Those law students are so needy. Coming back home after final exams, they’ll be a psychological wreck. So what’s better than reminding them of the law they just forgot with some cool law-related gifts? OK, so maybe that shouldn’t be all that you get them, but come on: A trick gavel would be pretty funny. So what gifts are there for law students? Here are 10 ideas to get you started:...
On the heels of New Jersey potentially taking its back-and-forth betting battle to the Supreme Court, three other states are pushing their chips into the middle of the legal table. Michigan, New York, and South Carolina have all introduced legislation aimed at ending Nevada’s monopoly on sports betting in casinos. But, like New Jersey, they’ll have to overcome federal law in order to make it happen. Here’s a look at the latest legalization efforts, and their odds of success....
An undercover sting operation has apparently exposed the aging underbelly of the flesh trade. Sheriff’s deputies arrested three senior citizens after they allegedly solicited sex on the beach from young undercover officers. The sting took place at Bunche Beach near Ft. Myers, Fla. Online reviews tout the beach’s natural beauty, abundant wildlife, and vast array of collectible seashells. What the reviews don’t mention is that Bunche Beach has also been the site of men participating in lewd acts in public, Ft....
Being an attentive waitress usually leads to a big tip at the end of a meal. But at a restaurant outside St. Louis, it led to a Red Lobster waitress attack, police say. Three women from Belleville, Ill., got mad at a waitress for filling their water glasses too frequently last Friday, a witness told St. Louis’ KMOX-TV. One of the ladies then allegedly lobbed a glass of water at the waitress, hitting her on the head....
Want to make a memorable wedding night? Bite your husband! Twice! Mike Keeler, newlywed, was bitten by his new wife, Bernadette Besario Catan-Keeler, 30, in Florida. Catan-Keeler is reportedly the ex-girlfriend of Michael Lohan, the father of Lindsay Lohan. Most newlyweds tend to spend their wedding night in romantic bliss. Well, not so for these two lovebirds. The two were spending their wedding night partying at a dance club, reports the Huffington Post....
After deliberating for more than a week, a jury has found the Los Angeles Dodgers partly liable for injuries to Bryan Stow, the San Francisco Giants fan who was nearly beaten to death following an opening day game in 2011. The Dodgers were found 100 percent liable for Stow’s economic damages and 25 percent liable for Stow’s pain and suffering, reports the Los Angeles Times. The two men who beat Stow, Louis Sanchez and Marvin Norwood, were each found 37....
A couple weeks ago, Uber drivers in the United Kingdom went on strike, seeking an increase in fares, a reduction of commissions owed to the ridesharing platform, and “employment conditions that respect worker rights for drivers, including the payment of at least the minimum wage and paid holidays.” It’s hard to imagine their American counterparts doing the same thing, mostly because recent court decisions in the U.K. have deemed drivers employees, rather than independent contractors, as they have been legally considered in the U....
Denture fight! Want to know how to win in a brawl against your dentist? Fight with your teeth - your fake teeth. Local dentist Michael Hammonds of Florida was sent to jail after a denture tug-of-war this week. His opponent? 85-year old, denture-wearing Virginia Graham. Graham and Hammonds got in a scuffle at Hammonds’ office after a painful denture fitting. Hammonds was arrested and charged with false imprisonment, grand theft, battery on a person over 65 years old, and assault on a person over 65 years old, reports the Orlando Sentinel....
In plaintiff-taxpayers’ action against a county and its Board of Supervisors and city officials claiming that the county improperly spent public funds for partisan electoral purposes by bargaining for the unions’ non-support of the initiative measure to mandate binding arbitration, trial court’s judgment in favor of the defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs’ arguments that the county violated Stanson in bargaining with the unions about support for the binding interest initiative is rejected as the county did not expend public funds to promote a partisan position in an election campaign; and 2) the supervisor’s email did not violate Stanson as substantial evidence supports the determination that the text of the email was informational and any expenditure in preparing and distributing the email with its attachment was minimal....
There goes that neighborhood. It began with the barking, then the loitering. When they started mating on the beach, well, that was it. The city decided to close the beach to protect seals from humans. What was once a children’s beach is now, by court order, the seals’ beach. Children’s Pool The California Fourth District Court of Appeal said the city properly closed the beach. It will be closed – to people – from Dec....
A high school football player is set to receive a $300,000 brain-injury settlement, despite his claims that he never agreed to the settlement. In 2012, Michael Rouchleau and his parents sued the Three Forks School District for a life-altering traumatic brain injury he suffered while playing football for the school. The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that the Rouchleaus and the district had reached a $300,000 settlement agreement last year, but Michael had recently changed his mind....
When two women went to clean out the house of Allan Dunn last week, they were treated to a not-so-pleasant surprise: a human body in a freezer. Police believe that the 86-year-old man, who recently committed suicide, had been keeping his deceased wife’s body on ice for the last 10 years. Some people will do anything for government benefits. Though his wife Margaret had purchased the Sun City Center retirement condo in 1994, UPI reports that Allan Dunn became his wife’s guardian in 1999, taking legal control of her property and income....
Trial court judgment ordering plaintiffs to execute and deliver a partial satisfaction of judgment is affirmed where: 1) Code of Civil Procedure sec. 877 is not applicable as it applies only to a settlement entered into with a co-tortfeasor before a verdict or judgment, and the settlement between the plaintiffs and defendants occurred after the judgment; 2) judicial estoppel does not apply here as the factual prerequisite to invoke the doctrine is not present; 3) the court correctly credited defendants with the partial satisfaction of judgment under Code of Civil Procedure section 724....
Andy Golub has a thing for public nudity. The artist is known for painting, well, nude women. This seems fine until you take into consideration when and where Golub chooses to work his artistic magic: the middle of Times Square in broad daylight. Is this distracting? Distasteful? Is it public indecency? It was a little over the line, at least according to a New York judge. The artist was charged with misdemeanor public lewdness after he painted two of his models in Times Square....
The National Association for Legal Professionals, which tracks employment statistics and salaries of lawyers, issued a press release today that will have few, if any implications for anyone. After the median starting salary dipped last year to $145,000 for firms with more than 700 lawyers, it “rebounded” to $160,000 this year. Is that a sign of a thriving industry on the rebound? No. Not at all. What percentage of law grads work at firms with more than 700 lawyers?...
Malinda Knowles, a Harlem financial consultant and former fashion model, filed suit against JetBlue on Thursday in Queens Supreme Court, accusing the airline of battery, assault, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The 27-year-old New Yorker alleges that in July 2010, a male supervisor accused her of not wearing panties, forcing her off a plane so that he could inspect her undergarments. She was wearing shorts. According to Knowles’ complaint, she was waiting for her Florida-bound flight to leave the gate when a supervisor approached her, “slapp[ing] his walkie-talkie in between her legs” and smacking her thighs with its antenna....
The sexual battery case involving New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana is closed and no charges were filed. A woman accused Johan Santana of raping her but the state’s attorney office declined to prosecute the sexual battery case, the Associated Press reports. Apparently, there was a lack of evidence. In addition, the alleged victim’s statement is not consistent with other witnesses, according to officials. She accused the baseball player of raping her....
If you were looking for an indication that South Africa’s court system is a lot like our own, you might have gotten it when Oscar Pistorius was only found guilty of culpable murder in the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp and spent just one year in prison before being released to house arrest. It seemed like the justice system was giving favorable treatment to a star athlete. But it turns out South Africa’s appellate system is quite different from that in the U....
Sun Pharm. Indus. Ltd. v. Eli Lilly & Co., 10-1105, concerned a challenge to the district court’s judgment finding certain claims of the patent invalid for obviousness-type double patenting over another patent, in a generic drug manufacturer’s suit for a declaratory judgment against Eli Lilly, seeking declaratory relief that a patent related to treating various forms of cancer is invalid and not infringed. In affirming, the court held that the district court correctly followed the double patenting analysis of the Geneva line of cases, which address the situation in which an earlier patent claims a compound, disclosing the utility of that compound in the specification, and a later patent claims a method of using that compound for a particular use described in the specification of the earlier patent....
It appears that respect for judicial officers has gone up in smoke in Washington state, as Tacoma police have refused a court order to return seized marijuana to its owner. Judge Jack Emery ordered the police to return the pot to Joseph L. Robertson back in February, but law enforcement has decided to bogart his stash, reports The News Tribune. Despite obvious issues with police refusing to follow a court order, the larger question remains: Do Robertson and others in Washington have legal property rights to their grass?...
