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Plastic Replica of a Woman Still Needs to Be More Lady-Like For KT Barbecue’s “BarBe” mannequin, there’s no Malibu dreamhouse or pink Corvette, just an Ohio sidewalk and a real-life Ken who likes to dress her in skimpy clothing to lure in customers. Specifically, his mail carrier’s size-5 “Daisy Duke” short-shorts and a bikini top he got from his godsister’s daughter, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer. And yes, the fact that we’re still talking about a mannequin is the only thing keeping the word “felony” out of that last sentence....

Should we license clowns? Linda Beaudoin, a former clown, is petitioning to create some new clown laws in Canada to battle child abuse. Beaudoin has long been campaigning for laws on licensing clowns, and she has been documenting the arrest of clowns, mall Santas, and other hired child entertainers on her website. Beaudoin has especially been paying close attention to the case of an Ontario clown Randy Miller who pled guilty to possession of child pornography....

Last year parents in Meridian, Idaho moved to ban a popular novel from local schools for its allegedly sexually explicit and anti-Christian content. The book is Sherman Alexie’s young adult tale, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, winner of the 2007 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Brady Kissel, a local high school student, fought back against the ban, circulating a petition that earned 350 signatures and the ire of the offended parents....

If you thought your neighbor’s dog was annoying, you don’t know Irena Hauser. She is a tiger trainer, and she wanted to keep five tigers in her backyard. “No, thank you,” said the neighbors – 11,000 of them from miles around. Hauser sued, as if that would change anybody’s mind. In Hauser v. Ventura County Board of Supervisors, a California court said, “Tyger! Tyger!” NIMBY Hauser, who became Malibu’s famous “Tiger Lady,” sued because the county turned down her application for a conditional use permit....

Americans hate paying tickets. But they do love to protest. And they can be creative when it comes to paying what they feel are unjustified tickets under protest. Luckily, the courts have supported these exercises of our First Amendment rights. Even the right to scrawl “FK YOUR STTY TOWN BITCHES” on our speeding tickets. Paying in Protest In what might be our second favorite court ruling this year, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York held that profanity on a parking ticket is protected speech under the First Amendment....

Petition for Review of FERC Order In Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC v. FERC, No. 09-1236, a petition for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s order accepting a proposed adjustment in a method for valuing various types of oil, the court granted the petition where, in a proceeding covered by section 4412(b)(2) of the Motor Carrier Safety Reauthorization Act, the Commission identified its initial order, allowing a carrier-filed adjustment to take effect and setting the matter for hearing, as section 4412(b)(2)’s “first order,” and this interpretation was inconsistent with the statute’s language and purpose....

Imagine the Supreme Court as puppets. No – not political puppets. Actual puppets – felt, fur and a hand up the… Okay, you get the point. A Clarence Thomas puppet would be amazing – all sour-faced and half-asleep. And with a sassy Elena Kagan puppet on the bench, the dialogue would be pretty great, too. Our videos are unfortunately stuck in pre-pre-pre-production, so we don’t have any to share. While you wait, you should check out The Puppet’s Court, a great new show out of the Northern District of Ohio....

Las Vegas’ famous Heart Attack Grill has claimed its first heart-attack victim. A man suffered a coronary as he bit into the restaurant’s gluttonous “Triple Bypass Burger,” Vegas’ KVVU-TV reports. The grill’s owner at first thought it was a joke, but quickly realized the customer wasn’t kidding. The owner called 911, and medics took the man to a hospital. The man, in his 40s, has not been identified. If and when he recovers, the customer may try to sue the grill for allegedly causing his heart attack....

Last week, we discussed the Honey Badger’s new policy of brutal honesty after he told an NFL team about failing more than 10 drug tests during college. Now former LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu is disputing the story, ESPN reports. He told his alma mater the story in last week’s USA Today doesn’t accurately reflect the discussions that he had with various NFL teams. If the Hone(st)y Badger is right, could LSU pursue a defamation case against USA Today or the assistant coach who leaked the comments?...

The public loves a good mystery, and the secret case unfolding before the watchful eye of the mystery-hungry media is surely generating quite a bit of buzz. The case is believed to involve the Mueller probe and a Russian or other foreign corporation, however, that’s all speculation. All that is really known is that “the Corporation” located in “Country A” has been fighting a subpoena claiming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act protects them....

If you ask 10 different attorneys what document review is, you’ll probably get 10 different answers. Basically, a document review project is one where a law firm will need a lot of attorneys on a temporary basis to review a vast amount of information. Document review projects frequently come up in mergers and acquisitions, and in cases that involve a government investigation. But while this may be a standard definition for document review, perhaps a more fitting synonym for a doc reviewer should be “coder....

It would serve paralegals and other law firm employees well to remember the tale of William Weller, the softball playing paralegal that got drafted, then shafted after he tore his Achilles. Weller’s injury required surgery, and put him off work for 3 months. Weller worked for a law firm that was a bit ball crazy, some might say. In fact, interviewees could expect to be asked whether they played ball. Weller did, and he was hired, and he started playing on the firm’s softball team....

If at first you don’t succeed, file an amended complaint. It may sound like first-year civil procedure, but that’s what law school graduate Tiffany Dehen knows so far. She sued her law school in February for defamation after someone there created a fake Twitter account to mock her. Bloggers mocked her more for a “rambling lawsuit,” so, well, she did it again. This time, she’s really serious. John Doe, Twitterer Dehen claims that John Doe, or whoever created the offending Twitter account, should have been disciplined by the law school....

A Florida mom was arrested after she beat a school bus driver while a bus full of students, including her own teen daughter, watched. Marsia Emanuel has been charged with burglary of an occupied vehicle, battery of a public education worker and disturbing the peace. Oh, and she was also charged with indecent exposure. It’s unclear why she decided to do any of this. She exposed herself to officers before she was arrested....

Race day spectators in Bristol, Tenn. were treated to an interesting view on Saturday when NASCAR streaker Joshua Greene, 23, took a naked spin across a crowded parking lot, leaving time for a short detour during which he shook his backside to music played by live band. Shortly after the incident, police found Greene’s girlfriend. With a raccoon. In a car. Prior to apprehending the raccoon, police located Joshua Greene in a nearby neighborhood, arresting him for public intoxication and indecent exposure, reports MSNBC....

A New York attorney must pay $10,000 in sanctions for his brutish behavior at a deposition – including verbal insults that were so abusive, the court reporter walked out and refused to return. “This is absolutely shocking,” the sanctioned lawyer, Joseph R. Sahid, told Reuters. “I’ve been a lawyer for 40 years. I have never been sanctioned for anything.” But the court sided with Sahid’s opposing counsel, who complained about Sahid’s antics at a depo in 2010....

Removing your front lawn to save water kind of sounds like a good idea, right? Wrong. It’s especially not recommended if you live in Orange California. According to the Los Angeles Times, Orange officials are locked in a legal battle with a couple accused of violating city ordinances for removing their front lawn in an attempt to save water. City codes require that live landscaping cover 40% of the yard....

During a snowball fight game, hundreds of young people took advantage of a winter storm with a little restless indulgence. But the fun at the DC Snowpocalypse Guerrilla Snowball Fight 2009 took a strange turn when an off duty police officer allegedly pulled a gun during the snowball fight game. The 20- and 30-somethings hurled snowballs at each other, but one of their projectiles also hit a Hummer, whose driver was an off duty plainclothes policeman, the Los Angeles Times reports....

This is the moment you’ve been waiting for – you’re a 1L. Four years of college are done and you are about to start law school. Take everything you learned about studying in those four years and throw it away – studying for law school is unlike any other you’ve done. Most law school classes are taught in the style of the Socratic Method, named after the Greek philosopher Socrates. Essentially, your law professor will engage students in discussing and distilling ideas by asking many questions....

Waking up to oral sex may be a pleasant surprise for most sleeping guys. But then again, it depends on who is giving the oral sex, right gentleman? In Pennsylvania, a Harrisburg DJ allegedly would prowl the bar scene and target unsuspecting sleeping guys to give oral sex to. The DJ, Dajuan Porter, was recently arrested and charged with sexual assault on three men. Porter was apparently notorious in that club scene for assaulting men as they slept and police are urging more victims to step forward, reports CBS 21....