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Corey Eubank, the Florida “Toxic Tush” assistant, was attacked on a taping of a Spanish-language talk show Wednesday. Now Eubank has filed restraining orders against two women who came after him, the Orlando Sentinel reports. He accused Shaquanda Brown, 30, and her mother, Brunetta Brown, 60, of lunging at him, throwing a syringe at him and shouting anti-gay epithets in the melee. In applying for the restraining order, Eubanks accused both women of harassing him repeatedly over the past several months, calling him more than 100 times and threatening him with violence....

Promising San Francisco 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith had better stop his current trend of off-the-field issues, or he could find himself out of the NFL despite leading all rookies in sacks last year. Since the end of his rookie year in January, Smith has already been involved in two criminal incidents. Early Saturday morning, Aldon Smith was reportedly stabbed at a party at his home that also involved two shootings....

In a story sure to bring smiles to PC users, an 11-year-old Pennsylvania boy was caught peeing on dozens of MacBooks, PennLive reports. The full-bladder assault resulted in over $36,000 worth of damage for Upper Allen Township Elementary School, the laptops’ owner. The boy is a student at the school. It’s believed he urinated on the computers after finding them unattended at the school. School officials labeled the damage as a total loss beyond repair....

It has been a tough year for former Seton Hall Pirates basketball coach Bobby Gonzalez. In March, Gonzalez was fired the day after one of his Seton Hall players was ejected for punching an opposing player in the groin during the Pirates’ final game of the season. The Pirates lost 87-69 and Gonzalez picked up his seventh technical of the season. University president Monsignor Robert Sheeran said the events of the previous night were “a crystallization of all that was really wrong” with the basketball program under Bobby Gonzalez’s watch....

Keyona Davis not your model babysitter. Davis, 23, was arrested for felony child neglect after having a friend drive a truck through some busy streets in Florida with an 8-month old infant in the truck bed. Davis was babysitting for a friend. The baby in the truck bed was in a stroller. For her part, Davis seemed perplexed as to why she was arrested. “It’s not like they give you a handbook or anything on how - what’s neglect and what’s not neglect,” Davis said in court according to MSNBC....

If you are looking to leave a government job to work for a corporation, here’s a tip: maybe you should look elsewhere. Literally, you may have to change your search parameters because the Google results for “government lawyers leaving for corporate work” is not very encouraging. Even Corporate Counsel, a top-tier result for anything related to corporate counsel, makes it look like a daunting task. It might take searching for “how to use government experience in the private sector” or “how lawyers can make more money without losing government benefits” to get better results....

For a dozen Harvard Law students this Spring semester, Professor Laurence Tribe is teaching a seminar devoted to what a Trump impeachment would actually look like. Keeping with his trendy Twitter persona, Professor Tribe titled the course: “Constitutional Law 3.0: The Trump Trajectory.” Though it’s relatively early still in the Trump presidency, undoubtedly, it has been a rather tumultuous start that has confused and confounded many pundits, and even White House staffers....

In earthquake-prone California, it’s become commonplace for residents to say, “Not if, but when the Big One strikes.” The threat of a massive earthquake hitting Los Angeles has spanned generations – from Charlton Heston’s “Earthquake” to Dwayne Johnson’s “San Andreas.” But the impact lasts only two weeks at the Box Office, at best. If a quake registers less than 5.0, Californians don’t even get out of bed to put their shoes on....

Jerry Sandusky in jail for less than 72 hours and he’s already complaining. He better get used to it as he faces 442 years in prison for sexually assaulting and molesting ten boys. Sandusky is in solitary confinement and has had trouble dealing with the isolation. It’s not clear if the taunts of fellow jail mates have affected him. One of Jerry Sandusky’s attorneys, Karl Rominger, visited Sandusky in jail. Sandusky is in solitary as he’s on suicide watch, and his attorney said that Sandusky is feeling anxious and that he complained that he was not suicidal and that if he had to sit around in his cell for a few more days, he’d go “nutty,” reports Deadspin....

No Child Left Alive, a book authored by then-teacher Randy Turner, is at the heart of the lawsuit reopened by a Joplin, Missouri judge earlier this month. According to Turner, the title is merely a play on words, and the book is a satire on the state of public education in the United States. Randy Turner wrote No Child Left Alive while he was a teacher at East Middle School in Joplin, Missouri....

Class of 2013, we’re not sure what you were thinking. You applied and entered law school after the crash. It was common knowledge that there were no jobs. It was a near-certainty that none were coming either. That doesn’t help you now, however. And we’ve been there - with student loan companies calling, craigslist-sourced employers not beckoning, and your parents nagging you to take out the trash and mop the kitchen before dinner....

Saul Goodman isn’t exactly the type of lawyer most of us aspire to be. Goodman was made famous as the desperate, slimy, and completely endearing attorney in “Breaking Bad.” Played by Bob Odenkirk, Goodman was the bumbling accomplice to Walter White’s meth-making mastermind. And the character was so popular he got his own spin-off, in the form of “Better Call Saul,” a prequel which chronicles the ways a down-on-his-luck lawyer remains very much down on his luck....

Party bus to the hotel not working? No problem, everybody take the lawyer’s boat. Boat crashes and the lawyer leaves injured passengers at the scene? That is a problem. Was the attorney driving the boat while under the influence? That is the question. Under Investigation Douglas McWilliams is under investigation after a boating accident on Lake Travis in Texas. According to reports, a group of lawyers were there for a retreat....

Exposure to legal consequences can occur at the drop of, well, a pair of running shorts. Just ask the runner whose naked marathon ended with him arrested and tased by police. Police tased an Ohio man for running naked during a Cincinnati marathon. Brett Henderson, 35, told police his running shorts fell off inadvertently during the race. Police were not amused. Henderson lost his shorts at some point during the marathon - he didn’t really provide a good explanation for that one....

Officers in Vero Beach, Fla. were a bit confused on March 24 when they came across 40-year-old Tammy Roseman. Not only was she drunk, she was sitting – butt naked – in the front passenger seat of her boyfriend’s car. The car was not in front of their home. When asked about her undressed state, Roseman could give no explanation. It appears as though she had no idea whatsoever why and when she had shed her clothes....

“Are You Ready to Get Covered in Someone Else’s Vomit, Fargo?!!” You may not find it anywhere in a guide to good manners, but one unwritten etiquette rule is this: Vomiting on other people is the walk-off home run of social faux pas, minus all the cheering. If it happens, you just go home. It’s all over. But don’t try telling that to Justin Krohmer, an off-duty sheriff’s deputy whose dinner made the kind of encore that the people in front of him weren’t clamoring for, at a Kenny Chesney concert in Fargo, N....

Perhaps it would not be everybody’s idea of what is appropriate to spell out their sexual preference on their license plate, but can the state really say it is offensive to the general public? According to the local KoCo 5 News, that is the current finding of the Oklahoma State Tax Commission and it has resulted in, of course, a lawsuit. Keith Kimmel, 28, a political science and pre-law major at Oklahoma City Community College, is already advancing on his career in court and looking for a fight....

The term ‘justice is blind’ is often more optimistic than realistic. Few people in the law would argue with that. Mr. Alec Karakatsanis, an alum of Harvard Law, has been on a mission to reform bail practices in courts all around the country. So far, most of his work has been focused on the South, but his work has been receiving the praise and attention of legal scholars and jurists in other states outside of the region....

The pencil prank–where a child puts a pencil on another’s seat so that it pokes him when he sits down–is a mainstay on comedic television geared towards children. Having a little fun, a 12-year-old boy at Sailorway Middle School in Ohio decided to take on the well-known prank. But, unlike television, someone actually got hurt. The pencil impaled his classmate in the buttocks. The two 12-year-old boys were reportedly in choir class when one decided to pull the pencil prank....

Trial court judgment awarding plaintiffs attorney’s fees pursuant to the private attorney general doctrine set forth in Code of Civil Procedure sec. 1021.5 is affirmed where: 1) the litigation initiated by plaintiffs satisfied the necessity and financial burden requirements of the statute; 2) court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the litigation conferred a significant benefit to the environment and thus to the public at large; and 3) the court did not err in finding that although it had not granted the petition in all respects, plaintiffs prevailed on three significant issues and were therefore successful within the meaning of the statute....