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U.S. agents at the Santa Teresa, New Mexico border portal made a bologna bust, when they seized 385 pounds of Mexican pork bologna this week. Agents found the meat of this story after the driver of a pickup truck denied he had any goods to declare, reports the Washington Post. The bologna, 35 rolls of it, had been packed behind the driver’s seat of a 2003 Dodge Ram pickup. Not drugs, not undocumented immigrant workers, not counterfeit DVDs....

Some people land in law school upon realizing that a liberal arts degree offers few job opportunities and even less job security. Others know early in life that they want to be lawyers. (One of our friends swears that he showed up for his first day of kindergarten with his copy of Black’s Law Dictionary.) Wherever you fall within the legal career realization spectrum, Law Day is a chance for you to share your knowledge about the law with people in your community who may not fully understand how the legal process works....

The Boston Celtics’ Terrence Williams was arrested Sunday after he allegedly brandished a gun and made threats during a child custody exchange. The mother of Williams’ 10-year-old son told police in Kent, Washington, that Williams had a visit scheduled with his son. During the child-custody exchange in a parking lot, the mother and Williams began arguing, which escalated into Williams allegedly pulling out a firearm, according to the Kent Reporter....

Attention patent practitioners! The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals recently came out with a decision that explains the court’s Recapture Rule review process in three easy steps. The case, In re. Youman, came out in May. Nevertheless, having stumbled on a brilliant analysis of the case in Thomson Reuters News & Insight, we figured this case was highly relevant to Federal Circuit practitioners. So we’re bringing the basics of the case home....

Klein v. US, S165549, concerned a plaintiff’s suit against the United States government and its volunteer worker for injuries he sustained when he was struck head-on by an automobile driven by a part time volunteer working for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, while riding a bicycle in a National Forest in Southern California. The court ruled that Civil Code section 846’s liability shield does not extend to acts of vehicular negligence by a landowner or by the landowner’s employee while acting within the course of the employment, as the statutory phrase “keep the premises safe” is an apt description of the property-based duties underlying premises liability, a liability category that does not include vehicular negligence....

Most law students get desperate during exam time. They go to great lengths to fit large amounts of information into their heads just long enough to pass the test and hope some of it will stick. Joshua Gomes took a different route to deal with his desperation. He stole his transcript so he could improve his grades. Gomes was charged in December with breaking and entering and armed robbery when he was caught on camera stealing from the school registrar’s office....

Most Floridians would blanch at being asked to kiss someone’s butt, but one Sunshine State flasher is apparently willing to pay top dollar to pucker up for a stranger’s bottom. Law enforcement officers in Venice, Florida, are on the lookout for a man who allegedly offered two women $200, or $100 apiece, if they would allow him to kiss their butts, reports The Huffington Post. This “butt-kissing flasher” has been struck at least four times since Saturday....

Reddit’s Legal Advice section is a treasure trove of tragedy, comedy, and legitimate legal head-scratchers. Among inquiries like “Does ‘Educational Purposes’ exempt you from crimes” and “There are police officers in my city who sit in a parking lot looking for people speeding … Is this legal,” was this gem: “If I lose a limb in a car accident do I still own the limb?” We know there are rules about the treatment and disposal of corpses, but what if you lose a limb in a car accident, or need to have a body part removed in surgery?...

In a major ruling last week, the DC Circuit left undisturbed the FCC’s decision on forced net neutrality. Internet service providers balked at the notion that the internet should be regarded as a utility. But they will simply have to get used to this new reality. This decision, which surprised both proponents and opponents alike, means several things, including more litigation. Internet Services Providers v. the FCC Th suit began when several ISPs brought claims against the FCC, arguing that the federal agency stepped way out of bounds by authoring very strict rules applicable to internet providers far beyond the agency’s congressional mandate....

Capitol Compliance Management offers to help businesses comply with laws that affect the cannabis industry. So it came as a surprise when city officials shut down the company’s “Holiday Budtender Bash” before it started. It was supposed to be an event for attendees to “smoke out with your favorite budtenders” and try out the “dab bar” where people could sample the latest products. Somehow, the company attorney didn’t get the memo because that party was against the law....

Athletes have been known to have their fair share of brushes with the law. Some of it stems from the fame, some from the violence of the game. Some of it relates to the family. New York Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez, 28, made it for a strange Wednesday after being charged with assault, on his father-in-law, at Citi Field, according the Lt. Mike Wysokowski. His father in law was seen with “facial abrasions” and was taken out of the stadium on a stretcher, loaded into an ambulance and taken to the hospital....

Dear July 2009 Bar Exam Takers: Over the past few months we couldn’t help but notice that we see you a lot less. There have been fewer movie nights, dinners, weekend barbeques, we’re playing man-down in tennis (which believe us, is no fun when you’re playing doubles) and haven’t you missed like four weddings and a bar mitzvah this summer? And when it was a struggle to get you out to catch Fourth of July fireworks, we knew it was serious, I mean aren’t you always quoting random res ipsa loquitur cases and assumption of risk premises from your Torts class—which, by the way, for a long time we thought was a baking seminar....

Conviction for battery by gassing is reversed and remanded where battery by gassing is a necessarily included offense of battery by a prisoner on a nonprisoner, and thus defendant should not have been convicted of battery by gassing once the jury found him guilty of battery by a prisoner on a nonprisoner. Read People v. Flores, No. F055859 in PDF Read People v. Flores, No. F055859 in HTML Appellate InformationAPPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Kern County....

It looks like the lockout is taking its toll on ex-Colts defensive end and current NFL free agent Raheem Brock. Arrested in Philadelphia on Friday, he’s been charged with theft of services and resisting arrest. His crime? He allegedly skipped out on paying a $27 bill. Didn’t he sign a $23.6 million contract in 2006? According to a waitress at Philadelphia’s Copacabana, Brock and two guests were at the restaurant Friday afternoon when a woman he was with became upset that an item wasn’t on the menu....

In a petition by wireless telephone service providers serving primarily small and rural markets for review of the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to impose an interim cap on subsidy payments, the petition is denied where: 1) petitioners could not allege any actual injury fairly traceable to either adjudicatory order; 2) the FCC complied with each of the Administrative Procedure Act’s rulemaking requirements; and 3) that the Commission, in the face of evidence showing providers were receiving subsidies in excess of what was needed to allow them to remain in the market, chose to consider its interest in avoiding excessive funding from consumers was entirely reasonable....

A Scottish trader has just been charged with securities fraud in the United States in a California federal court. According to the DOJ, James Craig, a trader from Dungarit, Scotland, set up phony social media accounts that mimicked famous market research firms and starting spreading false rumors of two companies. In another interesting twist in this story, Mr. Craig cannot be found and it’s not known if he’s retained the services of a lawyer....

When it comes to signing one of those summer sports camp injury waivers, many parents often worry that they are signing away all their rights to sue if something goes wrong. Fortunately, this is not entirely the case. Courts routinely refuse to uphold waivers in all sorts of situations. Although waivers do get upheld and enforced, even the best liability waiver is not going to work every time. Parents that are concerned about their children being injured due to just playing the sport will likely be disappointed to find out that most sports related injuries where there was adequate supervision do not lead to legal liability....

There are a couple of things you need to run a business in this world: capital, a great idea, and a great in-house lawyer. It’s no secret that running a company in a highly litigious country can be a real task, particularly when faced with a wall of federal, state and local laws that must be observed. Hopefully, that’s where you come in. If you’re looking for jobs this week, we suggest you look in house....

Saturday Night Live is having a bit of a renaissance these days, fueled largely by its nearly endless mockery of Donald Trump – mockery that really seems to get under the president’s skin, regularly sending him on early-morning tweet rampages. Not since Sarah Palin ran for vice president has the show been so politically relevant. But Trump isn’t SNL’s only target. On their most recent episode, the sketch comedy show skewered lawyers, telling the tale of one struggling, kidney-less, and possibly unlicensed fictional attorney, Jeremy Ganz....

When a former Supreme Court clerk breaks the famed code of silence and dishes on the highest court, you’d expect a lot of dirt, right? After all, in 1998, former Supreme Court clerk Edward Lazarus broke this code of silence and was excoriated by his peers when he published an account that detailed “wild gun battles” in court. Jay Wexler’s recent account of his time as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s clerk on Salon....