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Three grandmas have gotten millions of views on YouTube by purportedly smoking weed for the first time. Produced by Cut Video, an offshoot of the Seattle-based creative team Super Frog Saves Tokyo, the viral video features three grandmothers taking bong hits and vaping, in addition to playing Cards Against Humanity and being hilarious. While we found the whole thing to be comic gold, we definitely had some concerns about whether the whole thing was legal....

Reid v. Google, Inc., S158965, concerned a challenge to the court of appeal’s reversal of trial court’s grant of defendant’s motion for summary judgment, in plaintiff’s age discrimination lawsuit against his former employer, Google, Inc. People v. Cowan, S055415, concerned a challenge to a conviction of defendant for first degree murder and a sentence of death. The court affirmed both the conviction and the sentence on automatic appeal over claims regarding: 1) trial court’s denial of defendant’s many motions to dismiss due to prearrest delay; 2) jury selection issues; 3) alleged improper exercise of peremptory challenges; 3) alleged judicial bias and related errors; 4) alleged improper admission of witness’s hearsay statements; 5) alleged improper admission of expert ballistics testimony; 6) alleged error in excluding defendant’s “consciousness of innocence” evidence; 7) alleged error in admitting photographs of the victims; 8) victim impact testimony; 9) failure to give a reasonable doubt instruction; 10) alleged error in including both burglary and robbery in instruction regarding other criminal activity; 11) denial of certain requested instructions; 12) alleged failure to adequately investigate potential juror misconduct; and 13) challenges to death penalty statute....

In an action involving the appropriate disability rating for a veteran, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims’ judgment upholding the finding that plaintiff’s disorders had properly been rated together is affirmed where 38 C.F.R. sec. 4.14 prohibits separately rating the same symptoms merely because those symptoms have multiple causes. Read Amberman v. Shinseki, No. 08-7111 Appellate InformationAppeal from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims. Decided June 29, 2009...

There are a number of ways that you can while away the day on your iPhone. Angry Birds. Facebook. Antograph. Apps, you see, have replaced eyes as the windows to the soul. Now, California lawyers have a new app option: the FindLaw Legal News App. Sure, legal news is available all over the Internet, but the FindLaw Legal News App lets you search by topic, (e.g., criminal, injury, family), or geographic location, (e....

Tony Parker was a casualty of the bar fight between Chris Brown and Drake early Thursday. The San Antonio Spurs star suffered a scratched retina and is out of commission for seven days while it heals. That’s bad news for Parker who is scheduled to play for the French National Team in the upcoming Summer Olympics in London. He was expecting to start training with the team this week but instead he’ll be taking care of his eye....

People v. House, No. B212057 involved a challenge to the trial court’s imposition of restitution and parole revocation fines on a defendant convicted of various theft crimes. In affirming the decision, the Second District held that the defendant forfeited her right to object to the amount of the fine and failed to establish that her counsel provided ineffective assistance faililing to object. However, because the recent amendment to the Penal Code section 4019 applied retroactively, trial court’s calculation of pre-sentence custody credits is vacated....

Looking for that perfect cite? The most on-point case law? The pin cite that will really drive your point home? Here’s a hint: don’t make it a cite to one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever. Don’t cite Dred Scott. Surprisingly, that’s a lesson lawyers for the state of Kansas didn’t learn until recently. Last week, Kansas Solicitor General Stephen McAllister filed a brief in defense of the state’s restrictive abortion laws, a brief that cited Dred Scott....

A former law student won a $6.45 million judgment against her ex-boyfriend who posted revenge porn of her online and sent links to her mother. The award was the second-largest of its kind, eclipsing even the more famous revenge-porn judgment against rapper 50 Cent for $5 million. The defendant in this case, however, apparently thought he could hide in anonymity. David K. Ilam II, who defaulted in the case, used the images to impersonate the victim on dating and porn websites....

While the best way to handle a lawsuit filed by a customer is to just apologize privately, not admit liability, and settle out quickly and cheaply, sometimes that’s just not an option. No matter how proactive you are as a GC or in-house, some lawsuits you just can’t avoid. When your company is facing a lawsuit, particularly a class action, filed by your customer base, public perception matters (especially consumer perception)....

Dunwoody, Georgia – birthplace of Ryan Seacrest and home to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s also not a place where you want to anger the local police. After what sounds like quite the eventful Monday night, Dunwoody PD took to the 20th Century’s town crier – Facebook – to dispense a little wisdom to the townsfolk. Here now is their advice on staying out of jail: Things You Should Not Do Here’s the full post from the Dunwoody Police Department’s Facebook page....

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that the International Trade Commission (ITC) can halt imports that incorporate misappropriated trade secrets, even when the misappropriation occurs entirely in a foreign country. Amsted Industries Inc. is a domestic manufacturer of cast steel railway wheels that owns two secret processes for manufacturing wheels. Amsted’s “ABC process” is the subject of this claim. Amsted previously practiced the ABC process at its foundry in Calera, Alabama, but it no longer uses that process in the United States....

They say LinkedIn is like Tinder for job applicants (“swipe right to get in touch with a recruiter!”), but some users seem to take the comparison literally. One U.K. lawyer was recently called out for using LinkedIn to comment on the appearance of a human rights lawyer 30 years his junior. Of course, the randy married lawyer claimed the message was purely complimentary, which just goes to show that one’s man compliment can be another’s ceaseless, uninvited focus on appearance over personal and professional accomplishments....

In a courtroom in the state of Ohio, DUI convicts are being required to comply with an unusual court order as part of their sentencing. In addition to fines, potential jail time, license suspension, and alcohol and driving safety courses, individuals convicted of a DUI are being required to download and activate either Lyft or Uber, the most widely used ride-sharing apps. Judge Michael Cicconetti, of Painesville, Ohio, told local media that if ordering DUI convicts to download these services’ apps saves one life, prevents one injury, or just keeps one more DUI from occurring, it’s worth it....

It’s unlikely to surprise most law students, but being a lawyer is stressful and rather taxing on a person’s mental health. If it’s not the actual case work, it’s the case load, or unrealistic expectations of partners, bosses, clients, or even judges. And if you have a family or social life, well, don’t expect any of that to make the stress of being a lawyer any easier. Fortunately for the law students at Penn Law, the school will begin teaching law students about how to develop good mental health habits for when the lawyer-stress eventually creeps up on them....

Conviction for perjury, preparing false evidence, and concealing or destroying evidence is affirmed where substantial evidence supports defendant’s conviction as the unaltered photograph offered by defendant may be considered false within the meaning of Penal Code sec. 134.1 since they depicted something other than what appellant claimed they showed and they were prepared with the intent to deceive the traffic court. Read People v. Bamberg, No. A120767 in PDF Read People v....

In People v. Lexington Nat’l Ins. Corp., the California Court of Appeals for the Fourth District faced a challenge to the trial court’s denial of surety’s motion to vacate bail bond forfeiture and to reinstate and exonerate a bail bond where the defendant was held in custody in another state. As stated in the decision: “Upon Lexington’s motion pursuant to section 1305 and its assertion of the defendant’s incarceration in another state during the relevant time period and thus his apparent disability, the trial court was obligated to assess the disability and, if found, to order the appropriate relief....

After the New York Jets narrowly beat the New England Patriots in Sunday’s game at Met Life stadium, a post-game brawl broke out and ended with a Jets fan punching a woman (who was a Pats fan). The media is having a field day over the gender dynamics – a male Jets fan who punched a female Pats fan. But as the video footage below suggests, the man could potentially argue he was acting in self defense....

What do cocaine, cheese and tortilla dough all have in common? To you and I? Probably nothing. But to Antonio Hernandez Carranza, all three have the ability to land a person in jail. And after a slow-speed early morning police chase, the cheese and tortilla dough–not the cocaine–did just that. For four days. Antonio Hernandez Carranza was driving down the I-240 outside of Asheville, North Carolina when the Citizen Times reports that, after missing his exit, he stopped and turned on his hazard lights....

Don’t you just hate it when you give someone a gift, and they just hide it away in the back of a closet? Or maybe give it to someone else? You spent hard earned money on that gift! Go ahead, be angry. Just don’t break into their house to take it back. A Burnsville, Minnesota man was recently arrested for burglary after he stormed into his neighbor’s house to take back an unappreciated Christmas gift....

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Joe Morgan was found asleep behind the wheel on a freeway early Saturday. After failing a sobriety test, he was arrested for DWI. Louisiana troopers responded to a report of a disabled vehicle on the Earhart Expressway about 6 a.m. Saturday. After the trooper awoke Morgan and asked him to step out of the car, he was swaying and smelled of alcohol, reports The Times-Picayune....