Facebook Files Suit to Stop Clickjackers
Clickjackers Explained If, like me, you’ve recently read The Hunger Games, when you hear the term clickjacker, you may be thinking of the mutant wasp like creaters, called Tracker Jackers, and perhaps that term can serve as a metaphor for the clickjackers which use deceptive headlines to lure facebook users into parting with personal information, [...]
IL Man Calls 911 To Fight Cops
Generally when you dial 911 you are in the midst of an emergency and the call reflects the need for law enforcement personnel to help resolve that emergency. This general rule was bucked by an Illinois man, John R. Pacella, who called 911 at 4 A.M last week requesting to fight with police officers in Willowbrook, IL, [...]
A Texas junior high school student urinated in a water bottle after his teacher repeatedly denied his request to use the restroom during class and she further told the student that she hoped that he peed in his pants, according to an article on Fox News. I guess the teacher didn’t quite get her wish [...]
Man Who Pulls Own Tooth In Prison Gets $22 Million
A federal jury awarded a New Mexico man, who was originally jailed for DUI, $22 million after he was kept in solitary confinement in Dona Ana County where he was forced to pull his own tooth, according to an article on Yahoo News. The jury awarded Steven Slevin, 58, the enormous damage award after a six-day [...]
Random Law of the Day: Texas’ Cottage Food Law
Cottage Food Law Allows Home Food Sales Relatively recently, Texas passed a law called the Cottage Food Law. The bill allows home bakers to sell foods out of their homes with some restrictions. Essentially, as their gross annual income stays below $50,000, home bakers can sell their non-potentially hazardous “baked goods” including cookies, cakes, breads, pies, etc. [...]
Landmark Fourth Amendment U.S. Supreme Court Case: U.S. v. Jones (2012)
United States v. Jones, Decided Jan 23, 2012 U.S. v. Jones, 565 U.S. (2012), published this week, decided whether the use of a Global Positioning System, or GPS, device on a car, amounts to a “search” of the vehicle, when the device is used to track the vehicle’s movements on public streets. [...]
Google Search Changes Could Threaten Privacy
If you are a member of the social networking site, facebook, then you are probably all too familiar with the privacy concerns that have been posited about the site, almost since its inception. These concerns deal not only with the site’s privacy policy, but also with the way that the site collects data and information [...]
Drug Dealers Text a Cop by Accident and Get Arrested
Well, I have been a victim of texting the wrong number, but this takes the cake. Not only do the drug dealers text a wrong number, but that number is a cop’s cell phone? Brilliant! Last Friday Lorraine Apuzzo sent a text to a police officer in Meriden, Connecticut offering to sell him 200 Percocet [...]
U.S. District Judge Wesley E. Brown, the oldest sitting federal judge in the country, died Monday night, according to the Associated Press. Brown was appointed by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, and was the longest serving judge on that court. Federal judges, of course, serve under Article III of the U.S. Constitution, and once appointed [...]
Recent Food & Medical Device Recalls
Recent Recalls The following products have recently been recalled. The products are categorized by reason for recall. While meant to be as informative as possible, please remember that this list is not exhaustive. If you suspect an item you have has been recalled, you can contact the manufacturer or store where you purchased the item [...]
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