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The Chris Brown tantrum is a legendary thing. We all remember Rihanna. However, one would think that after six months of court-ordered domestic violence counseling, the singer would have learned to handle a bit of his anger. But with newly bleached hair and armfuls of tattoos, the singer proved that this isn’t the case. Nope, upset about Good Morning America anchors asking about Rihanna, he threw a new and approved Chris Brown tantrum....

Billy Joe Magwood will be leaving Alabama’s death row after 30 years. The 11th Circuit has overturned the convicted cop-killer’s death sentence, ordering the imposition of a new, non-capital sentence. The U.S. Supreme Court had originally remanded the case for re-sentencing last year, but Alabama prosecutors objected to the district court’s subsequent ruling. The 11th Circuit affirmed that ruling, finding that the 1979 murder of Sheriff C.F. Gantham was not eligible for capital punishment....

Establishing a championship winning game at the U.S. Open this week in Pebble Beach may be the least of worries for golfer Tiger Woods. Porn star and alleged mistress Devon James has filed a paternity action suit to prove golfer Tiger Woods, 34, is the father of her nine-year-old son, Austin Brinling, Radar online reports. The court papers are a way to legally establish who is the father of the child and ascertain parental responsibility and child support of the minor....

Ever since the advent of private property, we’ve had laws to keep uninvited people off that property. Trespassing statutes are some of the oldest, and most vigilantly defended, laws on the books, and they can also have their quirks. Do you have to know you’re on someone else’s land? Is it trespassing if there are no posted signs? Can you trespass in a store? And if you’ve been charged with criminal trespassing, do you need a lawyer to defend the charge?...

A tour bus carrying the Boston punk band Dropkick Murphys hit and killed a pedestrian in Texas on Sunday. The band was on the way to Dallas when the incident occurred just north of Austin, reports The Boston Globe. Although authorities had initially suspected the death may have been a suicide, police are now investigating the death of 23-year-old Dalton Clark as an “accident fatality.” The driver of the bus has not been cited...

Everybody in New Mexico must report suspected child abuse and neglect, the state’s highest court has ruled. In an opinion released Monday, New Mexico’s Supreme Court clarified that the state’s mandatory child-abuse reporting requirements applied to all residents of the state, not just to certain publicly employed professionals. New Mexico already has a law requiring everybody to report child abuse. So why was this ruling necessary? The Language of the Statute This ruling overturned a prior 2013 Court of Appeals ruling that prevented an accused abuser’s social worker and ex-wife from disclosing statements made during counseling to law enforcement....

Federal health officials are reminding consumers that infant formula manufactured in China is illegal in the U.S. and should be avoided, as contaminated milk powder has been linked to at least two infant deaths and over 1,200 illnesses in China. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a Health Information Advisory on Friday, “advising caregivers not to feed infant formula manufactured in China to infants” and assuring consumers that “there is no known threat of contamination in infant formula manufactured by companies that have met the requirements to sell infant formula in the United States....

As President Trump has made immigration a central policy arena, sanctuary cities and states have become important flashpoints of legal action. Under former Attorney General Jeff Session, the Justice Department threatened to withhold federal funds from cities and states that declined to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement efforts, and those sanctuary jurisdictions responded with lawsuits. Thus far, those suits have been successful in ensuring that the federal government may not condition the allocation of funds on immigration assistance....

The graduation ceremony at Medina Valley High School in Castroville, Texas went off without a hitch this past weekend, and even managed to include a moment for a student-requested graduation prayer. Such a moment almost didn’t happen, but the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals stepped in on Friday, dissolving a preliminary injunction that had ordered the school to ban its valedictorian from asking audience members to join her in prayer....

The marriage is over between Heidi Klum and Seal. The divorce was announced yesterday. The question on many celebrity watchers’ minds may now be: did Heidi and Seal sign a prenup? It’s unclear if they did. Prenuptial agreements are common among celebrities. Yet not all famous couples have one. The news may come as a shock to some. Klum and Seal seemed happy and “in love” compared to some other celebrity couples....

Criminal law varies from state to state, but there are some commonalities across the board when it comes to juvenile justice and juvenile detention. Minors have civil rights just like adults, and to that end, the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment applies. Alternatively, very young minors may be found to lack the mental capacity to even be held criminally liable at all. While minors generally have the same protections as adults, the juvenile justice system was designed to provide a few additional rights to juveniles in order reduce the likelihood of reoffending....

A deeply tanned New Jersey mother says she’s being burned by false charges that she took her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning salon, where she was allegedly burned in a tanning booth. “It’s all made up,” Patricia Krentcil, 44, of Nutley, N.J., said before a court hearing Wednesday, when she pleaded not guilty to child endangerment, the Associated Press reports. Krentcil, a regular tanning salon patron, insists her 5-year-old daughter got burned from being outside in the sun too long, she told the AP....

A New Jersey honor student has taken the unorthodox step of suing her parents for immediate financial support and to force them to pay for her college education. Rachel Canning’s lawsuit (attached below, complete with email exchanges) alleges that her parents threw her out of their home when she turned 18 and now refuse to pay her way through college. But Rachel’s father, a former police chief, says Rachel moved out when she refused to abide by the house rules....

Rihanna may want to grab an Umbrella to protect herself from the storm of a litigation being brought on by photographer David LaChapelle. LaChapelle has photographed hundreds of celebrities and his pictures have appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and GQ. Rihanna has sold over 25 million albums and won a Grammy this week for her track, Only Girl (In the World). The Rihanna S&M video and the single that accompanies it have been controversial and have not made much of a dent on the charts....

The D.C. Circuit has ruled that persons arrested for non-violent, non-drug-related misdemeanors may be subject to strip searches even without a showing of reasonable suspicion. In other words, it’s constitutional in D.C. to strip search a person who has been hauled in for trespassing. The plaintiffs in Bame v. Dillard were arrested during the 2002 IMF and World Bank protests. Before being strip searched, they were hauled into a Superior Court holding facility where they went through metal detectors and pat downs....

Vicks VapoRub is a hugely popular topical medication used to relieve chest congestion and other symptoms of the common cold, but parents and caregivers should never apply Vicks to children under the age of 2, according to new pediatrics research published in the journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. Because application of Vicks VapoRub can cause increased mucus production and inflammation of respiratory airways that are narrower in very young children, serious breathing problems can result....

It’s never a good idea to threaten a judge no matter how you go about it. That includes if you do it in a song posted online, according to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Franklin Delano Jeffries II was engaged in a custody battle back in 2010 that had been taking a while. He poured out his frustration with the process into a song and posted it online, reports The Wall Street Journal....

According to the Palm Beach Post, Serena Williams was clocked last weekend on South Florida’s I-95 driving somewhere in the neighborhood of 86 miles per hour. The only problem for Williams is that the posted speed limit for that section of highway is 65 mph. (Well, there is another problem of her speeding ticket, for $281, being posted online; thanks, Sunshine laws!) But the tennis star is just one of many celebrities and athletes caught flying down our nation’s highways and byways....

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a California man who was wrongfully convicted of murder may not pursue civil rights claims against the district attorney’s office responsible for his prosecution, even if the DA’s office failed to disclose key evidence related to the potentially false testimony of a jailhouse informant at trial. In turning away former prisoner Thomas Goldstein’s civil rights claims against members of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, the nation’s top court on Monday unanimously held that a prosecutor’s “absolute immunity” extends to claims that the office failed to properly train or supervise prosecutors, and failed to establish an information system containing potential impeachment material about informants....

People are guaranteed certain rights in the criminal justice system. One of those rights is to be free of random searches. The Fourth Amendment requires police to have probable cause in order to search an individual, which usually must be evidenced through a warrant. There are certain circumstances, however, where a search warrant is not necessary before conducting a search. According to the 11th Circuit, the warrantless search of a Florida man’s cell phone didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment....