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Here's GM's 'Tasteless Ad' Featuring Einstein That A Judge OKed
Back in 2009, General Motors ran an ad of a muscular Albert Einstein that landed it in hot water with a university in Jerusalem over trademark infringement. Now a judge has sided with GM, ruling that...
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A Really Odd Pair Of Supreme Court Justices Likes To Go Hunting Together
The Supreme Court justices' chumminess never ceases to be amusing. First, we learned that Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg liked to guest-star in operas together, and now we've discovered that...
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The 'Magic Glove' And 8 Other Ridiculous Inventions Patented By Apple
It seems like Apple gets a new patent every few days. Just on Tuesday, it won patents for a 3D remote mechanism and for a technology that allows it to detect unauthorized use of your phone, according...
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The 8 Worst Reasons To Go To Law School
The Supreme Court's very own chief justice said this week that many Americans go to law school for the wrong reasons. "I think there are a lot of people who go to law school because they're not good at...
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UPDATE: There's Been A Shooting At A Wisconsin Mall, 3 Have Been Killed,...
UPDATE 3:55 PM EST: Here's the latest on an apparent shooting at a spa near a mall in Brookfield, Wisconsin. According to the AP, the suspect Radcliffe Brown Deer has been found dead. There were no...
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AMC Channels Return To Dish After $700M Settlement Finally Reached
Cablevision and AMC have finally settled their $2.4 billion lawsuit against Dish after the satellite provider dropped the network, and other VOOM channels, in June. "Dish will pay a settlement of $700...
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UPDATE: Suspicious Package Found In Times Square Cleared By Bomb Squad
UPDATE: A lieutenant from DCPI tells Business Insider that an "all-clear" was given by a bomb squad for a suspicious package that was found earlier this evening at a Times Square subway station. The...
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Cycling Chiefs Will Give The Final Ruling On Lance Armstrong At 7 EDT Today
Cycling's governing body will announce at 7 EDT whether it supports the lifetime ban on Lance Armstrong ordered by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Union Cycliste International (UCI) president Pat...
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Wisconsin Mall Gunman's Wife Had A Restraining Order Against Him
BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of opening fire at the salon where his wife worked, killing three women and wounding four others, had a history of domestic abuse, with allegations that...
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7-Eleven Worker Gets Fired For Ripping The Clothes Off An Alleged Shoplifter
Store clerks, especially at big chain retailers, don't usually try to take things into their own hands — at least not violently — when they think someone's shoplifting. But that wasn't true at this...
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After A 50-Day Drinking Binge, A Man Tried To Flee A Plane He Thought Was On...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Ukrainian man, hung over from a 50-day drinking binge, said he believed the wing of the airplane was on fire when he disrupted a Salt Lake City-bound Delta Air Lines flight and...
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James Holmes Is At The Center Of A Fierce Political Campaign In Colorado
The Colorado district attorney prosecuting "Dark Knight Rises" shooting suspect James Holmes will be forced to step down this year because of term limits. And the race for Carol Chambers' replacement...
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Here's The Rationale For Opening Illinois' 10th Law School In A Terrible Job...
Illinois already has nine law schools, and the job market for law grads hasn't been this bad in 16 years. But there is talk of yet another law institution – the Bradley University College of Law. And a...
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Italian Earthquake Researchers Sentenced To Six Years In Prison
The Italian Seismologists on trial for manslaughter have been sentenced to six years in prison, multiple news agencies are reporting. The scientists were put on trial after 309 people died in an April...
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Tweeting About His Coworkers Cost This Guy His Job AND Unemployment Benefits
Seriously, don't ever post negative things about your work online. Comptroller Stephen Burns was fired from his job at AO North America for tweeting that his work environment was "toxic" and that his...
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Two Members Of Pussy Riot Have Been Sent To 'Prison Hell'
Two members of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot have been flown to two of the harshest prison camps in remote parts of Russia to serve the rest of their two-year sentences, AFP reports. Nadya...
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Law Firm's Client Says It Cut A 'Secret' Deal With Wells Fargo To Screw...
An employee suing Wells Fargo for allegedly failing to pay overtime wages is claiming her law firm settled the suit behind plaintiffs' backs. Mark Yablonovich's firm allegedly signed a "secret" $6...
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Jeffrey Toobin: Justice Scalia Would Step Down Soon If Romney Wins
The following is a series of questions posed by Ronald Collins to Jeffrey Toobin on the occasion of the publication of The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court (Doubleday, 2012). Welcome...
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Kagan Isn't Sure She'd Be On The Court If She Weren't A Woman
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan acknowledged that she might not have been selected to the highest court in America had she not been a woman, during a conversation at the University of Tennessee with...
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Alleged British Terrorist Lost Most Of His Money On The Forex Market
The UK press is full of stories today about the three men who allegedly plotted to commit an attack on London that would be bigger than 7/7, the 2005 bombings on the London underground that killed over...
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