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In a narrative nearly as compelling as those penned by Stephen Glass himself, the California Supreme Court just eviscerated the author of largely fictionalized magazine articles that were initially presented as fact-based journalism. He now seeks bar admission. Will the journalist-turned law graduate ever gain admission to the bar? And has he really changed? If not, the first few pages of the court’s opinion are quite the lurid retelling of his scandalous past....

Some people will do anything as long as they can get away with it. If that somebody happens to be the chief executive officer, it can be a bigger problem than just one person. Bad behavior can literally take down a whole company. If you are the general counsel, now it’s your problem. So what to do with a CEO who thinks he or she is above the law? Inside Counsel The good news is, you have a chance to right the ship before the captain goes down with it....

A Kansas City Royals fan’s lawsuit over a hot dog in the eye will have another day in court. John Coomer says that he was hit in the eye by a flying hot dog during a 2009 Royals game. He claims to have suffered a detached retina and other injuries when a foil-wrapped hot dog launched by the Royals mascot Sluggerrr smacked him in the face, reports The Kansas City Star....

In a petition for review of FERC’s decision to lift a stay of the four-year deadline for beginning construction at a site for which FERC had granted a permit, the petition is denied where Petitioner was not entitled to an indefinite extension of the stay and FERC’s findings concerning the remaining hurdles to commencing construction were sufficient to support the denial of a further stay. Read Keating v. FERC, No. 08-1005....

A judge has declared the post-nuptial agreement entered into between Frank and Jamie McCourt is invalid. This means the Dodgers have been ruled community property, which is a victory for Jamie McCourt. Jamie and Frank McCourt first met in 1979 and eventually became extremely wealthy during the course of their 31 years of marriage. They purchased the Dodgers only to quickly have their marriage fall apart. Recently the ownership of the team was called into dispute during their bitter divorce....

The world lost another great performer today when Prince died at the age of 57. Prince was a master of pop music, whose infectious, prodigious creations brought him dozens of top hits, from “When Doves Cry,” to “Little Red Corvette,” to the highly-underrated “Batdance.” Prince was also a cultural force, creating a public persona almost as influential as his music. But, while much of the media today will focus on Prince’s contributions to music and culture, we lawyers are reminded of another major facet of Prince’s history: his very long, very public, and very frequent contractual disputes with his record labels and sometimes even his fans....

Don’t even think about Microsoft v. Apple if you are thinking about taking the Law School Admission Test. In the clash of these titans, Microsoft won. The Surface Pro – not the iPad – is now the unofficial sponsor of the LSAT. The Law School Admission Council, which administers the LSAT, will offer the test on their Surface Pro platform beginning July 2019. Don’t worry, you can still use your own tablet for studying....

To answer the question if a man can write his own credit card terms, and in honor of comedian Yakov Smirnoff, we present the following non-joke: In America you get sued for not paying credit card bill, in former-Soviet Russia you sue credit card company! Apparently in the land of bears, vodka, caviar, and NSA leaker asylum-seekers, Dmitry Agarkov was able to successfully draft his own credit card terms of service, which the bank unwittingly signed and was held to in court, reports Gawker....

The NFL’s brain-injury settlement was granted preliminary approval in federal court Monday, but former players and their families aren’t celebrating just yet. U.S. District Judge Anita Brody approved the revised settlement which would compensate former athletes and their heirs for brain injuries incurred by years of concussions suffered on the field. According to Reuters, these concussions were shown to cause to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), leading to aggression and dementia....

Would you ever rob a bank with a plunger? How about three? Banks, that is. Didn’t think so. Nonetheless, authorities in Utica, New York have arrested Lawrence Deptola, 49, and charged him with attempted third-degree robbery. He’s accused of spending last Thursday afternoon robbing banks with a plunger. Fortunately, no one was hurt and no money was taken. Though, some bank employees may be never be able to plunge again....

An ex-bartender has sued upscale Manhattan Chinese restaurant Chin Chin, accusing its employees and owner Jimmy Chin of sexual harassment and assault. The woman, Yvonne Diaz, claims her co-workers would often make penis-shaped dumplings and then hold them to “their crotch areas making it look like they had big penises.” Diaz also alleges the phallic dough was often fed to Chin Chin’s celebrity clientele, which includes Sean “Diddy” Combs, Mariah Carey, Tyra Banks and Jennifer Lopez....

An Oregon woman has confessed to setting a 51,000-acre wildfire to help out her “bored firefighter friends,” and now she’s due to be sentenced. Sadie Renee Johnson, 23, was convicted in federal court in May after pleading guilty to setting the Sunnyside Turnoff Fire, which forced evacuations of dozens of homes and closed the Kah-Nee-Ta Resort and Village, reports Central Oregon’s KTVZ. In Johnson’s defense, she said she thought she was only setting “a two-day fire....

The Peking University School of Transnational Law is looking to get the American Bar Association’s (ABA) nod and stamp of approving recognition as the first ABA-accredited law school outside the United States. Outsourcing, which has commonly become associated with call centers in Asia assisting North American and European customers on everything from connecting to DSL to changing a flight booking, could have a new avatar coming soon. One ending in Esq....

What’s a nudist resort without a pool, and what’s a pool without water? Glyn Stout and his wife Lori Kay Stout, owners of a California nudist resort, have been arrested for stealing water from a nearby creek to supplement their water supply during the state’s long standing drought. If convicted, each defendant could face up to three years in prison. A Waterfall of Criminal Charges Glyn and Lori own and operate Lupin Lodge in Near Los Gatos, California....

In Walker Process Equipment, Inc. v. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., the Supreme Court held that antitrust liability may attach when a party uses a patent to obtain or preserve a monopoly if the patent was procured through intentional fraud on the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The question in this interlocutory appeal was whether a direct purchaser of patent-protected goods can bring a Walker Process antitrust action against the owner of a patent, even if the purchaser faces no threat of an action for patent infringement and has no other basis to seek a declaratory judgment holding the patent invalid or unenforceable....

Redneck Heaven, a Texas food joint in the “breastaurant” industry a la Hooters and Twin Peaks, can’t use body paint as a proxy for clothes anymore. A city ordinance change in Lewisville, Texas, means Redneck Heaven – known for its “Anything But Clothes” days – can no longer clad female servers in mere pasties and body paint. It’s a big blow to the busty restaurant, considering it only adopted the body paint idea after a 2011 local ordinance required more coverage during the promotion....

Summer is just around the corner and if you’re anything like the rest of us, you’re dying to get away. Maybe you’ll go camping in the mountains, fly off to a tropical beach, or visit Europe again. But why be just a lawyer on vacation when you could be a vacation lawyer full-time? Sure, vacation law is a practice area we just made up, but plenty of major vacation companies and destinations are hiring....

In this week’s review of the top three coolest legal jobs around, presented as part of our affiliate relationship with Indeed, we’re going triple-A. No, not the American Automobile Association. These jobs in the aerospace, animation, and academic industries are perfect for attorneys looking to make a shift in their careers. It’s Disney, folks. Who wouldn’t want to work at Disney? Just think of how impressed your kids would be....

A few weeks ago, we highlighted some notable 2014 law school graduation speeches – but we were too early for the best commencement speech of the season. What speech gets this high honor? None other than Mindy Kaling’s speech at the Harvard Law School graduation. It all started with Kaling stating that she was honored to get an honorary Harvard Law degree, when she was kindly corrected that she was not in fact, not getting a degree....

Attorneys and law schools alike both seem prone to making ethical blunders. Though thankfully, the legal profession at least has some accountability, evidenced by the American Bar Association slapping the law school at Villanova with a public censure. Apparently, Villanova University School of Law knowingly reported inaccurate admissions data. The inaccurate data includes GPA and LSAT statistics for its entering classes. In multiple years, the “reported” GPA and LSAT were higher than the “actual” GPA and LSAT of its admitted class....