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Casey Anthony is no longer on probation but that doesn’t mean she’s necessarily free. During the investigation of the murder charge against her, prosecutors discovered that Anthony had participated in check fraud. She pled guilty to the offense and received a year’s probation. Even though she was acquitted of the charge that she killed her daughter, Anthony wasn’t found innocent in the eyes of the public. At the time of the acquittal Anthony was the most hated American, according to the Chicago Tribune....

After a weekend partying in Las Vegas, Chris Brown was surprised with his very own Goldilocks moment. According to reports, the the singer and new father returned home and found a random naked woman sleeping in his bed. The intruder had apparently been there for some time as she had time to spray paint “I love you” on Brown’s kitchen counter and “Mrs. Brown” on his silver Rolls Royce and black Range Rover....

The 9th Circuit has revived an overtime lawsuit against California-based Oracle Corp., possibly affecting thousands. The Oracle class action seeks to represent a group of nonresident employees who traveled to California to teach customers how to use Oracle products. They sued, arguing that California’s overtime laws applied while they worked in the state. Oracle had been paying an overtime rate consistent with the employees’ home states. Those rates are less generous than California’s....

Emma Sulkowicz gained notoriety in 2014 when she began carrying a 50-pound mattress around Columbia’s campus as part of her senior art thesis and to protest the university’s handling of her sexual assault allegations against fellow student Paul Nungesser. Nungesser was found not guilty of misconduct, and police declined to press charges, but Sulkowicz continued her protest of Nungesser’s presence on campus. Nungesser eventually sued the school, first for failing to protect him from Sulkowicz’s protest, then, after that case was dismissed, for violating Title IX, claiming that the school’s policies amounted to “sex bias in disciplining him for an alleged sexual assault....

Comcast has settled a lawsuit over throttling filing sharing sites known as “peer-to-peer” sites. It will cost Comcast $16 million, although individual class members will have to drop six zeros from that figure. Judge Legrome Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania approved the settlement, which represents $16 for each class member. Jon Hart, who was the named party and who filed the original lawsuit, will receive $2,500....

A 20-year-old babysitter raped at 14-year-old boy in her care, according to authorities. The Connecticut babysitter, Loni Bouchard, is now facing charges of sexual assault. Bouchard allegedly assaulted the boy after giving him some alcohol. She is also facing charges of illegal purchase of liquor. Bouchard was released on a $1,000 bond, according to ABC News. Bouchard’s case is not the only news of older women sexually assaulting younger teens....

Over 967,000 Nickelodeon and Sesame Street painted toys have been recalled by Fisher-Price, Inc., because paint on the toys’ surface could contain excessive amounts of lead. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the recall “involves various figures and toys that were manufactured between April 19, 2007 and July 6, 2007 and were sold alone or as part of sets.” (View a complete list of recalled products from CPSC....

The whistleblower whose actions led to a major settlement payment by GlaxoSmithKline will sleep well, knowing she did the right thing. Cheryl Eckard is also eligible to be compensated under the False Claims Act, and will receive $96 million of the $750 million the British pharmaceutical giant has agreed to pay. GSK will pay the settlement amount and plead guilty to one criminal charge due to manufacture of adulterated drugs in its Puerto Rico facility....

Social networking applications provider RockYou, who provides applications like Slideshow for MySpace and Superwall for Facebook, was hit by a suit filed last Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco due to a major security breach which exposed the email and password information of an alleged 32 million users. Plaintiff Alan Claridge of Evansville, Indiana, claims that hackers were easily able to breach the security RockYou placed on their database containing user information....

On March 31, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a decision finding that immigrants have a right to be told by counsel that a guilty plea to a criminal charge may have consequences that would include deportation. If not informed, the lapse amounts to a violation of a criminal defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel. Justice John Paul Steven wrote for the majority with Justices Scalia and Thomas dissenting....

In an effort to help control the recidivism rates of inmates, states are beginning to adopt the practice of ‘flash incarceration.’ Flash incarceration is the practice of locking up parole violators for short periods of time for violating the terms of their parole. The periods of time can range from one to ten days, and states like Hawaii, California, and Washington have seen some success with the practice. While sending a parole violator to jail for a couple nights for returning a positive drug test may sound lenient to some, the fact of the matter is that sometimes a violation will go completely unpunished....

Bullying is illegal – a fact that William Bailey of Ohio learned after he was put in jail for taunting a child with cerebral palsy. Bailey was picking up his son from a bus stop at the same Tricia Knight was picking up her children, including her 10-year-old daughter who has cerebral palsy. When Bailey starting imitating the way Knight’s daughter walked, she asked him to stop, the New York Daily News reports....

Police have arrested a man believed to have stabbed and killed one member of Nicki Minaj’s tour crew and wounded another. After a late night brawl in Philadelphia last month, two of Minaj’s crew members were walking a bar employee to her car when they were attacked. De’Von Pickett, 29, was stabbed in his heart and stomach and died; a second crew member is still in the hospital with stab wounds to his back....

This morning, the California Supreme Court officially weighed in on the issue of Prop 8 standing, and it isn’t looking too good for the initiative’s opposition. The high court found that California law does give Protect-Marriage and Yes on 8 the right to appeal the 2010 decision overturning Proposition 8’s ban on same-sex marriage. Supporters of the ban took up the defense of Prop 8 when the governor and attorney general refused to do so....

Earlier this year, Indiana repealed a statewide ban on shotguns with less than an 18 inch barrel, also known as a sawed-off shotgun. For all the gun enthusiasts out there, here is what you need to know. What You Can Do The law will go into effect on July 1st. Starting on that date, it will be legal to manufacture, sell. or own a sawed-off shotgun with barrels 18 inches or less in length....

The Circuit Court of Appeals in the Third Circuit has ruled that it will be a silent night when it comes to religious music in the South-Orange Maplewood School District. The Court has decided that any concert in school will be governed at the discretion of the school district board and their policy of complete religious neutrality. Michael Stratechuk, the father of two students in the School District of South Orange-Maplewood, New Jersey filed the lawsuit claiming that the school district board and its policy on the performance of religious holiday music violates the Establishment Clause and his children’s First Amendment rights....

Proving that it’s all fun and games until an underage drinker resists arrest, injures a sheriff’s deputy, and barricades himself in a house for a half hour, over 100 revelers earned themselves a citation, arrest, or injury while celebrating ‘Deltopia,’ an annual Santa Barbara spring break party. Local law enforcement crashed dozens of parties in the Isla Vista neighborhood of Santa Barbara, host to the annual street party blast and popular with students due to its close proximity to UCSB’s campus....

Approximately 864,000 pounds of beef recalled may be contaminated with E. coli. This is the most recent in the rash of beef recalls covered by Findlaw’s Common Law Blog. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the California firm Huntington Meat Packing, Inc. is recalling the following items: 40 lb. boxes of “Huntington Meats Ground Beef” 40 lb. boxes of “HUNTINGTON MEAT PKG. INC. BEEF GROUND FOR FURTHER PROCESSING” 40 lb....

The Suave Professionals Keratin Infusion 30-Day Smoothing Kit promised to smooth your style and give it a keratin treatment. Instead, hundreds of women suffered hair loss and scalp burns when they tried it. Those hundreds of women joined several class action lawsuits against Unilever, maker of the Suave products, and the Seventh Circuit has upheld a $10 million dollar settlement in the case. The company will also reimburse thousands of women the $10 it cost to buy a hair product that caused visible bald spots, broken hair, and burned scalps....

Corey Harrison, co-star of the TV show “Pawn Stars,” was arrested by California Sheriff’s deputies after they said he shoved a deputy and a security guard. Corey “Big Hoss” Harrison, 27, of Las Vegas, was booked into jail Sunday at the Big Bear Lake, Calif. station on suspicion of battery and resisting arrest, Examiner.com reports. So what did the big guy do? Deputies arrived on the scene at the Big Bear Lake bar after Harrison and another customer got into a shoving match around 10:00 PM....