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  Editorial Director Betsy Kim provides a video Newsbreak, focusing on employment rights.  A Nashville, Tennessee, T-Mobile call center employee experiencing a difficult pregnancy, frequently needed to use the bathroom. She had to provide a doctor’s note, clock out and use vacation time for her restroom breaks. T-mobile fired the employee shortly after her return from maternity leave, for a 12-cent error. Astonishingly, she never filed a lawsuit. Only eight states require employee rest periods. There’s no legal requirement for …

  Betsy Kim, Editorial Director of Lawyer.com, reports on some celebrities, called onto the carpet and off the red carpet. Police stopped NBC Sunday Night Football sportscaster, Al Michaels, for making an illegal U-turn in Santa Monica. He ended up being charged for driving with a blood alcohol content of over .08. Three Doors Down bassist, Todd Harrell, has been charged for causing a fatal crash while driving under the influence.  Nashville police say he hit a pickup truck which …

Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine appeared on WGN-TV, Channel 9 in Chicago. He served as the legal analyst, discussing the Boston bomber, Amanda Knox, the Michael Jackson wrongful death case, and George Zimmerman. Larry explains Dzhokar Tsarnaev is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property. Larry reviews the mountain of evidence that police have including the witness who was the Tsarnaev brothers’ carjack victim. They allegedly bragged to him about the Boston Marathon bombing. George …

  Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine exposes lies that deceive consumers, printed right on Frito-Lay snack food packages. Two Californians in San Francisco are suing Frito-Lay for lying about its snack foods. Demonstrating with a bag of Lays Kettle Cooked Mesquite BBQ chips, Larry points out the following problems: The labels say “Made with ALL NATURAL ingredients.” But this does not mean no artificial ingredients are added to the snacks. Frito-Lay claims “made with” means “includes some” all-natural ingredients (such as …

  A camera at the intersection of Northgate and 27th Streets in Oakland, Calif. ambushes drivers running red lights and raises more than $3 million per year. For example, Ronald Pond received a $541 ticket because this camera caught him turning a right on red — at about 4:30 a.m. with no other traffic around. It’s a perfect example of “gotcha” government that prompts irate calls to eliminate the red light robots. Twenty-one states have red light cameras but nine …