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When we last left the town of Littleton, Colorado, pop. 40,340, the Mayor was giving the press his mea culpa for the treatment of local teen Aaron Henson. If you will recall, Henson was arrested by Littleton Police for the crime of not returning a DVD copy of House of the Flying Daggers to the town library. At the time, the mayor was unhappy over the bad publicity the town had received as a place that would toss kids in jail for the high crime of an overdue movie....

Marriage is complicated, and the two of you are intricately entwined, both spiritually and legally. Though it can be hard to control or even influence your spouse, if your spouse drinks and drives, you could be liable for their actions, the extent to which depends on the laws in your state. Community Property – the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly When a spouse in a community property state claims they own half of everything acquired during a marriage, barring a few legal issues, sometimes they forget that means everything, both assets and debts....

Deciding on a bar prep course can be fairly simple. However, since some students have different time and budgetary constraints, not all bar prep course will work for everyone. Also, not all courses are taught the same, and what’s best for one might not be best for another. Generally, because the bar exam is graded on a curve, there can be some advantages to taking the same bar prep course as everyone else....

Recently, a young man dropped off lunch for a high-school senior, leaving a bag with a doughnut in the main office. This unusual dedication to dining seemed strange to Bordentown Regional High School authorities, who searched the dessert and called the cops. Indeed, inside a small plastic bag stuffed in the doughnut were 6 Xanax pills, reports UPI. Xanax, known by the generic name of alprazolam, is medicine, legitimately prescribed to people with anxiety and panic disorders....

Ryan Lochte had a truly incredible story about being robbed at gunpoint. The preternaturally adolescent U.S. Olympic swimmer told his mom – and the FBI, the U.S. State Department, USOC security, and Rio de Janeiro tourist police – that cop impersonators put a gun to his head in Brazil, taking wallets and cash from he and three other swimmers while they were taking a cab home from a party. Only that’s not what happened....

According to the Justice Department, the outcome of an Army and KBR lawsuit over the final stages of LOGCAP III , the largest government services contract in U.S. History, may affect many thousands of federal contracts while creating “enormous uncertainty” for vendors and the government, reports the Federal Times. A reminder to practitioners and law students: pay attention to footnotes. The Justice Department’s warning was delivered in a recent U.S. Court of Federal Claims pleading – in a footnote....

The California Supreme Court is set to decide whether deeds speak louder than words when it comes to testator intent. This week, the state’s highest court voted to review an intestacy ruling to decide whether a decedent’s clear intent in his holographic will should overcome shortcomings in the language of the document. We gather from Irving Duke’s holographic will that he wasn’t crazy about his siblings. In 1984, Duke prepared an holographic will, in which he left all of his property to his wife, with the exception of “the sum of One dollar ($1....

Not if New York has anything to say about it. The state that brought you illegal stop-and-frisk polices, while at the same time trying (and failing) to make large sodas and fantasy football illegal, is now trying to criminalize playing Pokemon Go, at least for sex offender parolees. “While children believe they are out to catch a Pokemon,” wrote New York Senator Jeff Klein, “what might really be lurking could be a predator instead of a Pikachu....

We often use sports as an escape from real life. And every now and then, real life intrudes into the games. That’s what happened when a stray bullet found its way into Busch Stadium Tuesday night, grazing a female fan’s arm and came to a stop underneath her seat. Thankfully, the woman was not seriously injured, and according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, has already retained the services of an attorney....

Former model Janice Dickinson won a significant round in her legal fight with Bill Cosby, and it was a long time coming. Fifteen years ago, Dickson told her publishers that Cosby had drugged and raped her but they feared civil liability. Her memoir was published with a sanitized version – and then this happened: dozens more women made accusations of sexual assault against the former comedian. After Dickinson went public in 2014, Cosby’s lawyer attacked her in the media, so she sued for defamation....

A Florida man allegedly attempted to murder his sleeping wife, but instead broke his own neck. Steven Pinel, 49, otherwise known as The Worst Criminal Ever, allegedly tried to shoot his wife in the face around midnight as she slept in their Bradenton home. The blow, however, “didn’t render her unconscious,” the local police chief told the Bradenton Herald. The chief said “there was an issue” with the gun and Pinel was unable to keep firing....

California lawyers, are you ready for the new rules of professional conduct going into effect November 1, 2018? The comprehensive overhaul of the rules will undoubtedly have an impact on lawyers throughout the state, and if you’re not prepared, it could spell disaster. Fortunately, The Rutter Group, the company behind the best California legal research guides on the market, is putting on an evening seminar in the coming weeks in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Mastering California’s New Rules of Professional Conduct: What Every Lawyer Needs to Know to be in Compliance....

Most of us know what we’re getting with a veggie or “garden” burger. Tofurky? Not that confusing. After all, the makers of vegetarian animal flesh alternatives would have a tough time reaching their target audience if those alternatives sounded too much like the real thing. Still, the State of Missouri wants to save you from trying to eat meat and eating a plant instead. State lawmakers passed a bill that prohibits “misrepresenting a product as meat that is not derived from harvested production livestock or poultry....

Here at FindLaw, we have a minor tradition of exposing some of the very interesting legal issues that can crop up around holiday traditions. Take, for instance, the Grinch. Pointing out all the ways that green gangsta broke the law is now a FindLaw holiday tradition in its own right. In keeping with this new tradition, let us now examine the terrible, terrible ways the Twelve Days of Christmas gifts, partridge and all, run a-fowl (excuse the repeated pun) of modern law....

When five female passengers start throwing haymakers some 30,000 feet over the Cornhusker State, you start to wonder: which long arm of the law will be prosecuting these productive members of society? The cops in Baltimore, where the flight originated? Or in LA, where we’re going to land? Doesn’t the Federal Aviation Administration have jurisdiction over the skies? Unfortunately, we might not get that answer – these lucky ladies may have avoided all charges....

Thanks to the way Iowa’s gun laws are written, the Hawkeye State is seeing a strange and controversial result: Iowa officials are issuing gun permits to blind people. Iowa, like all other states in the nation, allow the carrying of certain concealed firearms in public with a proper state-issued permit. And Iowa law seems to agree with visually impaired Iowans like Michael Barber, who told the Des Moines Register he doesn’t believe “eyesight is necessary” to properly firing a gun....

In the inimitable wisdom of Indiana lawmakers, 16 and 17 year olds can consent to have sex with adults, but they cannot receive texts with naked images of those adults. And in the inimitable wisdom of the Indiana Supreme Court, the absurdity of these conflicting laws can’t save a teacher from a sexting conviction. It’s just the latest example of sexting legislation gone wrong. Indiana In-Person v. Oregon Online We’ve written before about the absurdity of some sexting prosecutions: child porn charges for teens taking pictures of themselves, and teens charged with felonies for sexting each other....

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that an administrative law judge for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Affairs can’t sue the agency for alleged violations of his judicial independence. Writing for the court, Senior D.C. Circuit Judge A. Raymond Randolph said the Civil Service Reform Act barred Mahoney from suing under the Administrative Procedure Act. As a result, Mahoney’s underlying claims didn’t see the light of day....

We’ve all heard of robbing Peter to pay Paul, but this lawyer is ridiculous. John Shasanmi allegedly stole $600,000 from a New York church. He was supposed to hold the money in escrow for the Second Providence Baptist Church, but instead he transferred it to his personal bank account. It’s not like he’s giving lawyers a bad name – that’s a given. But he has confirmed a rumor that the devil does have an advocate....

A federal bankruptcy fraud case against former New York Mets star Lenny Dykstra has the player formerly known as “Nails” in serious hot water. Last Friday, a grand jury indicted Dykstra on charges of fraud and obstruction of justice. Dykstra was originally arrested by police on suspicion of grand theft, but has not been indicted on those charges, reports Reuters. Dykstra declared bankruptcy in 2009 after some of his business ventures began to fail....