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Fountain lady Cathy Cruz Marrero has become an internet sensation. How? By unwittingly starring in the “lady falls in fountain while texting” video, of course. The video of the fountain lady has already been viewed nearly two million times on YouTube. Now she’s considering suing the mall where it happened. The Reading, Pennsylvania woman is considering suing the mall for allowing the video to be posted online, ABC News reports. She says that she has been humiliated by having so many people view the video....

Google Street View. It can cause you all sorts of problems and embarrassment. The mapping site’s latest victim is none other than an anonymous 50-year-old Frenchman caught going oui oui in his yard. The front one, that is. He’s now filed a Google Street View lawsuit, demanding the Internet company remove his picture from the site. He also wants to be paid at least $10,000 Euros ($13,200). The monetary amount is to compensate the man for the ridicule he has suffered at the hands of his neighbors, explains NBC....

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed 13 more judges, including some firsts, as he prepared to leave office. The appointees include the first Korean-American judge in Alameda County and the first Sikh judge in Sacramento County. Add to that, Brown named the first Filipino-American judge to serve on the Santa Clara County Superior Court. With the latest appointments, the outgoing governor has chosen more than two dozen Superior Court judges since June. It’s not rocket science, but that means Brown picked an average of one new judge every week during his final months....

On April 11, 2012, The Historical Society for the District of Columbia Circuit and the Litigation Section of the District of Columbia Bar are hosting an event that may serve to trigger the memories of many DC Circuit lawyers. The event, “Madness or Badness: Duran and the Evolution of the Insanity Defense in the D.C. Circuit”, will discuss a notorious case that took place in the 1990’s, during the Clinton era....

On a scale of 1 to 166,634, how scared of law school debt should you be? If you are doing the math, $166,634 is the average amount of law school debt for graduating law students as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. It’s based on the top ten schools by debt ranking. If you are superstitious, that number includes a hidden “666.” Are you scared now? Good News Actually, there is no good news when it comes to debt....

Dumb comments about rape have been hot news this year. Two of the biggest news stories leading up to the November elections involved U.S. Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock making ill-informed, ill-advised statements about rape. Both men lost their elections, NBCNews reports. Thursday, another dumb rape comment began making the rounds on the Internet. This one was from Orange County Superior Court Judge Derek Johnson. But he actually made the statement four years ago....

St. Lucie, Florida judge Philip Yacucci Jr. has received a 30 day suspension from the bench for refusing to recuse himself from cases involving a certain lawyer. Apparently, Judge Yacucci had a “longstanding combative relationship” with the lawyer. And when the judge refused to recuse himself from that attorney’s cases, according to the state’s Supreme Court, it created “legitimate fears of partiality and bias” against his clients. According to Judge Yacucci, the attorney in question had run against him during the 2012 election for the express purpose of forcing a conflict and future recusals....

Mark Anders Chalin pled guilty to criminal vehicular homicide on Monday for killing two people when he was having sex while driving. He crossed the median and hit another car, killing the driver of the other car as well as his own passenger. There are laws against certain kinds of distracted driving such as driving while intoxicated or texting behind the wheel. Sex seems like the kind of behavior that is so obviously distracting no one in good conscience would do it....

Everyone knows that little boys can be violent if you take their toys away from them. Tell a little boy that he has been playing too many video games and they throw a tantrum and tell you it isn’t fair and they hate you. It doesn’t make it right, but it is predictable. However, that excuse doesn’t carry much weight when you’re 42. Darren Suchon lived with his 36-year-old girlfriend, Colleen Frable in Palmerton, Pa....

In a petition for review of the EPA’s revision of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone, the petition is granted in part, where one of the new regulations was inconsistent with the Clean Air Act in allowing participation in a regional cap-and-trade program to satisfy an area-specific statutory mandate; but reversed in part, where the EPA’s remaining rules were supported by substantial evidence. Read Natural Resources Def. Coun....

A hole-in-one is a rare occurrence in golf. But two together is rarer still. It does happen, however, as Old White Charities, a non-profit, learned the hard way during its hole-in-one contest at the 2015 Greenbrier Classic and Pro-Am golf tournament. What really sunk the charity is that its insurance claim for the money has recently been denied by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Old White Charities sponsored the hole-in-one contest, promising to pay attending fans $100 for a hole-in-one and $500 for another hole-in-one at the 18th hole....

Marlon Scanterbury, a high school teacher in Brooklyn, NY, saw homework passes as a way to make a few dollars by selling his homemade soap. The scheme started out as an incentive program where students could ‘buy’ trinkets using ‘keys’ earned through good academics and behavior. A few months into the program Scanterbury offered a deal of 10 keys in exchange for the purchase of a bar of soap. That didn’t tempt many students so he included a free homework pass in the deal....

The economy is down, bills are piling up, and some people simply just don’t have enough money to make ends meet. Now the sluggish economy has even caused a Pennsylvania couple to steal copper to pay for their wedding. April C. Cater, 24, and Joseph Russell, 23, allegedly stole copper wire from 18 utility poles. The total amount of copper they stole is valued at $7,146. They stole the wire on August 9, just days before their wedding on August 13....

For in-house counsel, playing the devil’s advocate is definitely not a game. With apologies to Keanu Reeves, it’s not even a movie. And you definitely don’t have to like him. But the devil’s advocate can help you avoid pitfalls that will drag your company through hell. We’re talking about that no-good plaintiffs’ counsel who wants to sue for wage violations hidden in pay stubs. Paychecks When you think like the opposition, it helps you see the problems in your own position....

Conviction for attempted premeditated murder is reversed and remanded where, under the trial court’s instructions with respect to the natural and probable consequences doctrine, the jury could have concluded that attempted unpremeditated murder and not attempted premeditated murder was a natural and probable consequence of the attempted robbery, and thus did not properly prepare the jury to determine the extent of defendant’s culpability for the attempted murder. Read People v. Hart, No....

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) thinks states should prohibit drivers from operating all electronic devices - save navigation systems - while driving. “Too many people are texting, talking and driving at the same time,” NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman said at a hearing. “It’s time to put a stop to distraction. No call, no text, no update is worth a human life,” reports Bloomberg. While the NTSB can recommend a cell phone driving ban to combat distracted driving accidents, such recommendations are not binding....

Two women with big hairdos were arrested at John F. Kennedy International airport in New York after allegedly trying to smuggle two pounds of cocaine each in their hair weaves. It’s probably a cleaner and more comfortable way to smuggle drugs than via the anal cavity. The two women, Kiana Howell and Makeeba Graham, had just flown to New York City from Guyana. The first giveaway that the women were up to something was their suspiciously towering hairdos, reports The Smoking Gun....

We’re all aware of the allure of the “selfie,” that ubiquitous form of narcissism comprised mostly of teenagers posing for self-portraits using their smartphone cameras and bathroom mirrors. But even though this kind of digital self-expression can cost self-photographers their current (and future) employment, it seems many of our upright police officers are not missing out on the selfie craze. Just head to a popular Tumblr account called “CopSelfies” to see for yourself....

Are you a first year just now ruing the day you read those ridiculous books urging you to highlight in five colors? Are you already floundering, and it’s only the first week? Do you have an uncontrollable desire to smack a classmate? Are you already trying to figure how you’re going to survive law school? Don’t worry–you’re not alone, which is why we here at Greedy Associates are stepping in to ease your fear and give you a few tips on how to get through the next few years of your life....

There is no doubt that the current executive administration is doing what it can to rollback government regulations, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to get away with avoiding all your compliance related activities for 2017. If you’re an in house or GC, you’re probably still buried in some of it right now. In fact, most of the laws that require some form of federal corporate compliance and reporting are still intact, and if your company does business in Europe, you’re probably gearing up for a challenging 2018 for regulatory compliance already....