Celebrity Law

Grandparents Who Stand In In Loco Parentis Relationship May Be Entitled To FMLA Leave
A little known provision of the FMLA is that leave is permitted to care for a son or daughter or an in loco parentis relationship. In loco parentis is latin for in place of parent. It is not too hard...

Mistrial declared after murder suspect's brother moons the jury
Story is from Arizona. The suspect's brother is also accused of making threatening comments to the jury. Hat Tip: Many thanks, eephus!

Cops lie and people die
Grits for Breakfast points us to this important and disturbing story published in the L.A. Times a few days ago. It is a report on the murder of 16-year old Martha Puebla, whose name the police used while fabricating an identification...

Brianna Denison Murder: DNA from Suspect's Son Can Be Used Against Father Who Refused to Give Sample
James Biela Could Face Death Penalty in Murder of 19-Year-Old Who Vanished from Friend's Couch

SCOTUS Rejects the Reopening of a Dual Murder Case Against an Mexican Citizen
From reuters.com: Mexico protested on Monday a U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting the reopening of a dual-murder case against a Mexican on death row. The court rule last week that U...

Murder suspect's family doesn't think he killed himself
Near Detroit, the family members of an incarcerated murder suspect are questioning the police's official conclusion that he killed himself by cutting off his own penis, flushing it and then slitting his own throat with a razor...

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

DC Madame Phone List
Telephone Records of Deborah Jeane Palfrey's Escort Service (Pamela Martin and Associates)

New Study Links Cell Phone Radiation to Increased Health Risks
Cell Phone Radiation Is Your Phone Toxic?

Mexican Style Soft Cheese Recalled
Mexican Style Soft Cheese Recalled due to Possible Listeria Contamination

Man Awarded $21 Million for Wrongful Imprisonment for Murder
Man Awarded $21 Million for Wrongful Imprisonment for Murder

Unarmed Suspect Shot
Riverside, CA to pay $800,000 settlement in wrongful death shooting.

Christopher Fairchild
guilty verdict for helping Tommy Baldridge murder James Mollette.

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update