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With baseball season swinging into action, thousands of fans will be filling stadiums across the country to enjoy America’s favorite pastime. But before you head out to the ballpark what should you know about your legal rights as a fan? Lawyers.com, the largest legal website for consumers, has some important tips for you before hitting the ballpark this season! Verbal Altercations: A yelling match on a public street will not get you arrested, but a stadium owner is required to …

The U.S. Supreme Court is still deciding the legal rights in gay marriages. The high court is expected to announce its rulings in June on whether the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denies federal benefits to legally married same-sex couples, and California’s ban on gay marriages (Proposition 8) are unconstitutional. Meanwhile, different states continue their own disputes on the issue. As Lawyers.com reported, the Illinois attorney general and Cook County clerk are refusing to defend their state’s law that …

While a bill legalizing gay marriage awaits enough support in the Illinois House of Representatives, the Cook County clerk is not defending against a lawsuit brought against the county by gay couples who say its refusal to recognize same-sex marriage is a violation of the state constitution.   Golden Silence David Orr, with his reported silence in the suit and his outspoken support of gay marriage, agrees with the couples, who are represented by Lambda Legal. But now that county …

Digital music cannot be sold secondhand over the Internet, even if the seller deletes the original file, a federal judge ruled last week. The precedent-setting decision handed down by a district court in New York has implications for other digital goods like books and movies as well. “Courts have not previously addressed whether the unauthorized transfer of a digital music file over the Internet – where only one file exists before and after the transfer – constitutes reproduction within the …

A Chicago-area man is suing a woman for $100,000, claiming that her cat attacked him in 2011. William Baxter filed the suit last month against Christine Bobak, alleging that the animal “viciously attacked, bit and clawed” him while he was taking care of it.  Illinois law lays out the manner in which the lawsuit can proceed. “There are two avenues of liability,” explains Joseph Klest, a personal injury attorney with the Klest Injury Law Firm in Illinois. “It’s the same with …

A woman who was fired after reporting her boss’ drug activity won a $1.6 million jury verdict against her employer. Maria Pietrowski was a senior case manager for the Kintock Group, a company in Bridegeton, N.J., that helps ex-convicts get back on their feet after they are released from prison. Pietrowski spoke up about two situations where she thought her boss was wrong. She believed that her boss was involved in drug activity and she thought he was violating public …

“The Good Wife” is compelling a legal TV show because it touches on the riveting complications of the law – similar to blogs.lawyers.com. But “The Good Wife” is also good TV because it’s really about sex. About the show How could the show not be about sex? After all, it’s partly inspired by Governor Eliot Spitzer’s wife, Silda, a lawyer who stayed in her marriage, remaining “The Good Wife” after her husband’s humiliating public sex scandal. In the TV show, …

In Woollard v. Gallagher, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ruled that the Second Amendment does not provide an unbridled right to bear arms beyond a person’s home. Furthermore, states can enact laws that require gun permit holders to have good and substantial reasons to wear, carry or transport firearms. The Court pointed out that limiting the carrying of guns in public protects people and reduces crime for the reasons shown in the Lawyers.com infographic below:

Two men recently made Walmart into a dangerous place to be – way past Black Friday: One went deer hunting with a gun in a parking lot at a store in Pennsylvania, and another crashed his car into the front entrance of a store in California and then allegedly assaulted customers.   It’s Always Deer Season at Walmart In November, Arcangelo Bianco Jr., 40, who had just gone shopping in the store in Burrell Township, Penn., reportedly decided that a …

Oil giant BP could have stopped the massive 2010 oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico just two days after the blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, an expert witness testified today in the civil trial over the spill. Glen Stevick, a mechanical engineering expert called to the stand by BP’s cement contractor, Halliburton Co., testified that BP blew its only chance to salvage the blowout preventer — the last line of defense for an out-of-control offshore oil well …