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Magic Johnson's Private Stewardess Says She Got Fired For Being Old
Magic Johnson is super serious when it comes to his snacks, or so claims one of his former private jet stewardesses. Lanita Thomas filed a wrongful termination lawsuit, claiming Johnson fired her after...
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An Ex-Staffer's Revelation Could Doom A Law School Accused Of Massive Fraud
An ex-employee of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says her boss told her to distort the employment statistics of its graduates, according to a sworn declaration. The declaration was filed in a class...
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World's First Cartoon Brief Inspires Law Firm's Goofy Marketing Campaign
Legal comics strike again — this time as part of a law firm's colorful marketing efforts. The Thompson Coburn law firm has come out with a two-page comic called "Swept Away," which follows the...
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Tom Cruise Sues Life & Style For $50M Over Suri Abandonment Story
Don't tell Tom Cruise he doesn't spend any time with his six-year-old daughter, Suri. The 50-year-old recently divorced actor filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit against "Life & Style" magazine...
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Cocaine Tattle Tale Awarded $450K In Court For Wrongful Termination
Award-winning visual effects guru Andrew MacDonald was fired from Ascent Media Group after calling out the drug use of one of his superiors, reports The Hollywood Reporter. Visual effects supervisor...
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'Millennium Bomber' Jailed For Plotting 1999 New Year's Eve Bombing
Al-Qaeda member Ahmed Ressam, who was arrested as he entered the United States driving a car packed with explosives, was previously jailed for 22 years, twice, but both sentences were quashed, the last...
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Why Losing Indefinite Detention Powers Would Be A Disaster For Obama
There's a big story by Greg Miller in the Washington Post on how the Obama administration has expanded its powers in the War on Terror. Miller notes that the legal foundation for U.S. counterterrorism...
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Rajat Gupta Sentenced To 2 Years For Insider Trading
Rajat Gupta was sentenced to two years in prison and one year supervised release by Judge Jed Rakoff moments ago, Bloomberg News reports. Gupta was convicted of passing illegal tips to disgraced...
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Federal Appeals Court Stops Indiana Cutting Funding To Planned Parenthood
Indiana can’t block state-administered Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, upholding the crux of a lower court...
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Divorce In Two Countries Is Double The Trouble
Think divorce in the United States is hard? Try ending your marriage in two countries at once. Red tape, financial obstructions and cultural differences are just a few of the added problems faced by a...
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Donald Trump's Ex-Lawyer Is Suing His Trust-Fund Baby For Questioning His...
A lawsuit-happy Manhattan mega-attorney is suing his daughter for defamation after she asked the state to audit her trust fund. Richard Fischbein, 70, is suing his daughter Beth Fischbein-Bodner for $3...
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FBI Reports A Startling Decline In Global Terrorism
The world is actually a significant safer place than it was a year ago, at least when it comes to terrorist attacks. Recent high-profile terrorist attacks like the one that killed Ambassador Chris...
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Tory Burch's Legal Battle With Her Ex Just Got Even Uglier
For years Tory Burch and her ex-husband, Christopher, have been embroiled in an ugly legal spat. It appears that things just got even worse. The beef between the Burches is over him trying to sell his...
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The Website Used To Sell The Wisconsin Shooter A Gun Was The Subject Of A...
This weekend's tragic shooting at a Wisconsin spa opened the door to a flood of questions about how a man with a restraining order against him was able to purchase a gun. Radcliffe Haughton reportedly...
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If You Think The Counterterrorism Center's 'Disposition Matrix' Is Scary,...
For two years the Obama administration has been secretly developing a "disposition matrix" that draws on all known information about suspected terrorists and provides advice on how to pursue them,...
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Here's How Gloria Allred Got To Be An Absolutely Shameless Media Hound
Gloria Allred dropped her big October surprise this week. The news about Mitt Romney's testimony in a divorce is a little anti-climactic, but Allred is getting tons of press nonetheless. How does she...
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Airline Forces Stanford Grad To Shut Down His Website Because It Saved People...
Airline fees have become something of a universal certainty — along with death and taxes. That is why when a 25-year-old Stanford grad coded a simple website to check him in automatically 24 hours...
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NYPD Cop Charged With Plotting To Kidnap And Cook 100 Women
A New York cop was charged Wednesday in a strange alleged plan to kidnap at least 100 women, including his girlfriend, and cook them, ABC reported first. The FBI found e-mails and instant messages...
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This Is The Absolute Worst City To Live In If You're A Young Attorney
In today's legal job market, you might not have much choice about where you live after graduation. You have to go where the jobs are. But, according to The National Jurist's most recent ranking of the...
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UN To Investigate Civilian Deaths From US Drone Strikes
The United Nations is to set up a dedicated investigations unit in Geneva early next year to examine the legality of drone attacks in cases where civilians are killed in so-called "targeted"...
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