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Golfing great Greg Norman and Tennis champ Chris Evert recently called it quits with a quickie divorce. The couple got their quickie divorce secretly, ending 15 months of marriage. The two separated in October. It is Norman’s second divorce and Evert’s third. According to the the Palm Beach Post, Evert and Norman were granted a final judgment dissolving marriage and promised to abide by a prenuptial agreement they signed June 2, 2008, three weeks before their wedding....

This Monday, the Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal from that old friend of the First Amendment, publisher Larry Flynt. According to CNN, Flynt and his magazine Hustler, were sued by Maureen Toffoloni, the mother of slain wrestler Nancy Benoit, after the mag published two decade-old nude pictures of her daughter a year after she and her son were killed by her husband, wrestler Chris Benoit. According to the court’s decision, the right of publicity (the right to control use of your likeness), stems from the right of privacy....

As previously noted here on the Decided blog, the Supreme Court of New York recently took a very small step toward extending some marital rights to those in same sex relationships. Today, the New York State Senate put an end to those steps by narrowly defeating the bill that would have made recognized some sex marriages in the state. Although both houses of this bluer than blue state’s legislature are controlled by Democrats, the bill passed only the New York State Assembly, and was voted down in the New York State Senate, 38 to 42....

The online payment powerhouse PayPal is facing a public image fiasco as a result of a recent class action lawsuit alleging they lied to people making charitable contributions. Essentially, the lawsuit claims that people were tricked into donating to charities of their choosing, when in fact, many of the chosen charities were ineligible to receive the funds donated through PayPal. Although the charitable contributions people made still were given to charity, many of the intended recipients never received funds....

Someone should probably tell Stephanie Pratt’s boyfriend, alleged “Internet entrepreneur” Julien Chabbott, that it’s probably not a good idea to run over a New York City cop with your Ferrari while he’s writing you a ticket. In an amazingly stupid act (thankfully caught on video), Chabbott rushes to his $260,000 sports car as a police officer is in the process of writing him a parking ticket. Instead of trying to reason things out with the cop, Chabbott then gets in his car and tries to drive off, reports Upstart Business Journal....

Under normal circumstances, referring to a doctor’s hands and surgical instruments as “deadly weapons” would sound like over-the-top hyperbole. But Christopher Duntsch is no normal surgeon. Nicknamed “Dr. Death,” and referred to by colleagues as a “sociopath,” the “worst surgeon I’ve ever seen,” and “a clear and present danger to the citizens of Texas,” Duntsch is responsible for a slew of botched surgeries resulting in serious injury, paralysis, and even death....

A new escort ad law in Washington seeks to reduce the number of underage escorts by imposing criminal penalties. Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the bill into Washington state law last week. The law subjects classified advertising companies to criminal punishment if they allow sex-related ads featuring minors to be published, The Seattle Times reports. The law requires both print and online publications to make a good-faith effort to verify the ages of the people advertised in sex-related ads....

Utah Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack will now have a first hand perspective about the dangers of drunk driving. The lawmaker who has sponsored and supported tough anti-DUI bills will see the law from the other side. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Republican Senate Majority Leader Sheldon Killpack was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Killpak, arrested on Friday, resigned from the Utah Senate on Saturday, as reported by the Washington Post....

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker survived a recall vote Tuesday and is now facing death threats, some of which could result in criminal charges, police said. Wisconsin police agencies and the state’s Department of Justice are investigating the Twitter death threats, which were tweeted and shared via social media, Milwaukee’s WTMJ-AM reports. “Scott Walker will die within the next week. I’ve already payed [sic] for the hit,” one death threat said, according to the station....

Wiz Khalifa has a warrant for his arrest in Texas after he skipped a court hearing in El Paso for a May marijuana arrest. The young rapper, born Cameron Jibril Thomaz, was supposed to appear in court Wednesday to be arraigned for a misdemeanor pot possession charge. TMZ reports that when he was busted in May for allegedly trying to sneak weed through the El Paso International Airport, he snapped a selfie “and tweeted it out....

Kyleigh’s Law was upheld by the New Jersey Supreme Court and young drivers will still have to keep a red decal on their license plates identifying them as young drivers. The law was controversial as young drivers thought that they were being profiled by the red decal both by cops and potential predators. The challengers to the law argued that the Federal Driver’s Privacy Protection Act made the red decals illegal....

Jason Russell, creator of the viral video “Kony 2012,” will not be charged in connection with his naked rant in a San Diego neighborhood, police said. But Russell is still being held on a “5150” psychiatric hold, Us Weekly reports. Witnesses called police to report Russell had “removed his underwear and was nude, perhaps masturbating” in broad daylight Thursday afternoon, police said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times....

So, what if someone sells a drug that’s similar to an illegal drug but not exactly the same? Is that illegal? But what if they were trying to create a safer drug … does that matter? If you’ve ever wondered what the mens rea for selling an analog narcotic is, this was the episode for you. If not, at least we had some cooking show fun with Alicia’s mother and got to watch Ruth and Eli continue to lock horns over Peter’s presidential campaign....

This year has been a tumultuous time in and out of court, and FindLaw’s Decided blog has covered its highest peaks and lowest valleys. While decisions like the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings on DOMA and California’s Proposition 8 were historic, we also covered some other notable cases that you may not have heard about. Without further ado, here are 10 important cases decided this year, which became our most-viewed Decided blog posts in 2013:...

Jessica Alba’s Honest Company says the plaintiff calling their products unnatural is a liar. Alba’s attorneys have asked that the court dismiss his class action lawsuit, according to the Daily Mail. Jonathan Rubin filed the lawsuit in September on behalf of all consumers of Honest Company products who were duped by company’s claims that their goods are natural. Rubin provided studies from environmental groups that showed some products were actually potentially hazardous....

Three Minneapolis men have been convicted of conspiring to support the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State and to commit murder abroad under its command. A jury found Abdirahman Daud, Mohamed Farah, and Guled Omar guilty on multiple charges related to a plan to join ISIS in Syria and of making false statements to federal authorities. The convictions were part of a far-ranging investigation into ISIS recruitment in Minnesota, and could be the first of many to follow....

In 2012, Taylor Huddleston created what is known as a remote management tool, a piece of software that allows users to remotely log keystrokes, download stored passwords, turn on the web cam, access files, and watch a computer screen in real time. Designed, he says, to help low-income users who couldn’t afford more expensive remote-access programs monitor online activity for safety reasons, NanoCore was going to be Huddleston’s ticket out of a trailer he lived in on his mother’s property and into a real house....

A woman who tried to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger when she was 24-weeks pregnant is being charged with attempted first-degree murder in Tennessee. Anna Yocca, 31, panicked when she saw blood in her bathtub from wounds to her womb and called her boyfriend for help. He took her to the hospital, where the child was born. The baby is alive but on a respirator, according to The Washington Post....

Though Jude Deveraux is talented enough to have had 36 of her novels reach The New York Times Best Seller list, clouded judgment may have led the author to give $20 million to a family of gypsies involved a fortune teller scam. During testimony in a Fort Lauderdale courtroom on Friday, prosecutors described the victims of the $40 million scheme run by the Marks family, one of which happens to be a bestselling author who lost her 8-year-old son to a motorcycle accident....

Parents who turn a blind eye to their children ditching school are being put behind bars. A dozen parents of Baltimore school students were sentenced to jail this year because their minor children missed excessive amounts of school, the Baltimore Sun reports. But there is something parents fear even more than hearing from this office. They also dread receiving word from Alfred Barbour, the court liaison for the school system, according to the Sun....