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There are the things you go to Krispy Kreme for: frosting, fat, comfort, calories, and icing. Fresh fruit, on the other hand, is normally not among the donut chain’s top selling points. Still, there are selections like Glazed Raspberry Filled, the Glazed Blueberry Cake, and the Maple Iced Glazed sitting right there on the menu, so perhaps you could excuse Jason Saidian for thinking those raspberries, blueberries, and, uh, maples would be real, and not just flavoring and food coloring....

This is the year that they are supposed to “bore you to death.” Remember that little nugget of wisdom, “scare you to death, work you to death, bore you to death”? It’s only half-true today. We’d venture a guess that you’ll be more stressed than bored during your final year of law school, the year of uncertainty. What’s on your plate? Unless your 2L summer led to a permanent gig, you’ll need to line up post-grad housing, pick a bar prep class, apply to anything and everything, and if you can, get some practical experience before you graduate....

Is marijuana as dangerous as heroin? Our research – based entirely on Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream – would suggest no, but the government needs facts and figures and non-dramatized evidence to make that call. And that’s where the federal courts come in. Next Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will consider whether marijuana has therapeutic value or whether it should remain a useless Schedule I drug. The petitioner, Americans for Safe Access, will argue before the D....

Earlier this month, Los Angeles County Children’s Court Presiding Judge Michael Nash opened the super-secret juvenile courtrooms to the press, except in cases in which an open hearing would be harmful to the child involved, reports the Los Angeles Times. Judge Nash believes the move will bring accountability to court proceedings, and comply with a state law giving people with a “legitimate interest” access to court proceedings. It’s an idea that Judge Nash has been touting for months, arguing that media access to these proceedings will improve “transparency for a branch of the legal system that handles child abuse, child neglect and foster care placements....

Halloween is a time for costumes, candy, and revelry, but it is also perceived as a time when children are more susceptible to sexual predators’ attacks. Perhaps that’s because it’s one of the only times that parents suspend the standard safety rules for their kids. While most days, kids are told to avoid talking to strangers or going to strangers’ homes, all bets are off on Halloween. Many California towns have responded to the heightened Halloween threat against children with “no candy” laws and decoration bans....

We get it, you want BigLaw despite advice that you should be careful what you wish for. You’ve made it your aim to get into some of the most corporate of firms, and now you want to know which schools will best increase your chances. After all, BigLaw is where the money’s at. After taking some of the stats from the American Bar Association, the folks over at Business Insider ran some comparisons against their own list in order to create a list with a second opinion, so to speak....

As you may already know, the world famous North Face company (owned by the VF Corporation) has sued the scrappy little upstart South Butt. Started as a reaction to the label lovin’ cool kids at his high school South Butt originator, young Jimmy Winkelmann, also sells fleece jackets, T’s, hoodies, etc. North Face’s motto: Never Stop Exploring. South Butt’s motto: Never Stop Relaxing. Sound similar? It is, and so are the jackets....

In plaintiff’s action against her ex-husband and various others including several attorneys involving their alleged participation to conceal assets to avoid child support, grant of attorney’s special motion to strike under the anti-SLAPP statute and award of attorneys’ fees is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff’s cause of action is predicated on protected activity under the anti-SLAPP statute and the probate proceedings and the litigation defense were protected petitioning activity for purposes of the anti-SLAPP statute; 2) plaintiff did not show a probability of success on the merits; and 3) plaintiff did not demonstrate any abuse of the trial court’s discretion in determining the appropriate amount of attorney fees to award....

California almond producers claim that the Secretary of Agriculture — attempting to prevent the spread of salmonella — exceeded his authority in requiring California almonds sold domestically to be treated with heat or chemicals. Last week, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the almond farmers waived those claims by failing to raise them during the rulemaking process. Under the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (AMAA), the Secretary of Agriculture may issue marketing orders binding “handlers” of commodities such as almonds....

Somewhere in the contentious air over climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency went too far. A federal appeals court said that happened when the EPA banned hydrofluorocarbons, a chemical found in aerosol spray cans that scientists have linked to global warming. The agency has authority to outlaw ozone-depleting chemicals, but HFC’s are not ozone-depleting. “Here, EPA has tried to jam a square peg (regulating non-ozone-depleting substances that may contribute to climate change) into a round hole (the existing statutory landscape),” Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote in Mexichem Fluor, Inc....

Ah, smartphones. We know many of you are so addicted to them that if you dropped them in a toilet you’d fish them out. But federal courthouses around the country are less keen on the do-everything phone-computer combo. Many federal jurisdictions don’t allow the devices into courthouses because of fears that could be used as weapons by terrorists. That’s right, a memo issued last week by the Administrative Office of the U....

In all our attempts to control people’s behavior on social media, haven’t we finally realized that social media always finds a way? Clearly not for one Florida apartment complex, which reportedly threatened tenants with a $10,000 fine for negative comments about the property. Although the current Windmere Cay property manager denied enforcing the “Social Media Addendum,” it nonetheless remained part of the complex’s lease agreement as recently as this week....

Concussions have become so common in football that players, for the most part, now know the risks they are undertaking by playing the sport. Likewise, lawsuits involving concussed players have become so common that coaches, administrators, and medical staff are knowledgeable and diligent enough to recognize concussion symptoms and provide treatment as soon as possible. At least, they should be. That’s what one former high school football player claimed in a lawsuit against a San Diego school district after a failure to diagnose and treat a concussion led to brain swelling, emergency surgery, a medically induced coma, and permanent damage to his brain....

Little Jimmy is about to embark upon a three-year journey, an epic academic trek that will lead to a juris doctorate, and if he is truly lucky, a career that uses it. You want to encourage Jimmy and to help him succeed. After all, with dim employment prospects, he’ll need to maximize his chances by doing well in school and looking the part. With many schools starting up in only a month, here are a few “yays” and “nays” on gifts for matriculating students:...

A Mountain View Police officer pulled over a Google self-driving care for driving too slowly last week. There was no one in the driver’s seat to ticket for the vehicle’s sluggish progress through a 35 mile-per-hour zone, according to the police department’s blog. But the cop did question the remote operator, even if he issued no citation. The officer stopped the car and made contact to learn more about how the car was choosing speeds along certain roadways and “to educate the operators about impeding traffic....

Just because someone is a grandma, doesn’t mean they’re not tough. A grandmother shootout against robbers went down in Macon, Georgia. And the lady won. Lulu Campbell, 57, was dropping off her 15-year-old grandson at her daughter’s house. While she was sitting in her car, two men approached and demanded money, but Campbell refused. The men then threatened to shoot her if she didn’t open her door. The fearless grandmother then said a line that could’ve been ripped straight out of “Die Hard....

Trial court’s grant of plaintiff’s petition to invalidate the appointment or election of defendants as directors of Galleria Plus, Inc. is affirmed where: 1) defendant forfeited any claim of error with regard to the court’s ruling on the demurrer; 2) the trial court correctly found that plaintiffs had standing to bring the present action; and 3) defendant failed to object in trial court to the appointment of new directors and thus forfeited any objection he might have....

On April 15th, Major League Baseball with celebrate Jackie Robinson Day. All players and coaches will wear Robinson’s now-retired 42 to mark the day that Robinson played his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Robinson’s debut helped to end the racial segregation in baseball that had kept black ballplayers in the Negro Leagues since the 1880s, and became a source of inspiration for the burgeoning civil rights movement....

Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Kassim Osgood is used to dodging defenders on the gridiron. The 30 year-old NFL pro is tall, fast and comes in at a muscular 220 pounds. But what he didn’t expect was to have to dodge a pistol-whipping. Osgood was allegedly attacked by Julian Armond Bartletto, the ex-boyfriend of Mackenzie Rae Putnal, a 19 year-old Jaguars cheerleader who Osgood was visiting. Putnal already had a restraining order against Bartletto....

A recent law graduate writes an article called, “The case for killing law school.” What’s your first thought? Probably dismissal – crazy folks spouting nonsense. But his argument, which boils down to (paraphrasing here) “lawyers make it hard to become lawyers to protect their massive salaries,” and which takes UC Irvine Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to task for his defense of legal education’s status quo (while making $350,000 in salary, plus a cut of textbook and study supplement sales, and compensation for bar review lectures), actually contains an interesting truth: becoming a lawyer costs way too much....