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Want to make your local police department’s day? Upload video footage of yourself committing multiple felonies and misdemeanors to YouTube and give it an incriminating title like “Me Driving Like an Idiot.” That’s exactly what police say 18-year-old Robert Charles Kelly IV of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, did, reports The Daytona Beach News-Journal, becoming just the latest online over-sharer to face jail time for uploading video footage of his or her exploits to YouTube....

Once you become a lawyer your personal life is never completely separate from your professional life again. Circuit Court Judge Sam Pope is living proof that what you do outside the office can still hurt your career. On Thursday Pope was suspended by the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission as part of an agreement reached over an incident that happened to Pope in April. Not only was Pope suspended for 30 days, the agreement also required that he attend anger-management class and write an apology letter....

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a preliminary injunction against global biotechnology tools company Life Technologies Corporation, finding that it infringed against Celsis In Vitro’s so-called LiverPool patent. The LiverPool patent describes various methods for producing cryopreserved human hepatocytes, which are cells of the main tissue of a human liver. Human hepatocytes are reportedly very fragile and hard to cryopreserve. The article in question in the case was a heaptocyte product produced by Life Technologies through the alleged use of Celsis’ patented method....

Jerry Sandusky’s son Jon Sandusky has been arrested for DUI. It happened after police in Fargo, North Dakota, pulled over Jon Sandusky, the Cleveland Browns’ director of player personnel, for performing an illegal turn early Thursday. According to TMZ, officers suspected Sandusky was intoxicated, and after he allegedly refused a Breathalyzer, Sandusky was run through a field sobriety test… which he failed. The younger – and less notorious – Sandusky is now facing a drunken driving charge....

There is no “I” in “team,” but there is one in “In-house” counsel. So how do in-house counsel build a team culture in their departments? Well, it’s kind of a like building a sports team because everybody has a role. But success comes when the individuals put aside personal goals for a common goal. Then everybody – general counsel, managers and staffers – can focus on the end result and not on individual achievements....

A Washington DC police officer won the president’s respect and lots of street credit when she defused a teen fight with some dance moves last week. The officer reportedly tried to clear an area where two teenagers were fighting when one woman walked up to her and started dancing. The officer laughed and danced back. Their moves were memorialized on video and the recording went viral, the Washington Post reported....

Registering a trademark isn’t as easy as it sounds. The Chamber of Commerce of the United States recently fought for the right to register the service mark “National Chamber” but were met with resistance from the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board. The reason for the resistance? TTAB claimed that the service mark “National Chamber” was too descriptive of the services offered in connection with the mark, in violation of 15 USC 1052....

Reading, writing, and bracketology have landed a Nebraska boy in trouble. The fifth-grader tried to start an NCAA tournament pool at his Omaha elementary school, but instead got a lesson in the law. “You can’t gamble in school,” Max Kohll, 11, told the Omaha World-Herald. “It’s not OK to gamble. It’s like, illegal, sort of.” Like his college-basketball-fan parents, Kohll read up on his favorite team (the North Carolina Tar Heels) and filled out his bracket (with the Tar Heels winning, of course)....

With all that we know now about the dangers of concussions, when cases involving youth athletes suffering permanent injury make headlines, all the money in world likely isn’t enough to compensate the youths for that sort of loss. For one Southern California former high school football player and his family, a recent $7 million settlement related to his permanent, concussion-injury, may help ease some of the financial burden. Rashaun Council was only a freshman when he suffered a concussion while playing on his school football team....

Defendant’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus is granted as the assessment protocols used to evaluate defendant leading to the SVPA commitment petition is invalid as an underground regulation, and as such, the appropriate remedy is to order new evaluations of defendant using a valid assessment protocol and to conduct another probable cause hearing under section 6602(a) based on the new evaluations. Read In re Ronje, No. G041373 [HTML]...

Television station KTVU has apologized for airing fake names of the pilots of a jetliner that crashed in San Francisco last week. But Asiana Airlines says it’s planning to sue the station over the error. An anchor for Oakland, California’s KTVU read four made-up names for the pilots of the downed Asiana plane – names which were racially insensitive. The fake names were apparently confirmed by an intern with the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), reports The Associated Press....

Ah, graduation speeches. There’s so much ado made about who will speak at law school graduation, but then, when it comes down to it, do people really listen? Hopefully, yes. But in case you do not have the patience to sit through these inspiring speeches, we thought we’d give you a breakdown of some notable 2014 law school graduation commencement addresses, and see what future lawyers should take away. After spending three years reading Supreme Court decisions, there can be no better speaker than a Supreme Court justice – whether you agree with his jurisprudence or not....

The Manti Te’o girlfriend hoax is all over the news. And for good reason, being one of the most bizarre sports stories ever. But is lying about an imaginary girlfriend named Lennay Kekua (which is what many believe Te’o did) or falling for a hoax (which is what Notre Dame supporters believe) a crime? To add another crazy layer to this crazy story, some laws may actually have been broken – depending on whose side of the story you believe, that is....

Depending on which television stats you cherry pick, the National Football League is either dying or it’s immortal. But there’s little doubt the NFL has been locked in a public relations battle the past few years. From a wave of domestic violence and assaults, to concussion and painkiller class action lawsuits, and now the (mis)handling of player protests, the league – regardless of burgeoning income – has been working overtime to burnish its image....

Offended by the inability to fit into stationary booths at a White Castle located in Nanuet, New York, 290-pound Martin Kessman has sued the fast food establishment, alleging that its small seats violate his civil rights. To make matters worse, the company responded to his complaints with coupons for free hamburgers. That’s right–not only are White Castle’s small booths part of a nefarious plan to discriminate against its overweight customer base, the burger chain is forcing complaining customers to pay for cheese....

When we first heard about the saga of Bud, gray parrot that may have been repeating the last words of his murdered owner, we were skeptical about whether his “testimony” would be admissible in court. Those words – “Don’t f***ing shoot” – might “come in under Michigan’s ’excited utterance’ exception or ‘statement under belief of impending death’ exception,” we wrote, but the parrot’s evidence would probably be inadmissible in a criminal trial....

Can you copyright a yoga pose? You could in years past, but now the U.S. Copyright Office says it’s too much of a stretch. The Copyright Office’s Performing Arts Division recently changed its mindfulness regarding the legal status of yoga in response to a yoga-pose lawsuit, Bloomberg reports. Yoga poses were once considered “choreography” that could be copyrighted, but now they’ve been classified as mere “exercises” that get no copyright protections....

Don’t ruin your client’s weekend by getting him arrested on the wrong day Let’s say your client needs to make contact with the authorities (maybe he needs to check on a warrant) and there’s a chance he could be taken into custody. Don’t let him do this on a Friday. In general, people who are arrested must be brought before a magistrate within twenty-four hours, but that time period does not include weekends....

Although the terms DUI and drunken driving are often used interchangeably, most people know that the “I” in DUI can represent being intoxicated by alcohol or drugs. Most people, that is, except Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell, apparently. Bell was recently cited for marijuana possession during a traffic stop. According to the criminal complaint in that case, Bell told an officer, “I didn’t know you could get a DUI for being high” before admitting that he had recently smoked marijuana and had a small amount in his possession, reports Pittsburgh’s WPXI-TV....

The third time is the charm. After being distributed for three judicial conferences, the Supreme Court granted Teva Pharmaceutical’s petition for writ of certiorari on Monday. The Stakes Are High The Teva case is a patent dispute surrounding the multiple-sclerosis drug Copaxone. Teva Pharmaceuticals holds the patents for Copaxone, and a decision in its favor would keep the patents alive until September 2015. Generic manufacturers want to release their generic drug in May – which technically they could, under the Federal Circuit’s decision....