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President Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, is facing a barrage of questions about the propriety of the payment, allegedly made personally by him, to Stormy Daniels. In case you’ve somehow managed to avoid this breaking headline, an adult entertainment actress was allegedly paid $130,000 as hush money, by Cohen, in order to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Donald Trump. And while the alleged underlying conduct, or a payment of hush money, might not be terribly unexpected from President Trump given his crude reputation, Cohen’s claim that he made the payment out of his own personal funds without Trump’s knowledge simply defies all credulity....

Streaming company FilmOn filed a motion challenging a prior D.C. district court injunction, preventing the service from broadcasting local TV in various jurisdictions, including Boston. According to Broadcasting & Cable, FilmOn argued in its newest motion to modify the prior injunction that a recent Massachusetts federal district court decision in favor of online broadcast of local TV has changed the law enough to make an exception for FilmOn in the First Circuit....

Morrissey sang that meat is murder, and PETA couldn’t agree more. But shoppers at Whole Foods could long console themselves that their cuts came from friendlier farms than most. Now People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is suing the posh supermarket chain, claiming that its humane meat rating system is a farce. PETA, in a class action lawsuit filed in California on Monday, says that Whole Foods barely surpasses national meat standards and is deceiving shoppers....

Every year some legal news source comes out with a study on “Best Cities For Young Attorneys” or “Best Market for New Lawyers” without considering you actually have to pay to live in those places. Using the National Jurist’s 2012 study on the “Best Cities for Young Attorneys” and Demographia’s 2014 survey on housing affordability worldwide, Greedy Associates has come up with our power ranking for the top five affordable cities for young attorneys....

Many people think that bullies need to be publicly shamed, and an Ohio judge certainly felt the same way. South Euclid, Ohio Municipal Court Judge Gayle Williams-Byers ordered Edmond Aviv, 62, to stand at an intersection while holding a sign saying that he bullied disabled children, according to Cleveland.com. Judge Williams-Byers also sentenced Aviv to 15 days in jail, seven months probation, and 100 hours of community service and counseling....

Google is notoriously secretive regarding its proprietary search algorithms. Uber Technologies is eager to become the most used ride sharing service. And Gainesville, Florida company Uber Promotions just wants to protect its local trademark. The solution to this legal conundrum? Tell Uber to make sure anyone living in Gainesville and googling “Uber Gainesville phone” gets the phone number for Uber Promotions and not Uber Technologies’ local contact number. Wait, what?...

There are so many hilarious things about this, that I don’t even know where to begin. Curtis Fox, a magna cum laude graduate of Winston-Salem State University with a BA degree in Political Science, a concentration in Public Administration and a Business Administration minor, has a dream of going to law school. (Strike one. Kidding.) His Kickstarter says that he is starting law school in the fall (though it doesn’t say where)....

Fortunately for 63-year-old Leslie Richard Newton, he was allegedly under the influence of alcohol and was somewhat dulled to the pain of having a traffic sign embedded in his head. Unfortunately for the Florida driver, alcohol and drunken driving may have been the reason he had a sign in sticking out of his skull in the first place, reports the Miami New Times. Florida Highway Patrol officers pulled over an erratically swerving Chevy Camaro near St....

Tuesday is Election Day, and because it’s a midterm election year, the political climate in the country is poised to change. But because it seems almost no one except hardcore politicos are planning to vote, the reaction on Wednesday is likely to be, “Hey, what happened?” As usual, there are a lot of legal battles going on this year. Here are five reasons why lawyers should pay particular attention to what happens on November 4:...

Ha. Let’s all take a moment to be thankful that we’re not these kids, the finalists at the National Spelling Bee. “OMG. Totes went to the Biebs concert last night. What’d you do?” “Uh, I won a spelling bee on television.” (Crickets. Years of loneliness.) Kids, go learn guitar. It’ll help you impress fellow tweens and means you won’t spend your entire youth pouring through literature, alone in your room, wishing, ever so desperately, that you never appeared on national TV spelling the word “appoggiatura” (which is gross and sounds like a body part)....

In most college sports, there are no ties; you have a winner and a loser. But in a lawsuit involving the administration of college sports, it looks like both sides have battled to a draw. The Supreme Court last week declined to hear appeals by both the NCAA and Ed O’Bannon involving O’Bannon’s lawsuit over the commercial use of college athletes’ names, images, and likenesses. The denial leaves in place a lower court ruling that was both favorable and unfavorable for both parties involved, and may have lasting impacts on future college athletes....

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) got some tough love from the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday, when the court issued a writ of mandamus forcing the agency to process an application to store nuclear waste in an unfunded site. Mandamus is certainly an extraordinary equitable remedy for any court to issue, but the NRC tried the court’s patience by doing nothing about a pending application. The crux of the In re: Aiken County case is an NRC policy decision to not process an application for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal site....

Nelson Mandela’s daughter plans to appeal a costly court ruling over plans for a Pacquiao-Mayweather fight that never happened. The ruling follows a failed attempt by Mandela’s daughter to organize a fight between the world’s top two boxers, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather, gossip website TMZ.com reports. The bout was supposed to coincide with Nelson Mandela’s 93rd birthday bash in South Africa. The fight fell through, and a boxing promoter sued Mandela’s daughter, Zindziswa, for breach of contract....

Catoosa County Magistrate Anthony Peters is a judge no more, having been kicked off the bench by a unanimous Georgia Supreme Court this past Tuesday morning. Banned from ever holding judicial office in the state of Georgia, Peters, who isn’t actually an attorney, was called out for his erratic behavior, including his refusal to take responsibility for his actions, instead choosing to publicly disparage the Chief Magistrate Judge and local Sheriff....

The California Supreme Court ruled today that individual citizens have the right to defend ballot initiatives when the public officials refuse to do so. In the decision, the court decided that California Proposition 8 proponent ProtectMarriage has standing to challenge a federal judge’s ruling that struck down the initiative in 2010. ProtectMarriage, a conservative coalition that sponsored the 2008 ballot proposition restricting marriage to heterosexual couples, appealed the ruling to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals after Gov....

In 2009, the search for a robbery suspect led police to the doorstep of convicted-felon Walter Fernandez. Police were investigating nearby when they heard the screams of his girlfriend and cohabitant, Roxanne Rojas. Once backup arrived, they knocked on the door and Rojas, with a bruised nose and bloody hand, answered. Fernandez came to the door and refused to allow the police to enter, stating, “You don’t have any right to come in here....

At the Mississippi Valley Fair in Iowa, you’ll never be able to guess who’s behind the adorable, furry, blue-costumed Cookie Monster. A sex offender! James Lester Rogers, 25, was arrested for dressing up as the popular Sesame Street character. Rogers was convicted for lascivious acts with a 7-year-old girl in 2005. He was working at the fair in a Cookie Monster costume. Apparently, Rogers was arrested after he took off the costume head to greet a former parole officer, who then recognized him as being a convicted sex offender, reports KWQC-TV....

For law students, bad study habits can quickly turn a semester from good to what-happened!?! Sure, whether you’re going to get called on in lecture is as likely as rolling doubles, but that doesn’t mean you should slack off or short-shrift your preparation. There are better ways to get your thrills than agonizing over whether you’re going to have to fudge your way through a Socratic barrage. Below you can read about the five worst study habits that law students need to stop right now....

After the Academy Awards, there is an awards show for lawyers who say really stupid things. Alright, it’s not exactly a “show.” But lawyers are on stage in the courtroom, and sometimes they say things that are almost entertaining for their stupidity. So here’s to the front-runners for the “Dumbest Thing a Lawyer Can Say in Court.” There is no host – just judges, juries, and the court of public opinion....

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, with x-ray vision and the ability to punch through concrete with a bare fist. Superman has a super long list of amazing abilities, and maybe one of them scared some Superman thieves into returning a stolen plaque honoring the hero’s creators. An Ohio Historical Marker plaque honoring Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who lived in Glenville, Ohio when they dreamed up Clark Kent in the 1930s, was stolen last month....