Parents’ number one concern is their children’s safety. And no parent would buy a product that would endanger their baby’s life. But sometimes you don’t know a baby product is dangerous until the worst happens. So here are five of the most dangerous baby products, so you know and can keep your children safe and sound. Sippy cups may be great at preventing a mess, but they can be hard to clean themselves....
Rapper Freddie Gibbs has gone public with a personal habit and a personalized note from a federal baggage inspector. Gibbs claims a TSA agent found pot in his checked luggage and scribbled two words on an inspection notice: “C’mon son.” Gibbs, also known as Gangsta Gibbs, got such a chuckle from the note that he told his fans via Twitter: “The TSA found my weed and let me keep it. They just left me a note....
Today is the first Monday in October, signaling the start of a new U.S. Supreme Court term. In the coming months, the nation’s highest court is expected to hear oral arguments and hand down rulings in a number of key cases – on issues like pharmaceutical company liability, “light” cigarette advertising, broadcast indecency, liability for detainees’ civil rights violations, and more. Take a look at some of the stories and viewpoints making headlines as the new U....
The widow of the late WWE star Owen Hart says she has settled her lawsuit brought against the WWE. In her lawsuit, Martha Hart claimed her right to royalties related to the use of her late husband’s image, reports The Associated Press. Owen Hart died in 1999 as he was being lowered into a wrestling ring at a WWE event in Kansas City. He was 34 years old. Martha Hart brought her lawsuit in 2010, alleging that the WWE failed to pay her royalties and violated a contract restricting the use of Owen Hart’s name and likeness....
A Montana judge appears to have changed his mind about giving a convicted rapist 30 days in jail, and on Tuesday ordered a new sentencing hearing, citing worries that the original sentence was illegal. Judge G. Todd Baugh issued a court order scheduling a sentencing hearing for convicted rapist Stacey Dean Rambold, stating that imposing a sentence less than two years (e.g. 30 days) “would be an illegal sentence,” reports CNN....
In Florida’s so-called “loud music murder trial,” defendant Michael Dunn was found guilty on four of five counts late Saturday. But jurors failed to reach a verdict on his first-degree murder charge, resulting in a mistrial. After the verdict, State Attorney Angela Corey vowed to retry Dunn on the first-degree murder charge, defending the state’s decision to apply the hefty charge in the first place, Jacksonville’s WJXX/WTLV-TV reports. What will a mistrial on one charge mean for Dunn?...
Some of us can’t afford a brand new car, and some of us are just looking for a better deal. Either way, buying a used car can present a host of financial, mechanical, and legal questions. Here are seven of the biggest legal questions you might have before buying a used car, and where you can find the answers: Depending on whether you buy your car from a private individual or a dealership, you may be presented with a few options when it comes to paying for it....
The California Supreme Court has ruled personal injury plaintiffs cannot seek billed medical costs over actual costs paid by their insurers. The case started when Rebecca Howell, the plaintiff, was injured in an automobile accident. She sued the defendant, Hamilton Meats & Provisions, Inc., in a personal injury lawsuit seeking damages for her medical expenses. Howell and her surgeon testified that she had spent $189,978.63 in medical expenses at the time of the trial, according to the court’s opinion....
Field sobriety tests (FSTs) are a nightmare scenario for many drivers, but you may be able to legally refuse to perform one. Refusing Breathalyzers and blood tests will likely result in the automatic suspension of your license, but the same may not be true for FSTs. There may be other practical and legal consequences for refusing to try to balance along the side of the road, but it may a driver’s best legal option....
When police come to question you as a suspect in a crime, you know the rules: anything you say can be used against you in court. So, you don’t say anything. However, your Fitbit may talk loud and clear on your behalf. For example, earlier this year, Jeannine Risley called the police claiming she had been sexually assaulted while asleep by a “man in his 30s, wearing boots.” Instead of searching for and arresting the supposed attacker, police charged Risley with a crime....
Living proof that being on TV doesn’t make you less vulnerable to crime, CNN anchor Carol Costello reported that several teens in Atlanta’s midtown snatched her iPhone last week. In an all-too-familiar scenario, Costello described how the two suspects ran up behind her while she was taking a call and forcibly took the phone from her, taking a chunk of her hair in the process, the Associated Press reports. As smartphone robberies of this kind continue to increase, lawmakers and consumers are taking steps to stem the tide of thefts....
Change of venue denied. The Elizabeth Smart trial is staying in Utah, according to the Washington Post. The decision was issued by U.S. District Judge Dave Kimball after reviewing whether defendant Brian David Mitchell would get a fair trial in the state. Judge Kimball reviewed potential jurors’ responses to a 41-page questionnaire and ruled that, although some jurors may be prone to prejudice, there were more than enough to fill a jury that would be “undecided or open-minded....
The verdict is in on the Ellen Pao discrimination case. Sort of. Earlier this afternoon, a San Francisco jury returned verdicts in favor of defendant Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers on three of four counts. On the fourth count, the jury failed to reach the required nine votes out of 12, but the judge sent them back to deliberate further. Pao, of course, is the former partner of Silicon Valley venture capital firm who claimed she was overlooked for a promotion after she stopped having an affair with another partner....
A former Playboy model has pleaded guilty to sneaking her illegal immigrant boyfriend across the U.S.-Canada border. Playboy alumna Colleen Shannon, 35, admitted to helping her boyfriend, Robert Skojo, enter the country illegally by moving him through an Indian reservation in August 2012, reports The Post-Standard of Syracuse, New York. Shannon now faces the possibility of meeting her adoring female fans behind bars as she awaits sentencing for her criminal charges....
“You are going to go through life thinking that girls don’t like you because you’re a nerd. And I want you to know from the bottom of my heart that that won’t be true. It’ll be because you’re an a–hole.” -Erica Albright (Rooney Mara), The Social Network Ms. Albright may not have been impressed by Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network, but in real life, Zuckerberg has his own fan club of one, by the name of Pradeep Manukonda....
Belle Meade country Club is a 110-year old private organization in Nashville Tennessee. Its bylaws allow only 175 unmarried “Lady Members” at a given time. And despite a number of qualifying applicants, it counts only one African-American member amongst its ranks. Judge George C. Paine, the Chief Judge for the Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, has belonged to Belle Meade for over 30 years. On Thursday, his membership became the basis for a finding of judicial misconduct....
Just in time for 4/20, Georgia became the 24th state to legalize cannabis for medicinal use. But don’t go investing in Funyuns stock just yet – Georgia’s law is fairly restrictive when it comes to what a medical marijuana patient can possess, and it doesn’t address how they’re supposed to get it at all. Peach State residents with one of eight specified disorders may possess up to 20 ounces of cannabis oil containing no more than five percent THC....
Recently, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was asked about New York’s status as a sanctuary city, under which it refuses to turn over undocumented immigrants to immigration officials over minor criminal offenses. De Blasio said he would define drunk driving as that kind of minor offense so long as it “doesn’t lead to any other negative outcome.” While de Blasio’s comments earned him the ire of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), they do raise the question of whether a DUI can be a deportable offense, and what factors would matter in that determination....
In response to requests from The Washington Post, the federal judge in a class action lawsuit against Donald Trump’s Trump University ordered several documents in the case to be unsealed, and then tried to claw some of those documents back from public view. At issue were the university’s “playbooks,” or guides for salespeople on how to aggressively market Trump’s real estate and investment training courses. So what do these documents reveal, and what is their current status?...
After a judge said neither side in the lawsuit had a good case, Kendrick Lamar and SZA decided to settle the lawsuit brought by visual artist Lina Iris Viktor over the video for their Black Panther single, “All the Stars.” Lamar and SZA had repeatedly tried to get Viktor to agree to license her distinctive artwork to them, which included Egyptian and African symbolism in gold and black paint. But Viktor never agreed, and she sued for actual damages under copyright law....
