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Trial court’s order issuing a permanent injunction preventing defendants from operating a medical marijuana dispensary within the city is affirmed as the trial court’s determination that defendants’ operation constituted a nuisance per se was based not on violations of state law, but rather, on violation of the city’s municipal code. Furthermore, city’s Land Use and Development Code expressly prohibits any use that is not specifically enumerated therein or that cannot easily be categorized as an enumerated use....

Nobody likes to leave money on the table. In a card game, you might expect to lose money once in a while. But when your employer shorts you, that’s something else. So when two city clerks sued for $22,000 in unused sick pay, they expected to get it back. Instead, they got a bad hand. Bad Hand Susan Seminone and Cindy Ostrander worked in Gloversville, a small city that was once the glove-making capital of the United States....

It seems that at least a few times per year, there is some major hack of a major corporation. This month, the big hack involved the massive credit reporting agency, Equifax, which is quite frightening given the nature of the information the company processes. The Equifax hackers made off with over 140 million American’s information, including their names, birthdates, addresses, social security numbers, and potentially some driver license numbers. A smaller group, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, also had credit card information and documents stolen as well....

If you have just hung your shingle out there as a California family lawyer, or are planning on doing so, The Rutter Group’s CFLR is offering a three-day seminar that can teach you and your staff the ins and outs of California family practice: Basic Training: Family Law. Experienced practitioners and their support staff can benefit by learning the current best practices and procedures from leading experts in the field and the current Supervising Judge of the Los Angeles County Court Family Law Division....

Well, add these two things to the list of things Georgetown Law simply cannot do: one, note the passing of a Supreme Court justice and two, use email. That much was proven last week when something as simple as a quick “in memoriam” press release following Justice Scalia’s passing quickly devolved into a competition between Georgetown Law professors to see who could be the most petulant and obnoxious. And, of course, the real victims were the poor law students, caught in the midst of GULC’s reply-all Armageddon....

Did Google accidently start a war? If they did, imagine the liability attached to that little mistake. It may not have actually been a war, but the Nicaraguan army relied on an erroneous Google Map and made a small incursion onto Costa Rican soil. The international boundary flare-up resulted in angry sniping from both governments and some finger-pointing at the Mountain View, California tech company. There is evidently a long-disputed border between the two Latin American countries....

A recent $50 million jury verdict in a historic hog nuisance case is likely to be significantly reduced due to state law caps on punitive damages. The group of North Carolina plaintiffs were each awarded $75k in compensatory damages, as well as $5 million each in punitive damages, against a pig farming conglomerate. The case is relatively simple. Residents surrounding the Murphy-Brown/Smithfield pig farm have been forced to deal with the awful smell of pig feces since the farm started operating....

A North Carolina judge revoked NASCAR driver Kyle Busch’s license for 45 days on Tuesday as a result of a May incident during which he was cited for reckless driving when officers clocked him going 128 in a 45 mile per hour zone. Busch, who at the time was test driving a $400,000 Lexus LFA lent to him by teammate Denny Hamlin, will be able to continue racing, but should plan to be watched by the Iredell County judge, who also sentenced him to serve 1 year of unsupervised probation....

Michael Kevin Lallana is a sick, sick man. Convicted of two misdemeanor counts of battery for ejaculating into his co-worker’s water bottle (twice!), an Orange County judge Friday sentenced him to 180 days in jail, three years probation, and ordered him to register as a sex offender. Apparently he just wanted to feel close to his co-worker. A woman, identified only as Tiffany G., worked with Michael Kevin Lallana at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Newport Beach during the time that these incidents took place, reports KTLA....

The new Senate Bill 1604, introduced in the Senate by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, seeks to inspire the best and brightest of the freshly graduated legal scholars to pursue jobs in politics. The Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act, introduced as a bill on July 20, 2017, seeks to create a new way for lawyers to learn about the legislative process through apprentice-like clerkships. According to the press release from Senator Mike Lee from Utah, the bill’s goal is to “better position congress to obtain top-notch services from stellar law school graduates,” while giving the grads “a much better understanding of the legislative process....

New York recently passed a law allowing fantasy sports gaming to continue. This new law is now facing a legal challenge by an anti-gambling group. The New York legislature has determined the act of selecting a fantasy team and competing against other fantasy players is a skills contest. Under New York law, a skills contest is not considered gambling. Is It Gambling to Play Fantasy Sports? Fantasy sports require players to select individual athletes on various professional sporting teams to assemble their “fantasy” team....

Just because you have a unique idea doesn’t necessarily make it clever. And it certainly doesn’t make executing it advisable. Alleged bank robber Edward Pemberton would have been wise to hold off on his trademark “Bouquet Bandit” routine. Pemberton allegedly robbed banks while carrying a bouquet of flowers or a potted plant. Pemberton, 44, was arrested Wednesday. Pemberton had become a popular figure in the tabloids during the two week search....

In what appears to be the first of its kind to hit the legal industry, O’Melveny & Myers has launched Momentum One, a program designed to help new parents engaged in the process of returning to work. Each parent participant is paired with a transition team that will help navigate the challenge of being a working mother (or father) for the first time, providing guidance and asking pertinent questions. Apparently it works....

In a patent infringement case involving methods of managing bulk e-mail distribution to groups of targeted customers, district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant in concluding that the claims were invalid for obviousness is affirmed where: 1) while an analysis of obviousness always depends on evidence that supports the required Graham factual findings, it also may include recourse to logic, judgment, and common sense available to the person of ordinary skill that do not necessarily require explication in any reference or expert opinion; 2) the predicate evidence on which the district court based its common sense reasoning appears on the record and also adequately explained its invocation of common sense; and 3) plaintiff failed to show a long-felt and unmet need that existed on the patent’s filing date as a secondary consideration of obviousness....

A teen who made his fame on Instagram by bragging about his wealth has been slapped with criminal charges for selling a stolen iPhone. Param Sharma, 18, more commonly known to his IG followers as “@itslavishbitch,” was convicted on a misdemeanor charge of failing to make a reasonable effort to find the original owner of an iPhone that he sold on Craigslist. According to BuzzFeed News, Sharma’s attorney claims his client is the first in the state to be convicted of this crime in California....

You knew this wasn’t going to end well. After thousands of fans traveled thousands of miles, shelled out thousands of dollars and showed up for the Super Bowl, they found that they didn’t have a seat. The NFL took preliminary steps to try to please the fans, but it wasn’t enough. And thus the Super Bowl seating lawsuit began. The Super Bowl seating lawsuit alleges breach of contract, fraud and deceptive trade practices....

When a sandstorm is coming, it’s good to be a camel. In the story, the camel inched its way into an Arab’s tent for protection. First its nose, then the front feet, and finally its whole body pushed the Arab out. Likewise, as intellectual property budgets have shrunk, companies have moved more legal work in-house and outsourced other jobs to legal service providers. In the mix, IP law firms have found themselves even more on the outside looking in....

Plus, Personal Jurisdiction Issues Sutter Health v. Unite Here, C054400, concerned a hospital’s suit against a union for defamation, trade libel, and intentional interference with prospective economic relations, arising from the union’s secondary picketing of the hospital for using the services of a non-unionized laundry company. In reversing the trial court’s $17 million judgment in favor of the hospital, the court held that the trial court committed harmful error by refusing to instruct the jury that the hospitals had the burden of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the union made the defamatory publication with actual malice....

Before his criminal indictment, attorney John Margolis was sort-of famous as the comedian “Excuseman.” Margolis created the alter-ego, took his shtick on the road, made YouTube videos and wrote books. It would have been an admirable career path for a serious lawyer, but a corney caped crusader who joked about those who “mess up and don’t fess up?” Apparently, Margolis didn’t make enough as a comedian and kept his day job practicing law....

There are numerous new sporting adventures these days, limited only by your creativity. But some are illegal, on a variety of fronts. Violators can face some hefty fines, and even prison! Here’s a look at five urban sports that can get you arrested. BASE jumping is defined as flying squirrels. OK, that’s not exactly true. BASE jumping is an acronym for skydiving or leaping in flying suits from Building, Antenna, Span, or Earth....