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If you’re really worried about encountering a carjacker, you may want to consider a manual transmission in your next car. A would-be carjacker’s evil plan in St. Louis was recently foiled by a standard transmission (yes, a standard transmission is a manual, not an automatic). The victim of the attempted carjacking in St. Louis was threatened at gun point to exit his vehicle and empty his pockets. When the carjacker attempted to drive off, he couldn’t figure out how to operate the manual transmission and was forced to abandon his criminal plans....

It will not go down in history as a love story from Shakespeare, but the “love letter” from Neil Gorsuch to Donald Trump may at least make it on an episode of Saturday Night Live. When President Trump blew up over comments Gorsuch made about Trump’s attacks on the judiciary, the President started to back away from his Supreme Court nominee. Gorsuch responded with a personal note to the scorned nominator....

A fallen air freshener and a Superman mouse pad led to an Indiana pastor’s fall from grace. Robert Lyzenga, 55, is accused of hiding cameras inside women’s toilet stalls at his church, the Lafayette Journal and Courier reports. A female church member exposed the pastor’s secret after an air freshener in a toilet stall fell to the floor, revealing a camera inside. She found two other fake air fresheners in adjacent stalls, one of which also contained a camera, according to an affidavit obtained by The Smoking Gun....

So there’s going to be another Kardashian in the legal profession? First, it was Robert Kardashian Sr. defending O.J. Simpson. Then his daughter Kourtney Kardashian said she wanted to follow in her father’s footsteps. Now Kim Kardashian West is reportedly working at an entertainment law firm. Does this mean there’s going to be another Kardashian television show, too? Catching Up for the Kardashians CBS is already developing a comedy about law school, so the Kardashians will have to catch up....

Beleaguered Thomas M. Cooley Law School has been fighting to defend its reputation for a long time. With the American Bar Association, the battle started a decade ago. Now, according to reports, the end may be near. Jacob Gersham, a legal reporter for the Wall Street Journal, says Cooley Law School wants a temporary restraining order to stop the ABA from publishing an “accreditation warning.” “Accreditation Warning” It is a rare story because, among other issues at the law school, the media thirve on publishing controversies....

Jason “Mayhem” Miller was arrested after police found him naked inside a Southern California Church. A pastor at the Mission Viejo Church called authorities when he suspected there was break-in at the church. The pastor had found books and CDs strewn about, white powder on the floors, and missing boards from a previously broken window, reports The Associated Press. When police arrived, they discovered the popular MMA fighter and host of MTV’s “Bully Beatdown” naked on a couch....

“Sugardaddy seeking his sugarbaby … Ask me about your monthly allowance.” Seems innocuous enough, right? After all, it’s 2017 – alternative relationship are accepted, if not celebrated, and some legal experts are even recommending sugar daddies as an alternative means to fund a law school education. But putting that message on a business card and handing it out to underage girls at the beach is altogether something different. So say goodbye to your prospects of landing a sugar baby, Richard Basaraba, and say hello to a six-month ban from al the beaches in Volusia County, Florida....

Before 1972, they were so ‘Happy Together.’ We’re talking about copyright holders Flo and Eddie of The Turtles fame. Their biggest hit came in 1967, but they aren’t so happy about it these days. That’s because courts have been ruling that pre-1972 recordings are not protected by copyright laws. New York and Florida have turned them down, and California could be next. Pre-1972 After the original Turtles group broke up, band members Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman created the comedic vocal duo Flo & Eddie....

In the epic smart phone and tablet battle between Apple and Samsung, the third time may be a charm for Apple. While the Federal Circuit had two previous opportunities to discuss whether a preliminary injunction should be granted, on its third go-around, the Federal Circuit had to determine whether a district court in San Jose, California correctly determined that Apple was not entitled to permanent injunctive relief. The Federal Circuit reviewed the district court’s decision as it related to design patents, utility patents and trade dress....

Here’s yet another reason to not take naked cell phone photos: They can easily fall into the wrong (creepy) hands, as allegedly happened to a woman in Florida. The woman, a waitress, went to a nearby Verizon Wireless store – actually, a third-party authorized reseller, according to Tampa’s WFTS-TV. She asked a store employee to transfer data from her old cell phone to a new one. But the employee apparently made a bad call that exposed himself, along with a coworker, to criminal charges....

Minnesota Timberwolves forward Dante Cunningham was arrested on a felony domestic assault charge last week, and he was arrested again Sunday for allegedly making “terroristic” threats. Cunningham allegedly tried to strangle a woman at his home in Medina, west of Minneapolis, and was arrested Friday on domestic violence charges. He bailed himself out, played in a T-Wolves game against Orlando on Saturday, and then was back in jail on a separate charge on Sunday afternoon, reports the Star Tribune....

While walking to deliver a speech at NASA, President John F. Kennedy got lost and found himself in a janitor’s closest. The President encountered a man there, cleaning a mop, and asked what he was doing at the facility. “Oh,” the startled worker said, “I’m putting a man on the Moon.” According to legend, that inspired JFK to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country....

Then there are those lawyers who gamble with their paychecks. For them it’s not a practice area; it’s a compulsion. The biggest difference between them is the contingency-fee lawyers make money and the gamblers lose it. Unfortunately, the losing often starts in law school. Law School Lawyers suffer from addiction problems at a higher rate than most professionals. But according to the American Bar Association, law students are four times more likely to develop depression and other mental health issues by the time they graduate....

A Kentucky Girl Scouts troop leader, Leah Anne Vick, was arrested this week for allegedly stealing over 6,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies. With the average box of Girl Scout cookies containing 20 cookies, that’s over 120,000 delicious, purloined treats. The street value of all those cookies is estimated at $26,000. Vick, 26, signed for and picked up the 6,000+ boxes of cookies to distribute to her troop as part of her role as troop leader, but none of her girls ever reported receiving their inventories....

In a dispute involving a pre-award protest of the Army Corps of Engineers’ solicitation for indefinite duration indefinite quantity multiple-award task order contracts for dredging, court of federal claims judgment permanently enjoining the Corps from using the solicitation is reversed where: 1) plaintiff has standing to challenge the solicitation as it has demonstrated a non-trivial competitive injury which can be addressed by judicial relief; but 2) plaintiff did not establish that the solicitation violated 10 U....

The Federal Circuit is in the unique position of hearing very specialized and specific types of cases. If you’re an IP attorney, or work with veterans, then it’s important to keep a close eye on the cases coming out of this circuit, and 2013 was a pretty interesting year for the Federal Circuit. Federal Circuit in the News The infamous government bailout of 2008 still haunts us as the issue of whether Ben Bernanke could be deposed, while still in his position, was raised in a lawsuit from Maurice Greenberg, owner of Starr International, Co....

The accrediting body of law schools, the American Bar Association (ABA), has passed a new set of rules regarding reporting of law school data like employment and salary information. Law schools will be required to report information that is “complete, accurate and not misleading.” In addition, law schools will have to publish information that includes attrition numbers, employment outcomes for graduates, and the percentage of students who retain scholarships, reports the ABA Journal....

In plaintiff’s suit against its former employee for breach of contract and conversion of patents belonging to the company, grant of defendant’s motion for a demurrer on the ground that plaintiff’s claims were barred under Code Civ. Proc. section 426.30 because they should have been raised in the prior suit is reversed and remanded: 1) the allegations of the complaint included claims that were barred on their face by the compulsory cross-complaint statute because they were claims logically related to defendant’s cross-complaint that should have been asserted in the prior suit; and 2) based upon certain allegations in the complaint and representations made by counsel both at the hearing on the demurrer and on appeal, plaintiff may be able to assert claims against the defendant that did not exist when it answered defendant’s cross-complaint in the prior suit and would thus not be barred under section 426....

Abebe Bikila shattered the Olympic marathon record in Rome in 1960, running the entire race barefoot. Now his family is suing Vibram, the running shoe company that advertises the “joyful feeling of barefoot running.” The Associated Press is reporting that Bikila’s family has filed a lawsuit in federal court in Tacoma, Washington, alleging that Vibram used their deceased relative’s name on a shoe without his, or their, permission. Bikila’s Life Unhappy with the way his running shoes fit, Bikila ran Rome’s cobblestone streets as he had trained – barefoot – becoming the first and last barefoot runner to win Olympic gold....

Legendary football announcer John Madden (and NFL coaching legend) is blowing the whistle on his award-laden broadcasting career, according to NBC Sports Chairman Dick Ebersol. Madden issued the following statement today: The New York Times indicates that Chris Collinsworth is a likely fill-in for Madden’s sizeable broadcasting shoes, and video gamers need not worry, because “Madden NFL Football” will probably not be affected. It’s been such a great ride… the NFL has been my life for more than 40 years, it has been my passion - it still is....