Daily Archives: February 12, 2013 - 5 results

  With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, this may be a time of great happiness and excitement to “seal the deal” of your romance with a ring.   But as we know all too well at Lawyers.com, unfortunately, misunderstandings happen. Deals and contracts, even those made with the best intentions, can sometimes unravel. Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine was interviewed on several news programs including WHAM ABC 13 in Rochester, N.Y., and by consumer watchdog journalist Mary Schwager of GalTime. He discusses things …

Former baseball All-Star Mark Grace is now a guest of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Grace started a four-month stint in Sheriff Joe’s Tent City this weekend after being convicted last year for a second DUI in the state. It’s unclear if Grace will be compelled to wear the sheriff’s famous pink underpants. Grace played first base for 16 years for the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks, and had been a broadcaster for the Diamondbacks until his most recent arrest. He …

  From the Lawyers.com newsroom, Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine explains how a D.C. appellate court is jeopardizing workplace rights. In Noel Canning v. NLRB, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional. The court vacated an unfair labor practice ruling, on the grounds that the NLRB lacked a legitimate quorum when it issued its decision. The National Labor Relations Board protects worker’s rights. As one …

A California man will be needing a good defense attorney after he allegedly stole valuable comics from an Anaheim store only to be immediately apprehended, thanks to some quick social media work by the store owners. The thief broke a display window with a rock and took off with $18,000 worth of comics, but got nabbed the very same day when he tried to sell some valuable “Incredible Hulk” issues at a different nearby store. Turns out the owner of …

This article first appeared on the Huffington Post. New Jersey’s law that limits handgun purchases to one per month was just upheld by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, creating a federal law foundation for other states to follow. So far, California and Maryland have one-gun-a-month laws along with the Garden State, which has among the strongest gun laws in the country. The challenge to the New Jersey One Gun law came from a unit of the NRA, the …