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A lawsuit over a JetBlue pilot’s midair mental breakdown has landed in court. Ten passengers are suing JetBlue for allowing the pilot to fly in the first place, the Associated Press reports. The plaintiffs were among 131 passengers and six crew members aboard JetBlue Flight 191 on March 27 when pilot Clayton Osbon allegedly ran screaming through the plane’s cabin making incoherent statements. Passengers restrained Osbon, and the plane made an emergency landing in Amarillo, Texas....

Doctors are only human, and like us they can make mistakes. The hope is that medical errors will be benign, correctable, and won’t permanently harm patients. But not all mistakes are created equal, and some can have catastrophic consequences. Take pulmonary embolisms, or PE for example, where a blood clot or other substance blocks the pulmonary arteries in the lungs. If misdiagnosed or untreated a pulmonary embolism can be fatal. And if a doctor misdiagnoses PE, she might be liable for medical malpractice....

As we have previously discussed, dispensary owners have been racing to meet the deadline to collect enough signatures to block L.A.’s new medical marijuana laws. But they didn’t beat the clock. Many of the signatures they collected were found to be invalid, the Los Angeles Times reported. After being refused an extension of time to collect signatures, the group’s challenge looks to be dead, at least for now. City officials said they did not have the authority to grant the extension....

Anyone who has had the sneaking suspicion that our significant other is doing something behind our backs have had the urge to use a GPS to track a cheating spouse/partner. The decision arose out of a case where a man, sheriff’s officer Kenneth Villanova, was tracked via GPS by a private investigator, Richard Leonard, who was hired by Villanova’s ex-wife, reports The Star-Ledger. Apparently, Villanova was none-too-pleased when he found out that his wife had placed a GPS tracker into his car....

The two men who flashed badges and drove a black SUV with strobe lights weren’t real law enforcement and in fact turned out to be phony cops. Two men were recently arrested in Prince George’s County after posing as officers during a robbery, the Washington Post reports. Police say the men in uniform and badges rolled up on victims driving a black SUV with flashing strobe lights. They assaulted the victims and took wallets from their pockets before fleeing....

In the wake of the Parkland shooting, Vermont went from having some of the least restrictive gun control laws to some of the strictest. Last week, Governor Phil Scott signed three bills into law raising the age to buy firearms to 21, banning high-capacity magazines, and making it easier to take guns from people who pose a threat or keep them from buying guns in the first place. The AP calls it “the first significant gun ownership restrictions in state history,” and according to CBS, the new law may have already been used to prevent a suspected school shooter from acquiring a gun....

If you have ever had food poisoning, you have our sincerest sympathies. Food poisoning is the result of consuming food contaminated with a bacteria or virus. Symptoms of food poisoning include fever, headache, nausea, diarrhea, and dehydration. Food poisoning can be caused by unclean hands when cooking, undercooked or raw foods, and improper storage which transmit the bacteria and viruses. Here are three most common types of food poisoning: 1. E....

Perhaps the only thing worse than thinking your spouse might be stepping out on you is knowing your spouse is stepping out on you. Still, some suspicious spouses have gone to extreme lengths to catch their significant others cheating, and we’re not talking about just hiring a private detective to snoop around. With advancements in camera technology and internet monitoring software, there are more ways than ever to spy on your spouse....

Anyone can be a blogger these days, but only some understand the extent of their rights. Whether a blogger writes about food, local politics, or her business, she is subject to a set of legal rules that both limit and protect her blog and its content. The list of rules is endless and draws from a variety of legal specialties. This means that specific questions should always be asked of a lawyer....

You’ve got questions… we’ve got answers. If you have not yet asked or answered a question in FindLaw’s Answers community, what are you waiting for? This amazing free resource supports a dynamic community of legal consumers and attorneys helping each other out. Simple as that. We see a lot of great questions in our Answers community every day. Here’s a look at the Top 3 recent questions from our personal injury boards:...

Winning a case is often just the first part of a civil court battle. The second part: judgment collection. Even if you win in small claims court, you may be left wondering how to collect a judgment. And it can seem like a daunting task. Defendants generally don’t like losing. They also don’t like paying up. How can you collect what you’re owed? Here are some simple tips to help you collect:...

Why do you need to get copyright protection? Protecting your business’ intellectual property is akin to protecting its image. Whether you produce instruction manuals or advertise with a television commercial, written and visual media represent your company. You thus want to control its use. Though you will always retain some control over original works, copyright registration gives you ultimate control. The following are some examples of what copyright protection can do for you....

It’s one thing to use an H-1B visa to hire skilled workers from outside the country. (And even those are harder and harder to come by.) But if those workers are married and their spouses can’t follow them to the U.S. and also work, you’re less likely to land them. And that process may get even tougher under new immigration reforms. Last week the Trump administration announced it would move forward with its plans to end H-4 visas, which allow spouses and children of H-1B visa holders to live and work in the country until they are able to obtain green cards....

Garnishments 101 An AP analysis indicates that states which allow debt collectors to go after a person’s wages in their collection efforts actually have higher bankruptcy rates than states which prohibit or set limits on that collection tool. As a result, the AP report suggests, the creditors may actually be shooting themselves in the foot by seizing wages because the practice can just push already cash-strapped consumers into bankruptcy, where the debts owed may be severely curtailed or even wiped out....

The accumulated student loan debt for all Americans is nearly $1.3 trillion, and rising by the second. And these aren’t just people seeking advanced degrees like law and medicine – some 40 million Americans have some student debt. For many of those who owe money for their education, making payments on those loans is difficult, if not impossible. So what can you do if you can’t pay your student loans?...

Most Americans know that you can claim a dependent and get a tax exemption. But when you’re divorced, does the tax exemption still apply? This question can become tricky especially in cases where both parents have legal rights with regards to the children. After all, the child can only be claimed once. Both ex-spouses cannot claim the child as their dependent on their tax returns. In many situations, the custodial parent – the one the child lives with – will be the one who is able to claim the exemption....

Three millimeters is about the size of an @ sign, and it’s also the size of the optical tagging technology developed by researchers at MIT—a technology that could replace the everyday barcode and much more. Bokodes refers to the light blur produced from an out-of-focus image, such as in a photograph. Turns out that heck of a lot of information can be programmed in that haze. The bokode system can allow angle-encoded information to be read by an ordinary camera or even cell phone....

Let’s give a cheer for Title IX, the big winner in a July 21 decision by a federal district court judge in Connecticut. Judge Stefan Underhill has proclaimed competitive cheerleading not a sport for purposes of Title IX and the defendant, Quinnipiac University, will have to reinstate its women’s volleyball team instead of cutting it for a cheer squad. The University was sued last year after announcing that it was planning to cut its women’s volleyball team and replace it with a competitive cheer squad to save money, according to the Associated Press....

Changed circumstances in asylum law refers to an exception to the one-year filing requirement for applications. Usually, applicants must file their request with the US government within a year of arrival here or their claim will be considered untimely. But because asylum is based on danger – it’s a request for protection in the form of immigration status and benefits – there are exceptions to this deadline when there are particular changes in the law, your life, or conditions in your home country....

When a US Citizen or permanent resident seeks to help an immediate family member to immigrate to the US, there is quite a bit of paperwork required. The first form that needs to be completed is the USCIS Form I-130. This form must be completed for each individual family member that wants to immigrate. US Immigration law is confusing and filled with multiple forms that must be correctly filled out. The USCIS Form I-130 should be used for the following relatives of US citizens and permanent residents:...