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In a tort action alleging intrusion into a protected place, interest, or matter, and violations of the right to privacy, court of appeals judgment reversing summary judgment for defendants is reversed where plaintiffs did not establish that defendants’ challenged conduct was highly offensive and constituted an egregious violation of prevailing social norms, as activation of a surveillance system was narrowly tailored in place, time, and scope and was prompted by legitimate business concerns, and plaintiffs were not at risk of being monitored or recorded during regular work hours and were never actually caught on camera or videotape....

This isn’t the first time we’ve covered a story of bizarre criminal activities involving men in Florida. But in this case, the story centers around a true hero. Stan Pannaman was volunteering to protect sea turtle nests on a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea beach when a drunken man assaulted him, and then shot Pannaman with his own gun. Florida Man Shoots Florida Man Pannaman is about as hero as you can get. The Vietnam veteran was volunteering his time with the South Florida Audubon Society and Sea Turtle Oversight Protection groups to monitor and protect sea turtle nests from beachgoers....

Be honest. Have you ever billed a client for a late night, in-room movie? How about for fresh underwear? Joseph Nacchio, former CEO of Qwest Communications, has sued the lawyers who represented him in his insider-trading case, claiming they “grossly overbilled” him and sought payment for staff breakfasts, underwear and in-room movies, Bloomberg reports. Guess if you’re already running up the tab on bagel spreads and Spectravision, you don’t think twice about tacking on the cost of new boxer brief, right?...

The homemade clock that 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed brought to school on Monday may have looked innocent enough, but his eagle-eyed teachers weren’t fooled. One saw the ticking converted pencil case as “possibly the infrastructure for a bomb.” The School and Police Overreacted In fact, this isn’t the story of a teen bringing a bomb to school. Instead, this is the story of an enterprising Muslim teenager, with dreams of becoming an engineer and wearing a NASA t-shirt, who brought to school a pencil case he converted into a fully functioning clock....

A South Carolina man could face multiple charges after he allegedly stole a fire truck for a naked joyride – then struck and killed a pedestrian, police say. The naked man, Kalvin Hunt, 26, of Sumter, S.C., was taken to a hospital after he crashed the fire truck and was pinned inside, the Associated Press reports. The pedestrian, Justin N. Miller, 28, of Port Royal, S.C., died at the scene....

Pregnant mothers can’t use Facebook to notify their baby daddies before putting their child up for adoption, Oklahoma’s highest civil court ruled earlier this month. For one adoptive couple, that meant that their child’s biological father still had a right to contest the adoption of his previously unknown son. The Supreme Court of Oklahoma ruled that the biological mother couldn’t terminate the biological father’s parental rights without giving him notice she was pregnant – and a Facebook message doesn’t count....

You just don’t bring a crack pipe to court. And that goes double for people who are at the courthouse to make an appearance on a previous crack pipe charge. This isn’t that complicated of a notion, but Stanley Ramos needs a little help navigating the world of common sense. The 32-year-old Florida resident brought a crack pipe to the Manatee County Judicial Center on Tuesday and with predictable results....

The Supreme Court will not weigh in on the legality of federally funded stem cell research this term. On Monday, the Court denied certiorari in a challenge to a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals decision upholding the practice, SCOTUSblog reports. Two researchers, Drs. James Sherley and Theresa Deisher, sued to block the Guidelines, claiming that the research violated the Dickey-Wicker law, which prohibits federal funding for “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of injury or death greater than that allowed for research on fetuses in utero....

Even lawyers need a little love from their furry, scaly, and/or fuzzy companions. While the type of dog or cat may be telling enough as is, what about other pets? Like, maybe camels, anyone? In honor of Shark Week, we thought we’d celebrate the other lesser appreciated animals in the kingdom. Here are some unusual pets, including sharks, and what this may say about the type of lawyer owning them:...

It isn’t rare for Tom Kubistant to ask his students to double up on their masturbation and write about it. But for Western Nevada College student Karen Royce, the instructor’s request went too far. Kubistant teaches Human Sexuality at the community college, leading class discussions about orgasms and sexual positions. Students also must write a 14-page sexual case study in which they discuss their fetishes, abuse and any “lubrication challenges.”...

Anyone working in Big Law will tell you that stress is usually their constant companion. It’s a career with a high rate of suicide and alcoholism. One former Big Law attorney turned therapist, Will Meyerhofer, said that he would feel his entire body clench as he walked through the BigLaw doors. So, how to manage stress when working at the firm? Here are some stress management tips for all you hour billers out there:...

Mandamus Petition to Restore Petitioner to Inspector General Office In Walpin v. Corp. for Nat’l. & Comm. Servs., No. 10-5221, petitioner’s appeal from the district court’s order denying his petition for a writ of mandamus directing that the Corporation for National and Community Services (CNCS) be directed to restore petitioner as the CNCS Inspector General on the ground that the President did not comply with the requirement of the Inspector General Act that the President give the Congress thirty days’ notice of his intent to remove an Inspector General and of the reasons therefor, the court affirmed where the district court correctly dismissed the action because petitioner did not have a “clear and indisputable right to relief” as required for mandamus....

For all the talk about law school debt, the struggling legal market, and dead-end legal jobs, working as a lawyer is still one of the best ways to make a lot of money. According to a new report by Glassdoor, lawyers are the second highest-paid professionals in the country. So take that software engineers, finance bros, R and D managers. We’ve still got you beat. (Though we’re also a distant second to physicians....

There can be some very good reasons to call the police and report a crime right away, like if a crime just occurred or someone could be a danger to the public. And there are some very good reasons to wait: maybe you fear retribution from the person committing the crime, or you’re not even sure if what you saw was related to criminal activity. But is it possible to wait too long?...

Wells Fargo’s board of directors released its report into the bank’s fraudulent account scandal yesterday, a scandal that saw millions of fake accounts opened customers’ names, as employees bent rules to meet demanding sales goals. The report, which marks the near culmination of the bank’s internal investigations, laid blame primarily on two executives: ex-CEO John G. Stumpf and former head of community banking Carrie L. Tolstedt. But the report also gives some insight into how the problem got so bad, and how the bank’s internal legal department failed to prevent the scandal, even when they’d warned of risks years before....

An Ohio woman who faked labor complications to escape the cops sure had a creative way to resist arrest. But not only was it unsuccessful, she got in more trouble for doing it. Police tracked down Tamala Grissett after she was accused of stealing almost $1,300 from a local Macy’s. When they arrived at her home she gave a fake ID, then threatened to kill one of the officer’s and file a false abuse complaint....

Two skydivers who parachuted off 1 World Trade Center were spared jail time on Monday, but got a stern talking-to from the judge in their case. A jury convicted the men in June and the prosecutor in the case asked for 60 days in jail for each of them. Instead, the judge punished them with fines and community service. An Expensive Flight Andrew Rossig and James Brady were both fined $2,000; Rossig was also given 200 hours of community service, while Mr....

Albany New York is accustomed to shady characters. It is New York’s capital and many who came to it with high hopes after elections left in disgrace after corruption trials. Now former State Assemblyman Sheldon Silver joins those ranks and the time is right to announce Albany’s Museum of Political Corruption. The museum is the brainchild of Bruce Roter, a professor at Albany’s College of Saint Rose. He is raising money for the museum, which he envisions as both an educational institution and a tourist destination that focuses on the city’s reputation for corruption, according to the Associated Press....

It was a good Monday for Apple. The tech giant won two appeals in the Federal Circuit this week, as that appellate court upheld two decisions rejecting claims by patent licensing companies that Apple had infringed on others’ patents. In one case, a licensing company accused Apple of infringing on its patents for data communications – in pagers. Apple had accused the company of being a patent troll and described the lawsuit as extortion....

The California Supreme Court issued an opinion last week in O’Neil v. Crane Co., a closely-watched products liability case that raised the question of whether a manufacturer could be held liable for a wrongful death caused by asbestos release from a third-party component part. In a unanimous decision, the state’s highest court headed off a flood of litigation, ruling that a manufacturer may not be held liable in strict liability or negligence for harm caused by another manufacturer’s product, unless the defendant’s own product contributed substantially to the harm....