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Toronto Bluejays outfielder Melky Cabrera’s homer in a game against the Boston Red Sox this week didn’t just raise his season home run total to 14, but it also raised an interesting legal question. The home run sailed over the Green Monster – Fenway Park’s legendary left field wall – and into a parking lot beyond the stadium where it shattered the windshield of a parked car. Who can be held liable for damage to cars or injuries that occur in stadium parking lots?...

In 2010, New York resident Jimmy McMillan ran for mayor on the platform that “the rent is too damn high.” He didn’t win that election, but he did become one of the Internet’s most popular memes, along with his Franz Josef beard and ubiquitous gloves. It looks like McMillan won’t have to worry about his rent anymore. Earlier this week, he was evicted from his rent-stabilized apartment in New York’s artsy East Village, the New York Daily News reports....

More than 50 days after she was nominated, Loretta Lynch was confirmed by the Senate on Thursday and became the nation’s first African American, female attorney general. That wait was longer than the past seven most recent AGs combined, according to CNN, a result of a fight between President Obama and Republicans over the president’s executive actions on immigration. Who is Lorreta Lynch and how did she come to replace outgoing attorney general Eric Holder?...

“Dude, what’s what smell?” may be a common refrain come Friday, as a mile-high university tries to snuff out an annual “4/20” marijuana smokefest with the unwanted smell of fish fertilizer. “We’re at that point where we’re saying, ‘Enough,’” a spokesman for the University of Colorado at Boulder told Denver’s KUSA-TV. “We don’t want this on our campus.” In recent years, as many as 10,000 people have converged at CU-Boulder for a mass marijuana-smoking rally at 4:20 p....

In a patent case involving claims for the antipsychotic drug quetiapine, district court’s grant of limited motion for summary judgment of no inequitable conduct in favor of plaintiffs-AstraZeneca, is affirmed as defendants had not presented evidence sufficient for a reasonable jury to find that in the prosecution of the patent application, plaintiff made a misrepresentation of material fact or an omission of material fact, with intent to deceive or mislead the patent examiner into granting the patent....

Heisman candidate Cameron Newton was allegedly being shopped around as a recruit with a price tag of $180,000. Recruiting middleman Kenny Rogers is reported to have approached Mississippi State and offered the Bulldogs Newton’s services for a ten percent discount. That was because Newton liked them, Rogers said. It’s all part of a bombshell report from ESPN, which while shocking, currently amounts to only allegations. The press reports have yet to submit any hard evidence....

California employment laws are complex. And so are the laws relating to employment, such as employment torts. Take, for example, the law of vicarious liability. Respondeat superior and negligent hiring aren’t always that different. But there is a distinction. A recent California Supreme Court case outlines this distinction, in a June 23 ruling. The case involved a vehicle accident involving an SUV, a car and a truck. The truck was driving in the faster lane and was overtaken by the car....

It was only a matter of time – three years in this case. Michael Cohen should have seen it coming. He had broken tax laws, lied to a bank, and made unreported campaign contributions. But as he was sentenced in federal court, Cohen said he was blind to the truth. The truth, he said, was that he was doing Donald Trump’s dirty work. “My weakness could be characterized as a blind loyalty to Donald Trump,” Cohen told a packed courtroom....

Brian Vincent is one lucky attorney. Or maybe not. The Michigan litigator recently signed on to represent Joseph Corlett, a 56-year-old student at Oakland University. Corlett was suspended for 3 semesters after writing a “Hot for Teacher” essay about the female instructor overseeing his critical writing class. And yes, it was based on the Van Halen Song. Students must keep a writing journal as part of the class requirements, explains ABC News....

Autism might now look good on a resume, depending on how you look at it. While most employers do not seek out workers who have an autism spectrum disorder, some leading companies are looking for them. Microsoft, for example, is recruiting autistic people for jobs in software engineering and data sciences. “In order to build the best products for everyone, we need to have a diverse and inclusive workforce across all abilities,” Microsoft says on its website....

US v. Russell, No. 08-3120, concerned a prosecution for travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. The court of appeals affirmed in part the district court’s order of supervised release, holding that the court’s analysis of defendant’s term of supervised release under the 18 U.S.C. section 3553(a) factors made applicable by section 3583(c) did not rebut the presumption established by the within-Guidelines sentence. However, the court vacated in part where the 30-year prohibition on the possession and use of computers - a prohibition not subject to modification by the probation office - was substantively unreasonable....

Blankenship v. Allstate Ins. Co., C059423, concerned a challenge to the trial court’s denial of a minor-plaintiff’s petition to compel Uninsured Motorist Arbitration, for injuries he sustained when he was struck by an uninsured driver while riding his bicycle. In affirming the decision, the court held that, although an insured may have made a claim with his uninsured motorist (UM) liability insurance carrier for damages suffered in an auto accident with an uninsured motorist, he may not subsequently file a legal actions against his UM insurer unless, within two years after the date of the accident, he first files an action against the uninsured motorist, demands arbitration with his UM insurer, or reaches an agreement with his UM insurer....

People v. Rodriguez, C060227, involved a prosecution of defendant for attempted second degree robbery and active participation in a criminal street gang under section 186.22(a). The court reversed defendant’s conviction for active participation in a street criminal gang, since the defendant was the sole perpetrator of an attempted robbery that did not involve felonious conduct by other persons, let alone members of the gang of which he was a member....

Here at FindLaw, we’re big proponents of lawyers taking advantage of social media. Since we like to practice what we preach, you can find us on just about every social media platform from Pinterest to Google+ (remember that?). So when Twitter announced its new polling feature a few weeks ago, we were ready to take the pulse of the legal community on today’s most important issues. And the results of our FindLaw #TwitterPolls are in....

The American Bar Association has made it a lot easier for lawyers to provide pro bono services in Florida. Working through the Florida Bar Association, the ABA has launched a free legal service online in the Sunshine State. ABA Free Legal Answers is a website that provides legal answers and advice to people who cannot afford it. “It sounds unbelievable,” the Pensacola New Journal reported, “but there are already 500 licensed attorneys waiting to answer your questions....

Former Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor had his lawsuit against one of Bill Cosby’s accusers, Andrea Constand, and her attorneys, dismissed with prejudice by the court. In case this piece of the Cosby fallout had gotten past you, Former DA Castor was sued by Constand in 2015, while he was running for election as district attorney. That case is still pending in the federal court. However, he alleged in a separate lawsuit that Constand’s lawsuit was an abuse of process, and filed in order to destroy his campaign which was ultimately unsuccessful....

In plaintiffs’ case against a county and the owner and operator of their mobile home park for fluoride contamination in the water, trial court’s grant of county’s demurrer to the third cause of action is vacated and reversed as California Code of Regulations section 64256(e) imposes upon the county the express mandatory duty to undertake a monthly review of all water quality monitoring data submitted to it in order to detect deviations from specific water quality standards....

In Agredano v. U.S., No. 08-5114. the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit dealt with the issue of whether the U.S. Customs and Border Protection breached an implied-in-warranty when it inadvertently sold a vehicle containing concealed narcotics to the plaintiff at an auction. As set forth in the decision: “To recover for a breach of warranty, a plaintiff must allege and prove (1) that a valid warranty existed, (2) the warranty was breached, and (3) plaintiff’s damages were caused by the breach....

Should we consider the International Trade Commission’s recent narrow ruling in favor of Apple - one small step for the consumer electronics behemoth and one giant leap for the smartphone patent wars? Although the decision is being hailed as the first definitive case in the war, it’s just a baby step in the long string of legal actions to come. The ITC ruled on Monday that Android-running HTC devices that use “data tapping” technology in a certain way violates one of Apple’s patents....

Former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky’s preliminary hearing takes place in a Bellefonte, Pa. courtroom Tuesday. Some of Sandusky’s accusers are set to testify. Sandusky is charged with 52 counts of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year period. Sandusky, 67, maintains he is innocent, and is confined to his house by electronic monitoring. Today’s court proceeding may look like a trial, but it’s not. Here’s what to expect....