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If you’re worried about an employer or potential employer asking for your Facebook or Twitter password, you might just want to move to Maryland. The state’s General Assembly just passed a bill to keep social media...

A New Orleans police officer, Jason Giroir, resigned Tuesday after being suspended for a comment he posted on a local TV station website about the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Jason Giroir used his full name and identified...

Multi-millionaire founder of the International Polo Club Palm Beach, John Goodman, was found guilty of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide on Friday by a Florida jury. Goodman’s Bentley slammed into Scott...

While there’s been a firestorm of controversy surrounding the Trayvon Martin case, which is obviously a tragedy, there’s a lot of misinformation and confusion on both sides. In case you weren’t previously...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell rocked the Saints’ world today. As punishment for paying defensive players under-the-table bonuses for delivering extra brutal hits to opposing teams, Goodell suspended head coach Sean...

Dharun Ravi, 20, faces up to 10 years in state prison after being found guilty of spying with a on his Rutgers University roommate, Tyler Clementi, with a webcam because he was gay. Clementi committed suicide on September 22,

Many people convicted of DUIs in San Francisco could be getting a lucky break. Police are being accused of faulty breathalyzer tests spanning ten years after uncovered records show the machines were not properly maintained or

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier has a tough decision to make: who among the companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill – BP, Transocean, or Halliburton – deserves to pay billions of dollars for...

Opponents of drunken driving are applauding the Virginia state Senate for passing a bill to require even first-time DUI offenders in Virginia to install a device to prevent them from operating their vehicle while intoxicated.

The FedEx deliveryman thought he was just dropping off a routine package to the 2600 block of Myrtle Street in Gentilly. What he didn’t know was that the package contained over five pounds of premium grade, hydroponic...

Alyssa Bustamonte, 18, was sentenced today for the murder of a 9-year-old girl in which she strangled, cut, and stabbed the victim in order to “know what it felt like to kill someone.” Bustamonte gets life in...

A Connecticut judge has sentenced Joshua Komisarjevsky, 31, to die today for the brutal murder of a mother and her two daughters during a home invasion in 2007. “This is a terrible sentence, but one you have written for

A 9-year-old boy in North Carolina was suspended after calling a teacher “cute,” WSOCTV.com reports. The boy’s mother, Chiquita Lockett, said the principal of Brookside Elementary in Gastonia called her...

It finally looks like the 150-day NBA lockout will be coming to an end, after both owners and players tentatively agreed to a deal early Saturday morning that would split basketball-related income roughly 50/50 among both...

The police chief and two unidentified officers at UC Davis have been placed on administrative leave following a pepper spraying incident the University of California system president says he is “appalled” by. Cell

Dr. Conrad Murray, personal physician to late performer Michael Jackson, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter today by a Los Angeles jury. Dr. Murray was implicated in Jackson’s 2009 overdose of the powerful...

Orlando jurors yesterday, found Casey Anthony not guilty in the murder of her 2 year old daughter Caylee. This verdict has sparked considerable hoopla among talking heads and the general public via avenues such as social...

HBO will be airing a documentary tonight called Hot Coffee which has particular relevance to the field of Personal Injury law. Hot Coffee producer-director Susan Saladoff also served as a civil lawyer for 25 years,...