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Drug dealers can come in all ages. Take for example, Ola Mae Agee, who was caught on tape selling crack cocaine to an undercover cop, the Pensacola Journal reports. She is 87. Surveillance video shows Agee answering the door to let the undercover cop into her home and taking him back to another room where she retrieves the crack from the couch and exchanges it for money. Apparently however, this incident was not the first time that Agee has been in trouble with the law in connection with drug-related charges....

The online giant has more office space than the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined, the Seattle Times reported last summer. It’s 8 million-square-footprint there is expected to grow to more than 12 million square feet in the next five years. Modest Layoffs When the layoffs are said and done, the company will still have about 40,000 people working in Seattle. And the company employees more than half a million in the United States....

This is how far we’ve fallen. And that’s not meant as disrespect for either BARBRI or Save the Children, the sponsors of this contest. It’s just … when did finding a law job require one to enter a reality television-like contest, complete with online videos of the candidates and a popular vote? In any case, the Internet will help determine three finalists who interview for a one-year fellowship as in-house counsel for the Save the Children nonprofit....

When it comes to advertising, the celebrity endorsement can be one of the riskiest yet most profitable spends a private company makes on marketing. If your consumer base is known to follow a particular celebrity, or group of celebrities, getting an endorsement could result in a serious windfall (think Shark Tank effect). Though the potential for profit is real when your company’s product or service is put in front of a celebrity’s fan base, the legal risks are also very real, and the potential to flop thanks to a “promoted” tag, or lots of other reasons, are not insignificant....

For Boeing, the future is now. The aviation giant took two steps into the future by acquiring a flying car company and launching a hybrid-electric commuter aircraft. Boeing is buying Aurora Flight Sciences and funding Zunum Aero as it moves forward with evolving technologies in aviation. It’s an exciting time for the future of air travel – especially for commuters and general counsel who are along for the ride. Flying Cars Aurora Flight Sciences makes airplanes and components, but its cutting-edge design work got Boeing’s attention....

The California Supreme Court said OK to percentage class-action compensation for attorneys, but it didn’t go so far as to say that a pure percentage would be the end of the story. If we’re reading the tone and tenor of the California Supreme Court’s opinion correctly, percentage class-action suits involving a common fund will still have to be reigned in against reasonable lodestar guiding principles. What does this mean for class action litigators?...

Football is a dangerous sport. Even though professional players get paid big salaries, when a player is injured playing the game, they can still qualify for workers’ compensation like any other employee. Although workers’ comp laws vary from state to state, generally, so long as an employee’s injury occurs on the job, that employee will likely qualify for workers’ comp if the injury renders them unable to work. However, in Illinois and other states, the professional sports leagues are attempting to get legislation passed that would limit a professional athlete’s ability to recover from workers’ comp....

People v. Cantu, No. E048651, dealt with a challenge to a conviction of defendant for infliction of corporal punishment upon a cohabitant for assaulting his girlfriend. In reversing the judgment, the court held that the trial court erred in enforcing the plea bargain that the parties had entered into but from which the prosecution withdrew before the defendant pled guilty in open court. People v. Milosavljevic No. D055327, involved a challenge to a conviction of defendant for rape and various related offenses involving multiple victims....

Pot cafes and pot bars. Spring Break pot tourism and pot churches. Even your grandmother is smoking pot, on YouTube. So perhaps it’s only natural that the booming cannabiz industry and the “wedding-industrial complex” (as Bloomberg calls it) collide. To wit, wedding vendors in marijuana-friendly states are now offering everything from pot plant bouquets to stoner-related party favors and even open cannabis bars. But before you get your best “buds” together for your nuptials, there are a couple legal ramifications to think of first....

Sometimes the Legally Weird headlines write themselves. The city of Oakland has declared a “local public health emergency” due to a lack of medical cannabis. This might seem perplexing to some, as Oakland is not known for a shortage of actual emergencies. Oakland official Barbara Parker said the city issued the declaration due to problems in the city of Oakland with law enforcement arresting growers and patients. The four page declaration reads in pertinent part:...

A jailhouse pizza-delivery prank may have earned a Kentucky man already facing public intoxication and shoplifting charges a few more “toppings” for his rap sheet. Michael Harp, 29, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and was being booked into the Whitley County Detention Center in Corbin, Kentucky, when he allegedly hatched a plan to prank the officer who had just arrested him, Lexington’s WKYT-TV reports. What was Harp’s genius plan, and how might it come back to haunt him in court?...

There’s nothing surprising about a bad faith patent infringement claim. Patent trolls are legion. Those unscrupulous individuals and companies extort payment against alleged infringers based on shoddy patents or questionable infringement. And while the practice has lead for calls for patent reform, little action has been taken on the federal level. Vermont recently stepped into that void, suing a patent holder for violations of its state consumer protection act. Those patent holders sought to remove the suit to federal court, on the basis of federal preemption....

In plaintiff’s suit seeking involuntary dissolution of defendant-company, of which she had been a director and shareholder, trial court’s decree providing for the winding up and dissolution of the corporation unless defendants made payment to the plaintiff for her shares, in the specified amount, within the specified time, is affirmed with respect to the alternative decree issued by the trial court as it followed the statutory requirements set forth in the plain language of section 2000....

Many of you have heard the euphemism “non-traditional” law school applicant. This term has been used to encompass persons who seek to go into law from other careers, who took some time off and have decided on the path to law school, or pretty much anyone who didn’t go straight from undergrad to law school in their early twenties. As we’ve written in the past, it’s never too late to go to law school....

Jerry Brown has been appointing a lot of judges with backgrounds as public defenders, and that has a tendency to lead to less harsh sentencing policies. It’s just one of the major hallmarks of his governing style which has generally emphasized a gentler stance on criminal punishment. Though Brown’s judicial appointments get less attention than his pushes for prisoner realignment and proposal to let thousands of non-violent offenders qualify for early parole, they will have as strong if not a stronger impact on criminal justice in the Golden State....

If you’ve ever filed your own petition or motion, you know the cardinal rule of courthouse decorum: Don’t irk the clerk. The court clerk’s office is a fountain of information, and particularly helpful to neophyte attorneys who are learning to navigate the logistics of lawyering, but clerks are still human. They make mistakes. And Sixth Appellate District Court judges will scold clerks, just as they do attorneys, when those mistakes interfere with a case....

Leopard-print underwear may not be appropriate for trial but at least no one will see it unlike the photo of it that attorney Anya Cintron Stern posted online. Cintron Stern’s client, Fermin Recalde, had his family bring him clean clothes for his upcoming trial, including his leopard-print unmentionables. She snapped a photo of the underwear and posted it to Facebook, asking why his family thought it was appropriate for court. The public defender made the post private but someone on her friends list saw it and it was reported to the judge....

The Detroit Lions have a marijuana problem. Defensive tackle Nick Fairley was arrested on Tuesday and charged with unlawful possession of marijuana in the second degree. This comes just weeks after running back Mikel Leshoure was busted for possession. Offensive tackle Johnny Culbreath was also arrested on similar charges in January. Could the team soon be losing three of its players? Maybe, but, in Nick Fairley’s case, probably not as a result of the law....

Sometimes, revenge isn’t so sweet. Just ask Ryan Burke. He’s being sued for putting pubic hair in a bagel sandwich ordered by Evesham police officer Jeremy Merck. Merck frequented Good Foods to Go deli in Marlton, N.J., where Burke was a cook. But Merck also happened to be the arresting officer in a 2009 traffic arrest that cost Burke $4,400 in legal fees. In February 2010, Burke took revenge. He laced Merck’s bagel with pubic and chest hair....

Whatever our thoughts on Colin Kaepernick, NFL players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality (among other issues), or the free speech rights of athletes generally, most of us didn’t go blaming the teams for what the players were doing. Or, worse, accusing the team of intentionally inflicting emotional distress by not warning us that a player might not emerge from the locker room for the national anthem....