Lehto's Law

A city councilman was given $5,000 cash in a coffee mug by someone who had business before the council; the feds called it bribery but they defendants are arguing it was not a bribe. A court will decide. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

In a 5-4 opinion, the Supreme Court says you cannot sue the postal service for mail not being delivered even if it was intentional. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The IRS says the woman's accountant filled her tax returns out in a way that was illegal and he went to prison years ago - now the IRS says they want the amount that should have been paid along with fees and penalties. The Supreme Court has been asked to hear the case. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A CHP officer was indicted for perjury regarding tickets she wrote - and an investigation turned up many instances of 'inconsistencies' in her tickets. She will not be tried, however, because a court let her enter a diversion program as she was found to suffer from PTSD. She also resigned from the CHP. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The lawsuit alleges a used car dealer reported a car as stolen when they should have simply repossessed it themselves. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The Justice Department reached a settlement with the lending side of CarMax to pay $15,000 each to service members whose cars were wrongfully repossessed - and to work to get the action removed from their credit reports. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A SWAT team in Chicago raided the wrong house and a jury awarded the family $5.7 million. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The man was arrested TWICE for speaking out at city council meetings - they claimed his calling them 'fascists' was a violation of the rule against 'derogatory' speech at the meetings. A federal court said the arrests were impermissible. https://ij.org/

The man's boat was stolen off of the lot where it was taken in for service; the owner has filed suit saying the dealer has not compensated him for the loss. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The court said the limited edition talk was not an actionable warranty and that Dodge had the right to change its mind later about how many of the vehicles to build. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

According to a lawsuit, the tickets were printed but not purchased the day before. This would be one of the largest such lottery prices in Arizona history. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

In Texas, the courts have actually made lists of process servers whose services will not be accepted - because they have had issues with people who were not served (after the servers filed papers claiming they were.) https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A facial recognition AI program identified a suspect that was innocent and did not look at all like the person the police were looking for - but they arrested him after getting a warrant (a witness did pick the man out of a photo lineup). The prosecutor declined to pursue the case. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A court has tossed the lawsuit against Buffalo Wild Wings - which had said it was deceptive to advertise boneless 'wings' as such since they aren't made from wing meat. The judge said a reasonable person would not expect them to contain wing meat. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The state of Illinois is going all-digital with the DMV and how it handles titles - meaning there will no longer be paper titles at all. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The man whose truck was seized to satisfy an old judgment (in FL) got his truck back - but there are still problems. The previous video I did on this is this: https://youtu.be/r-zS7Fw72eQ

Many sources are reporting that 'Save This Life' is no longer operating, meaning that if you have a pet registered with them you will have to take steps to get your pet re-registered. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A lawsuit alleges that a man ran a Ponzi scheme involving cattle he did not actually have - and the suit names banks, saying they should have spotted the problem earlier. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The problems here include a judgment that is very old, on a lawsuit the man says he was never served with, for something he is not liable for - and the plaintiff in the original case has passed away. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Ring had said it would be working with Flock in the future, but many people were unhappy with the notion. Ring has now said it will not be doing that. https://www.lehtoslaw.com