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Philadelphia Eagles quarterback and former UT Longhorn Vince Young is being sued by Creiton Kinchen, the manager of the Onyx strip club in Dallas. Young allegedly punched Kinchen in the face last year. The original story was that Kinchen flashed Young an upside-down “Hook ’em Horns” sign. Young didn’t take too kindly to this, and decided to assault him. Now, Kinchen is alleging a different set of facts. He says that Young assaulted him after the strip club manager refused to give him $8,000 in $1 dollar bills....

If you are thinking about deferring your law school admission, think again. It is not much of a problem if you haven’t actually been accepted because you are not technically “deferring admission.” If your application has been accepted, however, then you may have a problem. Law schools generally do not like it when applicants ask to defer admission after being accepted. Depending on your reason, a law school could say anything from “OK” to “oh no, you didn’t....

Wikipedia, the free Internet encyclopedia and seventh most trafficked website in the world, turned 15 years old last week. And as maligned as the crowd-sourced encyclopedia is, it certainly beats shoving an Encarta ‘96 CD into your computer or, God forbid, pulling a book off the shelf. Sure, Wikipedia can be unreliable, amateur, biased, unstable. But where would we be without it? After all, you use Wikipedia all the time. We all do....

Dec. 1 marks the first day 1Ls can start their summer legal job search, which means those gunners in your class already have their resumes and cover letters ready to go. But if you’re not in that group, it doesn’t mean all hope of finding summer work is lost. There’s still time to get your foot in the door. If your goal is to graduate law school as an associate at a BigLaw firm, your first summer is crucial....

In plaintiff’s class action suit under the Unfair Competition Law (UCL) claiming breach of a health plan contract and violation of the Mental Health Parity Act by categorically denying coverage for behavioral therapy and speech therapy to plan members with autism spectrum disorders, trial court’s order sustaining defendant’s demurrer is reversed and remanded as: 1) there is reasonable possibility that plaintiff can establish the requisite community of interest for a class action suit under the UCL; and 2) resolution of the UCL claim would not require the court to make individualized determinations of medical necessity or to decide complex issues of economic policy or other matters over which an administrative agency has exclusive jurisdiction....

Billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel is making people wonder about whether it is morally (and legally) okay to purchase the crushed remains of your former legal adversary. Thiel has been making headlines over his desire to purchase Gawker, whom he played a large part in destroying. He did so by funding the Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit, which resulted in a verdict and settlement in 2016 which basically ended the internet media company....

What Are the Police Looking For? The Bentonville police are hopeful that the information stored on the device or the servers may contain some useful information regarding the events of the night of the murder. Because the Echo is always listening, it is possible that at some point during the night of the murder, it may have recorded a snippet of audio and sent it to the server to be transcribed....

Politics has always had a ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ attitude to it and Carme Cristina Lima went for it by offering voters cocaine in exchange for their votes. It was a generous if entirely misguided effort to win the position of councillor of Itacoatiara in Northern Brazil. Police got suspicious when long lines of people were crowding around Lima’s car on election day. When they went to investigate the crowd ran and Lima tried to make a quick getaway in her car....

For Susan and Wayne Brandenburg, choosing a place for their nuptials must have been relatively easy. It was a no-brainer, even. The couple was married in a Walmart store in North Carolina. The ceremony took place last Tuesday. Now, before you naysayers nix the idea as unromantic, know this: the store is where the couple first met. That’s why they decided to have the wedding inside the retail store. Susan was a cashier at the store when they first crossed paths....

Tom Moriarty, general counsel for CVS, has a prediction and a prescription for general counsel. Moriarty predicts that healthcare companies will need more legal help as state and federal governments deal with changes from the Affordable Care Act to the American Health Care Act. He says companies will need to give their general counsel larger roles because law and policy are intertwined in public health. “In healthcare, more so than other areas, the role that general counsels will play will be much more central to the strategy of a company for the next five to seven years,” Moriarty said in an interview with Big Law Business....

Does a drone strike qualify as intelligence? Oral arguments that strike at the very heart of this question began recently and are sure to leave DC Circuit Judge David Tatel’s head spinning. It’s been a little over five years since Anwar al-Awlaki was killed by means of overhead drone. The ACLU immediately started its campaign against the Obama drone-strike program, creating judicial and courtroom havoc as it attempts to find and pry open any and all files relating to when and how aerial drone strikes have been authorized....

Ladd v. Warner Bros. Entm’t, Inc., No. B204015, concerned a plaintiffs’ suit against Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (Warner), claiming that Warner’s practice of allocating the same share of the licensing fee to every movie in a package regardless of its value to the licensee deprived plaintiff of a fair allocation of the licensing fees to which plaintiff was entitled as a profit participant. In affirming the judgment of the trial court, the court held that the record supports the jury’s determination that Warner’s straight-lining method of allocating licensing fees to profit participants breached the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing....

It’s not everyday that you read a “dog runs over man” headline, but that’s apparently what happened in Pennsylvania. Police say a dog was left inside a running car when the animal accidentally knocked the vehicle into gear, reports the York Daily Record. As the vehicle started to slowly drive away, an unidentified man tried to stop the car before it hit a parked truck. However, the man was unsuccessful in his attempt and ended up getting pinched between the two vehicles....

In most states, each day’s bar exam responses have to be uploaded each night by a predetermined deadline. Miss that deadline, and you’re completely and utterly [expletived]. Now, imagine how much you’d freak out if you tried to upload your exam, but you received an error message and your exam disappeared off of your computer. And the ExamSoft tech support line was busy. And the company was tweeting instructions on how to manually upload responses, a procedure that didn’t actually work, according to Above the Law’s tipsters....

The Super Bowl is kind of like the circus. It always draws in a certain shady portion of the population that comes to town to prey on unsuspecting crowds. Pennsylvania Attorney General Bill Ryan is warning consumers to be extremely skeptical and vigilant about scams involving fake Super Bowl tickets. Ryan says that Packers and Steelers fans desperate for tickets should still keep in mind that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is....

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that Streck Inc. beat Research & Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (R&D) to the punch in developing hematology control products, and upheld Streck’s patents on the products. Hematology instruments, such as those used to analyze samples of blood, measure the different types of blood cells in the sample. Government regulations and best practices require that these instruments be regularly checked for accuracy. Instrument accuracy is checked through the use of “controls” of known blood composition, which verify whether an instrument is accurately reading the blood sample....

The new ’law camp’ at Brigham Young University is not exactly what you think it is. Yes, BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School sits in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountain Range. But no, the students attending the “Civics, Law and Leadership Youth Camp” in Salt Lake City are not camping in the wilderness. They are camping at the courthouse, however, and that makes them pioneers in another way. Pioneering Camp Judge Michael Newman, president of the Federal Bar Association, said he believes it is the first camp of its kind....

Hey lawyers, ever wish you went to med school instead of spending three years and a ton of cash on your J.D.? Well, you can be happy that you didn’t. It turns out, doctors might actually be chumps. A new report suggests that law school has a better return on investment than med school. The news comes from Credible, an online student loan refinancing company. Credible looked at its data for lawyers, doctors, teachers, and other professions, to find out which degrees had the highest return on investment....

New Jersey’s Hopewell Township is putting the kibosh on free range chicken sex. Unlike their human counterparts, roosters located within city limits will no longer be able to freely sow their seed, transmit disease, and then crow about it. Last week, Hopewell Township passed the first New Jersey chicken sex law, designed to regulate the quasi-romantic interactions between chickens in the city’s backyard farms, reports The Times of Trenton. As part of the chicken sex law, which very well may be the first of its kind in the country, the paper reports that Hopewell roosters may only court their hens 10 days a year–but only after they are first proven to be disease free....

Director James Cameron won another legal victory in California appeals court recently when a judge affirmed a lower court ruling generally finding that Cameron did not steal ideas from another writer in making his blockbuster hit Avatar. So far, the courts have been favorable to Mr. Cameron. It is unclear whether or not the complainants plan to appeal this to a higher court, but with a portion of $3 billion at stake, we wouldn’t be surprised....