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Even if you don’t root for the Cleveland Cavaliers, every basketball fan knows about the force that is Lebron James. But you might not know that he’s also a very successful businessman and is shooting for billionaire status, with a current net worth of around $400 million. However, some of that wealth may be in jeopardy as James and his multimedia platform Uninterrupted are being sued for allegedly stealing a Michigan man’s idea for a barbershop show....

If you are lucky enough to have Microsoft as a client, don’t complain that the company will not pay your hourly fees. The company has announced that it will no longer pay hourly attorney’s fees, opting for alternative billing arrangements with select law firms. It’s a two-year project, but the future is almost here. As in-house counsel know, the alternative fee agreement is the new normal. Outside counsel should consider themselves lucky to get the business....

“Suck it up.” A sports announcer harshly called out a young Major League Baseball pitcher for not being tough enough after complaining of arm pain. It turned out that the pitcher had torn major ligaments in his arm and the announcer wound up getting fired in the fallout. Rob Dibble was highly critical of Washington Nationals star pitcher Stephen Strasburg, who was the first overall choice in the 2009 draft. On his XM radio show, the announcer made the infamous above quote along with other gems including:...

Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress is being sued for an alleged dog attack. The suit seeks money not for the dog’s bite, but for injuries that allegedly befell the other dog’s owner. Gina Boulougouris Stasinos claims she was seriously hurt when Buress’ pit bull knocked her over while it allegedly attacked her dog. Buress wasn’t present during the scuffle, but NJ.com reports it occurred outside his Totowa, New Jersey, home....

Google and the National Security Agency can keep their clandestine relationship under wraps, says the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The ruling came out last Friday and addressed the Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). In the ruling, the court stated that the NSA does not have to confirm or deny its relationship with Google. In fact, the NSA can go one step further and refuse to respond to the request, as the court held that even a rejection of the request could reveal details of a potential relationship with Google....

A former prostitute and ex-McDonald’s employee claims her stint at the Golden Arches led to an unseemly life of sex trafficking. Now she’s filed a lawsuit – and it’s a whopper. Shelley Lynn of Pismo Beach, Calif., claims McDonald’s failed to institute an employee grievance policy, failed to properly supervise her boss Keith Handley, and failed to conduct “due diligence” in allowing a person like Handley to become a franchise owner, Courthouse News Service reports....

In Honywell Int’l, Inc. v. US, No. 08-5181, the Federal Circuit dealt with the issue of whether the United States government infringed plaintiff-Honeywell’s patent related to passive night vision goggles that are compatible with a full color display when both are used in an airline cockpit. In reversing the decision of the US Court of Federal Claims, the court held that the government has not proved by clear convincing evidence that claim 2 of the patent is invalid and that plaintiff has standing to assert a claim for just compensation under the Invention Secrecy Act....

You may find them to be the Happiest Places on Earth, but Disney Parks and Resorts are about to be exposed. That’s right, hidden from view by Mickey-shaped popsicles and mermaid princesses are fire-breathing nachos and pervy characters, all brought to light by the brave souls willing to file a lawsuit. In an attempt to suppress the most recent Disney lawsuit alleging that Donald Duck was the newest of the Disney World characters to grope a member of the public, the purveyor of family fun has settled....

The CEO of restaurant chain Bikinis Sports Bar & Grill announced that the company has officially trademarked the name “breastaurant” with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Perhaps a tongue-in-cheek name used by other restaurants like “Hooters” and “Twin Peaks” and “Canz” was not good enough for this Texas-based chain. Instead, they had to hit their customers over the head by specifying exactly why they are going to the restaurant, or excuse us, breastaurant....

Is there anything dirtier, uglier, or more noxious than the grime on the underbelly of a road-worn car? You might expect to find it on a car coursing the muddy, unpaved roads of India, but not the shining streets of the Silicon Valley, home to the world’s largest car-hailing service. So it would seem. But a top law firm may find out whether Uber has been hiding a most ugly detail for years....

A Florida Walmart shopper is suing the retail giant for selling her a dress three years ago that she blames for the lack of sex in her marriage. Aracely Gonzalez is suing Walmart, claiming that the dress gave her “heart palpitations and a severe rash” that marked the end of “marital relations between the woman and her husband, reports United Press International. Can you really sue Walmart for ruining your marital sex life?...

Some motorists in Illinois no longer have to make a run to the supermarket to get some grub. Thanks to a new “roadkill bill,” they can just cook the carcass of whatever animal they run over. Illinois’ so-called “roadkill bill” took effect in October, the Huffington Post reports. The law allows anyone with a furbearer license to salvage roadkill for pelts or food. With the roadkill bill now in effect, Illinois joins more than a dozen other states that explicitly allow citizens to collect and eat roadkill – though some other states limit their law’s application to larger animals like deer or bears, the Post reports....

An arbitrator overseeing Colin Kaepernick’s grievance against the NFL alleging teams colluded to keep him off rosters following his protests during the national anthem two years ago has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to proceed. The NFL had requested the claims be dismissed, but arbitrator Stephen Burbank determined there were genuine issues of fact that needed to be resolved at a trial-like hearing later this year. That means all 32 NFL teams are still parties in the grievance, and team owners, general managers, and even President Trump could be potential witnesses and targets in Kaepernick’s claims....

California lawmakers have hit the ground running in 2014 and have proposed measures regulating everything from cigarette butts to food safety. We decided to give you a roundup of the proposed bills, and new laws that are making the most waves. First up, the “affluenza” defense … Use of the “Affluenza” Defense You may have heard of the case of the drunken 16-year-old boy in Texas, who killed four people in a car accident, and was sent to rehab instead of prison....

Racing cyclists must wear hard helmets to protect their heads in falls. But accidents still happen. Belgian cyclist Wouter Weylandt died recently after a high-speed downhill crash at the Giro d’Italia, a road race in Northern Italy, reports the Associated Press. Weylandt died after he fell during a fast descent down a mountain road. Bicycles races move fast. Cyclists pedal desperately, in close packs, on old roads in historic mountain country....

Some of us moan and groan when we hear the telltale song of an approaching ice cream truck. The parents out there need to fend off the whining, and the dieters have to resist the temptation. Turns out that someone witnessed the erratic driving of Ronald Purdy–probably confused that he was going over two miles per hour–and called 911 to report the errant ice cream truck. When police arrived, the drunk ice cream man staggered from his truck, reports The Washington Post....

A former lingerie model’s lawsuit claims Internet lies have ruined her reputation and “jeopardized” her shot at going to law school. Is that really worth $3 million, as Shana Edme’s suit claims? Edme, of Georgia, is “an aspiring law student” who works at “a large law firm” on Long Island, N.Y., according to the suit obtained by Courthouse News Service. But the unauthorized publication of some of Edme’s racy modeling photos resulted in an invasion of privacy and unwanted attention from a bunch of creeps, her suit states....

It sounds like a case for Indiana Jones: a powerful man obsessed with history amasses a treasure trove of artifacts, some of which were obtained under dubious circumstances. Only instead of Indy saying, “It belongs in a museum,” it was the city of Harrisburg saying, “Auction these off to the highest bidder,” and the Dauphin County prosecutors saying, “You broke the law.” Former Harrisburg, Pennsylvania mayor Stephen Reed had collected tens of thousands of American West artifacts, ostensibly for a “Museum of the American West” that he hoped would be a tourist draw for his cash-strapped city....

Is there another company insurance salesman would rather work for than Munich Re? So when exactly would Munich Re’s Ergo unit have crossed the line into an insurance company hostile environment, with these “motivational opportunities”? New photos have surfaced, showing Ergo insurance salesmen snorting white powder at a party in September 2010, reports the Chicago Tribune. Ergo is the same subsidiary of reinsurance giant Munich Re we wrote about last week, regarding an orgy thrown for top insurance salesmen in 2007....

In plaintiffs’ action against various defendants based on construction defects in their new house raising issues regarding the availability of attorney’s fees, decision of the court of the appeals affirming the trial court’s judgment is affirmed as the majority in Wakefield v. Bohlin, 145 Cal.App.4th 963 (2006), erred by misinterpreting the plain language of “net monetary recovery” and by concluding that settlement offsets do not otherwise affect whether a party has such a “net monetary recovery....