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Trayvon Martin’s mom, Sybrina Fulton, has been sued by Traveler’s Insurance Company in a dispute over whether the insurance company is responsible for damages over her son’s death. Fulton made an insurance claim against Traveler’s for about $75,000, reports The Washington Post. The insurance company had a policy with the homeowners’ association at the Retreat at Twin Lakes in Sanford, Fla., where Trayvon Martin was killed, agreeing to cover the costs of certain injuries....

Facebook keeps popping up in unexpected places. The most recent: jury selection. Thanks to Facebook, jury duty just got more personal. Something as simple as liking the show CSI on Facebook could tell lawyers that a prospective juror may have “unrealistic expectations that DNA evidence could be obtained from every crime scene,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Facebook can also be useful to learn things like a potential juror’s religion, political beliefs, hobbies and tastes....

There is no such thing as appearance discrimination under federal laws. Employers are generally free to hire only the pretty people. But if you do base all of your hiring and employment decisions on looks, you may be opening yourself up to a bevy of lawsuits. So what gives? If you are allowed to discriminate based on looks, why can you still get sued? The tricky thing about appearance discrimination is that it is so closely tied to illegal discrimination of other types; such as, sex discrimination, age discrimination, disability discrimination, and race discrimination....