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Chill dude. It’s just kombucha. One time teen star, Andrew Keegan was busted recently for selling kombucha without a license. In a 007 style sting operation, undercover Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) officers caught the group selling kombucha at a fundraiser for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Keegan claims that kombucha is an essential part of his self founded religion called Full Circle, but unconvinced ABC officers gave the religious group a misdemeanor citation for selling alcohol without a license....

A state appeals court has given an assist to the NBA’s leading basketball team for a new arena in San Francisco. In blocking an attempt by opponents, the First District Court of Appeal said the city’s plan complies with environmental standards that were challenged on appeal. The Mission Bay plan includes a 488,000-square-foot event center with a capacity of up to 18,500 seats to host games by the Golden State Warriors basketball team....

If you walk into a supermarket and put $300 worth of frozen shrimp into your cart, you’d better pay for it before you leave. John Pinard of Worcester, Massachusetts, thought he could get away with the heist (which, as we recently explained, would be properly called a “burglary”). But his attempted shrimp-swiping quickly turned from a standard-issue theft into a bit of a fiasco. Pinard waltzed right into a Price Chopper supermarket, loaded his cart with frozen shrimp, and headed for the door, reports the Worcester Telegram & Gazette....

Over 1,000 phone calls between clients and attorneys have been recorded due to a technical error made by the Orange County jail system’s telecom service provider. Whoops. But what do you expect when the telecom service provider is named GTL. And if you thought this news was juicy enough on its own, then you’ll likely be pleasantly surprised to learn that the discovery of the recorded calls is loosely connected to the reality TV series Real Housewives of Orange County....

In US v. Brown, No. 08-3018, the court of appeals affirmed defendant’s bank fraud conviction, on the grounds that 1) the extrinsic evidence of defendant’s other uses of fictitious financial documents was substantively and temporally tied to the charged offenses, and those other uses were distinct enough not to be the “needless presentation of cumulative evidence” under Fed. R. Evid. 403; and 2) the extrinsic evidence that defendant had failed to pay for a house inspection was not probative of his intent to defraud the victim and therefore inadmissible under Rule 404(b), but this evidence was quite limited in length, not inflammatory, and was not mentioned during the government’s closing arguments....

The Billy the Kid pardon died not in a hail of gunfire, but rather with a quiet putting to rest. Despite much debate and media attention, there will be no pardon for Billy the Kid. Outgoing New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson leaves office today, and there was much speculation as to whether the Billy the Kid buff would pardon the Old West’s most famous outlaw. In his last weeks as governor, Richardson put considerable effort into and rustled up considerable debate over the proposed Billy the Kid pardon....

Naturalized American Shawn Esfahani, whose dealership was called the “Taliban Toyota” in a smear campaign, has a verdict in hand. And it’s a big one. Esfahani is the owner of the Eastern Shore Toyota in Daphne, Alabama. His rival, Bob Tyler Toyota, is based in Pensacola, Florida. Esfahani said that workers from the Bob Tyler dealership started spreading rumors about his background, reports Reuters. One worker told potential buyers that Esfahani, who is from Iran, was “helping fund the insurgents there and is also laundering money there....

Franklin Mint Co. v. Manatt, Phelps & Phelps, LLP, No.B190482, involved a challenge to the trial court’s grant of a law firm’s motion for directed verdict in an action for malicious prosecution against the law firm and an attorney, who had represented the executors of the estate of Diana, Princess of Wales and the trustees of The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund, arising from the law firm’s suit against the defendant-company for using Princess Diana’s name and image in connection with merchandise it advertised and sold....

A 51 year-old fake Disney heir is under arrest for falsely representing himself as a member of the Disney family – and handing out tickets to Disneyland, which he allegedly stole. Stephen Urquidez – whose fake driver’s license reads “Stephen Disney” – also allegedly falsely reported on tax forms that he’d received income from the Walt Disney Corporation, the Los Angeles Times reports. But the real Disney corporation insists there is absolutely no connection between Urquidez and the corporation or the Disney family....

When lawyers and law students go viral, it’s usually not a good thing. But that’s not the case for DePaul Law School grad Arielle Williams, who went viral when she checked her July 2018 bar results. In case you haven’t seen the video, no, she didn’t sneak a camera into the exam room or anything crazy. Williams was at work at a Chicago area firm when her bar results came in....

We’re back, baby! After learning in September that legal salaries were on the rise, The New York Times’ Dealbook blog reported Tuesday that BigLaw bonuses were on the rise. The law profession if profitable! We’ll be respected again! Eh, not exactly. The Dealbook piece promises “bonuses from $125,000 to $150,000” at Boies, Schiller & Flexner – but those are going to the most senior associates. Large New York firms are doling out between $15,000 and $100,000 to associates, “depending on their tenure,” and that’s “on average....

2012 may prove to be the year of the law school lawsuit. At least that’s what some attorneys at LeClairRyan are saying. They claim that they’ve been tracking the “noise” on blogs and social networks for months. Their conclusion is that disgruntled law grads everywhere seem poised to sue. Are you surprised? If you’re currently sitting pretty in a BigLaw office, you’re probably grateful for your law school education. It netted you a high six-figure paying job, after all....

Justice may be blind, but anyone can see that indecent exposure at a bookstore for blind people is quite clearly a crime. Well, maybe not everyone. Police in a Philadelphia suburb are looking for the man behind an unusual, and unlawful, spectacle: The man exposed himself at a bookstore for the blind, and then ran off. You see, apparently not everyone at the Bucks County Association for the Blind’s bookstore is actually blind....

Taking a page from the Mike Tyson playbook, a New Jersey barber, upset with a customer’s complaints, left a man with his ear bitten off in addition to a likely lopsided haircut. Though the unnamed customer probably would have been better off with a scissor-provided dismemberment (apparently clean cuts are easier to reattach), the fact that his ear was bitten off provides us with an opportunity to learn two essential things:...

The California Supreme Court revived a plaintiff’s slip and fall case against a jewelry store this week under the theory of respondeat superior, noting that it was no ordinary slip and fall case. The difference in this premises liability case? The plaintiff was not a customer, but an independent contractor who was injured in an employees-only area. Tom Getchell worked as an independent contractor at Rogers Jewelry store in Sacramento’s Arden Fair Mall....

Stupid things that you do in your youth can, in fact, come back to haunt you. Thirty-seven years and $100 later, Michael J. Young finally has a clean criminal record. There had been a warrant out for his arrest since he was 23 and he didn’t even know about it. Michael J. Young of Warwick, Rhode Island, was recently at the local Registry of Motor Vehicles when the clerk informed him that, in 1974, a warrant had been issued for his arrest, reports The Providence Journal....

This little crime spree appears simple on the surface. Shoplifting, the crime in quesiton, is never very complex. But just how these alleged shoplifters committed their crime is more than complex, it’s downright baffling. Three women, with the aid of accomplices, shoplifted more than $3,000 worth of liquor by simply tucking the bottles up under their skirts and walking away. Consider the logistics for just a moment, won’t you? As caught on the security video, the three suspects were videotaped at DPF Liquors in Hallandale Beach, Florida, whisking bottles of booze up their skirts....

Antitrust enforcement has been one of the Obama Administration’s priorities since the start, with both the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission delving deeper into small and big deals alike. As a result, firms are increasingly seeking attorneys with upper-level government experience, looking to bring them on as partners and “of counsel.” But as we all know, every new partner needs a few good associates to do their bidding....

A Florida teen called 911 to report an atrocious and mentally scarring “crime.” She heard her mom having sex. Did you just cringe? Or have mental flashbacks to similarly traumatizing events in your childhood? The 15-year-old told officers that she “felt disrespected” by her 35-year-old mother. She also wanted police to take her to a Christian children’s shelter. The teen eventually decided not to go because it was “almost time for school,” according to The Smoking Gun....

When passing big rig trucks on the freeway, usually the only thing that comes to our mind is (1) please get out of the way; and (2) can we get them to honk like we did in grade school by gesturing to the drivers. But, it appears, there are many designers who put much more thought into these trucks, and design patents for securing cargo within the containers the trucks haul around....