Louisiana State District Judge Bruce Bennett had just sentenced Sedrick Hills to 12 years in prison when he offered to reduce Hill’s sentence if his victim agreed to $150,000 cash rest… Read More

As the new decade opens, the problems with the internet from the old decade still linger. For instance, revenge porn and the non-consensual sharing of intimate photographs were once limited… Read More

A 10th Circuit Appeals Court has ruled that a Leo Lech, a Colorado homeowner, is not entitled to compensation from law enforcement after the police destroyed his home during a nineteen hour… Read More

The Latin language is used in legal lingo, which can be quite confusing to people who are not lawyers since they are not familiar with the precise terminology. The Latin language is used in… Read More

So, you’ve decided that being a lawyer is the right career path. You’ve read the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and thought to yourself “Yeah, I want to spend my career r… Read More

Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind popular video games World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Hearthstone, and Overwatch, landed face first into an intentional incident after it banned a prof… Read More

Rudy Giuliani refuses to comply with a Congressional subpoena in the impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump on the basis that their communications are shielded by the attorney-client privilege… Read More

Texanne McBride-Teahan and her three monkeys live in Creve Coeur, Missouri. McBride-Teahan is currently fighting her neighbors about whether she can keep her monkeys as emotional support ani… Read More

Senator Kamala Harris and other presidential candidates are calling for Brett Kavanaugh’s impeachment as new details regarding the FBI’s investigation and Kavanaugh’s nomin… Read More

Carlsbad Medical Center, NM takes aggressive collection action when patients fail to pay their medical bills.  Court records show the hospital has sued more than 3,000 people to collect… Read More

Divorce can be very expensive especially if you weren’t supposed to marry your spouse in the first place. Mark Athans married Charity Parchem in August 2017. Soon thereafter, their mar… Read More

Women in New Hampshire and Colorado are fighting for the right to appear topless in public. Ginger Pierro was arrested in 2016 for doing yoga while topless on the beach of Laconia, NH. A few… Read More

The Department of Labor released a proposed rule that would greatly expand the religious exercise exemptions for companies that compete for federal contracts. The proposal argues that Suprem… Read More

New York became the 46th state to criminalize revenge porn in late July 2019. Sharing intimate photos without consent with the intent to cause harm will be considered a Class A misdemeanor… Read More

Five of seven bounty hunters have been found not guilty in the killing of a father who was mistakenly gunned down in Clarksville, TN. Police and prosecutors charged William Byles II; Antwon… Read More

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stands accused of detaining citizens and terrorizing local communities in the name of law enforcement. In Kansas City, Florencio Millian-Vasquez and… Read More

Donald Trump ignited a firestorm last week after he wrote a tweet saying that four Congresswomen should “go back” to the countries they came from rather than criticize him. Short… Read More

Courtney “Taylor” Irby was arrested and charged for enforcing a court order directing her husband to surrender his firearms. Around June 14, Mrs. Irby and Joseph Irby were involv… Read More

In the United States, a person is killed in a drunk driving related accident every 48 minutes. Every 2 minutes, a person is injured due to drunk driving. The reality is that drunk driving is… Read More

The East Moline Police Department received a tip in March 2015 that Derrick Bonilla was selling drugs from his upper Illinois apartment. An officer brought a drug-sniffing dog to the three f… Read More

Alabama became the 49th state to pass a law terminating parental rights for a person found to have caused a pregnancy by rape or incest. “Jessi’s Law,” scheduled to take ef… Read More

Beginning in 2020, Nevada will be the first state to ban employers from using marijuana tests to reject a job applicant. Governor Sisolak signed AB132 into law on June 5, 2019. This law mark… Read More

Texas’s new “Save Chick-fil-A” Bill is among the most useless bills passed in 2019. Governor Greg Abbott signed the controversial bill into law earlier this month. Proponen… Read More

Scott Warren, an Arizona Immigration Activist, was recently charged with harboring two illegal immigrants as part of a conspiracy to transport and “shield” them from Border Patro… Read More

Marlin Jackson has filed suit against Delta and Ronald Mundy Jr. after the latter’s emotional support dog allegedly mauled Jackson’s face in June 2017. Mr. Jackson was seated in… Read More

San Francisco became the first major American city to police from using facial recognition software. In an 8-1 vote, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors forbid city agencies from usin… Read More

Multi-billion dollar game company Riot Games has promised to give employees the ability to opt out of mandatory arbitration following threats of walkouts by over a hundred of its employees… Read More

Ridesharing companies took the taxi industry by storm when Uber started hiring non-luxury drivers in 2012. A few months later, Lyft opened and offered the market an alternative ridesharing p… Read More

Parents play a critical and unique role in their children’s lives. They are providers, protectors, and make important decisions regarding their children’s future. But what should… Read More

Florida passed a school guns bill that would expand existing guardian programs to allow classroom teachers to voluntarily carry weapons on campus. Volunteer “guardians” are train… Read More

A new movement to raise the legal tobacco age from 18 to 21 is taking hold across multiple states and in the U.S Senate. Beginning in October this year, Marylan… Read More

The Bezos, formerly the world’s wealthiest couple, announced they have finalized the details of their divorce. Amazon’s founder and chief executive will keep 75% of his comp… Read More

Measles is back from near extinction. In New York City, 285 cases of the disease have been confirmed since October 2018. In contrast, there were only two reported cases in 2017. In response… Read More

The popular fast food business Chick-Fil-A is back in the limelight. In 2012, Chick-Fil-A Chief Operating Officer Dan T. Cathy made public statements against same-sex marriage. Chick-Fil-A l… Read More

Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen testified before the House of Representatives on March 6. Secretary Nielsen was grilled regarding her Department’s former policy to sepa… Read More

Mike Weirsky has hit the jackpot. He won $273 million from this month’s Mega Millions. The stay-at home dad was collecting spousal support payments from his former wife Eileen Murray a… Read More

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former attorney, testified publicly under oath before Congress on February 27, 2019. During his testimony, Cohen implicated the President in numerous lies… Read More

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the Constitution’s ban on excessive fines applies to all fifty states. The unanimous decision, written by Justice Ginsburg, prohibits states from… Read More

In a 5-4 split decision, the Supreme Court lifted lower court injunctions blocking the federal government from barring transgender persons from enlisting in the military. The High Court&rsqu&hell…Read More

Virginia Governor Ralph Northamis facing bipartisan calls to resign after a yearbook photo of him alleging wearing blackface surfaced. The photos show an image of an unidentified person in b… Read More

Once upon a time, two women living in the same house, each the mother of an infant, came to King Solomon. One of the babies had died, and each mother claimed the remaining boy was her o… Read More

A lot has happened in our nation and legal system since LegalMatch has opened its doors in 1999. The United States was under the leadership of President Bill Clinton, then went under two ter… Read More

The opioid crisis that has plagued the nation the last several years has also impacted how several states address their drug laws and on human life. In the last weeks of December 2018, Penns… Read More

The world’s richest couple is getting divorced. Jeff and MacKenize Bezos announced their divorce on January 9, 2019, after being married for 25 years. The couple announced their separa… Read More

The Boy Scouts of America are considering filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Scout’s financial issues come from insurance companies’ refusal to pay for the organization’… Read More

Most people know Americans have a constitutional right to a jury trial in a criminal case. Jury trials in civil cases are a very different, and very complex, story. Jury Trial Depends on Tim… Read More

U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor found the Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” invalid. Judge O’Conner ruled that once Congress had repealed the tax penalty t… Read More

Officers Dustin Boone, Randy Hays, and Christopher Myers of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) were indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with the assault of a fel… Read More

Ten years ago, the comic book movie The Dark Knight raised discussions about the extent law enforcement should go to combat crime. One scene featured Batman using cell phone data to track do… Read More

With Democrats in control of the House, the Trump Administration will likely be flooded with subpoenas and investigations come January. These investigations are arguably necessary as Republi… Read More

Stan Lee, the icon of Marvel Comics, passed away at the age of 95 this November. Under Lee’s leadership, Marvel began as a small comic book company and then grew into a pop culture ico… Read More

Donald Trump claims he will sign an executive order ending birthright citizenship, which is citizenship for children born in the United States to noncitizens. “It was always told to me… Read More

As of a few weeks ago, the California Supreme Court ruled to replace the previous test for whether somebody is properly classified as an independent contractor. The new test will make it muc… Read More

There are many fictional characters who take revenge on those they feel the law has not fully punished. Dexter, the Godfather, and the Punisher are all characters who offer “alternativ… Read More

Introduced a few weeks ago, and already unanimously passed through the House, the Music Modernization Act (MMA) has the potential to be the biggest change in copyright law in the U.S. in man… Read More

As we’ve seen quite recently in the Stephon Clark shooting, body cam laws can be bastions of public transparency or–in the worst case scenario–obfuscation. However, the con… Read More

Our ongoing series on state by state laws regarding police use of body cam will continue today in an effort to ensure everybody knows both their rights and the responsibilities of police off… Read More

Facebook has been in hot water after it came to light that as many as 87 million users had had their private data scraped, sold, amalgamated, and run through machine learning devices to… Read More

Understanding the body cam laws of the state you live in is crucially important–the obligations of the officers around you and your rights to any footage taken. As we’ve discusse… Read More

Individual camera policies can change from department to department. However, most of states have laws on how police body cameras, and their footage, is handled. If it weren’t for the… Read More

In 2016, 10 year old Caleb Schwab was decapitated during a waterslide. Caleb’s raft became airborne during the ride and hit hoops and netting overhead. Two other adults were injured an… Read More

FBI Deputy Director McCabe announced his resignation on January 29, 2018. He went on paid leave until March 18, when he would officially retire. Attorney General Sessions terminated McCabe o… Read More

Uber has pumped the brakes on its self-driving cars program. 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg was killed by a self-driving Uber car on March 18. Dash cam footage shows that Herzberg was looking a… Read More

The recent tragedy of Stephon Clark’s shooting has been made more public by the body cam footage released after the shooting making it clear there was little to no threat to the office… Read More

Ahemd Mohamed’s, also known as “Clock Boy”, discrimination lawsuit has been dismissed from federal court. In September 2015, then 14 year old Mohamed assembled a clock usin… Read More

Earlier this week, we discussed the non-disclosure agreement which allegedly sought to prevent Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) from disclosing details of her relationship and e… Read More

The new year has seen quite a package of laws supporting transgender employment rights in the work place come into force in California. This is crucially important because the protected stat… Read More

The potential of an affair between President Trump and pornographic actress Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) has been a story that has filled headlines for weeks. As of now, the… Read More

When it comes to symbols of hate groups–the Nazi swastika and the like–it seems almost silly to bring a cartoon frog into the conversation. However, the cartoon Pepe the Frog has… Read More

Mayor Schaaf warned the community of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raid twenty-four hours before ICE arrived. Oakland’s mayor issued tweets, emails, and a press rele… Read More

A couple discovered a World War II explosive inside a wall while remodeling their Virginia home. The Newport Fire Department and bomb squad crews responded to the home late at night. Battali… Read More

Hasta Muerte, an Oakland coffee shop, refuses to serve police officers. The cafe opened last November after a crowd-funded campaign. On February 16, a sergeant was turned away from the shop… Read More

Players from the Pittsburgh Pirates, Tampa Bay Rays, Oakland A’s, and Miami Marlins (notably currently owned by former Yankee Derek Jeter) have brought a grievance through the MLB Play… Read More

In 2010, Donald Zarda was fired from his job at Altitude Express as a sky-diving instructor. Mr. Zarda was preparing for a tandem sky-dive with a female student, when he noticed she was unco… Read More

Former U.S. drug executive Martin Shkreli has finally received his just desserts. U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto sentenced Shkreli to 7 years in federal prison after a jury found him gui… Read More

Of all the states expected to act, Florida has certainly seen the most scrutiny seeing as the actual shooting took place there. However, despite protests and support from the Florida governo… Read More

Right to work laws are a misleadingly named movement being pushed across the nation. While they may sound like efforts to ensure jobs, they are actually a push to pass laws which undermine t… Read More

A big assumption in family law is that the parents of a child will act in the child’s best interests. This is generally true, but there are corner cases that have grabbed national head… Read More

New York City has banned employers from inquiring about applicants’ salary history. This ban extends to advertisements, applications, and interviews. The City justifies this new policy… Read More

The February 14th school shooting in Parkland, Florida sent shockwaves around the nation as one of the most horrifying of the 52 mass shootings that have occurred in U.S. so far in 2018. The… Read More

Every attorney general in the United States signed a letter demanding Congress end mandatory arbitration in sexual harassment cases. Employment contracts across the country require that… Read More

The ongoing investigation into Russian involvement and potential corruption in the 2016 election has been a constant source of news and debate ever since Robert Mueller was appointed to run… Read More

Mr. Trump’s latest Travel Ban has been found unconstitutional.  The 4th Circuit upheld a Maryland District Court’s injunction in a 9-4 decision. The 4th Circuit ruled agains… Read More

Earlier this week, we discussed how the courts have handled emojis and emoticons in the past. They’re well equipped to interpret these issues–from smiley faces to champagne and s… Read More

In 2016, 92% of the online population was reported to use emojis and emoticons in their messages. A total of 2.3 trillion messages were sent which had emojis or emoticons in them. In 2017, 7… Read More

On August 21, 2017 Indiana State Police trooper Matt Ames pursued a driver along U.S. 41. Ames cut off another driver, Mark May, in order to catch the driver. As Ames cut off May, May &ldquo&hell…Read More

With over a million men and women on active duty and many times that number in civilian veterans around the U.S., protecting the employment rights of those who have served is an incredibly i… Read More

A Pennsylvania Appellate Court has ordered an Old Order Amish family to use an electrical sewer pump. The electrical sewer pump would connect the Amish home to the main municipal sewers of t… Read More

New bipartisan legislation known as the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act will be taking effect in Massachusetts on April 1st of this year–expanding protections to pregnant women and recen… Read More

United Airlines barred a passenger named Dexter from flying. Dexter had a ticket and allegedly followed every required protocol, but spent six hours waiting in L.A. before being denied. Fina… Read More

Volvo just settled an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) violations to the tune of $70,000 after they refused to hire… Read More

The realities of today’s job market have left many of us spending some time in the workforce as unpaid  interns. This can be an incredible opportunity to learn the intricacies of… Read More

Last October, the city of El Cajon banned food sharing events in public spaces. The city justifies the ban on the basis that it prevents the spread of Hepatitis A. An outbreak of Hepatitis A… Read More

How much is a scalpel in the abdomen worth? Glenford Turner of Birdgeport is suing the Veterans Affairs Administration after a scalpel was discovered in his abdomen after a critical surgery… Read More

About a week ago, Judge Alsup out of San Francisco granted a temporary injunction in a case challenging the Trump administrations repeal of the Obama administration’s Deferred Action f… Read More

Elizabeth Warren has recently been on a warpath against the subminimum wage. Earlier last week, Elizabeth Warren and Congress held hearings in which the state of minimum wage for the intelle… Read More

According to the latest statistics, 70% of Google’s staff is male and 61% of the company is white. Additionally, 75% of Google’s leadership are men and a mere 5% of the company i… Read More

Recently the headlines have been full of discussion revolving around the 25th Amendment. Most of this is focused on the idea that the Amendment could be a tool to remove President Trump from… Read More

Some coworkers stink. For Amber Bridges of an Indianapolis Magistrate Court, this was quite literal. In November 2016, Amber Bridges and others began to complain about a coworker’s &ld&hell…Read More

Last year was the deadliest year for mass shootings in the history of the United States. The shootings in Las Vegas, the Texas Church shooting, the Fort-Lauderdale-Hollywood International Ai… Read More