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The Primetime Emmy Awards are set for Monday (bonus points if you watched the Creative Arts Emmys), and FindLaw has picked our favorite legal TV shows that have been nominated. Some of the nominees really put a fine point on what it must be like to be a sexy, confident, and independent attorney (no, Lifetime didn’t green-light my made-for-TV movie), while others expose the gaping holes in the legal system between politicians, law enforcement, and inmates....

Although the company has not yet been charged, an ex-Vice President and General Counsel for GlaxoSmithKline is facing charges today over the off-label promotion of the anti-depressant Wellbutrin. Lauren Stevens has been indicted by the Department of Justice for failing to tell the FDA that the company was indeed promoting the use of Wellbutrin for weight loss. The drug has not been approved by the FDA for treating weight issues....

A 16-year-old Ohio girl is dead and another teenager has been charged with murder, all over a fart joke. Police say that the victim Shaakira Dorsey teased the suspect about passing gas which led to the two girls fighting, reports United Press International. During the fight, Dorsey collapsed and died shortly thereafter. Dorsey’s stepfather was at the fight and witnessed the girl’s death. He now faces questions as to what he was doing at the fight and whether he encouraged his daughter to fight the other girl....

A Parisian court has decided that Google digital books violates French copyright law. This ruling is just the beginning over litigation about Google’s project to scan books on their search engine. Information Week reports that a French judge ordered that Google pay $300,000 euros ($430,000) in damages to a French publisher, Martiniere and a group of other publishers in France. The judge has also ordered that Google must pay an additional $10,000 euros for every day that the search engine keeps the extracts from the publishers’ books in its database....

Lindsay Lohan has filed a lawsuit against the makers of “Grand Theft Auto V,” alleging they used her likeness without permission for a character in the hugely popular video game. Lohan’s lawsuit (filed in New York and attached below) alleges that Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive’s use of a character named Lacey Jonas is an “unequivocal” reference to the 28-year-old actress. The Jonas character appears in the game hiding from paparazzi and asks one of the main characters for a ride....

Those of you in the female portion of the reading audience may have at one time or another complained that your handbag was so heavy it felt like lead. Surprisingly, it really did, and not because it was crammed with keys, wallet, sunglasses and every tech gadget known to mankind. The Center for Environmental Health announced on May 4, they have settled a suit with numerous national retailers and brands over the lead levels in women’s handbags....

With a number of recent high-profile meth-related child abuse cases, one has to question whether more and more children are being abandoned, neglected, and exposed to dangerous substances as a result of parent/guardian meth use. For instance, last month, a couple pled not guilty to charges of child endangerment after failing to take their infant daughter to the hospital when she drank meth-laced orange juice. Another couple was arrested in July after their 3-year-old granddaughter had gotten a hold of a 9-mm pistol....

But now the case has taken a major new turn: Greaves was arrested in Pueblo, Colorado based on a warrant issued in Florida. He will be charged with distribution of obscene material depicting minors engaged in harmful conduct. He is going to be extradited to Florida to face felony charges. So how did the authorities manage to nab Greaves? Apparently it was a set up. Undercover detectives in Florida bought an autographed copy of the book from Greaves which he sent through the mail....

Sex offenders face strict residency requirements. The reasoning behind these zoning rules is to keep track of people who are considered an official danger to society and to limit predator proximity. There are national requirements for registered sex offenders and a national database exists to provide the public with information about registered sex offenders regardless of state boundaries. Individual states all also have laws regarding registration and residency requirements, as well as limits on what can be shared in a public registry or what must be disclosed....

Self-described “ultra-low-cost” Spirit Airlines is revamping its carry-on baggage fees, and one fee in particular is going sky-high. Some Spirit passengers will face a $100 charge per carry-on bag, just in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday travel season. Spirit’s new carry-on fees take effect Nov. 6, according to the airline’s online schedule of “optional fees.” Spirit was the first U.S. air carrier to charge passengers for carry-on bags that get stowed in an airplane’s overhead compartment, according to ABC News....

Of course you can lose all the weight you want by taking a pill. That’s why the contestants on NBC’s successful show, The Biggest Loser, sweat, cry, crawl, run, bleed…you get the picture. So why is mega-trainer Jillian Michaels of Loser fame touting a diet pill? It should come as no surprise to anyone who has tried to lose a few pounds that Ms. Michaels and the companies behind the miracle pill “Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control” are being sued in a California court for false advertising, unfair and deceptive business practices … you get the picture....

Have you ever been dumped, but then your ex keeps texting you? Or maybe you asked someone out, they said no, but they’re texting you anyway. It’s weird. And annoying. In a pair of class action lawsuits filed in Florida, Uber is the ex, and former drivers are crying foul. Rejected, Then Solicited The class action complaints say that Uber sent unsolicited text messages in violation of telemarketing laws. Michael Fridman signed a licensing agreement in June of 2014 to become an Uber driver....

In December 2015, Virginia-born Mohamad Khweis bought one-way plane tickets from the United States to London, then to Turkey. By November 2016, he had been indicted on terrorism and weapons charges. In between, Khweis had been smuggled into Syria, joined ISIS, fled the group, and was captured by Kurdish forces in Iraq. And last week, after contradicting himself on the witness stand and failing to provide a credible story as to his time with ISIS, Khweis was sentenced to 20 years in prison....

If you’re accused of crime, you’re probably wondering what will end up on your record, especially if you’re not convicted. Unfortunately, the answer – as it almost always is when it comes to legal matters – is that it depends on a lot of factors, most notably state laws. Every state has its own criminal justice system guided and informed by its notions of the system’s goals. Some states seek to minimize consequences of criminal activity for people in the hope that reform is possible....

Minnesota state lawmaker Kerry Gauthier is being urged to step down from his reelection bid after being caught allegedly having oral sex with a teen behind a vehicle rest stop. The democratic representative is said to have put up a Craigslist ad looking for “no strings attached” sex at the rest stop and a 17-year-old boy responded, reports the New York Daily News. A state trooper who had responded to an unrelated complaint of a man urinating on a woman’s car caught the lawmaker with his zipper down behind the rest area building....

Fast-food restaurants in San Francisco are now charging 10 cents for toys in response to the city’s so-called “Happy Meal ban” – a move that could start a nationwide trend. Most McDonald’s and Burger King restaurants in the city by the bay began charging the 10-cent fee Dec. 1. That’s the same day a new San Francisco law kicked in, prohibiting free toy giveaways with fast-food meals that don’t meet certain nutritional standards, The San Francisco Chronicle reports....

Former New York Governor and Attorney General Eliot Spitzer may be celebrating this weekend after today’s ruling by a federal appeals court that The New York Times lacked a First Amendment right to access sealed government wiretaps in the prostitution case that led to his resignation from office. Reversing a lower court decision in favor of the Times, Judge José Cabranes wrote that: The Second Circuit slammed the newspaper, saying that it failed to show the “good cause” required under the Federal Wiretap Act (often referred to as ‘Title III’) to permit the unsealing of the wiretaps involving Spitzer, the ‘Emperor’s Club V....

In our modern times of glasses made by Google, Bluetooth technology, and smart telephones, parents are increasingly wiring their children, and even their babies, up with wearable tech. While most parents and professionals would agree that being able to monitor where your child is via GPS is helpful, there is growing disagreement about wearables for babies. The market for such devices has exploded over the past few years. Now there are socks that measure a baby’s pulse, pacifiers with thermometers, onsies that provide breathing a movement data, and a whole host of other types of baby-wearables that push your baby’s data onto your smart phone’s app....

How can you tell when a blogger or online reviewer has been paid to review a product so glowingly endorsed? Well, right now you really can’t. That’s part of why, for the first time since 1980, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revised its guidelines governing endorsements and testimonials. The new guidelines include provisions requiring bloggers and online reviewers to disclose if they’ve been compensated to write the review. Previously, we’ve discussed growing concerns over attempts to create false word-of-mouth buzz through blogs and online product reviews that are more akin to paid advertisements than objective reviews (sometimes called astroturfing)....

People will do anything to feed their drug habit, which is why it isn’t surprising to hear that a woman faked cancer to feed hers. The surprising part? She’s married to a cop. And he didn’t catch on for four years. Ann Crall of Lakewood, Colorado pled guilty to theft and charitable fraud last week for duping friends, neighbors and her husband’s cop coworkers into donating time and almost $60,000 to help her battle cancer....