeking to vacate an arbitration award, summary judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where the arbitrator’s award drew its essence from the parties’ collective bargaining agreement. Read Verizon Washington, D.C., Inc. v. Comm. Wkrs. of Am., No. 08-7092 Appellate Information Argued April 21, 2009 Decided July 10, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Henderson Concurrence by Judge Rogers Counsel For Appellant: Stephen M. Koslow, McCullough, Campbell & Lane, Chicago, IL...

There is nothing more difficult in this world than writing about one’s self. Sure, some people might cure diseases or genetically engineer crops that can feed millions of starving people, but have they ever tried to write about themselves without sounding like an egotistical, self-obsessed freak? “Yeah. I cured cancer. Now I’m going to cure law.” It’s a catch-22. Write about yourself positively and you sound arrogant and immodest, while if you take the other path, and play down your greatness, your essay either makes them ask “Why do we want this guy?...

Uber just missed its last exit before a trial that threatens the company’s self-driving technology. The company wanted to push the case into arbitration, but a federal judge denied its request. Trial is set to begin Oct. 10 in Waymo, LLC v. Uber Technologies, Inc. There’s always a chance for a continuance, but that’s not likely. Judge William Alsup is ready to go, and the orders are falling into place....

Despite having never served on the bench, President Trump’s current White House attorney, and the former assistant attorney general under George W. Bush, Gregory Katsas, has been confirmed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. While never having been a judge might jar some people, the ABA had given Katsas its highest rating of “well qualified,” and for good reason. Katsas, before becoming President Trump’s deputy counsel in the White House, was a respected appellate attorney, and has an education and background that is rather impressive....

You go to med school in order to become a doctor, right? So, it’s perfectly rational to think that you need law school in order to eventually become a lawyer. Well, that’s not necessarily the case. You can become a lawyer without first graduating from law school bearing a J.D. And we’re here to guide you. There is a little known technique that practically no one goes through on their journey to becoming a lawyer....

Following the Federal Circuit’s 2011 opinion in Therasense Inc. v, Becton, Dickinson & Co., the “inequitable conduct” defense – described by one Quinn Emanuel article on the subject as “the ‘atomic bomb’ of patent law” – became much harder to invoke. In 2004, Dr. Bernard Charles Sherman of Apotex was issued a patent for manufacturing Moexipril, a drug used to treat hypertension. The drug is stabilized with a magnesium compound. The process for stabilizing drugs like Moexipril has been around since the 1980s, and Dr....

A drug dealer in Pennsylvania was arrested after trying to make a sale of heroin to an undercover cop. The brand name of the heroin? The Lebron James. The packet even featured a silhouette of the basketball player, reports United Press International. Who knows why drug dealers choose different street names for their heroin. Fans of The Wire have all heard of the WMD, Pandemic, Bird Flu, Brokeback, and even the Bin Laden....

It’s sad, it’s funny, it’s against the law. It’s “Where’s Waldo” gone bad. A bank robber operating in the state of Oregon has been dubbed the “Where’s Waldo bandit” for his chosen robbing outfit of a striped shirt, glasses and a mop of hair. The FBI, like other law enforcement these days, seems to be quite hooked on bestowing the catchy name on a bank robber (the Bouquet Bandit) or other thief (the Santa Claus Bandit)....

Despite bringing in $24 million dollars in business and generating nearly $8 million in revenue, former LeClairRyan partner Michele Burke Craddock says her success was devalued and diminished – not because it wasn’t enough, but because Craddock wasn’t a man. Indeed, sometimes credit for her accomplishments was stolen right out from under her, Craddock alleges in a new lawsuit against her former firm. Having started her own practice, she’s now suing LeClairRyan, claiming that compensation schemes that were “cloaked in secrecy” discriminated against her as a woman....

The California state legislature may put fort nonbinding, advisory ballot measures, the state’s Supreme Court ruled this morning. In a six to one ruling, the court found that the legislature has the power to poll the public through the ballot box, with questions that would not have any legal impact. The ruling comes from Proposition 49, a measure proposed by the state legislature for the 2014 ballot but withdrawn after a conservative group sued, arguing that advisory measures were simply attempts to influence voter turnout....