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The attorney-advisor for Harvey Weinstein, of the Weinstein Company, and Hollywood producer fame, just quit. Lisa Bloom, who gave an interview to Good Morning America, has been credited with calling the actions of Harvey Weinstein “gross.” Additionally, in response to questioning about whether the sexual harassment of Weinstein was illegal, she agreed, but called his actions “workplace misconduct” rather than sexual harassment. If you’re just learning about this now, you’ve got a lot of catching up to do....

After Freddie Gray died, there was a lot of focus on his knife. The police argued that Gray was illegally carrying a switchblade knife. Baltimore Prosecutor Marilyn Mosby claimed that the knife was not a switchblade and legal under Maryland law. So, is it illegal to carry a knife in public? As with most answers to legal questions, it depends. Knife laws vary among states and cities. Whether you can legally carry a knife depends not only on the type of knife you have, but also where you are....

The question whether it is legal to carry a knife is a common one, and for good reason. With state, federal, and local laws governing when it is legal to carry a knife, it can be extremely confusing to know when you are in compliance with the law, and when you are in violation. As a general rule of thumb, federal laws govern where you can carry knives. While state laws govern the type of knife you can legally carry....

A Texan teen avoided a 20-year prison sentence for killing four people in a drunken driving crash by citing his affliction with “affluenza.” Ethan Couch, 16, received 10 years of probation after psychologist Dr. Dick Miller testified at his trial that Couch suffered from “affluenza,” or the crippling condition of being “too rich to care about consequences,” reports the New York Daily News. Was this boy really too rich to go to jail?...

A group of local surfers in an affluent southern California beach town have been accused of operating like a criminal street gang, following threats, intimidation, and violence against outsiders trying to surf their break. A federal class-action lawsuit claims Lunada Bay Boys “not only confront and attack other (beachgoers), but also confront, threaten to kill, assault, vandalize property, extort, and bring harm to other persons.” Along with fines and damages, the lawsuit is seeking a gang injunction that would prevent the Bay Boys from congregating anywhere in Palos Verdes Estates, a city in Los Angeles County home to some killer waves and a $125,000 median income....

Judges are writers, among other roles. Some write logically and others lyrically but few can do what Judge Gail Standish managed in her latest opinion dismissing a lawsuit against Taylor Swift. She wrote it using the pop diva’s lyrics. The US District Court judge from California put Swift’s words to work, dismissing the case against her filed by musician Jesse Braham, the Daily Mail reports. Standish concluded, “At least for now, Defendants have shaken off this lawsuit....

Rapper MC Hammer was arrested near Oakland, California for allegedly obstructing an officer. The 50-year-old rapper, whose real name is Stanley Kirk Burrell, was arrested at a shopping center. Police say that Hammer was blasting his stereo from a vehicle very loudly causing the stop, reports the Contra Costa Times. When asked about the ownership of the vehicle, police say that Hammer was uncooperative and refused to answer any questions. He was charged with obstructing an officer in the performance of their duties and resisting an officer....

Dot-com billionaire John McAfee is being sought for questioning by Belize officials investigating the murder of his neighbor. McAfee, who reportedly sold his anti-virus software company to Intel for $7.7 billion two years ago, had relocated to Belize. The 67-year-old had apparently been acting strangely, and Belize authorities believe he may know something about the death of his neighbor, 52-year-old Gregory Faull, reports the New York Post. So far, however, McAfee has not been found....

Paris Hilton loves the World Cup and it appears the World Cup loves her back. After a brief interaction with law enforcement and an appearance before the special World Cup Court, all is once again très bon with Paris. According to the Associated Press, Paris the heiress was detained by officers outside the Nelson Mandela Bay stadium, after witnessing the Netherlands’ surprising upset over the usually favored Brazilians at the World Cup quarter-final match....

The Michigan Court of Appeals has ruled against Lonnell Antwine, a Hamtramck man who claimed that his 4th Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure were violated when police conducted a warrantless search of his condemned home. The ruling, which is based on a line of 8th Circuit and Supreme Court decisions, can be said to leave squatters who occupy condemned and abandoned property with little rights. After being alerted to his presence, police knocked on his door and were invited in....

SunTrust Banks Inc. has agreed to pay nearly $1 billion in settlement funds to end a federal probe over mortgage abuses. The titan mortgage servicer announced in October that it had set aside $1.2 billion to settle this probe, but it appears they will only have to part with $968 million, according to Reuters. SunTrust isn’t admitting any liability as part of the settlement, but they will have to pay up....

As those who watched the ‘Making a Murderer’ documentary saw, Brendan Dassey was railroaded by police officers and his own attorney into confessing to involvement in the rape and murder of Teresa Halbach. Dassey, just 16 at the time, was subjected to four separate interrogations in just 48 hours, most of it without a parent or an adult present and all without his legal representation, who had passed on inculpatory, if inaccurate, information to law enforcement....

George Zimmerman will seek a Stand Your Ground hearing, his defense team announced Thursday. This could give Trayvon Martin’s accused murderer a chance to potentially walk free without going to trial. Zimmerman’s legal team made the announcement on a website set up in Zimmerman’s defense. “Now that the State has released the majority of their discovery, the defense asserts that there is clear support for a strong claim of self-defense,” the statement says....