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Having disguised his pot plants as Christmas Trees, Abdul Jamar probably thought he was invincible when it came to law enforcement. But there were a few problems with his plan. One, the ’trees’ were astonishingly tall for pines growing in the California desert in the summertime. Two, marijuana leaves don’t look like pine needles. Three, if you’ve already been busted for growing pot then the cops are going to be suspicious of anything your green thumb creates....

An Indiana man with a hankering for hot dogs was arrested Wednesday on a felony theft charge for allegedly stealing a $1.49 weenie from a convenience store. Rickey Joe Moore II, 21, of Odon, is being charged with a Class D felony after being accused by a convenience store manager of reaching in and snatching a hot dog from the rotisserie, the Greene County Daily World reports. How is stealing a hot dog a felony?...

In a petition for review of the National Transportation Safety Board’s revocation of Petitioner’s pilot certificate, the petition is granted where the Board erred by finding that it lacked jurisdiction to consider Petitioner’s defense that he complied with an FAA voluntary disclosure program. Read Moshea v. Nat’l. Transp. Safety Bd., No. 08-1218 Appellate Information Argued April 24, 2009 Decided June 30, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Kavanaugh Counsel For Petitioner:...

If there were not already enough reasons not to use PCP, a New Jersey man was allegedly high on the drug when he arrested in a carjacking attempt. Police say that 29-year-old Jargget Washington stripped naked at an intersection and starting pounding his fists on cars and screaming incoherently, reports The Jersey Journal. At this point, Washington allegedly jumped on the hood and roof of a passing car and tried to pull the driver out....

In a short ‘Decision Order’ issued by the Arizona Supreme Court on Monday, DACA program participants that are state residents are not eligible for in-state college tuition at Arizona’s public universities. The decision will likely mean that many of the 2,000 Dreamers currently enrolled in Arizona’s public universities will be unable to afford tuition. Unfortunately for these students, federal and state financial aid is not available. A full opinion explaining the rationale behind the order is expected next month....

Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Jerome Simpson’s pot bust might be landing him in a lot of hot water. Authorities tracked a 2.5 pound package of marijuana delivered through the mail to Simpson’s Kentucky home earlier this week. The package was sent from the Northern California city of Eureka. It was one of 40 packages the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement was tracking. Aleen Smith, Simpson’s girlfriend, accepted the package at Simpson’s home....

The visionary non-profit behind ‘Sesame Street,’ Sesame Workshop, is likely plush with disappointment, both over its loss in court, and over the Streisand effect caused by the lawsuit it filed against the makers of the upcoming ‘The Happytime Murders’ movie. That upcoming film is something a little different than what you’d expect from a puppet-centric film. For one, it’s R rated. It also features Jim Henson-style Muppets (sorry Velcro) behaving badly....

Fact or fiction: Snopes is in danger of shutting down? It’s a fact, according to Snopes, the internet’s fact-checking website. The story goes that Snopes had contracted with an outside vendor, but the vendor will not relinquish control of the website, including advertising. That means Snopes is running out of money. Proper Media, a web development company, sued Snopes’ parent company, Bardav, alleging breach of contract and other claims. Bardav has filed counterclaims....

In plaintiff’s patent infringement suit against the defendant involving a patent for a computerized procurement service for matching potential buyers with potential vendors over a network, district court’s conclusion that the asserted claims of the ‘328 Patent were infringed but invalid on obviousness grounds is vacated in part, affirmed in part, and remanded where: 1) district court’s grant of summary judgment of invalidity and infringement are vacated excepted to the extent that the latter grant forecloses defendant’s argument that its website does not offer goods or services; 2) district court’s grant of summary judgment on the charges of indefiniteness is affirmed....

A man dressed up in a SpongeBob costume was attacked in Hollywood on Wednesday. Police questioned the Hollywood SpongeBob character and his attackers after the incident. It all started when a man in a SpongeBob costume started goofing off a little bit too close to two women on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. What started off as a playful encounter between the trio ended with some real violence. The women at first responded rather lightheartedly, going along with the SpongeBob’s antics....

For prospective students going through the law school application process, the fees can surely add up. One of those fees involves the LSAT. In addition to the fees for taking the test, there are fees for having your scores sent to the schools you are applying to, and that’s not to mention the costs of prep courses and materials. Particularly for those who are not sure about what to do after undergrad, sitting for the LSAT is not like the GRE, which can be used for a variety of different graduate school applications....

Once the Supreme Court opened the door to legalized sports betting by overturning a federal ban in May, you knew a whole bunch of states would walk through it as soon as possible. Why should Nevada have all the fun, anyway? Of course, those new gambling regimes can take a lot of forms, and removal of the federal prohibition on sports betting merely set the stage for states to step in with their own regulations and restrictions....

A prosthetic eye popped out as a victim testified from the witness stand, prompting a Philadelphia judge to declare a mistrial. John Huttick wept in the witness box as he recounted an early morning fight outside a tavern in 2011. The 48-year-old told jurors he tried to intervene in a fight and was punched by 23-year-old Matthew Brunelli, costing him his left eye. But in mid-testimony, Huttick’s prosthetic eye literally popped out of its socket, causing jurors to gasp and rise as if to get away from the gruesome sight, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer....

One Floridian wants there to be a “Festivus for the rest of us.” He’s planning to install a nearly 6-foot tall Festivus pole in the Florida Capitol’s rotunda. The aluminum pole – which was constructed from empty Pabst Blue Ribbon cans – has attracted significant ire in the Sunshine State, as it will share the same space as a more traditional nativity scene, reports the News Service of Florida. But that’s the point....

When Bonneau, South Carolina resident Virginia Tice adorned her pickup’s trailer hitch with “truck nuts,” chances are she didn’t see herself fighting for the right of plastic testicle lovers everywhere. A recipient of a $445 ticket, the 65-year-old woman is challenging the application of South Carolina’s obscene and indecent bumper sticker law to her beloved car ornament. She says their display is free speech. For those who have never encountered “truck nuts,” they’re basically a pair of anatomically correct plastic testicles that can be affixed to a truck’s trailer hitch....

Baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez is facing fresh legal trouble: He’s being sued by his lawyer David Cornwell for $380,000 in unpaid legal fees. The veteran sports attorney and his firm, Atlanta-based Gordon & Rees, represented Rodriguez in his failed attempt to get his season-long suspension from Major League Baseball overturned, the New York Daily News reports. Rodriguez was suspended after being implicated in a wide-ranging scandal involving the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs....

By now, everybody knows you can’t get away with much in Judge R.W. Buzzard’s courtroom. The judge literally chased down a man who tried to get away from his courtroom recently. Apparently, the inmate didn’t like his sentence. Too late. Judge Buzzard tackled him as he was going out the door. The Judge Runs The courthouse video tells the story. Two men bolt from the courtroom, and the judge runs after them....

Have you ever wished you could get paid to do nothing? One man figured out a way, but now he is paying, sentenced to five years in prison for fraud after pretending to be blind to obtain $1.3 million in disability benefits. The man was blinded in one eye in a workplace incident in 2006, reports ABC News, but it turned out his vision was not totally impaired after all....

Every lawyer we know waits until the last minute to purchase gifts, whether for holidays, anniversaries, or birthdays. We like to think that it’s due to limited free time and hourly billables. Regardless of the reason, if you still have holiday shopping to complete for your kids, we have a helpful suggestion for those of you with children who want pets for Christmas: Gerbils are illegal pets in California. California is a state of transients, so those of us who were not born and raised here may be surprised by this news....

Quitting law school is not an easy decision. The debt quickly becomes so insurmountable that most students are left with few career options that provide enough earning power to actually enable them to pay back the crushing debt. Or at least so it seems despite the fact that the legal job market isn’t all that promising for recent grads. Noted Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki quit law school after only two weeks....