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We’ve all had that moment, right? Just after a heated exchange we think of the exact right thing to say. Well what if it doesn’t hit you until 30 years later? Is that too late to pick up the argument? One man in Kentucky didn’t think so, and his effort to win an argument with his deceased father landed him in jail. I Know You Are, but What Am I? Most of us will just have to deal with the frustration of crafting the perfect comeback long after an argument has ended....

The earthquake in Haiti was like a strong espresso on an already-caffeinated Monday morning. With a new year just underway and world attention focused on rebuilding economies, shoring up banks, and creating jobs, the striking devastation to life and property on the island nation just down the ocean from Florida, stormed the world stage. Sometime after you heard the news and before the first aftershock, you may have caught yourself asking, how can I help?...

Yesterday, the ABA Section of Legal Education released another in a long line of law school demand-damning statistics: for the fall of 2013, the 202 ABA-approved JD programs enrolled 39,675 full-time and part-time students, a precipitous drop of 11 percent (from 44,481) year-over year, and calamitous drop of 24 percent from the historically-bloated fall 2010 numbers (52,488). Are pre-law students becoming wise to the “law school scam” of $200,000 for a worthless degree?...

A Maryland man is under arrest for a daring daylight shoplifting attempt. He allegedly tried to steal more than two dozen video games – during an in-store event called “Shop With a Cop.” The store was swarming with uniformed law enforcement. Suffice it to say that Timothy Randall Clark, 22, was not shopping with a cop when he stuffed 26 video games and other items into his clothes at a Walmart in Charles County, Md....

With the death of the Law Clerk Hiring Plan, federal judges are able to take on whomever they wish when it comes to law clerks. For many judges, that won’t include the traditional fresh-out-law-school clerks; instead, judges are opting for clerks who have a few years of practice under their belts. For a mid-career lawyer, or even one with just a few years’ experience, is the prestige of a law clerk position worth the income you’ll be sacrificing?...

Following the D.C. Circuit’s decision on Friday, military tribunals will have a more difficult time prosecuting terrorists. The court threw out another charge brought against Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a former assistant to Osama bin Laden. For the past 13 years, al-Bahlul has been held in Guantanamo Bay. A number of criminal charges have been brought against him unsuccessfully. The latest charge, conspiracy, was knocked down by the D.C. Circuit for a simple reason: the international law of war doesn’t recognize the offense of conspiracy....

Kasia Rivera’s penis-injection manslaughter case is moving forward, as the New Jersey woman has pleaded not guilty to causing a man’s death. Rivera, 35, of East Orange, N.J., printed fliers to advertise her unauthorized surgical services including penile enlargement, the Associated Press reports. Rivera had no medical license or training, prosecutors allege. But that didn’t stop her from injecting silicone into a 22-year-old man’s penis in May 2011. Justin Street, a father of two from East Orange, died the next day....

Trial court’s conviction and sentence of defendant as an adult to two years in state prison for gross negligence in discharging a firearm, possession of a firearm by a juvenile previously adjudged a ward of the juvenile court, and related offenses is affirmed where: 1) the prohibition of juvenile possession of firearms is not unconstitutional as applied; 2) the prohibition of possession of a loaded firearm is constitutional; and 3) the trial court erred by sentencing defendant without the fitness hearing required by Penal Code section 1170....

Officers in Portland, Maine encountered 30-year-old white male, Asher Woodworth, dressed as a rather convincing tree, standing in the street blocking traffic. If it weren’t for the rather conspicuous boots he was wearing, he would have appeared to be a tree popping up out of the street. Woodworth, who was crossing the street at a snail’s pace while dressed as a convincing tree, was mid-performance art performance when officers interrupted....

Whether you’re crossing things off your packing list and ready to hit the road, or you’re crossing your fingers that your kids will come home safe from partying at the beach, there are probably one or two legal questions running through your mind as you get ready for spring break. What if your flight gets cancelled? Does your driver’s license work in other countries? How serious are DUI laws in Florida?...

UK Media Regulator Blindsided by Explicit Content in “Sexy Girls Next Door” Playboy Television has been fined by a British media agency for what can only be described as a Trojan-horse style assault on unsuspecting UK living rooms: sneaking sexually explicit and offensive images into programs called “Sexy Girls Next Door”, “Sexy Urban Legends”, “and “Adult Stars Close-Up.” According to Reuters, the fine was levied by Ofcom (the UK’s answer to the FCC) and amounted to 22,500 pounds – about $33,000, or what Playboy founder Hugh Hefner likes to call “what I make in the time it takes Miss February to help me put on my diamond-encrusted pajamas....

In plaintiffs’ legal malpractice action against his former attorney arising out of his purported negligent advice in a real estate transaction, grant of attorney’s motion for summary judgment is affirmed where: 1) under prior case law, the trial court correctly found plaintiffs first sustained actual injury when they obtained and obligated to pay new counsel to file a lawsuit seeking to escape the consequences of their signing the lease, and therefore sustained actual injury more than one year before the malpractice action was filed; 2) trial court did not abuse its discretion by declining to reject the summary judgment motion based on the absence of headings within the Separate Statement of Material Facts; and 3) under the circumstances, plaintiffs have demonstrated neither that the trial court abused its discretion in considering the evidence submitted by defendant nor that any alleged error was prejudicial....

Texas State Representative Ronald Reynolds seems to have gotten himself into a bit of trouble. The managing partner and former municipal judge was arrested late last month and charged with barratry. Yep, that’s spelled correctly. Barratry, it turns out, is just a fancy word for ambulance chasing. And in Texas, it’s not just prohibited by legal ethics rules – it’s also flat out illegal. In fact, it’s such a widespread problem at the Harris County Courthouse near Houston, officials recently erected signs warning attorneys that barratry is a crime....

In an action to foreclose on a mechanic’s lien, the grant of Defendant’s motion to remove the lien is reversed where the work performed by Plaintiff was a removal of buildings, which is included in the definition of a “work of improvement” under Cal. Civ. Code section 3106. Read United Rentals Northwest, Inc. v. Snider Lumber Prods., Inc., No. F055855. Appellate Information APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Tuolumne County....

There are two types of people in this world: The kind that wish they could get rid of sell a kid on eBay and those who would immediately freak out if they ever saw an ad touting a kid for sale. This story involves both of types of people–a 20-year-old Michigan woman who offered her cousin up on eBay, and a buyer who just wanted the ad to be taken down....

Three men faked being cops in order to skip a long line of eager gamers vying for a copy of “Grand Theft Auto V.” That’s according to the real cops who arrested the trio early Tuesday. The three amigos allegedly pulled up outside the Staten Island Mall in a former unmarked police vehicle, flashed a badge, and claimed they were “with the NYPD,” in order to saunter into GameStop and grab a coveted copy of the recently released Rockstar Games offering, reports the New York Post....

Stealing gift cards from undeliverable mail seems like something that Newman would have done on “Seinfeld.” Except Newman never stooped so low. Instead, Warren Schiff – Richard Dreyfuss’ character on “Weeds” – will be remembered as the TV mail carrier who pilfered gifts from undelivered mail. So what would happen if a postal employee pulled a similar stunt in real life? He would lose his job. And the federal employment review process would offer no relief....

The California Supreme Court has rejected a petition to release Leslie Van Houten, who was convicted in the infamous Manson murders half a century ago. Van Houten, 67, was a follower of Charles Manson in the 1969 slaughter of seven people in the Los Angeles area. She participated in the stabbing deaths of Leo and Rosemary LaBianca, but not the killings of actress Sharon Tate and four of her friends. Tate, who was pregnant, was stabbed 16 times....

In a challenge to two rules adopted by respondent-Air Pollution Control District (District), trial court’s judgment in favor of District is affirmed as the District had the power to adopt the indirect source review (ISR), intended to encourage developers to reduce indirect pollution caused by new development projects, and the fees imposed pursuant to those rules are valid regulatory fees. Read California Bldg. Indus. Ass’n v. San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control Dist....

In mandamus proceedings challenging a county’s approval of trail developments by Stanford University, arising from the university’s application for a permit to add buildings on its campus in 2000, decision of the Court of Appeals is reversed as the filing of a notice of determination (NOD) triggers a 30-day statute of limitations for all CEQA challenges to the decision announced in the notice, and here, the Committee filed its petition more than 30 days after the County reported its approval of the trails agreement in an NOD....