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A federal judge ordered immigration officials to stop detaining legitimate asylum-seekers, ending the detention of many immigrants who have been held since President Trump took office. Judge James Boasberg issued a preliminary injunction ordering Immigration and Customs Enforcement to follow its own directive to release people pending their petitions for political asylum. In Damus v. Nielsen, the judge set out a process for ICE to release them until they get full hearings....

Doe v. Sec’y of Health & Human Serv., No. 09-5096, involved a challenge to the decision of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims upholding the special master’s denial of claimant’s request for compensation on the ground that the claimants failed to prove that their daughter’s death was caused by hepatitis B vaccination. In affirming the denial of compensation, the court concluded that the claimants failed to meet their burden of proving that their daughter’s death was caused by the vaccine as the special master’s factual findings were not arbitrary or capricious and did not commit legal error in considering evidence of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, as an alternative cause, as there is nothing in the Vaccine Act that prohibits the government from presenting evidence that plaintiff’s death or injury was due to factors unrelated to the vaccine....

Earlier this week, a Florida judge sent an escaped inmate from Georgia back over the state line to continue serving out his 25 year sentence for drug trafficking. Raul Prado was arrested after he fled a work-detail in Augusta and headed to Miami. When caught, he claimed that he was his twin brother, Jean Vernet Prado. He just happened to be using the ID of his imprisoned brother. Eyewitness testimony when twins are at play can be a prosecutor’s nightmare....

Dr. Dre, the rap star, sued to block a trademark by Dr. Drai, a gynecologist. Dr. Draion Bruch, who goes by Dr. Drai, said he uses his short name for business purposes. Dr. Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, said the trademark would confuse people. The Patent and Trademark Office was not confused, however, and ruled against the music man in Young v. Burch. But what is mind-blowing, how come the highest paid doctor is a rapper?...

A drunk Miami Beach cop was on-duty when he the ATV he was driving crashed into two tourists on the beach earlier this month. Derick Kuilan has since been fired. Another on-duty police officer who was partying with Kuilan at the time, Rolando Gutierrez, was also fired. Officer Kuilan was originally assigned to a late-night ATV beach patrol, reports Reuters. For some reason, Kuilan and Gutierrez instead decided to head over to the Clevelander Hotel, reports Reuters....

During his 12-year career as player in the National Basketball Association, Rex Chapman had almost 600 steals. According to Scottsdale Police, Chapman has racked up a few more steals during his retirement. Chapman is accused of shoplifting more than $14,000 worth of merchandise from the Apple Store at a Scottsdale-area mall, reports the Arizona Republic. What kind of charges is Chapman now facing? Police say that Chapman, who also worked as an executive with the Phoenix Suns NBA franchise following his retirement from the league, stole items from the Apple Store at the Scottsdale Quarter mall on seven occasions over recent months....

Not everyone sees jury duty as the kind of essential civic responsibility that you and I do. Whereas we revel in the chance to serve in our nation’s courts and participate in our legal justice system, others see it as an inconvenience, one to be avoided at all costs. Alisia Carnes could be one of those people. Why else would she disobey a court order forbidding potential jurors from reading about the case?...

Low-income residents of Berkeley, California, may soon have a chance to score some free weed from medical marijuana dispensaries, thanks to a pending change to the famously liberal city’s pot laws. In a unanimous vote Tuesday, Berkeley’s City Council approved a first reading of amendments to the city’s medical marijuana ordinance. Among the proposed changes: to require at least 2 percent of medical marijuana dispensaries’ “green” medicine to be given away at no cost to low-income members....

If you’ve been thinking about a legal specialty, an e-discovery career might be in your future. Electronic discovery is a $10 billion industry, and e-discovery specialists are making it work. They are tech-saavy legal professionals who help identify, preserve, and manage electronically stored information. For any attorney or those who want to be one, becoming an e-discovery professional is as natural as evolution. E-Discovery Qualifications You don’t have to be an attorney to work in e-discovery....

Note to inmates: when you attempt to escape from your holding cell, check that you’re actually leaving the building. A Kentucky inmate could have used that advice when he took a wrong turn in his break for freedom and ended up back in court. Now instead of enjoying freedom, he’s a national joke. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. The inmate was being kept in a holding cell after an altercation earlier that morning....

Normally when a DUI suspect arrives at the local police station, it’s cuffed in the back of a cruiser. Not so for Christopher L. Stewart, who showed up in the Hopkinsville Police Department parking lot behind the wheel of his own truck, albeit after entering through the exit side and nearly clipping a cop car. Was this a contrite criminal, turning himself in? Or did a wrong turn land him right in law enforcement’s lap?...

It seems that a lacrosse team in Boston took the idea of spicing the games up a little too far. Nearly 9,000 fans were stunned when three women competed to give the team’s mascot the most impressive lap dance. According to those who attended the game, the Blazers’ mascot, Scorch, received lap dances from scantily clad women during the half-time show, USA Today reports. There was a video on YouTube for a while, but it has since been taken down with a message that reads, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by National Lacrosse League....

Yep, it certainly is a good time to apply to law school. We’ve pontificated a bit about the decrease in applications, applicants, and demand for law school seats. We’ve also speculated on what that means for wannabe-lawyers. Now, we’re getting concrete examples of the fallout from the law school bubble-burst. Schools are dumping scholarship offers on those who chose to go elsewhere. Though most schools’ application numbers are in line with the national decrease, a few lower-ranked schools actually had more applicants....

Michael Tarala, 12, was found not guilty of negligence by a Connecticut jury today. The boy’s aunt claimed that she was due $127,000 in damages resulting from her nephew’s too-hard hug on his eighth birthday. A six-person jury panel this afternoon determined that Jenniffer Connell did not suffer compensable injury. They were apparently not won over by her testimony about the difficulties of handling hors d’ouevres at parties with a broken wrist....

The tragic shooting of Danroy Henry, Jr., a student and football player at Pace University, has caused controversy as the investigation continues. A wild party during Pace University’s homecoming ended with Henry shot and killed by police last weekend. Police were surrounded by an unruly crowd when they approached Henry’s car and the car tried to pull away. According to the family of Pace player Brandon Cox, a teammate, Danroy Henry thought police were telling him to move his car out of the fire lane....

First there was a cupcake vending machine. Now there’s a pot vending machine, but is it legal? Now that marijuana is legalized in Colorado for people 21 and over, a vending machine will be installed in a few medical pot dispensaries in the state to allow users to get their weed on-the-go, according to The Cannabist. So will the vending machine run into any legal problems? How Does it Work? In 2012, Colorado residents voted to legalize marijuana, so it’s not surprising that new inventions which help people get pot have sprung up....

Robbery suspect Freddie Thompson managed to pull of the old switcheroo. He made an identity change and escaped from court. According to the New York Times, Freddie Thompson, 35, switched places with another prisoner during an arraignment. The other prisoner was facing a less serious charge of marijuana possession and consequently, Thompson was mistakenly released. It is unclear how exactly he was able to pose as the other prisoner during his arraignment in a Staten Island courtroom....

If you want a cool job, they’re out there. The internet is virtually flooded with openings in interesting practice areas or with exciting companies. Just take this week’s batch for example. As part of our affiliate relationship with Indeed, we’ve rounded up legal openings at Google, in Daimler, and with a tour company that promises to “surf you to the moon” – or just take you snorkeling in Maui. This in-house gig will have you working for Daimler out of Durham, South Carolina, where their Mercedes-Benz plant is located, churning out high-end vans....

When, in a barely-noticed local election, the City of Sunnyvale passed some of the strictest anti-gun measures in the nation, including some gun control efforts that were recently vetoed on a state-wide level by Gov. Jerry Brown, we knew that litigation would follow. And it did. Two lawsuits were filed in the past week, one challenging the ban on magazines capable of holding more than ten rounds, and one challenging everything else (ammunition sales records, theft reporting, and storage requirements)....

In Hollywood, stars are made in so many ways. There are the award winners, who are chosen by an academy of their peers. There are the box-office stars, whose status comes from their fans. Then there are Hollywood’s star lawyers. And the winners for 2018 are … Hollywood Stars “Power Lawyers 2018,” according to the Hollywood Reporter, have nothing “to feel insecure about” – as if that ever happens with lawyers....