Lehto's Law

A passenger in a car driven by an alleged drunk drive in Arizona has filed suit against the victim of a car crash which appears to have been caused by the drunk driver driving the wrong way and hitting the victim's car - who is now being sued by the passenger. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The Institute for Justice has filed a Federal Lawsuit on behalf of two residents of Norfolk (VA) over the surveillance conducted by the Flock cameras in the city. https://ij.org/

A subsidiary of Campbell Soup has admitted in court that it violated the Clean Water Act in Ohio 5,400 times. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Some high-performance Corvettes have been recalled because a few of them have gone up in flames while they were being refueled. The NHTSA Recall number is 25V536. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A jury in Arkansas ruled against State Farm in a lawsuit accusing them of using a system which low-balled payout offers on totaled cars. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A contractor in Minnesota has gone out of business after taking money from people to do work, which many people believe will never be done now that the company has filed for bankruptcy. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The Maine Supreme Court has ruled that a defendant must explicitly waiver their 5th Amendment rights before they can be questioned - and an ambiguous waiver won't do it. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The judge was found guilty by the Indiana Supreme Court of every charge laid against him, going so far as to say he wielded his position of power like a 'tyrant.' https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A Coast Guard officer bought a truck and the selling dealer reported that the truck was stolen; as a result, the officer was arrested and has now filed suit in Florida. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A man who had a suspended license from drunk driving was arrested while driving a Barbie Jeep in British Columbia - and the police say he was drunk when they pulled him over. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Police in New York say burglars contacted their victims in an attempt to get the passwords to the devices they stole from the victims. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The city of Calhoun, Georgia, told a non-profit there was a minimum size requirement for new homes - when there wasn't. The court said the city could not hold the organization to that limit even if it was passed later. https://ij.org/

This is an update to this story: https://youtu.be/mn-T3dRgFq4 Where a man was on paid leave for 5 years in Hawaii; he has now been fired.

A lawmaker in Florida has proposed banning all HOAs, although he has not put forward a proposed bill just yet. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A New York Times investigation shows that police officers who drink and drive in New York are rarely arrested for drunk driving and the events are usually treated as a human resources issue instead. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The man in Washington State has been arrested a total of 29 times now for a variety of offenses, many involving cars and driving. This last arrest followed a high speed chase. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A state trooper in Minnesota gave an EV driver a ticket for his exhaust being too loud, even though the EV does not have an exhaust. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

An attorney whose actual name is Mark Zuckerberg keeps getting kicked off of Facebook for impersonating the other Mark Zuckerberg - so he has filed a lawsuit in the hopes of resolving the issue. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

An AI company was accused of using millions of pirated books to train its AI and now has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $1.5 billion brought by authors in a class action. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Publishers Clearing House has cut off payments to some of its winners because they entered bankruptcy. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

My only real question (after the Fedex driver ran over my fence post without telling me) is: Shouldn't he at least have told me he did it? https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The IJ is asking the Supreme Court to hear the case of a man whose plane was seized because a passenger had brought beer aboard as cargo. https://ij.org/

This time it was a former US Attorney who was arrested while sober. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

It got a lot of its orders right - it's the ones that it got wrong which were comical. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A Wisconsin judge was being investigated for wrongfully jailing a man who appeared before him on another matter; the investigation appears to have ended because the judge has announced he will retire. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

In CT, a man ordered a police report and was told it could take more than a year for him to get a copy. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Another big win for the IJ, where a man had his money seized by federal agents who then dismissed their claims; they fought him on paying his court costs and fees and an appeals court ordered the government to pay up. https://ij.org/

A man in Las Vegas was arrested for impersonating an attorney - where is accused of using the bar number of a real attorney - and burglary, along with some other crimes. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Flock cameras are operating in Illinois and the secretary of state pointed out that sharing the surveillance with federal authorities appeared to violate state law - so Flock has agreed to stop the sharing for the time being. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Police in England seized supercars - including a Lamborghini and a Porsche - for driving behavior they described as "anti-social". The cars were impounded and the drivers or owners will have to pay to recover their cars. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The most obvious red flag you should look out for when hiring an attorney is to see if they have ever been disciplined by the state bar. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The man was wanted for an alleged crypto scam in South Korea and was only spotted by police because he was caught littering near a train station. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Authorities say the man from Maine faked his own death to avoid arrest; he was arrested in Missouri and faces extradition to Maine. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

From one of the largest RV dealers there is. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

When their defective frame wasn't covered by warranty, the owners contacted a local TV station - who managed to get some extra consideration for the problem and the frame was repaired at no cost to the owners. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

She's going to prison for a year after impersonating her dead mother for 25 years; they allege she misappropriated $360,000 in the scheme. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A few lawsuits alleging fraud based on the actual sizes of 2x4s at Home Depot and Menard's were thrown out, but a lawsuit brought by the state of California against Lowe's was settled and Lowe's agreed to relabel their dimensional lumber to avoid confusion in the future. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Judge in Wisconsin jailed a man who was before him for a probation review - but he accused the man of ripping off a customer of his cement business. The customer was an employee of another judge in the same courthouse. Now a special investigator is examining the case. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

It seems like a lot of unnecessary litigation. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This time it was in Australia. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This case is in Illinois. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This happened in IN. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

They charge extra for these things nowadays. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

AT&T and Verizon are next. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A court of appeals has reversed the lower court dismissal. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This happened in WA. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This is happening in Utah. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

This happened in NY. The man says he never saw any of the notices. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

It all depends on what happened to your data and probably on how many people make claims. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The AI tool has safeguards built in which can be turned off. https://www.lehtoslaw.com