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Challenge to the facial validity of a county’s Farmland Mitigation Program Bldg. Indus. Ass’n of Cent. California v. County of Stanislaus, F058826, concerned a suit by the Building Industry Association of Central California (BIA), challenging the facial validity of the County and the County Board of Supervisor’s Farmland Mitigation Program (FMP), requiring that a developer dedicate permanent easements as a condition of obtaining development approvals or permits from the County....

Unless your name is Ana Catarian Bezerra, don’t get all handsy at work just yet. The Brazilian woman masturbates up to 18 times a day due to a strange medical condition. After filing suit against her bosses, a Brazilian court has now given her the okay to masturbate at work. Bezerra, 36, suffers from severe anxiety and hypersexuality - something that makes her “compulsion orgasmic,” reports Gather.com. A single mother of three children, Bezerra works as an accountant - a seemingly buttoned-up profession for such a buttoned-down condition, reports Guanabee....

Perhaps the best way to celebrate any holiday is to spend some time learning about why the holiday is celebrated at all. And while you may not get any time off from work to knock back a few cold ones in honor of International Women’s Day, you can spend a few minutes reading about some of the recent milestones reached and others within reach when it comes to gender equality....

In re Mighty Leaf Tea, No. 09-1497, involved a challenge to the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board affirming the refusal of plaintiff’s application to register the mark, ML, in a standard character form, for use with certain personal care and skin care products. In affirming the denial, the court held that the customer confusion is likely between plaintiff’s ML and ML MARK LEES when used on nearly identical goods....

Gators linebacker Antonio Morrison barked up the wrong tree Saturday, when he was arrested for allegedly barking at a police dog. The University of Florida football player was already on suspension for a June arrest for assaulting a bouncer. Now Morrison, 19, faces misdemeanor charges for resisting arrest and “harassing an on-duty animal,” reports USA Today. Playful or not, Morrison could face jail for making dog noises at a dog....

How does $10,000 sound to take the edge off the bitterness that can develop from reflecting on three years of camping out at the law school library, paying a six-figure sum in fees, and missing major events of family and friends? Well, that’s what the non-profit organization Access Group is attempting to do with its video scholarship contest hosted on YouTube. And now you can click in to the action of deciding the winner....

Nearly one year ago to the day, we told you to chase your dreams: instead of schlepping case files from your bedroom office to the courthouse, go live the rock ’n roll lifestyle, like the legally trained (and former pro soccer player) Julio Iglesias. Struggling artist beats unemployed attorney, right? Of course, Julio Iglesias wasn’t the best example, even if he is the best-selling Latin music artist of all time. After all, though he had legal training, he wasn’t a lawyer....

Citing a cost savings to law school applicants, Harvard Law School announced that it will accept the Graduate Record Exam or the Law School Admission Test for students who apply beginning with the fall of 2017. Dean Martha Minow, in a prepared statement, said the move is designed to eliminate barriers for the most talented candidates for law and leadership. She said the pilot program will reduce the cost barrier of taking two admissions tests....

Christina Marie Anzalone was accused of an odd assortment of crimes. She reportedly threatened a motel owner with a knife, threw a bagel and an open knife at another man, and broke the side mirror and radio antenna on the bagel victim’s truck. She was charged with making a criminal threat, assault with a deadly weapon, (along with allegations that she personally used a deadly weapon in both counts), and misdemeanor vandalism....

Juvenile defendant’s sentence is affirmed where: 1) a statement of maximum period of confinement need only be written and not orally pronounced in order to comply with statute; and 2) on a silent record, a court is presumed to have complied with its statutory duty to consider imposition of a confinement period shorter than the adult maximum that might be justified by the facts and circumstances at issue. Read In re Julian R....

In an appeal from a juvenile court’s order declaring minor a ward of the court, the order is affirmed in part where: 1) the evidence was sufficient to find that defendant committed attempted robbery; and 2) the juvenile court acted within its discretion and did not violate either the state or federal Constitution in ordering defendant to continue to cooperate in his treatment by complying with his doctor’s future prescriptions of medication for depression and social anxiety disorder....

Ousted Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been doing everything in his legal power to fight the sale of his team. And his most audacious lawsuit, a $1 billion claim against the NBA, Commissioner Adam Silver, former Commissioner David Stern, his wife Rochelle Sterling, and two neurologists who declared him mentally unfit, was emphatically dismissed by a federal court in California. It’s merely the latest in a long line of setbacks for the racist, sexually harassing, domestic abusing slumlord, but in true Donald Sterling fashion, he has vowed to keep suing....

A Friday night. A game of poker with your pals. Maybe some sandwiches, drinks, smoke from a cigar or two curling over the table. Suddenly, the police burst in, bust up the game and arrest everyone in sight. No, this is not pulp fiction; this is life in the great state of South Carolina, c. 2006, wherein betting on “any game with cards or dice” is illegal. Moreover, this is exactly what happened to a group of card players in Mount Pleasant, S....

What’s the worst form of government? Student government. And nowhere can this be seen more clearly than the University of Missouri School of Law short-lived new social media policy dreamt up by the (apparently Stalinist) students of the Student Bar Association. Did we say social media policy? Orwellian thought control program might be a better description. Say that on Facebook, though, and you could face the wrath of the Mizzou SBA....

In yet another sign of the impending apocalypse, a Nova Scotia man was cited after he was caught driving a motorized cooler down a sidewalk. The tricked out red cooler was fully equipped with standard features such as mp3 player, radio, enhanced suspension, cup holders and a 5.5 horsepower motor. Neil Rideout of New Waterford is fighting the ticket he received on his ultimate urban vehicle for $222 under Nova Scotia’s Motor Vehicle Act....

As the country awaits the Supreme Court’s decisions in Hobby Lobby and Conestoga regarding the Obamacare contraception mandates, related cases are making their way through circuit courts around the country. Priests and the Contraception Mandate “Opt Out” While the Supreme Court will decide the fate of for-profit, secular companies, the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate already accommodates non-profit organizations with religious objections to the law. The organization must simply fill out a self-certification form stating a religious objection, and the organization will be exempt from the mandate....

Some bad news for Giants fans, pitcher Chad Gaudin has been charged with lewdness after allegedly groping a woman on a gurney in a Las Vegas hospital. Vegas police say Gaudin appeared intoxicated in late January 2013 when he approached a woman lying on a gurney, told her she was “gorgeous,” and touched her face and breast, reports Reuters. What could this misdemeanor charge mean for Gaudin’s criminal and baseball future?...

You knew it was going to happen someday. As soon as you started law school, news traveled through the gossip grapevine. Now, everyone is texting you, calling you, or conspicuously bringing up their personal legal issues up in coffee-house conversation in a not-too-hidden attempt to get some free legal advice. Now that you’ve actually graduated, it’s not just family and friends trying to leech advice. Total strangers are trying to get in on the free-tip bandwagon....

There are only a matter of days until the new semester starts for law school students so it’s time to cram in as much relaxation time as possible. It’s too hot to move outside so make your home into a private movie theater and enjoy your last few days of free time with a movie marathon. In the interest of maximum time efficiency (because who doesn’t want to do more with their time) that movie time can also be used to psych yourself up for the coming semester....

With today’s controversial decision in the Hobby Lobby case, the U.S. Supreme Court is drawing its fair share of criticism on social media. But just like with last year’s High Court decision in a divisive EPA case, much of the invective on Twitter is being directed at the wrong account – namely, @SCOTUSblog. SCOTUSblog is, as its name implies, a blog dedicated to covering the Supreme Court of the United States (which lawyers affectionately refer to as “SCOTUS”)....