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For the second time in three months, Johnson & Johnson has lost a jury trial linking use of its talcum powder-based products to cancer. In this case, a Missouri jury has awarded a woman $55 million who contracted ovarian cancer after using the company’s products for feminine hygiene. This follows an earlier award of $72 million to a deceased woman’s family in February, and is another of thousands of pending lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson....

Everyone’s favorite reality TV starlet wants people to know that her 72-day marriage was based on love, not financial motivation. Kim Kardashian has sued Jonathan Jaxson, her ex-publicist who claims that her marriage to Kris Humphries was a “sham.” Kim has hired attorney Marty Singer to go after the publicist. Jaxson knows Kim well – he worked with Kim from 2007 to 2009. During that time he says he helped Kim stage multiple publicity stunts....

Latisse wants you to “Look who’s growing longer, fuller, darker lashes.” Unfortunately for Latisse and it maker Allergan, Inc., the FDA wants you to look at who may be growing unwanted non-eyelash hair, getting brown pigmentation (possibly permanent) in their irises, getting brown pigmentation on their eyelids, and possibly having allergic reactions. Here is the warning letter sent by the FDA to Latisse maker Allergan, who brought us Botox, amongst other hit cosmetic drugs....

Looks like the talk-show queen will not be headed to trial after all, as Oprah reached a legal settlement in a defamation lawsuit. As we discussed previously, Oprah and former headmistress Lerato Nomvuyo Mzamane met without lawyers to try to reach a settlement while jury selection began this week. It looks like that meeting did, in fact result in a resolution of the dispute, averting a federal trial that was set to begin, Philly....

SAC Capital, one of Wall Street’s biggest hedge funds founded by billionaire Steven A. Cohen, has been indicted for insider training. The 41-page federal indictment (attached below) is one of the most high-profile insider trading cases in U.S. history. SAC Capital (the firm bears Cohen’s initials) engaged in a decade-long scheme of profiting from non-public information from employees of publicly-traded companies and other sources, the indictment alleges. The scheme “was substantial, pervasive and on a scale without known precedent in the hedge fund industry,” according to the indictment, blaming “institutional indifference” to unlawful conduct....

Ex-Lindsay Lohan lover Samantha Ronson’s DUI arrest on Monday has made headlines, partially because of the mugshot that came out of the ordeal. Ronson was arrested after she was pulled over in Baker, California. Ronson, 33, was driving a Porsche. Officers at first stopped her because of her driving speed. She had been going about 19 miles above the posted speed limit of 70 miles per hour. Well, once pulled over, officers suspected that she was also under the influence, reports US Weekly....

There is a voluntary recall of the Skilsaw miter saw produced by Robert Bosch Tool Corporation, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced. The Skilsaw recall potentially affects over 22,000 consumers who purchased the Skilsaw 10-inch compound miter saw at Lowe’s Home Centers and OC Tanner stores from January 2012 through April 2012. No reports of injuries or incidents have been reported. However, the CPSC is still investigating the product....

Cassidy Goodson is accused of first degree murder and child abuse for allegedly strangling her newborn baby son. The baby boy was reportedly still connected to his mother via umbilical cord at the time of the strangulation, reports the New York Daily News. Goodson is a 14-year-old high school freshman in Florida and apparently hid her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothes, reports the Daily News. Last month, Goodson gave birth to a 9....

Former MTV reality show star Amber Portwood’s probation violation has landed her back in jail. The ex-Teen Mom may face a jail sentence of up to two years - it’s up to the judge to decide at this point. The now 21-year-old mother has faced mounting legal woes. She came under scrutiny when she was shown beating up former fiancé Gary Shirley on TV. She later pled guilty to the assault and was sentenced to probation in June 2011....

The car maker Tesla announced a voluntary recall today based on a single report of a faulty seat belt. The announcement, made via email to the 90,000 Model S owners affected, caused company shares to fall, Bloomberg News reported today. The Model S has been in circulation since 2012. This recall affects all such vehicles, going back to that time. But it should be noted that no one was injured by the defective seat belt and the recall is an effort to prevent injury....

Hold the phone there professor. NASA has concluded that the electronic system was not the blame for Toyota’s sudden acceleration problem. This could have a big impact on the class action lawsuit and Toyota recall. The NASA report found “no electronic flaws … capable of producing the large throttle openings required to create dangerous high-speed, unintended acceleration incidents,” the Los Angeles Times reports. NASA conducted a 10-month study in the wake of the Toyota recall....

Usher’s ex-wife is seeking custody of their 5-year-old son after he ended up in the hospital because of a pool accident. The incident happened when their son, also named Usher, got stuck in a drain at the bottom of the pool and nearly drowned. He was trying to retrieve a toy. Tameka Foster filed for temporary primary custody a day after son Usher Raymond V was rescued from the pool drain, citing a dangerous environment, TMZ reports....

To protect car buyers from purchasing subpar vehicles, most states have enacted consumer protection statutes known as lemon laws. “What is a lemon law?” you may ask. Whether a new car lemon law or a used car lemon law, lemon laws give buyers recourse when they purchase an unfixable car. However, just because you think you’re entitled to a new car, it doesn’t mean you legally must be provided with one....

In 2014, Wisconsin resident Tammy Loertscher went to a doctor looking for a pregnancy test, along with treatment for depression and a thyroid problem. But when blood tests found both a baby and drugs in Loerthscher’s system, the results were reported to law enforcement and she was ordered to undergo mandatory inpatient drug treatment. Loertscher refused the treatment, and was promptly taken to jail where she did a total stint 18 days, 36 hours of which were spent in solitary confinement....

A judge in Mexico City has sentenced boy hitman Edgar Jimenez Lugo, also known as El Ponchis, to a maximum three years behind bars to be served in a youth prison. In closed proceedings, the 15-year-old was found guilty of killing four men and kidnapping at least three others while part of the Beltran Levya drug cartel stationed in the Cuernavaca area. He’s an American citizen. Born in the U.S., the Houston Chronicle reports that Jimenez Lugo was taken to Mexico by his grandmother as a result of his parents’ addiction to crack cocaine....

Former “Teen Mom” star Amber Portwood has been released from prison early – nearly four years early. After quitting rehab, Portwood was sent to prison in Indiana, but she’s managed to get out after serving about a year and half of her original five-year sentence. So how did she get early release? Amber Portwood was released on parole for an unspecified period of time, reports Us Weekly. Parole is a conditional release from prison....

Last week Raymond Chow, the San Francisco Chinatown mobster-turned-community-activist known as Shrimp Boy, was found guilty of 162 criminal counts by a jury in a federal court. He immediately announced that he’ll appeal the verdict. What does that mean exactly? Appeals can be confusing and are often misunderstood, even by defendants. So before Shrimp Boy files his brief, let’s look at the appellate process, what it can and cannot do, and what an appeals court reviews....

Maurice Greenberg, the former American International Group (‘AIG’) Chairman and CEO, and Howard Smith, the company’s ex-CFO and former Vice Chairman, were sued by the S.E.C. for their alleged roles in “improper accounting transactions that inflated AIG’s reported financial results between 2000 and 2005.” While there are numerous allegations of wrongdoing in the complaint, the S.E.C. simultaneously settled all charges against the two, requiring them to pay fines, penalties, and more....

Personal items including a photo of Suge Knight, former CEO of Death Row Records and late rap star Tupac Shakur were auctioned off to pay for storage bills. According the Wall Street Journal, hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight faces millions of dollars in debt and filed for bankruptcy back in 2006. Since then, the rap boss has remained financially strapped. Conejo Valley Moving & Storage recently held an auction to recoup some of the several thousand dollars owed for storing the items....

California has eliminated the sentencing differences between crack and cocaine offenses, as Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Fair Sentencing Act into law on Sunday. The Act, also known as SB 1010, mirrors the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which narrowed the gap in federal law between the punishments for crack and cocaine offenders. But California’s law goes further, treating cocaine and “cocaine base” (read: crack) the same in terms of punishing drug convicts....