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This Southern California Law School Is The Worst In The Country

The Daily Caller has released its law school "gulags" list -- a ranking of the country's very worst ABA-accredited law schools. The Washington D.C.-based news website ranked the schools based on...

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If It's Illegal To Lie On The Campaign Trail, Why Aren't More Candidates...

At least 20 states have laws against lying on the campaign trail. So why do so many candidates get away with it? In Ohio, which is one of those 20 states, a prosecutor can't bring charges against a...

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Legalizing Pot In The US Could Decimate Mexican Drug Lords' Profits

Voters in Washington, Colorado, and Oregon will decide Tuesday whether to legalize recreational pot use. Just in time for that vote, a respected Mexican think tank found that legalizing pot in those...

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Anna Wintour Sides With Tory Burch In Her Legal Dispute With Ex-Husband

Tory Burch's legal battle with her ex-husband, Christopher, is the talk of the fashion world.  The beef between the Burches is over him trying to sell his stake in her $2 billion fashion brand and her...

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At Least TWO Dead People Were Found Inside A Tree In Connecticut

As if this story couldn't get any crazier. The back of a skull, mouth open, and attached spine and rib cage were found inside a tree upended by Hurricane Sandy earlier this week. Investigators have now...

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Why Both Presidential Campaigns Are Totally Ignoring The Supreme Court

The nation's highest court has a huge impact on Americans. It desegregated schools, legalized abortion, and upended campaign finance reform. That court even decided a presidential election in 2000, but...

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The NYPD Should Be In Disaster Zones, Not Watching People Run 26 Miles

Why would New Yorkers want to cancel Sunday's revenue-generating, city-unifying New York City Marathon? Oh yeah, there are still people homeless in Queens and Staten Island. For now, the New York...

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Penn State's Former President Has Officially Been Charged With Perjury And...

Former Penn State President Graham Spanier has become the latest university official to face charges in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse saga. Pennsylvania's Attorney General has officially slammed...

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Chicago Cops Investigating Rogue Officers Are Suing The Department

Undercover cops who were investigating corruption allegations against Chicago police are now suing the department for harassment. FOX Chicago News exclusively reports two unnamed undercover officers...

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Somebody Tried To Drive Over The US-Mexico Border Fence

Hapless immigrants who tried a novel way of entering the United States -- by driving a car over the US-Mexico border fence on makeshift ramps -- failed when the vehicle got stuck on top. Two people...

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Law Firm Resorts To Drastic Measures To Stop Employees From Enjoying Long...

Say goodbye to your long lunch. Under the guise of improving security, Canadian firm McCague Borlack LLP is requiring employees, except for lawyers who spend most of their time out with clients, to...

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This Corporation's Top Lawyer Gave More To Candidates Than Any Other General...

Donald de Brier, general counsel of the Occidental Petroleum Corporation, seems to have been the most generous of all general counsels when it came to political funding this year.  Over the 2011-12...

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82,000 Pounds Of Walnuts Stolen In Twin Heists

Two truckloads of walnuts, worth around $300,000 in total, have gone missing out of Northern California, and local deputies are after a man with a Russian accent who they say is the prime suspect....

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The EU Is Now Actively Discouraging Lawyers From Talking In Court

In America, the Supreme Court is known for its lengthy oral arguments. Lawyers for both sides can spend hours arguing the merits of their case, which becomes a costly time suck for all involved. But,...

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Indiana Is Being Slammed For Its Unorthodox Judicial Elections

Judicial primary elections are the only ones that matter in Indiana's largest county and voters basically get no say in the general elections. Or at least, that's what Common Cause, an open government...

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Here's The Absurd Advertisement Apple Is Being Forced To Run About Samsung...

There's a weird twist in the Apple-Samsung legal battle playing out in the UK. A UK judge told Apple it had to run an advertisement in UK newspapers that clarifies that Samsung did not copy Apple's...

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Montreal's Mayor Is Mixed Up In A Huge Political Scandal

Montreal's embattled mayor abruptly canceled his public appearances, packed his bags and went on leave Thursday after a witness at a corruption inquiry linked him to illegal party finance activity....

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China Plans To Stop Relying On Death-Row Inmates for Organ Donations

The Chinese government will embark upon a new program early next year in order to create, implement and streamline a new national organ donation system. Currently, China heavily relies on the harvested...

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Obama Has Shown Less Mercy To Felons Than Ronald Reagan

ProPublica recently took a look at how frequently President Barack Obama grants pardons to the nation's six million inmates, and the findings are pretty shocking. During his nearly four years in the...

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This Quiet But Effective Justice Made Glamour's 'Women Of The Year' List

Glamour magazine's "Women of The Year" has come out and there's a familiar to us face on the list — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.  The woman who fought against sexually discriminatory laws in Oklahoma...

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