Welcome to the final Monday of April, a day to recall singing siblings. Here are some news items to get your week started.

– Russian parole hearings can get messy.

– Michael Jackson’s family heads to court in case against concert promoter.

– Fired football coach wins nearly $3.5 million court award — in England.

– Justice Clarence Thomas was a fan of country crooner George Jones.

Welcome to Monday, and the 110th anniversary of the first game played by the New York Highlanders (later, and better known, as the Yankees). Here are some news items to get your week started.

– Where should Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev be tried?

– Should Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy apologize to gun makers?

– Does a car passenger have the right to leave the vehicle after the driver’s arrest for alleged drunk driving?

– Justice might be delayed but not denied in Brazil.

The legal system will get a public airing next Monday as the popular Stoop Storytelling Series trains its spotlight on the law.

The show’s theme, “Justice Talking: Stories about crime, punishment, and life (and death) in the legal system,” will draw personal essays from a panel of locals at Centre Stage.

Story tellers include former Baltimore Police Chief Frederick H. Bealefeld III (pictured), Fox 45 producer Stephen Janis, public defender Carol Dee Huneke and Mark Farley Grant, whose life sentence for murder was commuted last year after he spend almost 30 years incarcerated.

The show is a tribute to the 50th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright and is co-sponsored by the Open Society Institute-Baltimore.

Prior to the stories, author Karen Houppert will present her new book, “Chasing Gideon: the Elusive Quest for Poor People’s Justice” at a launch party at Centre Stage.

Welcome to Monday and a week that features Thanksgiving, a holiday dedicated to family, food and football.

Speaking of which, the Dallas Cowboys will play Washington’s football team on Thursday, which reminds me of a similar game in 1974. Two words: Clint Longley.

But I digress. Here are some news items to get your week started.

– A desperate housewife loses her appeal.

– A retired general hires an attorney.

– A California slaughterhouse agrees to a $300,000-plus settlement.

– A former Chicago detective gets an eight-year prison sentence for two drunken-driving deaths.

On the set of "Whirlwind" at DLA Piper's Baltimore office. (Photo courtesy of DLA Piper.)

Hollywood is back in Baltimore.

Clayton LeBouef, an actor from “The Wire,” filmed scenes from his new movie, called “Whirlwind,” at DLA Piper’s Baltimore office last week in the main reception area.

On “The Wire,” LeBouef played Orlando, a front man who ran a strip club for the Barksdale drug organization. LeBouef is also known for his role as Col. George Barnfather in “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

DLA Piper’s glass office building has been a Hollywood hot spot in recent years. Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s HBO comedy, “Veep,” shot several scenes for its pilot episode at the building. Several scenes in the 2005 movie “Syriana,” starring George Clooney, also were filmed at The Marbury Building at 6225 Smith Ave.

The recent movie shoot at DLA Piper is just one of a number of Charm City’s recent forays into the film industry. In addition to “Veep,” the HBO movie “Game Change,” about John McCain’s and Sarah Palin’s 2008 bid for the presidency and vice presidency, was filmed in Baltimore. (Both “Game Change” and “Veep” won awards at Sunday’s Emmys.)

The Netflix show “House of Cards,” starring Kevin Spacey has also been around town, filming at a sound stage in Edgewood, as well as in the city in places like the Peabody Institute in Mount Vernon.

All are part of an effort by Maryland to boost the film industry in the state.

Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream is not being so sweet to a film company it says is infringing on its trademarks.

A Massachusetts court has granted a request from Ben &  Jerry’s for a temporary restraining order against a company that makes pornographic films.

The ice cream company took issue with Cabellero Video for giving its films titles that were a little too similar to trademarked ice cream flavors.

The film company took names like “Chocolate Fudge Brownie,” “Peanut Butter Cup” and “Boston Cream Pie” and gave them a racy twist — “Chocolate Fudge Babes,” “Peanut Butter D Cups” and, yes, “Boston Cream Thighs.”

Whether ice cream plays a role at all in these cinematic endeavors is unknown but, needless to say, the Vermont-based ice cream company is not pleased about the 10 DVDs that Cabellero has released in its series.

Ben & Jerry’s argues that the porn packaging even sports the company’s signature cows and clouds design from its ice cream cartons. The ice cream maker said in a statement that it

acted to protect its company, brand, products and image. This is a clear cut issue where the video company is imitating Ben & Jerry’s logo, flavor names and trade dress to sell their products. We have taken prompt legal action to stop the manufacturing and sale of these materials.

The film company is due in court Tuesday to show cause as to why a permanent injunction should not issued.

Welcome to Monday, the 30th anniversary of the debut of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. On a more serious note, here are some news items to start your week.

– New York Times editorial addresses Iowa’s failure to “keep judicial decision-making … above the political fray.”

– A company famous for its species diversity in the workplace faces lawsuit for religious discrimination.

– Justice Department says no to illegal immigrant seeking law license.

– Was this killing murder or mercy?

– The butler did do it.

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No — it’s a law book!

An upcoming book delves into the justice system in the superhero world. Attorneys and comic book fans James Daily and Ryan Davidson co-wrote the book “The Law of Superheroes,” which will be published in October.

The book takes a look at how both villains and superheroes would have to deal with the realities of the law. For example: Could the Joker plead insanity if he went to trial? Which superhero is the most law-abiding? Does the right to bear arms apply to Wolverine’s metal claws? Can villains be held accountable for property damage? Can Superman sue if someone reveals his true identity? Are the mutants from X-Men a protected class?

The book grew out of Daily and Davidson’s blog, “Law and the Multiverse: Superheroes, supervillains, and the law.” The two started the blog in 2010 and the idea started over a dinner party conversation Daily had with friends. Daily wrote about the idea on an online project collaboration site. Davidson saw the post and contacted Daily asking to work together on the idea.

Since then, it’s been a flurry of theoretical comic book legal debates. Some of the most current posts discuss bankruptcy law issues and legal ethics in the new Batman movie, “The Dark Knight Rises.”

Davidson practices mostly insurance law in Indiana and Daily is licensed to practice law in Missouri works for Stanford University’s Hoover Project on Commercializing Innovation. And with the blog and the new book, the two attorneys are a regular real-world Justice League.

Stacey Wilson Betts of Wilsonville, Ore., took her daughter to see a Justin Bieber concert two years ago. Now she wants $9.2 million as compensation.

Betts filed a lawsuit against the tween pop idol for allegedly ruining her hearing.

According to the suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Portland, the damage occurred at a point in the show when Bieber flew over the crowd in a gondola, inducing a “frenzy of screams” to an unsafe level, the Associated Press reported.

Betts alleges she has permanent hearing loss. She is suing Bieber, his record label and the owner of the arena that hosted the show.

The local law world is going Hollywood this week.

The Baltimore office of DLA Piper was featured in the season premiere of the new HBO show, “Veep,” which premiered Sunday night. The show stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus, best known as Elaine on “Seinfeld”, as the vice president of the United States.

The comedy follows Louis-Dreyfus’s character, Selina Meyer, and her staff as they navigate the inroads of Washington, D.C. Meyer spends the pilot episode trying to assert herself in her new role. There are many bumps along the way for Meyer as she tries to carve out a place as second-in-command.

She organizes a meeting to push for green initiatives, which no one attends. She is forced into making a speech at a fundraiser in place of the president, during which she makes a series of bad jokes and a political gaffe. Throughout the episode, she repeatedly asks her secretary if the president has called, to which the answer is always “No.”

In one scene, Meyer goes to a senator’s office to lobby for a green initiative she is working on to replace plastic forks in government buildings with ones made of cornstarch. The scene was filmed at DLA Piper, whose offices are at The Marbury Building, 6225 Smith Ave.

About 100 members of the cast and crew showed up to film for the day; a wing on the second floor of the law offices was transformed to look like a fictional Nevada senator’s suite.

The cast and crew only filmed at the law offices for a day. When filming went late into the night, the crew had to shine lights into the office from outside.

The show also filmed in DLA Piper’s hallway as Meyer and her staff are leaving. The same hallway was used for a scene in the 2005 movie, “Syriana,” starring George Clooney.