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A small company selling baby slings on the Internet has gone out of business after the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigated the owner’s slings, ordered her to recall them, and finally--years later--found her product safe. Several years ago, a child had died after having been carried in a sling. The CPSC ...

Cops in the Los Angeles Police Department lead the nation in one important statistic. It’s not fighting crime or capturing criminals; it’s suing the department for millions of dollars in damages over “workplace injustice.” In the past ten years at least 16 police officers have become millionaires by recovering verdicts or settlements ...

Sheriff’s deputies have charged a Florida woman with lewd and lascivious behavior after she made “loud sex noises” from the window of her home to get her neighbor and his 10-year-old son to stop playing basketball in their driveway. Police said the woman was “making moans and other sounds that simulated sex” in a loud voice ...

Taco Bell was sued for allegedly not having enough beef in its beef tacos, but the law firm that filed the suit dropped it. Taco Bell responded with a nationwide advertising campaign in which it asked, Would it kill you to say you re sorry? The firm claimed Taco Bell changed its meat formula after the suit was filed, but ...

You can t buy Raging Bitch beer in Michigan, where it s been banned, leading to a federal lawsuit by its brewery alleging First Amendment violations. The Michigan Liquor Control Commission banned the brand, saying it was offended by the name. It also found the beer s label language detrimental to the public health, safety and ...

An Iowa attorney who allegedly served his female client four cocktails during their meeting to discus her drunken driving conviction has been charged for assaulting her with intent to commit sexual abuse. The woman had received probation on a 2010 charge of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and was discussing this with him ...

A Florida paramedic is being sued by an auto accident victim who says she stole his foot after it was severed in an accident. The paramedic was convicted of the crime and sentenced to six months probation for theft. The accident victim is now suing her for unspecified damages for emotional distress. The paramedic had ...

The Obama administration is actively aiding and abetting the litigation explosion. Three toll-free hotlines have been set up between the federal government and the American Bar Association (ABA) to refer cases to private lawyers. The hotlines connect the ABA and the Departments of Veterans Affairs and of Labor, Housing and Urban ...

Kevin Underhill at loweringthebar.com recounted several “tales of love and the law” in celebration of this past Valentine’s Day. Here are a few samples: A man called 1-800-Flowers to order a dozen roses for his sweetheart on Valentine’s Day with a card saying: “Just wanted to say I love you; you mean the world to me ...

The Green Lake Global & Environmental Academy (GLGEA) is the environmental charter school for seventh and eighth graders within the Green Lake Public School District in Green Lake, Wisconsin. GEA opened as a charter school within the Green Lake School District in central Wisconsin in 2008. Biology or Global Warming? Unlike the ...

The School of Environmental Studies (SES) at the Minneapolis Zoo is the environmental academy for juniors and seniors within the public school district serving the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Upfront Activism Unlike many environmental schools whose educational philosophy is vaguely documented, SES is extremely forthcoming about ...

A Maryland attorney is becoming known as the bedbug barrister after filing eight lawsuits for bedbug bite victims in Maryland, seeking a total of $7 million in damages. He s also got five more cases almost ready to file and 21 other possible cases. I m very aware of the derogatory comments people make about me being a bloodsucker ...

One of the hottest K-12 public school educational trends today is operating environmental academies within school districts. At first glance, these academies sound like a terrific idea complex environmental problems confront mankind, and it will take highly educated scientists to fix them. So it s a good thing, one would think ...

An Ohio lawyer admits he dropped his pants while mentoring two at-risk teenagers but claims it was part of an educational process, not a sexual one. The two teens, both 19, met with the lawyer to discuss performing court-ordered community service after their arrests for underage drinking. They said the lawyer asked them if ...

No one s trying to get rich off this, said a lawyer trying to recruit clients for a class-action lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) in New York. The potential clients are those who were trapped on public transit for seven hours during the city s blizzard over Christmas weekend. The lawyer says the suit ...

Friday s ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court invalidating two single mortgage foreclosures offers a glimpse into the internal chaos infecting the entire mortgage-backed securities industry, which led to the 2008 TARP bailout by U.S. taxpayers. The court ruled Friday foreclosures by two banks, each on a single mortgage ...

A New York lawyer was taking his usual cigarette break, sitting on the windowsill of his second floor apartment, about 12 feet off the ground, and talking on his cell phone. Then the cops arrived. The police evidently thought he was going to jump. “Are you about to commit suicide?” one cop asked. “If I was going to commit ...

A few weeks ago a Boston city tow truck crashed into a 17-unit apartment building after the truck’s brakes failed. The crash blasted a hole in the façade, broke numerous windows, and forced all tenants into escaping the building with virtually only the clothes on their backs. The crash left the truck, which also struck two ...

Law professor Jonathan Turley celebrates Thanksgiving every year with “Turkey Torts,” his collection of lawsuits that give plaintiffs’ personal injury lawyers reasons to give thanks. This year’s collection includes one brought by a family who accidently ate part of grandma for their Thanksgiving dinner. Grandma had died earlier, and ...

An Anaheim, California company has been ordered to pay $1.4 million to a former employee who was spanked by coworkers with yard signs as part of “a voluntary event meant to build camaraderie” and foster team-building. The workers also threw pies at one another and fed each other baby food. The plaintiff reached the $1.4 million ...