A lack of consistent and concise rules of the road will keep self-driving cars from reaching their potential anytime soon.

This much is not in dispute: In early 2014, John Doe and Jane Roe, both students at the University of California, San Diego, had a brief sexual relationship. Jane, blonde, pretty and outgoing, was a freshman. She was also Mormon, raised in a religious household. Before going away to college, she had never tasted alcohol or had sex. While at school, she said, “I tested the waters.”

For most of the ten years that I've practiced criminal defense as a private attorney, about fifty percent of my practice would typically be juvenile delinquency

Fansubbing—the unofficial creation of fan-made subtitles for TV shows and movies—is illegal, a Dutch court ruled this week. The Free Subtitles Foundation, after coming under fire from the Netherlands' anti-piracy association BREIN, decided to raise some money and take BREIN to court. The Foundation's lawyer told TorrentFreak that the lawsuit sought to clarify whether the creators of a TV show or movie can reserve the right to create and distribute subtitles.

No one wants murder videos on Facebook. But no one wants Facebook to censor their baby videos, either.

Bose was taking notes on what songs and podcasts its customers were listening to without permission — and selling that information to a data mining company, the lawsuit claims.

Bose knows what you're listening to, according to a class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in the US.

“They used to bark at me when I walked into the courtroom,” lawyer Steven Wise said in the Sundance documentary Unlocking the Cage, which debuted on HBO last month. His use of the word “bark” is literal. By Ariana DiValentino. (Mar. 13, 2017)

For almost forty years, Kerry Max Cook did everything to clear his name after being convicted of a horrifying murder in Tyler. So when he was finally exonerated, why did he ask for his conviction back? By Michael Hall.

When a group of mothers, aunts and sisters found that no officials — not the state's attorney's office, not the mayor's office — wanted to take up their cause, the women went in search of justice themselves. By Melissa Segura. (Apr. 4, 2017)

A nonprofit watchdog expanded a lawsuit accusing U.S. President Donald Trump of violating the Constitution by letting his hotels and restaurants accept payments from foreign governments.

It’s not easy to evict someone in California. Usually that’s a good thing. By Ian Gordon. (Dec. 29, 2016)

United Airlines CEO lied - David Dao was calm and polite, not "belligerent"

A pioneering judge, who became the first Muslim woman in US history to serve on the bench, was found dead Wednesday — washed up on the Manhattan side of the Hudson River, sources said. By Tina Moore, Larry Celona, Shawn Cohen and Chris Perez.

A judge has been sacked for using a pseudonym to post abusive comments on a newspaper website about cases he was involved in. Recorder Jason Dunn-Shaw, of Maidstone Chambers in Kent, is understood to have called one man a "donkey" and others "narrow-minded and bigoted". He also accused others of commenting "without thinking things through".

The self-driving cars wars have triggered vicious shenanigans over top engineering talent

A judge has been disciplined for offering to pay a fine for a teenager who stabbed her abuser in the stomach. The 15-year-old girl had admitted attacking the man, who sexually assaulted her as a child. After giving her a two-year youth rehabilitation order, the judge offered to pay a fine, known as a victim surcharge, on her behalf. But following complaints, Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC was disciplined for not demonstrating impartiality.

Self-described “paedophile hunters” have welcomed a court ruling that will allow them to continue to pose as children online to catch sexual predators. Legal teams acting for two men who were caught by the organisation Dark Justice allegedly attempting to sexually abuse minors had argued that the use of evidence gathered by such operations “diminished the integrity of the court process” and that the groups should be regulated.

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