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A Rhode Island teacher’s assistant has been arrested after allegedly giving pot to his principal, as a gift for winning a “Principal of the Year” award. Christopher Sheehan, 57, was arrested at his home last Friday and is now suspended without pay pending an investigation, Rhode Island’s WPRO Radio reports. A statement from Greene Middle School in Providence claims administrators have no reason to believe that any of the students knew, nor were they affected by Sheehan’s alleged pot possession....

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The news from 911 is usually bad. But sometimes it’s also a little funny. This week dispatchers had two particularly amusing tales to tell. They come from South Carolina and Ohio. Let’s start with South Carolina, which was underwater all week due to Hurricane Joaquin. Police there were busy with flooding, serious injuries, and deaths from the storm. Drunk, Angry, and Complaining But there was more. A man also called 911 to report that his girlfriend was not putting out....

We all complain about the practices of the airline industry. Last year, the Department of Transportation heard our complaints. They enacted a rule named Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections. The rule was enacted to fight deceptive and unfair practices by the airline industry. Of course, the airlines decided to fight this rule. Spirit Airlines challenged the rule, with Southwest Airlines intervening. Recently, the case went before the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals....

A distracted Toyota Prius driver got a crash course in what not to do behind the wheel, and how not to cross paths with burly bikers looking for a fight. The Prius driver, a 19-year-old man from San Jose, Calif., was headed north on U.S. 101 near Belmont about 8 a.m. Sunday when members of several motorcycle clubs sped by in the fast lane, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Prius driver took out his cell phone and began recording video, a California Highway Patrol officer said....

A New York chimpanzee is involved in a strange legal battle for both his freedom and personhood under the law. Tommy is a captive chimpanzee who lives in a cage in Gloversville, New York. But counsel for The Nonhuman Rights Project Inc. have filed a legal petition challenging his imprisonment in state court, The New York Times reports. How can Tommy the chimp claim to be a legal person? On Tuesday, the Nonhuman Rights Project filed a petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Tommy’s behalf, demanding that the court both acknowledge his rights as a person and also remove him from his current captivity, reports the Times....

Chief Justice John Roberts once famously criticized the irrelevancy of modern-day law review articles (even though he cites to them often in his opinions). Who cares about “the influence of Immanuel Kant on evidentiary approaches in 18th-century Bulgaria, or something”? There’s one thing we can all agree on, though, and that’s “Star Wars.” Cass Sunstein, currently a professor at Harvard Law School, lived the dream: He wrote an article, to be published in an upcoming edition of Michigan Law Review, about how “Star Wars” informs constitutional law....

As the end of President Obama’s first term comes to a close, there are going to be a number of leadership changes. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton already announced that she will be leaving the State Department and trying to catch up on her sleep. Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner has said that he will not return for the second term. Attorney General Eric Holder isn’t sure what his future holds....

It seems that more legal troubles are heading the way of former ESPN personality and Chicago Sun-Times writer Jay Mariotti. Stalking, corporal injury on a spouse or domestic partner, and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury - all felonies - round up the list of charges against him. Mariotti has pled not guilty to all charges. If convicted, he would face up to 5 years in state prison, reports the Times....

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals handed a huge victory to Raytheon Co. this week, giving the defense contractor another shot at pursuing its trade secret violation claims against Flir Systems Inc., reports Bloomberg News. The case, which had been dismissed by a district court, has now been remanded. The three-judge panel of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the district court had dismissed the case in error when it granted Indigo’s motion for summary judgment....

Might you remember a 1996 movie called Stealing Beauty, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci? Now there is a new version of stealing beauty, courtesy of a Florida woman the press has dubbed the “Beauty Bandit.” Another cute moniker for the relatively ordinary crime of walking out on the bill. It is alleged that beauty seeker Maria Elizabeth Chrysson has a habit of going to Miami doctors for botox and other cosmetic procedures and then waltzing out the door without making payment....

If there’s anything better than Spring Break, it’s videos of bros acting a fool at Spring Break, then local police departments posting those videos to their Facebook page along with said bro’s arrest warrant and a request to turn himself in. It’s a seasonal ritual not unlike the first cherry blossoms or the salmon returning to Capistrano. And so we salute Kameron, the Spring Break bro who acted a fool by launching a football at a Gulf Shores Police Department SUV on the beach....

Earlier this month, the Federal Circuit Bar Association held its 16th Annual Bench & Bar Conference in Asheville, North Carolina. The theme was “Sharpening Case Management: The Challenges at Home and Abroad,” and the conference had meetings about topics including IP protection trends, agency action trends, ethics and civility, damages litigation, customs enforcement and cybersecurity, to name a few. One of the highlights of the conference, was the delivery of the “State of the Court” by Circuit Judge Alan D....

With a cue from Shakespeare, Justice Eileen Moore told the tragic tale of a wine collector who lost $18 million on his investment. “Poor,” if not “unfortunate,” David Doyle insured his collection for $19 million, only to learn that a dealer had sold him counterfeit wine. And in a deeper cut, the insurance did not cover the loss in Doyle v. Fireman’s Fund Insurance. “A Shakespearean tragedy, to be sure,” Moore wrote for California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal....

A man arrested for allegedly blowing up his dog is set to face an animal cruelty charge – though prosecutors initially questioned whether the charge fit the alleged crime. Christopher Dillingham, 45, of Stevenson, Washington, allegedly attached explosives to his dog’s neck and then set them off, according to The Associated Press. Neighbors heard a loud explosion about 4 a.m. Sunday. When police responded, they found the blown-up body parts of Cabella, a Labrador Retriever, splattered all across Dillingham’s yard....

In plaintiff’s race, employment discrimination lawsuit against United Airlines, trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants is reversed as to eight causes of actions as they must be decided by the jury. Furthermore, the trial court’s order sustaining 763 of 764 of defendant’s objections was a manifest abuse of discretion. Read Nazir v. United Airlines, Inc. , No. A121651 Filed October 8, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Richman...

Defendant’s conviction for grand theft is affirmed but the probation order prohibiting defendant from “possessing stolen property” is modified to state as probation conditions that defendant “not knowingly possess property he knows is stolen” and “not knowingly own, possess or have custody or control of any firearms or ammunition.” Read People v. Freitas, No. C060280 [HTML] Read People v. Freitas, No. C060280 [PDF] Filed November 23, 2009 Judges Opinion by Judge Sims...

ESPN SportsCenter is probably the one thing Jerome Smalls couldn’t live without. When his wife cancelled their cable (and cut his ESPN Sportscenter), Jerome Smalls allegedly pulled out a kitchen knife and threatened to cut her, CBS News reports. At their residence police interviewed a woman who claimed her husband threatened her with a knife after he found she cut off their cable, police said. He was especially upset about losing the 24-hour sports network, ESPN, officials said....

The wunderkind that created the once amusing, now frightening, chatbot-lawyer that has since overturned some 160,000 tickets from London to New York has struck again. This time, he has aimed his ambitions at tackling homelessness in Britain, according to a recent Washington Post piece about him. This is terrific news for those who are in dire need of legal services because Josh Browder’s efforts will no doubt bridge the gap between demand and supply for legal services....

It’s difficult to believe that it has already been several weeks since the mass-shooting in San Bernardino that took upwards of more than a dozen lives. Shootings have seemingly become so prevalent it’s difficult to keep track of the shootings and the consequent numbers of victims. However, the memory is still fresh enough in the public’s mind to recall that the weapons used in the attack were all legitimately purchased, according to officials, through the use of ‘straw man’ Enrique Marquez....