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Minnesota waitress sues after police seize $12,000 tip
For the struggling waitress with five children, the $12,000 left at the table in a to-go box must have seemed too good to be true. Moorhead police decided it was just that. Now, the waitress is suing in Clay County District Court, claiming the cash was given to her and police shouldn’t have seized it as drug money.. . -
Illinois Traffic Stop Of Star Trek Fans Raises Concerns About Drug Searches, Police Dogs, Bad Cops
Last December, filmmaker Terrance Huff and his friend Jon Seaton were returning to Ohio after attending a "Star Trek" convention in St. Louis. As they passed through a small town in Illinois, a police officer, Michael Reichert, pulled Huff's red PT Cruiser over to the side of the road, allegedly for an unsafe lane change. Over the next hour, Reichert interrogated the two men, employing a variety of police tactics civil rights attorneys say were aimed at tricking them into giving up their Fourth Amendment rights. Reichert conducted a sweep of Huff's car with a K-9 dog, then searched Huff's car by hand. Ultimately, he sent Huff and Seaton on their way with a warning.More » -
Can Interviewers Insist on ‘Shoulder Surfing’ Your Facebook Page?
Privacy advocates say that, for now, it is legal for a prospective employer, during a job interview, to insist that you log into your Facebook page and then click through your “friends only” posts, photos and messages.. . -
Is YouTube’s Content ID System Leading To False Copyright Claims?
We've heard the stories about people's YouTube videos being tagged for copyright violations because someone in the background is playing a song that's recognizable to some automated system that scans online videos. But certainly no one can come after you for the barely audible sound of birds, right?. -
Damning Evidence Emerges In Google-Apple “No Poach” Antitrust Lawsuit
The evidence states that the defendants agreed not to poach employees from each other or give them offers if they voluntarily applied, and to notify the current employers of any employees trying to switch between them. They also agreed not to enter into bidding wars and to limit the potential for employees to negotiate for higher salaries. In one particularly juicy piece of evidence from May 2005, Adobe’s CEO Bruce Chizen emailed Steve Jobs regarding “Recruitment of Apple Employees”. In the message, Adobe’s SVP for human resources writes “Bruce and Steve Jobs have an agreement that we are not to solicit ANY Apple employees, and vice versa.” Additionally, documents state that there is “strong evidence that the companies knew about the other express agreements, patterned their own agreements off of them, and operated them concurrently with the others to accomplish the same objective.” For example, Lori McAdams of Pixar wrote an internal email to others at Pixar in April 2007 stating, “I just got off the phone with Danielle Lambert [of Apple], and we agreed that effective now, we’ll follow a Gentleman’s agreement with Apple that is similar to our Lucasfilm agreement.”More » -
Feds shut down Megaupload, charge owners with piracy
A day after sites like Wikipedia protested SOPA, federal prosecutors have shut down file-sharing site Megaupload.com and charged its founder and others with piracy, the Associated Press reports. The indictment puts the amount of lost revenue from Megaupload at $500 million, and says the site was once the 13th most popular website in the world. The company lists rapper and producer Swizz Beatz — the husband of Alicia Keys, who endorsed Megaupload — as their CEO. But the six defendants include Kim Dotcom, the site's founder, former CEO and chief innovation officer, and five others. Four, including Dotcom, have been arrested. . -
Brett Favre’s brother receives pardon from outgoing Mississippi governor Haley Barbour
The brother of former Green Bay Packers quarterback and Mississippi native Brett Favre has been pardoned by Haley Barbour, whose last day as governor was Tuesday. State records released Tuesday show Earnest Scott Favre had his record cleared in the 1996 death of his best friend, Mark Haverty.. . -
New IL Law Requires Photo ID To Buy Drain Cleaner
A new state law requires those who buy drain cleaners and other caustic substances to provide photo identification and sign a log. It’s getting a rough reception from customers and merchants alike although perhaps none more than a cashier at Schroeder’s True Value Hardware in Lombard.. . -
Law Student Goes ‘Homeless by Choice’ Touts Value of Gym Club Membership
A Cardozo law student lived as a homeless person for nine weeks because he felt he didn’t have any challenges. The 2L, who called himself “David,” told Above the Law that he didn’t intend to disrespect or marginalize anybody facing a real problem. “I simply wanted to create a challenge in my own life,” he said.. -
Man Sues Lender For Revealing To Wife That Another Woman Was Making His Car Payments
A man in Chicago has filed a lawsuit against the company that serviced his car loan for allegedly ruining his marriage by revealing, via a voice mail, that another woman was making loan payments for him.
Alleging "sexual-scandal blackmail," the plaintiff says that the lender "became aware of a relationship between plaintiff and a female associate and friend," who was "in the habit of periodically making payments on the vehicle.". .
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