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It’s advised to be cautious of new drivers, but you probably wouldn’t expect that a toddler cruising in her toy convertible would get a ticket. Luckily, Za’Dariyah Mishaw’s $4 ticket isn’t real and was given by Jacksonville, Florida police to the toddler for fun, according to Jacksonville’s WJXX-TV/WTLV-TV. Good thing the two-year-old won’t have to fight her parking ticket in court because it could really cut into her nap time schedule....

Volkswagen won’t be able to escape a proposed securities fraud class action against it, after the District Court for the Northern District of California rejected the company’s motion to dismiss yesterday. The suit stems from the revelation in September 2015 that Volkswagen had been using software designed to cheat emissions tests in its “clean diesel” vehicles. Members of the class action, largely municipal pension funds, accuse Volkswagen of making material misrepresentations over its compliance with environmental regulations....

More students are going to law schools across the country, and it’s not just a blip on the screen. A handful of law schools doubled their first-year enrollments, and one school saw enrollments rise 82 percent in one year. It’s hard to sort out a pattern, but the overall numbers don’t lie. Student enrollments are up nearly three percent nationwide. Do these future lawyers see something we don’t? Smart Students Some pundits call it a “Trump bump,” a bounce in enrollments as a response to the president’s policies....

Like the pivot to video online, many law schools are seeking to pivot into the online education arena, particularly as the ABA has started approving limited hybrid online/in-person J.D. programs. Notably, only a handful of schools offer approved hybrid online J.D. programs, but there are more than a few offering non-J.D. programs. For many law schools, leveraging non-J.D. programs to get a start in the online learning world could certainly lead to increased enrollment....

The manufacturers of Comfyballs underwear say that they were denied trademark by the U.S. Patent and Trademark office because the name of their brand is too “vulgar.” Comfyballs is a Norwegian underwear company established in 2013, reports The Telegraph. The company’s underwear is designed to reduce heat and restrict movement of a man’s testicles as he goes about his daily business. In other words: The company’s product purports to live up to the company’s name....

The “geezer bandit,” a retirement age serial bank robber, has pulled off his 11th California bank robbery. The suspect held up a bank in Temecula with a small caliber pistol and presented a demand not for cash, adding to the string of bank robberies the “geezer bandit” is wanted in, CNN reports. As previously discussed, the geezer bandit is a man, believed to be in his 70s, who is suspected of robbing five banks in the San Diego area....

With holiday season fast approaching, here’s a list you’d better check twice: What Christmas gifts to buy for your support staff – especially your legal secretary. Let’s face it, legal secretaries are often the most valuable players on any legal team. They juggle intake calls, scheduling, and legal document preparation – all while dealing with some very difficult people. (That means you. And your opposing counsel. And your annoying attorney friends who stop by for unannounced, Mad Men-style happy hours....

Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez was indicted for first degree murder by a grand jury on Thursday, setting the stage for the former Patriots tight end to stand trial for the shooting death of Odin Lloyd. A Massachusetts grand jury delivered Hernandez’s indictment which alleges unlawful weapons and ammunition possession as well as first degree murder for the June homicide of his friend Lloyd, reports NBC News. Now indicted, what will Hernandez face as he advances toward a murder trial?...

Jury selection began today in the murder trial of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. The jury selection marked the first day of a trial that is expected to last anywhere from six to 10 weeks, The Associated Press reports. The trial is also the first of at least two for Hernandez, who is facing additional murder charges in connection with a 2012 double homicide in Boston. What should you know about Day 1 of Aaron Hernandez’s murder trial?...

In plaintiffs’ wrongful death action against defendants on theory of duty owed by owner or bailee of a motor vehicle, trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants on the issue of duty is reversed where the trial court erred in finding an absence of special circumstances as here, the tow truck falls within the ambit of the special circumstances rule, and the tow truck was left unattended in a high crime area with the key in the ignition and accessible to thieves....

It’s the start of final exams panic season, when law students realize that there are only a few short weeks before they’ll sit down for their make-or-break exams – and they still have so much law to learn. Some desperate students are spending 14 hours a day doing nothing but studying. Some have more or less moved into the law library, bringing their pillows and pizzas with them. Plenty of those students will be popping Adderall and other prescription stimulants in order to fuel their study-binges....

It’s not hard to imagine walking into a doughnut shop, wanting all those sweet, glazed calories, noticing some fruity options on the menu, and thinking to yourself, “That sounds like a healthy option for my sweet glazed calories – I’ll go with the blueberry doughnut.” These could be the thoughts of many doughnut shop customers; those who go to Krispy Kreme and those who go to Dunkin’ Donuts. It’s also not hard to imagine that those customers might be disappointed upon learning the blueberries in their sweet, glazed donuts were not actually blueberries....

Welcome to “First Week at the Firm,” FindLaw’s series for beginning associates, focused on helping you navigate the transition into firm life. We hope you’ll enjoy this new series and come back regularly for more insider tips. Even if you’re working yourself to death making all your hours and then some, you won’t be making the most out of your time at the firm if you’re not forging relationships with partners and senior attorneys....

Trial court’s order modifying support, where the child support order ended in August 2006 and no modification request was brought until February 2008, is reversed as: 1) it cannot be sustained on the basis of Family Code section 4326 and 2) where section 4326 was the sole basis for the modification, the order cannot be sustained at all. Read In re Marriage of Kacik, No. G041274 [HTML] Read In re Marriage of Kacik, No....

Just outside Pittsburgh, PA, Beaver County Magisterial District Judge Andrew Hladio may surely have found himself in a sort of judicial ethics pickle. It seems that while charges against him were pending in one ethics complaint with the state’s judicial ethics board, he allegedly violated additional judicial ethics rules. In the recently announced state judicial board complaint, it is alleged that he committed acts of retaliation against the complainants and witnesses to the ethics complaint that was initiated in 2016....

If you need legal information, you can find it at FindLaw, no matter who you are. Seriously, among FindLaw’s millions of pages of content there’s something for everyone. There are legal professional blogs for legal professionals, consumer information for your average person, free (and awesome) state codes for anyone wondering about alligator law in Florida, news feeds, newsletters, and so much more. And law students, we’ve got you covered, too. Today, FindLaw just launched its new Law Students section designed specifically for aspiring JD’s....

A case that has been working its way through the California courts for most of the last decade is making headlines again as another big defendant, 7-11, decided to settle before the judge issues his ruling. The lawsuit, filed by the nonprofit group Council for Education and Research on Toxics, seeks to hold coffee makers liable for not warning consumers about the presence of acrylamide in coffee, which, according to California’s legislature, is on the list of cancer causing agents....

Like it or not, Discovery’s “Shark Week” is upon us again. And since lawyers are often referred to as “sharks,” what better way to get into the spirit of FindLaw’s second annual “Legal Shark Week” than for you to see which type of shark you are? Why didn’t the shark eat the lawyer? Professional courtesy. But we digress. Check out these five types of sharks to see which species you most closely resemble:...

May you live in interesting times, the old Chinese curse goes. Interesting times these are, with rapid judicial and societal shifts, particularly around gay rights and same-sex marriage – and only Scalia would view that as a curse. This morning’s Supreme Court declaration that the fundamental right to marriage extends to same-sex couples highlights just how much things have changed in such little time. For lawyers and young’uns, it can be easy to take support for gay rights and same-sex marriage for granted....

Moms don’t have it easy, we understand. And sometimes a kid’s just got to eat. But when hunger strikes while you’re driving down the interstate, you can’t just start breastfeeding while you’re driving. A Washington woman learned this lesson the hard way this week, when she was cited for breastfeeding her child while driving. Now she may get a call from Child Protective Services. Show a Little Restraint This may sound like another battle in the war against breastfeeding in public, but it really comes down to child safety....