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Oh, my dear LiLo, you shall never learn until you’re locked away for 2+ years, will you? Tsk tsk.

Lindsay Lohan may be going from house arrest to the Big House. TMZ reports that the troubled star, who turns 25 next week, recently tested positive for alcohol and must appear before a judge in an LA County Superior Court this morning.

The former Disney actress was sentenced last month to four months in jail after she pleaded no contest in the theft of a $2,500 necklace in April. Due to prison overcrowding and because she is a nonviolent offender, she’s been serving the time via house arrest. Lohan’s alleged positive alcohol test means she violated her probation terms — and L.A.’s probation department plans to ask Judge Stephan Sautner to throw her into LA County Jail.

Barry Bonds – Guilty or Not Guilty, of knowing he was using steroids?

When she first considered the matter yesterday, Judge Susan Ilston strongly suggested that the newly-discovered tape recording of Dr. Arthur Ting and Steven Hoskins, allegedly discussing Barry Bonds’ steroids use, would not be admitted. Indeed, she characterized the tape as ”almost entirely inadmissible or irrelevant.”
It should come as no surprise, then, that Judge Ilston has excluded the tape from evidence.

Where this leaves us and what the jury heard:  Read the rest of this entry » The Barry Bonds Saga cont...

Back in court again, that is. Not on the football field.

Favre, who announced on Sunday that he is retiring from the National Football League (again), is being sued by former Jets massage therapists for acts alleged to have occurred in 2008, when he was playing for the Jets.

Asked on the ABC TV program “Good Morning America” why the lawsuits were coming now, after Favre’s retirement, lawyer Elizabeth Eilander said “It’s clear that there’s no change going on at the Jets, and it’s not right, and it happens to be illegal.” She added, “He was propositioning my client and another massage therapist repeatedly.” Eilander said her client’s husband saw one of the text messages and contacted Favre, who in response was “inappropriate” and “very arrogant” and “used some choice language,” she said.”

In a report on Monday, ABC News named the therapists as Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole and said they had filed suit against Favre, the Jets and Lisa Ripi, a woman who hires massage therapists for the team, in New York state Supreme Court. The Jets and the NFL had no comment on the matter, ABC said. It said requests for comment from Favre’s agent and his latest team, the Minnesota Vikings, were not immediately returned. The suit alleges Favre made unwanted sexual advances to the women and the Jets stopped offering them work after they complained.

Read the rest of this entry » Brett’s back, baby!

Wow. I had forgotten about Barry Bonds. I mean, it’s been what, forever, since we’ve had news of the perjury / steriods incidents?

Apparently his trial date is set for March 21, 2011. They also hashed out a schedule to file legal documents and to hold pretrial hearings to shape what the jury will see and hear during the three-week trial.

Bonds’ initial February 2009 trial date was delayed at the last minute when prosecutors appealed the judge’s ruling excluding vital evidence. The prosecutors ultimately lost that appeal and have decided to go ahead with the trial anyway. The former San Francisco Giant has pleaded not guilty to charges he lied to a grand jury in December 2003 when he denied knowingly taking performance-enhancing drugs.

What do you think? Did he do it? Did she say she was 19?

Lawrence Taylor appeared in a New York state courtroom on Tuesday and pleaded not guilty to a rape charge levied against him in May. Taylor was arrested on May 6 when police alleged that he had sex with what they said was a prostituted 16-year-old girl. Taylor is accused of paying $300 to have sex with her.

ESPN reported that Taylor left the courthouse holding his wife’s hand and was asked if was looking ahead to a day in court. “Hopefully it don’t go that far, Taylor said. His attorney, Arthur Aidala, has maintained Taylor’s innocence since May. “I am saying that he did not have sexual intercourse, as it’s defined in the penal law, with this person,” Aidala told ESPN prior to Tuesday.

Before the hearing, the AP reported that Taylor told a reporter “grow up” when asked if he was guilty. Taylor isn’t due in court again until Aug. 24. Federal documents released in May said that the Pro Football Hall of Famer admitted to sex acts with the girl, but that Taylor claimed the girl said she was 19. Taylor’s agent, Mark Lepselter, told ESPN his client has struggled to deal with the stress since his arrest. “He’s been very subdued for the past two months from the day back in May,” Lepselter said. “I haven’t seen him like this. Mentally he’s trying to get through it.”

The Associated Press reports that a California federal judge has given the go-ahead to a monopoly class action lawsuit, against both Apple and AT&T, over several aspects of the iPhone. The suit claims that Apple, in making AT&T its exclusive partner, drove up prices and stifled competition in the smartphone market. The suit seeks to, “keep Apple from selling locked iPhones in the U.S. and from determining what iPhone programs people can install.” Naturally, the suit also seeks “damages to cover legal fees and other costs.”

Apple has yet to release in an official statement in regards to the suit, but did say that it had not hurt competition. Unlocked iPhones and the ability to install applications from third party sources sounds pretty good to me, however I know iTunes is going to take a huge hit in sales if this eventually went through.

You can more here. Apple has sold over 50 million iPhones since they first came around in 2007 – I’m glad I never had one back then, they’re much sweeter now! You know, outside of reception issues..

An official court document that details the first class action lawsuits that Apple and AT&T will be dealing with in regards to the iPhone 4. Some of the claims made in the Maryland based suit include:

• General Negligence (APPLE and AT&T)
• Defect in Design, Manufacture, and Assembly (APPLE)
• Breach of Express Warranty (APPLE)
• Breach of Implied Warranty for Merchantability (APPLE and AT&T)
• Breach of Implied Warranty of Fitness for a Particular Purpose (APPLE and AT&T)
• Deceptive Trade Practices (APPLE and AT&T)
• Intentional Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (APPLE and AT&T), Fraud by Concealment (APPLE and AT&T)

A copy of the complains can be found here.