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Fulton v. Med. Bd. of California, No. B215102, dealt with a plaintiff’s suit against the Medical Board of California claiming that the publication of his disciplinary information on its web site, including information about a medical malpractice judgment entered against plaintiff, and the surrender, retirement and indefinite suspension of his licenses to practice medicine in other states, is not required to be disclosed because he was no longer licensed in California....

Phillip Asher figured the path to becoming a lawyer was too steep, so he just did business without a license. He wasn’t very good at the law, but he was pretty good at collections. He raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars before authorities caught up with him. His big mistake – besides practicing law without a license – was extorting money from a party to settle a case. Everybody knows only licensed lawyers can do that....

Florida man Christopher Patterson is accused of trafficking Oxycodone and a serious fashion faux pas. Patterson showed up in court on January 6 wearing a “crack jacket.” The jacket, a casual hoodie, looks normal from afar. Upon closer scrutiny, it reveals that the cute little cartoons emblazoned on the hoodie are anything but innocent. The sweatshirt has drawings of baking soda, spoons, and an open flame. It depicts making crack. It also has the slogan “Stack Paper Say Nothing....

The state of California is enjoying a major win today this week in the California Supreme Court. On Thursday, the court ruled that policy holders from multiple insurers can collect separately from every insurer for damages that occur over a long period of time, reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Supreme Court ruling ends a decades-long dispute between the state and insurance companies for a multi-million dollar payout to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits in Riverside County, reports The Associated Press....

Shamlaw Naidoo, chief information security officer for IBM, says that personal behavior is the first line of defense against cyberattacks. “As consumers, we make the difference,” she told an audience at a recent American Bar Association Techshow. “The world we live in is changing. Give yourself the benefit of taking all the steps you can.” Naidoo offered her remarks in the presentation, “Beyond Encryption: Protecting Your Assets Everywhere and All the Time....

According to a recent paper written by law professors from the University of Chicago, law review editors are politically biased. When seeking submissions for a law journal, the study found that editors are more likely to select pieces that align with their own political ideologies. It’s interesting to note that after careful analysis of the data, the law profs were able to deduce that conservative and liberal leaning editors exercised the same proportional amount of political bias....

Most instances of gender discrimination and sexual harassment go unreported. And those that do are too often treated as “he said, she said” cases. Take, for instance, the matter of Teri Collins and the Long Beach Unified School District. Collins claims she endured years of gender discrimination and sexual harassment, and her firing was retaliation for complaining about her treatment. The school district says Collins was dismissed because she cyber-bullied a student athlete on Instagram, threatened referees in front of students, and called one pupil a “little B-word....

Attorney Bob Kohn thought of an interesting way to prove a point in court – he submitted a cartoon brief that took the form of a comic strip. Kohn was faced with a court-mandated five-page limit to make a complicated point regarding eBooks and price-fixing. So instead of condensing all the words into the five pages, Kohn decided to let his pictures tell thousands of words. Bob Kohn’s cartoon brief appears to comply with all the requirements for submitting a brief – he begins with a traditional table of contents, the font is 12-points or larger, and he has one-inch margins – reports the ABA Journal....

Jean Valjean, the hero of “Les Miserables,” once stole from a church. He was homeless, starving, and desperate. But in a classic moment of mercy, the priest forgave Jean Valjean and spared him from prison. John Shasanmi is no Jean Valjean. He is going to prison for stealing from a church. The difference? For one, he’s a lawyer. $600,000 Theft Shasanmi took a lot more than silver platters. He stole $600,000 in a real estate transaction....

In May, a couple of Florida McDonald’s customers filed a class action lawsuit against the burger chain, claiming they (and possibly millions of others) were charged for cheese on their Quarter Pounders “which they do not want, order, or receive.” Some thought the legal action was a joke, some saw it as a frivolous lawsuit, and others wondered if it was some sort of false flag operation aimed at tort reform....

It was a cringe-worthy moment, nearly on the scale of Steve Harvey announcing the wrong winner of the Miss Universe contest or Faye Dunaway declaring the wrong Oscar-winner for Best Picture. Only it took the U.S. Supreme Court a little longer to fix its mistake after announcing the suspension and intent to disbar the wrong lawyer two weeks ago. Poor Christopher P. Sullivan. “Due to mistaken identity, the order suspending Christopher Patrick Sullivan of Boston, Massachusetts from the practice of law in this Court, dated May 15, 2017, is vacated,” the court said in an unsigned order....

When studying for the bar exam, sometimes you just don’t have any gas left in the tank – literally. That’s why one law school is raising money – to help struggling students prepare for the big test. Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law is doing it with crowdfunding. “Through your generous contribution students are able to buy groceries, keep their bills up to date, or enable them to have enough gas in their car to get to the bar exam and a few job interviews,” the crowdfunding page says....

It’s not every day that a burglar butt dials 911, giving law enforcement a heads up as to his future crimes. But three men (two brothers and their cousin) did just that, and now they’re facing time behind bars. Ronald, Thomas and Allen Euson were driving through Clay–a suburb of Syracuse, New York–when a 911 dispatcher unknowingly became privy to their conversation. The men were not only boasting about a recent heist, but were discussing which local businesses they’d like to break into next, reports The Post-Standard....

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is frequently referred to as the nation’s second-highest court. Even in the burgeoning realm of federal court fiction, the D.C. Circuit is considered to be the “most prestigious and arguably most powerful federal appeals court.” With so much power at stake, presidents are typically itching for an opportunity to make judicial nominations for the D.C. Circuit, but that doesn’t mean that they can deliver a confirmation....

There is a time and a place for everything. On second thought, I’m not so sure that’s true. Jessica Webber, a hotel employee in Eugene, Oregon, has filed suit against her boss, Julie Frederick, alleging that the company party became a “sex party.” Courthouse News Service reports that Frederick’s husband stripped down to thong underwear in the restaurant and performed lap dances to employees and guests. Minutes later, according to the sex party lawsuit, the thong came off and things got even weirder....

In a petition for review of the FAA’s revocation of petitioner’s medical certificate and pilot’s license after finding that he gave an intentionally false answer on his application for the certificate, the petition is granted where the National Transportation Safety Board: 1) wrongly suggested that petitioner’s understanding of the form was irrelevant to the offense of intentional falsification; and 2) granted summary judgment to the FAA without giving petitioner a chance to present evidence bearing on that understanding....

So, you failed the bar and life sucks right now. As bar results continue to trickle in, with New York’s bar results just coming in a couple days ago and California’s about to roll out next month, many anxious new grads are awaiting (read: dreading) their fate. Unfortunately, someone’s going to fail. Statistically, this is impossible to avoid. Actually, it’s just impossible to avoid in general because the bar is a beast....

In plaintiff’s action involving the California Multiple-Party Accounts Law (CAMPAL), trial court’s judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where the joint bank account contract with defendant incorporated California law relating to such agreements, except to the extent that the contract explicitly varies from California law, and thus, because the way in which defendant added an individual to the account in this case did not conform to the requirements of section 5303 incorporated in the account contract, defendant can be liable for breaching the contract when it allowed her to withdraw all of the money in plaintiff’s account....

A state appeals court ruled that a company may compel an online review site to identify its anonymous critics. In the case against Glassdoor, a website for jobseekers and others to post information about employers, California’s Second District Court of Appeal said the First Amendment does not protect anonymous posters from making libelous statements in the guise of opinion. “On the contrary, where an expression of opinion implies a false assertion of fact, the opinion can constitute actionable defamation,” said Acting Presiding Justice Maria Rivera in ZL Technologies v....

Pop culture loves lawyers. In movies and T.V., attorneys are almost inescapable, from Andy Griffith’s folksy defense attorney, Ben Matlock, to Viola Davis’s black widow law school professor in “How to Get Away With Murder.” But whether it’s Judge Harry Stone on “Night Court,” or the crusading law clerk in “Erin Brockovitch,” Hollywood’s many fictional legal professionals can all be boiled down into six archetypes. At least according to the ABA Journal, who dedicated their August issue to exploring the Jungian depths of America’s pop culture lawyers....