About two years ago, I wrote about the class action lawsuit filed by Aimen Halim in the U.S. District Court Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division, against Buffalo Wild Wings. Halim accused the popular restaurant chain of “false and deceptive marketing and advertising” of boneless wings, claiming that they are more like glorified chicken nuggets […]
Charles Van Damme was a San Francisco businessman who ran a ferry business in the early 1900s. Using the profits from his successful enterprise, he purchased a parcel of land over 1,800 acres in size on the Mendocino Coast near Little River. When he died in 1934, he left it to the State of California […]
It seems these days that it’s impossible to tell what’s real. Photographs can be manipulated. Videos and sound bites can be fabricated. There are dozens of websites that sell knockoffs of name brand products. The latest round of fake versions of products recently ended up in federal court. Estée Lauder sued Walmart in the Central […]
Last week, I wrote about New Jersey’s effort to protect the environment by banning plastic silverware in fast food restaurants. Like plastic silverware, plastic shopping bags are also overrunning our landfills. We get plastic bags at hardware, grocery and convenience stores. Some of the bags are thick, while others are pretty thin and tear easily. […]
Illinois recently adopted a law requiring prospective police officers to approve the release of their personal background records, including everything from job performance reports to nonpublic settlement agreements, as part of the hiring process. The measure was passed in response to last summer’s shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old single mother who had struggled with […]
‘Teen Wolf’ was a classic 1980s movie that starred Michael J. Fox as Scott, a short, somewhat nerdy high schooler who suddenly became the Big Man on Campus after turning into a werewolf. One scene in the flick shows Scott “van surfing,” or standing on top of a moving van while driving down the road. […]
Over two years ago, I wrote about Peter LoDuca and Steven A. Schwartz, attorneys with Levidow, Levidow & Oberman, P.C., a personal injury firm in New York City. In a lawsuit they filed, Schwartz used ChatGPT to help draft a brief. After he found several cases that were right on point and supported his client’s […]
This past Christmas was great. Leading up to the big day, I was able to watch some of my favorite Christmas movies, including “Jingle all the Way.” The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad, a pair of devoted fathers who will stop at nothing to buy their kids the year’s hottest toy – a Turbo […]
In the summer of 1985, my family went to Orlando. We got to visit Disney World, Epcot Center and SeaWorld. SeaWorld was pretty cool because we got to see a show featuring Shamu, their killer whale. We were sitting close enough to the water tank that we got splashed when she jumped. 12-year-old me thought […]
One of my favorite TV commercials ever was Geico’s ad for the 2015 Super Bowl. It featured Salt-N-Pepa, a rap sensation from the 1980s and ‘90s, performing their hit “Push It.” The spot opens with a man unsuccessfully trying to pull open a door until the group tells him to “push it.” They then proceed […]