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A high school football star might not be allowed play his senior year of high school ball due to pending felony robbery charges. This is the case despite the fact that he’s rumored to have a pending scholarship offer from a Division I school and is expected to be highly recruited. Shelley Singletary, along with another teen, is alleged to have robbed an 11-year-old boy of his Air Jordan sneakers and bicycle....

In a trademark registration action, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board judgment rejecting petitioner’s trademark registration is affirmed where the Board’s finding that HOTELS.COM mark is a generic term for hotel information and reservations is supported by substantial evidence. Read In re Hotels.com, No. 08-1429 Appellate InformationAppeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board.Decided: July 23, 2009 JudgesBefore MICHEL, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, and GAJARSA Circuit Judges....

In a disability discrimination action alleging that defendant transit authority’s refusal to promote plaintiff was the consequence of discrimination and retaliation, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where defendant came forward with a legitimate, nondiscriminatory and nonretaliatory reason for refusing to promote plaintiff to positions that required driving: to wit, the provision of a prior settlement agreement stating that “under no circumstance will plaintiff be permitted to operate an authority vehicle....

A California man accused of strapping 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport, pleaded not guilty to federal charges. According to the Associated Press, Michael Plank entered his plea to a count of smuggling wildlife into the United States, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The lizards have an estimated value of more than $8,500, authorities say....

A Florida man told the cops he wasn’t taking a DUI sobriety test, because “I done seen it on the MythBusters,” reports TC Palm. Thirty-five-year-old Dustan Edward Carpenter was stopped shortly after 11:00 p.m. after police spotting his Ford Focus traveling without its headlights on. Deputies say the man smelled of booze and told them that he just came from Applebee’s and had one beer. His slurred speech, mumbled speech, and bloodshot eyes suggested that he drank quite a bit more....

While facing adverse consequences at work for misconduct is nothing to be celebrated, there are certainly times when taking one for the team, paying dues, or facing the music, is heralded as a rite of passage. That’s not the case when a lawyer, or anyone really, is busted watching porn in their office. That’s a lonely, solitary, and embarrassing way to get in trouble. And for one partner at a prestigious BigLaw firm in London, his suspension will perhaps go down in history as one of the most embarrassing moments an attorney can be dealt....

Next time you want to complain about your job, just be thankful you’re allowed to wear the underwear of your own choosing. In a lawsuit brought against Abercrombie & Fitch, a fired airplane pilot says male stewards were required to wear boxer briefs and that Phil Collins music had to be played on every flight. The lawsuit is an age discrimination lawsuit, but the pilot’s age (he’s 55) is the least interesting aspect of the case....

The expansion of religious liberties under the Supreme Court’s recent Hobby Lobby ruling has found a new home with Satanists, who are hoping to use the decision to defeat certain abortion laws. The Satanic Temple (TST) believes that the human body is “inviolable subject to one’s own will alone,” reports The Huffington Post. TST has begun a campaign to defeat abortion laws that require a woman to read informational materials which critics claim are designed to dissuade a woman from terminating her pregnancy....

Students are educators, too. At least this was the opinion of the DC Circuit, which just opined that documents falling under the FOIA umbrella ought to be cheaper to access for students under the “educational institution” exception. This appears to be a change in the direction of the FOIA application, as the government has generally held that teachers are eligible for FOIA’s reduced fees, but students may not enjoy reduced fees....

Conviction for assault with a deadly weapon by a person serving a life term and attempted murder is reversed and remanded for retrial where: 1) the trial court abused its discretion by denying defendant’s motion to be unshackled during trial as the record does not show defendant’s violence, threat of violence, or other nonconforming conduct, and it cannot be said beyond a reasonable doubt that the restraints placed on defendant had no prejudicial effect on his ability to participate at trial or the jury’s perception of him; and 2) the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction for assault with a deadly weapon by a person serving a life term....

A Washington man insists he only wants to pray for strippers, not prey on them. Still, a legal battle is unfolding over David Van Vleet’s public records request for the names and addresses of as many as 125 exotic dancers. In Washington state, showgirls are required to get a $75-a-year license, which lists the applicant’s name, date of birth, address, a full-color photo, and other identifying information, reports The Huffington Post....

We’re finally here at the end of the week. And now you find yourself settling into the TGIF doldrums. Time to start looking for a new job? As part of our affiliate partnership with Indeed, we’re continuing to bring you the best jobs of the week – and this week’s selection of cool legal jobs won’t disappoint. This week, our theme is government-related work, for those attorneys who want out of the private sector....

Whoever first said “politics make for strange bedfellows” didn’t know Donald Trump and Bill Clinton. Some say Shakespeare, some say another year. But the expression was never more true than in 2018, when the Trump administration asked a court not to release grand jury records about Clinton’s sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The Justice Department has appealed a court order to unseal records that have been secret for two decades. It may not have any impact on the Stormy Daniels case, but the irony is not lost on anybody who enjoys a historical plot twist....

A New York woman was allegedly awoken from her post-yoga meditative bliss by a maintenance worker masturbating next to her. So she’s suing her yoga studio. Keiko Herskovitz is a regular at Equinox’s Pure Yoga West on New York’s Upper West Side. She was wrapping up her yoga practice in the shavasana pose when she says she heard someone enter the room, reports the New York Post. Shavasana is also known as the “corpse” pose and true to form, it involves a yogi lying with her eyes shut, closing out the world, and basically acting like a corpse....

Ah, Facebook. Ten years after its inception and we still haven’t learned: The site is only good for posting pictures of babies and “Remember the 90s” listicles. Seriously folks, nobody cares about your political views, terrible music taste (guilty), or disgusting racism. If you wouldn’t yell, “____ people are _____” in the office, or in public, then you shouldn’t put it on Facebook either. Two assistant public defenders in Broward County, Florida, just learned that lesson after posting anti-Palestinian hate speech on Facebook....

July bar takers, you are halfway there. Many of you have been studying for about a month and have just over one month left to go. Congrats? It probably doesn’t feel like it now, buried as you are under flashcards and crippling anxiety, but you’ve already accomplished a lot. Now is the home stretch. To help you ace your bar exam, here are our five top study tips from the FindLaw archives....

Atlanta Hawks Coach Mike Budenholzer was arrested for DUI in Atlanta late Wednesday despite the fact that he told officers he’d only consumed “one glass of wine.” The 44-year-old NBA coach was released early Thursday on a $1,524 bond. Hawks General Manager Danny Ferry said the team was “in the process of gathering more information” about the incident, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Trooper Johnathon Nelms reported that the coach was driving his Audi A8 without its tail lights on, giving him cause to pull Budenholzer over, reports the AJC....

Everyone loves a Black Friday/Cyber Monday mega-deal, but great deals aren’t restricted to the holidays. Starting in 2012, the California Amnesty Program for Traffic Tickets will give traffic-fine payment-procrastinators a discount on their unpaid tickets. (We all know that lawyers don’t speed, and they always promptly pay fines, so we’ll pretend that this news doesn’t apply to you. Tell your clients.) California courts are offering a traffic ticket amnesty program from January 1, 2012 through June 30, 2012....

A Buffalo Bills fan fell from the upper deck at Ralph Wilson Stadium during the team’s 37-14 victory over the New York Jets on Sunday. He’s now been barred from the stadium, and may even face criminal charges, Rochester’s YNN reports. Video footage of the incident appears to show the man sliding down a railing before falling over the ledge – and on top of another person on the second deck....

A 52-year-old man who painted a crosswalk on a city street apparently crossed a line he shouldn’t have. But according to him, it was all in the name of safety. What happened next did not go according to Cardenas’ plan. Police Get Cross Instead of heaping praise on Cardenas’ public-service art project, Vallejo police arrived on scene and told people not to use the unauthorized crosswalk, the Bay Area’s KNTV reports....