You’ve probably all heard of pot brownies - but what about a Subway pot sandwich? When you get a case of the munchies, sometimes all you really crave is something salty and savory. Well, one Florida Subway worker was making this delicious combination come true. Apparently, if you told Subway sanwich artist Elizabeth Hunt, 47, that you wanted a sandwich with “extra meat,” she would slip a small bag of marijuana into your bag....
Tourist Hubert Blackman hired a prostitute in Las Vegas but was dissatisfied with the overall performance. So what to do? Go gamble for a while and forget it? Drown your sorrows at the bar? How about suing the agency that sent her for $1.8 million in federal court? “I also would like to get my $275 payment back and a $1.8 million verdict for the tragic event that happened,” said Blackman’s civil suit, filed pro se in Manhattan Federal Court....
Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc. v. Maersk Contractors USA, Inc., 09-1556, involved Transocean’s suit for infringement of its patents, related to an improved apparatus for conducting offshore drilling. The court affirmed in part, the the district court’s holding of summary judgment of no willfulness. The court reversed in part district court’s grant of summary judgment relating to obviousness and enablene, because there remain genuine issues of material fact regarding objective evidence of nonobviousness and undue experimentation....
Russian hackers, Chinese cyberterrorists, Ethiopian malware – if you’re a victim of any of state-sponsored hacking, you may be out of luck. Individuals who accuse foreign governments of hacking have virtually no access to the federal courts, the D.C. Circuit ruled on Tuesday. That’s because the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act prevents suits against other nations, and its exception for noncommercial torts doesn’t apply to hacking organized from abroad, the court explained....
Do you pine for a simpler life away from the hustle and bustle of the city? Are you still buried in law school loans? Well, as has been suggested before, taking up practice in a rural area might be for you. Also, you may be in luck if the state of Wisconsin passes a new bill that would offer to help repay law school loans for lawyers that take up rural practice there....
According to a recent decision out of the Fourth Appellate District, forgery of private records is just as bad as forgery of public records under California law. Russell Eugene Dunbar was the office manager and controller at Fields Pianos (Fields) from 2001 to 2005. During that time, his responsibilities included depositing customers’ checks into the company’s bank account. He was supposed to deposit the full amount of the check into the company’s account, but an audit conducted after he left the company indicated that he may have actually shorted the company over $6....
The California Supreme Court will hold a special outreach session of oral arguments at the UC Davis School of Law on Wednesday, October 3. Oral arguments will begin in the new Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom in Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall at 10 a.m. The court will determine whether state law protects labor picketing of a targeted business, and whether such protection violates the federal Constitution’s equal protection guarantee by giving speech about labor disputes greater protection than speech on other topics....
Chief Justice John Roberts won’t be “going to Disneyland” after the close of this historic Supreme Court session. At least that’s what he told Chief Judge David B. Sentelle of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, reports The Associated Press. Judge Sentelle asked Justice Roberts what he planned to do now that the court had adjourned for the summer. The question came at a conference hosted by the Judicial Council of the District of Columbia Circuit....
Fighter Conor McGregor was looking at a multi-year jail sentence if convicted of three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief stemming from a bout he had with a bus in Brooklyn this April. But the former UFC champ and one-time boxer will avoid incarceration by pleading guilty to just one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct. Most importantly, McGregor will also escape without a criminal record, meaning he can travel freely and return to the octagon, possibly by the end of the year....
Smart people can be pretty dumb, too. Take Wade Anthony Robertson. He graduated from Stanford Law School, passed the California Bar Exam, and had a great idea for a lawsuit – so he thought. He convinced a client to invest $3.5 million in a class-action, but that turned into a really bad idea. A series of dumb decisions later, it turned from bad to worst. Bad to Worst In the realm of bad-decision consequences, disbarment is about the worst....
Petition for a writ of supersedeas by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, following grant of defendant’s petition for habeas relief directing the Department to grant additional post-sentence conduct credit and to recalculate defendant’s release date, is denied as Penal Code section 2933.1(a) has no effect when the only violent felony conviction at issue is stayed pursuant to section 654. Read In re Gomez, No. G042807 [HTML] Read In re Gomez, No....
The election cycle is in its final throws and things are getting more heated (and more nasty) than ever. There are leaked tapes and hacked emails, old tax returns and Ken Bone, Facebook rants and in-your-face rants. The Lincoln-Douglas debates this election cycle is not. It’s possible that political discussions in your workplace have moved beyond friendly water cooler talk and into more heated territory. What, if anything, should an employer (and their in-house legal team) do?...
Besides the obvious reasons – avoiding real life, student loans and the terrible job market – why would anyone want to spend a seventh semester in law school? They wouldn’t, right? Even so, administrators at City University of New York Law School think some of their graduating 3Ls should. Those students are being offered an additional semester of “intensive, structured, Bar-oriented coursework” – for free! As long as they skip the July 2012 bar exam, that is....
Somewhere beneath the ocean floor, oil pools in rich supply. On the surface, oil companies fight over the technology to get it. In WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corporation, an appeals court declared a winner. The U.S. Federal Circuit Court of Appeals said three WesternGeco patents for finding suboceanic oil were invalid. The winner claims it conquered a leviathan. ‘David and Goliath’ After losing an inter partes review by the Patent Trial and Appeals Board, WesternGeco appealed to the Federal Circuit....
There’s risk involved in any and every form of data management. Even the tried and true paper hard copy is susceptible to loss, theft, damage, and that’s not to mention deterioration over time. It’s no surprise that companies have increasingly been going digital, and even going a little bit further and integrating cloud technologies. When it comes to that last part, there are several risk factors that a corporate counsel or in house attorney would be wise to consider....
Introducing our Ex-Lawyer of the Week: Randy Lint. Lint earned his law degree from the University of Montana School of Law in 1995, and then became a successful small-town lawyer with a wife, kids, and a comfortable life. But one thing really irked him about his rural location, he told the local Ravalli Republic: He just couldn’t find a decent cup of coffee. “People have become conditioned to stale coffee,” Lint lamented, “because the national brands ship their coffee to supermarkets, and that’s what people are used to....
King Solomon is rolling over in his grave right now. A woman gave birth to twins from different races. Read that sentence again, then imagine King Solomon with his head between his hands. It was a migraine-inducing puzzle: one of the babies was African-American and the other was Chinese. But this is not Ripley’s Believe It Or Not; this is FindLaw. Believe It Or Not It was not as hard to figure out the parentage as it was to sort out the legal relationships....
Doping scandals and the Tour de France seem to go together like peanuts and peanut butter. Three-time and 2010 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has tested positive for a banned steroid, clenbuterol, taken during the race. But rest not lovers of sport and truth…Contador has a perfectly reasonable explanation for his failed doping test: bad meat. “It is a food contamination case of which I am the victim,” Contador said....
Ninjas have been popular for a while now. Perhaps it’s the mystery or the mystique. But one thing ninjas do not want to be known for: endangering the welfare of children. Patrolman Joseph Lane noticed dried mud on the ninja dad’s knee. When Lane asked Hurst about the mud, he first said he had fallen, then said he had knelt in a field. Finally came the truth: he was acting out a fantasy of being a ninja....
Well, it’s happened again, only a little earlier than usual. Key sections the 2017 U.S. News and World Report Law School Rankings have been released, apparently due to some staff miscommunication, Above the Law Reports. Considered how obsessed people are about the Top 100 law school ranks, we just couldn’t leave this one alone. Here’s an overview of what can be learned from the leaked rankings. There’s no real drama here; it seems that the T14 schools pretty much stayed the same....
