New Yorker Jake Letizia enjoys making people laugh. But Judge John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court was not amused. After the defendant’s attorney discovered Letizia was sharing jokes about the trial online, he requested an appeal. And he got it. The trial by jury was in late 2019, and... Read More »
On March 31, 2021, another mass shooting took place. This one was in Orange, California, and four people were killed. The shooting occurred in an office building; one of the murdered people was a child. That same month, on March 16th and 22nd, mass shootings took place in Atlanta and... Read More »
Celebrity photographer Lynn Goldsmith is probably partying like it’s still 1999. The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a controversial 2019 New York Federal Court’s ruling that the Andy Warhol Foundation’s usage of Goldsmith’s copyrighted Prince photograph was legal. The high-profile photographer to the stars won her copyright lawsuit on... Read More »
The people have spoken. App-based drivers in California are independent contractors and not employees. People who drive for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash or any of the other innumerable transportation network or delivery network companies in the Golden State are not entitled to worker protections and benefits such as overtime pay, meal... Read More »
The Sixth Circuit Court has ruled that a professor at the Shawnee State University can not be compelled to call students by their preferred pronouns. The decision comes after professor Nicholas Meriwether had a back and forth with university officials regarding a student who was referred to only as “Doe''... Read More »
A top radio personality, Chris Hogan, of the popular personal finance radio show, The Dave Ramsey Show, has been let go from the show amid a federal lawsuit against the company. Hogan's sudden departure raises new questions about double standards in a federal lawsuit filed against the company in 2020.... Read More »
Yoga has been banned in Alabama schools since 1993 when conservative groups convinced the Alabama Board of Education that yoga should not be allowed in schools because of its Hindu roots. The language of the regulation said that “The State Board of Education specifically prohibits the use of hypnosis and... Read More »
A brilliant yet criminally savvy Tampa high-school teenager was convicted of hacking numerous celebrity Twitter accounts in 2020 in an attempt to get over $100,000 in Bitcoin. This high-profile case includes the hacked social media accounts of some of the most well-known celebrities globally, plus numerous U.S. presidents and global... Read More »
Buckhead, a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia, is known for its mansions and classy malls. But when a woman pulled into her driveway after work one night, two men were at her car door. One threw her to the ground, put a weapon to her head, and said he was going... Read More »
James Huntsman, the brother of Utah’s former governor, Jon Huntsman, is suing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints on grounds that the organization used donation money to finance their for-profit ventures. Huntsman’s lawsuit explains that the LDS Corporation “dishonestly and fraudulently placed its own commercial financial interests above... Read More »
On day one of Derek Chauvin’s trial for the murder of George Floyd, new information was introduced. Instead of the 8 minutes, 46 seconds the world had assumed was the duration that Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s neck, prosecutors say it was actually 9 minutes, 29 seconds — 43 seconds... Read More »
Stanley the Giraffe, star of the silver screen and locally-beloved attraction, has now been officially classified as evidence in a case being prosecuted by the District Attorney of Los Angeles County. Criminal charges against the Semler family, the owners of Saddlerock Ranch in Malibu, California, have resulted in Stanley being... Read More »
New York legislators inched closer to sealing a deal with the office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo this week to legalize recreational marijuana and expand the current medical marijuana program in the state. Democrats are hopeful the law could pass as early as next week as a stand-alone bill outside... Read More »
When Biden signed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief legislation, he was also approving about $40 billion in funds for higher education. Provisions were included for student loan forgiveness and financial aid. The provisions were targeted at schools with small endowments and large quantities of Pell Grant recipients. Funds are intended... Read More »
University of Southern California (U.S.C.) is paying out a staggering $1.1 billion settlement to 710 female patients of a campus gynecologist accused of sex abuse, George Tyndall. This payout is the largest sex abuse settlement and payout in the history of higher education. U.S.C. attorneys announced the gigantic settlement in... Read More »
