Adrian Hit and Run Car Accident Kills Pedestrian
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December 4, 2008 04:25 pm
Hospital Infections and Medical Malpractice Lawsuits on the Rise
(Illinois Medical Malpractice Blog)Medical malpractice lawsuits are on the rise according to a new study that has looked at the incidence rates of common hospital acquired infections nationwide. The most common hospital infections are related to urinary tract infections, bloodstream infections and infections after surgery. Hospital infections can cause a hospital patient injuries and in extreme cases even hospital patients death. The statistics on this hospital infection study can be found in detail by clicking here. Hospital ...
December 4, 2008 03:34 pm
IBM Seeks Discovery from Apple - Steve Jobs to Be Deposed?
(Trade Secrets Blog)... company after five days on the job, agreeing with IBM that he might cause "irreparable harm" to his former employer. At the heart of the lawsuit is a 2006 non-competition agreement that Papermaster signed. IBM claimed that the agreement barred him from ... 's iPod business. Fadell is stepping down from his post, but will remain as an advisor to Jobs. Stephen Madsen, an attorney with Cravath, Swain, & Moore of New York, the firm representing IBM in the case, was not immediately available to ...
December 4, 2008 02:49 pm
A Tale of Two Summary Judgments: Looking at How Federal Judges May View Cases With a Different Lens
(Connecticut Employment Law Blog)... rule on such motions, who judges the matter also plays a role in the ultimate outcome. As discussed below, this is important for employers and in-house counsel to understand when litigating discrimination claims. Two recent decisions by two Connecticut federal judges ... judgment and proceed with a trial if you know that the court is likely to deny your motion anyways. When attorneys talk about the unpredictibility of litigation, reviewing two cases like this show what they are talking about.
December 4, 2008 02:09 pm
Trust Litigation
(Florida Estate Planning Lawyer Blog)Florida Trust Litigation involves disputes between beneficiaries or potential beneficiaries of assets in ones estate or trusts (a Trust Contest). Trust litigation in Florida is most often centered around Mistakes in Execution, Undue Influence, or Lack of Capacity. If you feel that there are problems with a Florida Trust and would like your options reviewed by a Florida Trust Litigation Lawyer, please Contact Florida Trust Attorney
December 4, 2008 02:03 pm
California Family Law Attorneys Wrestled Conflicting State and Federal Law
(Southern California Defense Blog)... , including the former California Supreme Court Justice Joseph Gordin. To only further complicate matters, experts, as well as Attorney General Jerry Brown, are in disagreement on whether or not Proposition 8 will null the 18,000 same-sex marriages entered into ... ways.' While certainty cannot be offered by any law firm, such speculative developments heightened the need for seasoned attorneys even more. Wallin & Klarich is a large California Criminal Defense Law Firm in Orange County, California ...
December 4, 2008 02:00 pm
Stark & Stark Shareholder Comments on Advances in Broker Recruitment Protocol
(New Jersey Law Blog)Thomas B. Lewis, Shareholder and Chair of Stark & Stark's Employment Litigation group, was quoted in the December 2, 2008 Reuters.com article, Financial advisory firms sign pact to ease poaching. Mr. Lewis comments on the recent independent advisory firms who are rushing to sign an agreement that bars lawsuits between signatories that hire away each other's brokers. Mr. Lewis states that with the new agreement, also commonly referred to as broker recruitment protocol, registered investment ...
December 4, 2008 01:36 pm
Oklahoma Nursing Home Fails to Protect Resident From Sexual Assault
(Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog)... suffering from dementia, has been observed behaving inappropriately. He was a known "wanderer" who "liked to go into women's rooms who couldn't call for help". Two days before the incident, he was "observed touching the leg of another resident who was dependent on staff for assistance". The same day he touched a resident's leg, he was seen pulling up the shirt of another staff-dependent resident. The Oklahoma District Attorney's Office is considering criminal charges against the former resident.
December 4, 2008 01:35 pm
Fired Security Guard Awarded $257k in Disability Discrimination
(Dallas Fort Worth Injury Lawyer Blog)... a hearing test was awarded $257,048 in a disability discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Attorney General. The man aged 61, lost his job at the federal courthouse in Victoria because he ... a family member has been subjected to wrongful termination or employment discrimination, then please contact the Doctor Attorney Dr. Shezad Malik of Southlake, Texas. For a no obligation, free case analysis, please call 817-255-4001 or Contact Me Online. VIEW THE FULL CASE Employment - Federal Ruiz v. Mukasey
December 4, 2008 01:03 pm
Ind. Courts - Fink named Vanderburgh Circuit Court magistrate
(The Indiana Law Blog)... Circuit Court has been named its new magistrate. Kelli E. Fink, Posey County's chief deputy prosecutor for the past four years, previously served Vanderburgh Circuit Court for about eight years in a variety of capacities, including court administrator, staff attorney, law clerk and adult probation intern and bailiff. * * * Circuit Court Judge Carl A. Heldt noted Fink's previous experience in the office and as chief deputy prosecutor as well as her work ethic and judicial temperament in his ...
December 4, 2008 01:02 pm
Elder Law Today Podcast Show #12 The Talk - How to Communicate with your Parents about Aging and Long Term Care
(Elder Law Today Podcast)In show number 12 Yale Hauptman, a practicing elder law attorney sits down with Barbara Salvador of Nannymama.com and Barbara Friesner of Agewiseliving.com, a generational coach and author of âThe Ultimate Caregiverâs Guideâ to discuss how to have âthe talkâ with aging parents. Generational differences and lack of communication pose some real challenges to children who are trying to help care for their parents. So many families never discuss long term care and finances until a crisis hits and ...
December 4, 2008 12:10 pm
Class Action Defense Cases–Carlson v. eHarmony.com: California State Trial Court Certifies Class Action Against eHarmony Granting Class Action Treatment To Claims Of Homosexual And Bisexual People Denied Services Based On Sexual Orientation
(Class Action Defense Blog)... deterred from using eHarmony because of its refusal to provide service to homosexual and bisexual individuals. Id. Defense attorneys argued that class action treatment was not warranted because "the proposed class is not ascertainable and individual issues ... , restricting membership to individuals "who allegedly have been 'denied' services," was also ascertainable because defense attorneys "acknowledge that eHarmony.com does not offer same-sex matching services, which is the functional equivalent ...
December 4, 2008 12:10 pm
Lost Your IRS Appeals Case? Now You Can Mediate And Arbitrate Your Defeat
(California Tax Attorney Blog)... a request for post-Appeals mediation or arbitration are in Announcement 2008-111. The agency will seek appropriate Offer in Compromise and Trust Fund Recovery Penalty cases for both post-Appeals mediation and arbitration during the two-year test period in order to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative dispute resolution for these cases. Call a California tax attorney to assist in preserving your rights when it comes to resolving your tax problems. Call Mitchell A. Port at (310) 559-5259.
December 4, 2008 11:42 am
Our Honolulu Advertiser Op-ed on Navy Sonar Case
(inversecondemnation.com)... MFA sonar to detect submarines designed to avoid discovery by other types of sonar. The Navy employs two types of sonar: passive sonar listens for sounds emitted by submarines; active sonar ... silent-running submarines. Robert H. Thomas and Mark M. Murakami are Honolulu attorneys who filed a brief in the Winter v. NRDC case on behalf of nine retired Navy ... s opinion is available here. Joining us on the brief were Christi-Anne Kudo Chock (Damon Key), and Honolulu attorneys Mike Lilly and Ted Meeker.
December 4, 2008 11:23 am
Court Does Not Order Sale of LLC to Satisfy Judgment, But May Appoint Receiver
(Chicago IP Litigation Blog)... that Rule 70 only allows for enforcement of money judgment in very narrow circumstances, circumstances that were not yet met in this case. Rule 69(a) allows for a writ of execution in accord with the rules of the state where the court is located, Illinois in this case. Illinois law says that the debtor's property delivered for repayment is to be sold by the sheriff at public auction. But because defendant's interest in Bobak 53 is relatively non-liquid - plaintiffs, the other owners of Bobak 53, ...
December 4, 2008 11:16 am
Balancing the scales?
(The Briefcase)... announced that "there isn't a jury in the world" who wouldn't impose the death penalty for the crime. That didn't happen, and Alex Kotlowitz's story about the case five years ago in the New York Times Magazine is a classic recounting of how defense attorneys use mitigation experts and evidence to gain life sentences in cases where death would have been the inevitable result just a decade ago. But there's a flip side to that, it turns out. Sara Weir was only 19 years old when she was raped and ...
December 4, 2008 10:45 am
Multi-Million Dollar HELOC, Identity Theft and Computer Intrusion Ring Busted
(Mortgage Fraud Blog)... men in three states are charged with engaging in an international conspiracy to deplete millions of dollars from U.S. victims' home equity lines of credit using personal information obtained through identity theft and unauthorized computer access. The four men arrested are Derrick Polk, 45, Los Angeles, California, Oludola Akinmola, 37; Oladeji Craig, 39, Brooklyn, New York and Oluwajide Ogunbiyi, 32, Springfield, Illinois, who were expected to make initial appearances in federal … Read More...
December 4, 2008 10:24 am
Maryland Access to Justice Commission
(Maryland Lawyer Blog)... its partners and ultimately craft a realistic vision of access to civil justice in Maryland today. Joining Judge Raker on the Commission is a lot of A-list folks, including Honorable Ben Clyburn, Chief Judge of the District Court of Maryland, as Vice Chair and Senator Benjamin Cardin, Governor Martin O'Malley and Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler as members. Maryland State Bar Association will be represented by President Katherine Kelly Howard and MSBA Past President Herbert S. Garten.
December 4, 2008 10:20 am
A Very Complicated Real Estate Legal Malpractice Case
(New York Attorney Malpractice Blog)... , who maintains that she was represented by Roshco during that period. A fair reading of the allegations against the attorney defendants is that they failed to disclose the extent to which the transaction was detrimental to plaintiff. Lacking, however, is ... tort, the conspiracy claim is likewise without foundation Given that the detailed facts concerning the extent of the attorney defendants' involvement in the fraudulent scheme are peculiarly within the knowledge of other parties (see Jered Contr. ...
December 4, 2008 10:18 am
Locate Your Stolen Laptop without GPS
(TechnoEsq)Back on November 25, we posted an article on the new Lenovo BIOS update for the Montevina systems which will allow users to remotely disable and encrypt data on their laptop via text messaging. While this is great for attorneys looking to ensure the security of their client's confidential data it does nothing to to retrieve your piece of mobile bliss. Enter programs such as Laptop Cop, which use the Skyhook Wi-Fi system to triangulate the position of your laptop. Skyhook is the same Wi-Fi ...
December 4, 2008 09:45 am