Lehto's Law

Florida couple bought a used RAV4 for their daughter - and the police later seized it and said it was stolen. The family is out $17,000 but the seller told the news station he would make it good if the family didn't get the car back. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A legislator in Michigan has proposed legislation to require DNR and other similar state agents to get a warrant (or permission) before entering privately-owned property in the state, doing away with the 'open fields' doctrine for them. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

In Minnesota, one particular breathalyzer machine was not operated properly for almost a year, calling 73 DUI cases into question, something the state and the sheriff now admit will be a problem. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

Major League Baseball has decided to let 'robots' - the Automated Ball/Strike System - override the calls made by human umpires if a team asks for a review of a call and if the call was incorrect - according to the ABS system. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A man said he bought a Rivian and when the AC started having problems, Rivian offered him $2,000 to waive his legal rights to sue them for it. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A child died after falling from a theme park ride and the family filed suit against the ride owner and operator; a Colorado jury awarded the family $205 million dollars, in possibly the largest award in the state ever for a single victim. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The woman who pleaded guilty to trying to 'foreclose' upon Graceland over a bogus mortgage has been sentenced to more than four years in prison by a federal court. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

An attorney in California was fined $10,000 by a court for filing a ChatGPT brief filled with mistakes and hallucinations, the largest fine yet to be levied against a single attorney in that state. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

The couple's property in Toronto has a fenced backyard that enclosed a portion of property which actually belonged to the city on paper, but had been fenced in for decades and the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in their favor. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A couple from Canada bought an RV from a US manufacturer but when they tried bringing it back to the US to sell it, it was seized at the border for not having the proper VIN tags as required by Federal law, and a large fine was levied. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

A school administrator in Ohio has been suspended after he sold eleven lawn mowers owned by the school district on Facebook Marketplace. https://www.lehtoslaw.com

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