Bryant McKinnie is a huge man with an allegedly huge appetite for strippers. The Baltimore Ravens left tackle is being sued for $375,000 for unpaid tabs at various Miami strip clubs. The plaintiff in the lawsuit is Charles “Pop” Young, the father of rapper Trick Daddy, reports The Baltimore Sun. Young claims that McKinnie borrowed the money and agreed to pay it back after the NFL season began and the game checks started rolling in....
It’s a story with more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at. A Texas county and district attorney (yes, he is both the county attorney and district attorney) has been sued for allegedly spying on a fellow elected official, a constable, by monitoring and reading emails without a warrant. A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office explained that the allegations are meritless as the emails of the county constable are public record and available to anyone who files a request....
A 43 year old Ohio woman decided to try out a new kind of speed dating and wound up facing charges of disorderly conduct while intoxicated. Bernadette Music, (cool name by the way) was booked into Hamilton County jail for the incident. But what was her crime? Didn’t you read the headline? Music allegedly called 911 multiple times while she was drunk and asked the dispatchers to help her find a date....
It’s an interesting time to be in compliance, to say the least. With Donald Trump elected on a platform that includes repealing major Obama initiatives and halting government regulation, the future of corporate compliance practice remains somewhat uncertain. When there is uncertainty, people need lawyers to help them make sense of things. So, if you’ve been considering a new job in compliance, now could be your time. As part of our affiliate program with Indeed, this week we’re bringing you the top 3 coolest, compliance-focused jobs we could find....
A couple from Arizona, both former local television news reporters, are making news. The Tucson mom and dad, Somchai and Krystin Lisaius, are facing three felony drug charges each after doctors found cocaine in their baby’s system. The drug was apparently ingested through the mother’s breast milk. Although the parents brought the child to the hospital complaining that her eyes were rolling in the back of her head, she was limp, and she wouldn’t wake up, they were reportedly uncooperative....
Someone needs to take the blame for bad directions, so Lauren Rosenberg is suing Internet giant, Google, maker of the Google Maps application. Lauren Rosenberg filed a lawsuit against the search engine company, claiming the Google Maps application gave her walking directions down a highway where she was struck by a car, the Associated Press reports. Rosenberg claims that the walking directions she got from Google Maps led her down a rural highway that had no sidewalks or pedestrian paths....
It’s not easy to win a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple. ZapMedia has learned this the expensive way; it lost its latest battle in the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals last week. The ZapMedia-Apple lawsuit has been in the courts for many years now. In a suit brought before the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ZapMedia alleged that Apple had infringed on a patent over ZapMedia’s technology....
Last week, we were introduced to Professor Viola Davis and her star pupil Dean Thomas, late of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (which apparently doesn’t have a law school). This week, Professor Davis Keating helps Steven Weber – also known as “Hey, aren’t you the guy from ‘Wings’?” – escape conviction for murdering his wife. Needless to say, spoiler alerts! Episode 2 of “How To Get Away With Murder” transforms the show from a hybrid law school/legal procedural into a full-on legal procedural....
A Juris Doctor is a terminal degree. Not because it kills you, though it might, but because it’s the highest level of degree awarded in legal studies. So what do you do if a J.D. just isn’t enough? You go down one – to a Master of Laws, or LL.M. degree. An LL.M. is usually a one year course of study in a specialized area of law. You can get, for instance, an LL....
Eight men were jailed in Kentucky for the nefarious crime of refusing to affix safety triangles onto their Amish buggies. The men belong to the Old Order Swartzentruber Amish group. Their religion has a strict code of conduct that regulates nearly everything from transportation to education. They claim that the bright orange safety triangle is in violation of their beliefs. Their religion bars them from wearing or displaying bright colors. But Kentucky law requires the posting of safety triangles on slow-moving vehicles like horse-drawn buggies....
Aetna will pay nearly $1 million to California after the company sent almost 2,000 letters exposing patients’ HIV status. The state attorney general announced the $935,000 settlement, which followed a related $17 million settlement against Aetna earlier this year. The state case also requires the health care company to guard against such disclosures in the future. The problem stemmed from envelopes with windows for addresses. They were so big that anyone could see through the windows the recipients were taking HIV medication....
For reasons older than anyone reading this, baseball has enjoyed a special place in the hearts of judges and out of reach of many common rules of jurisprudence. We have extensive antitrust laws in this country, most of which don’t apply to baseball. And if a fan is injured at a baseball game, unlike standard legal arguments of negligence and premises liability, we have “the baseball rule.” Like its antitrust exemption, the baseball rule exempts teams and Major League Baseball from injury lawsuits if a fan is hit with a ball or a bat....
Avoiding perjury can be a tricky thing, especially if you’re a high-ranking public official. Whether you’re testifying before a grand jury or the subject of a Congressional hearing, you can expect to face hours of probing. It’s almost hard not to slip up and misstate a few essential facts, right? Don’t worry, though. If you ever find yourself questioned about secret White House tapes or clandestine talks with your Russian counterparts, we’ve got your back....
A police officer in Michigan has filed a discrimination lawsuit against his department, the chief of police, and a few other officers. While officers filing discrimination lawsuits against their department is nothing new, this case is a little bit different. The plaintiff, Cleon Brown, appears to be Caucasian, however, a recent Ancestry.com genetic test revealed that he was in fact 18% African. When Brown revealed this information to his colleagues within department, he alleges that he became the subject of ridicule and harassment....
Regardless of what you plan on doing with your law degree, there are some “soft-skills” you can certainly hone and develop in law school that will help you in your career. You might be asking: What are soft-skills? Generally, soft skills are measured by personal attributes such as work ethic, empathy, time-management, creativity, and interpersonal communication. And during law school, you have the opportunity to deepen your soft skills considerably. Below, you can read about three soft skills to focus on while working towards your JD....
Sameyah v. Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Ass’n, B222290, concerned a plaintiff’s petition for peremptory writ of mandate seeking an order compelling the Board of Retirement (Board) of the Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association to reverse its decision denying her application for service-connected survivor death benefits. In affirming the trial court’s denial of the petition, the court held that because the presumption set forth in section 31720.6 is a rebuttable one, here, substantial evidence supports the trial court’s decision that the Board rebutted the cancer presumption by making the showing outlined in section 31720....
In Vizio, Inc. v. Int’l Trade Comm’n, No. 09-1386, the Federal Circuit faced a challenge to the final determination of the International Trade Commission that the importation and sale of certain digital television products violated section 337 of the Tariff Act based on its finding that the accused products infringed a particular patent. In affirming in part, the court held that the Commission’s construction of the term “channel map information” is correct and also, that the Commission correctly concluded that defendants failed to sustain their burden of proving that the asserted claims are invalid....
You’ve tried your hardest, but in spite of your best efforts, your client still got convicted. What is there to do? What did you do wrong? What could you have done better? Cheer up, that’s what. Losing is a part of being a lawyer; no one wins all the time. Take solace in your defeat, though. It’s a learning experience, and hey, it might not even be a defeat for long....
On Tuesday, we talked about a campaign spending record and a gang-related slate in two very different judicial races. Today? How about a candidate for the San Joaquin District Attorney’s seat who was recently arrested twice in 24 hours, both in alcohol-related incidents. The prosecutor turned defense attorney has a lot of experience to fall back on if elected: not only is he a long-time attorney, but he has recent arrests for hit-and-run, DUI, beating a man with a shoe (dislodging the man’s hip in the process), and two more arrests over the weekend: one after he was reported to be driving a rented U-Haul while drunk (he was apprehended at home and sent to the drunk tank) and a day later, for suspicion of misdemeanor assault of a female at his home, reports Voactiv....
In a case involving property on which plaintiff was about to file an abstract of judgment as a lien against, and which defendant then deeded to defendant-co-owner, a ruling refusing to set aside the transfer is affirmed in part, and reversed in part and remanded where: 1) the trial court was correct in concluding that the plaintiff was not entitled to relief under the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act; but 2) the court erred in concluding that plaintiff could not maintain a resulting trust cause of action, and it must determine whether transferee holds defendant’s one-half interest in the property as a resulting trust for the benefit of defendant (in which case the lien would attach to the equitable interest)....
