Immigration issues have been in the forefront of the news since President Trump took office, and many of those issues have concerned immigrants seeking asylum in the United States. Under international and U.S. law, asylum-seekers are afforded different considerations than other immigrations, and the asylum process can be different than applying for legal resident status or citizenship. (And the rules may be changing again, if the White House has its way....
A Colorado animal rights activist faces an animal cruelty charge after she filmed undercover footage of alleged cattle abuse – but apparently waited too long to report it. Taylor Radig, who’s associated with the Compassion Over Killing animal rights group, was ironically arrested and charged with animal cruelty after her undercover video was received by sheriff’s deputies, Denver’s KMGH-TV reports. How did the animal abuse hunter become the hunted? In a press release by the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, authorities verified that Radig had filmed the alleged animal abuses at the cattle company but that “representatives of Compassion Over Killing” were the ones who turned over the footage to law enforcement earlier this month....
When voters in Vermont and Minnesota answered their phones last week, some of them were treated to a racist robocall. “The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called ‘racist,’” the call claimed, before going on to ask listeners to vote for Donald Trump and “don’t vote for a Cuban.” But the calls aren’t from the Trump campaign. They’re the work of William Daniel Johnson, a L....
A 5-year-old girl’s police sketch may not depict a criminal precisely, but it certainly shows a promising career as a police sketch artist. Angelina Rector made a sketch after she caught a glimpse of a “bad guy” running from police in her Alvin, Texas, neighborhood. You can see Angelina’s sketch and hear from her in this report from Houston’s KPRC-TV: If your sketch talents are limited to penning ubiquitous stick figures, it may be better to get a good description of the suspect and let the pros do the drawing....
Perhaps Jason Anderson and Luz Ortega thought they were outsmarting Tarvares Hargrave by cheating him during a drug sale. Maybe they thought they were outsmarting the cops by not actually having drugs for sale. And maybe they didn’t even know what they had for sale wasn’t drugs. Either way, the couple’s plan backfired in the Raleigh-Durham International Airport, as all three were arrested for trafficking 10 bars of Ivory soap....
No one likes wiretaps, but the D.C. Circuit isn’t particularly fond of wiretap warrants which are facially deficient. And the remedy in U.S. v. Glover was a new trial. You can’t exactly blame the court for its inclinations; an obviously legally lacking warrant that is executed to spy on domestic suspects isn’t exactly the fantasy of any enlightened democracy. So why exactly did the D.C. Circuit knock this case back to trial?...
This may not be a good first month for Cleveland Browns linebacker Quentin Groves, who was busted for soliciting a prostitute last week. Groves was arrested as part of a prostitution sting operation in which a female police officer posed as an escort hired for “full service,” The Huffington Post reports. The 28-year-old LB pleaded no contest to a charge of disorderly conduct earlier this week. But could Groves claim this was entrapment?...
A California Appellate Court has rejected a San Diego teen mother’s appeal to overturn a lower court’s decision which finally put an end to her parental rights. The case is the latest in a series of unfortunate developments that first started years ago when Kemper gave birth at 16 years old. Only days after her child’s birth, the baby was taken away and she was deemed unfit as a mother....
As the election draws ever closer, can corporate leaders round up their workforce and attempt to influence their employees’ votes? The answer is, like so many others: maybe. Federal election law generally restricts companies from communicating with rank-and-file workers about political candidates. But for a special “restricted class” of employees, corporate electoral advocacy and political fundraising is fair game. Whether a company can attempt to influence a worker’s political views depends on the employee’s status within the company....
Look, we get it – that ticket you got was complete b.s. and you shouldn’t even have to pay this fine. So why make it easy on yourself and cut a check when you can increase the hassle, possibly incur more fines, and make an innocent clerk’s life miserable by paying in pennies? You’re gonna make a statement! You’re gonna stick it to the man by making an extra trip to the bank, getting some small coins, rolling them up, and handing the exact same amount over to the city as you would have paid anyway!...
“Hey Dad, I Think There’s Something Wrong With My New Hooker” When a London father decided that his 14 year-old son deserved a present, he skipped the child’s play of an Xbox 360 and drove straight to the red-light district of Nottingham, where he told the kid to pick out a prostitute. Like a Child Protective Services version of the old “How Much is That Doggy in the Window?” song, the boy pressed his nose against the passenger-side window glass and chose a hooker to take home....
Last week, in our first post on Delegating 101, we looked at why you should delegate, and to whom you should delegate assignments. Now, we turn to the next questions: What should you delegate, and what are some strategies to delegate effectively? What to Delegate Legal consulting group Altman Weil Inc. has a great way of approaching delegation by looking at the relationship between risk and complexity. For example, something that is high risk and high complexity should probably stay on your desk, while something that is low risk/low complexity can easily be handed off to someone else....
Some men turn to blow up dolls, and others turn to plastic skeletons. It’s all about personal preference. Or what better fits in their passenger seat. Which may explain why Bryan Stime chose a skeleton for his passenger seat when devising a plan to circumvent the rules of the road. The skeleton – dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and holding a tin of cookies – was given the role of Stime’s HOV lane “plus one....
A news report from WRAL indicates that one of the country’s top college basketball prospects has been charged with, of all things, breaking and entering. This news will surely induce nearly universal head-shaking, but it appears that the consequences of this incident might not be too extreme, either legally or for Wall’s collegiate athletic career. Indeed, for what it’s worth, the circumstances indicated by the news report would appear to indicate that perhaps something more akin to teen mischief was afoot, as the charge was “…in connection with an April 27 afternoon break-in at an unoccupied house for sale at 3924 Laurel Glen Drive in Raleigh....
Olympic gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in a Baltimore court this morning. The swimmer appeared in court after being arrested on September 30 for DUI, reports The Associated Press. Following his arrest, Phelps’ attorney told the court that the 18-time gold medal winner had enrolled in a 45-day treatment program in Arizona and had continued attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings upon his return to Maryland....
In its first case under the league’s new domestic violence policy, Major League Baseball suspended Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman for the first 30 games of the upcoming season. Chapman’s girlfriend accused him of choking her during an argument last year. In a statement, Chapman said he accepts the punishment and will not appeal the league’s decision. “The decision to accept a suspension, as opposed to appealing one, was made after careful consideration,” he said....
In an action claiming that plaintiff was “suitably qualified” and that the Broadcasting Board of Governors therefore contravened its statutory mandate when it promoted a non-U.S.-citizen over him, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where federal employees were not permitted to bring employment actions under the Administrative Procedure Act. Read Nyunt v. Chairman, Broadcasting Bd. of Gov’rs., No. 08-5127 Appellate Information Argued November 9, 2009 Decided December 18, 2009 Judges...
A man named Obiwan Kenobi was arrested for suspicion of felony hit-and-run over the weekend in California. Apparently the force was not strong with him that day. Investigators believe Kenobi, 37, was driving a green Toyota when he caused a five-car crash back in March. The accident caused multiple injuries. Kenobi allegedly fled the scene afterwards. The Jedi master was also wanted on an unrelated misdemeanor petty theft charge. So what kind of punishment is Kenobi facing?...
Everybody knows how to ‘google,’ but not everybody knows a ‘googol.’ That happens sometimes when a word becomes so popular that another gets lost in usage. “Google,” the company, has also eclipsed another company with its cloud messaging. SimpleAir owns a ‘433 patent relating to push notification technology, which allows messages to pop up on devices without opening a separate application. SimpleAir won an appeal against Google for infringement of related patents, but is still under the long shadow of Google’s popular cloud....
Trial court’s conviction of defendant for first degree murder is affirmed where: 1) exigent circumstances justified a warrantless police entry into defendant’s apartment to determine whether a missing domestic violence victim and her two year old child were injured or safe; and 2) the search of defendant’s mother’s car, in which the domestic violence victim’s dismembered body parts were found, was amply supported by probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime would be found therein and was subject to the automobile exception to the warrant requirement....
