Jones Walker is pleased to announce that Glenn G. Goodier, a partner in the firm's Admiralty & Maritime practice was honored by the New Orleans Bar Association as the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Maritime Lawyer award. ...more »
Robert H. Edmondson, former commander of the Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations Center; and Edmondson's deputy, Trevor Dean. A 216-page Air Force Inspector General report indicated no laws were broken but concluded base officials failed to respond ...more »
Swaim, who has been placed on administrative leave, turned himself in to the Imperial County Jail on Thursday, where he was arraigned during a hearing held at the courtroom inside the jail building. During the nearly half-hour-long hearing, ...more »
And 35% of respondents thought that the law allowed for a government panel to make decisions about end-of-life care for people on Medicare. (Again, it didn't.) The full poll results are here. It has a margin of error of three percentage points.more »
CONWAY — The Kennett High School Music Department's marching band no longer minds playing in the rain. The Eagles, thanks to community donations, now have new raincoats and are more than prepared for the the elements when they take their ...more »
A Utah-based social justice group is seeking the public release of expenditures by the Attorney General's Office to date on its legal defense of an enforcement-only immigration law being challenged in federal court. ...more »
State law grants local governments two paths to borrow money for economic development projects. In both cases, the borrowed money can be used to build and equip a wide variety of businesses, including factories, warehouses and retail stores. ...more »
The practice areas include real estate, estate planning, family law and business corporate law, litigation and dispute resolution, criminal defense, immigration, bankruptcy and debt relief cases. For more information about the firm, ...more »
The insured wants the security of knowing the insurer has stepped in to take care of the claim or lawsuit. In the case of a lawsuit, the insured wants the best defense possible. The insurer also wants the best defense, but must also consider the cost ...more »
North Jersey residents are making liberal use of state's Open Public Records Act, but just a small fraction of the document requests under that law are coming from the news media. Known as OPRA, the law requires state, ...more »
CNS Response has purchased the intellectual property from this effort, including patent applications, clinical trial data and other documentation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. About CNS Response CNS Response provides reference data and ...more »
Tony West, Assistant Attorney General; Francis W. Fraser, Senior Litigation Counsel; W. Daniel Shieh, Trial Attorney, Office of Immigration Litigation, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for Respondent. Present: BARRINGTON D. PARKER, ...more »
The laws will go before Idaho voters in November 2012. The measures approved by Idaho lawmakers limit collective bargaining to salaries and benefits, dump seniority as a factor in layoffs and require union negotiations to be held in public. ...more »
NEW DELHI: The Congress party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) are likely to soon announce a pre-poll alliance, an arrangement that could see RLD chief Ajit Singh getting the civil aviation portfolio, two Congress leaders told ET on the condition of ...more »
NEW YORK, Nov 14 (Reuters) - A lawsuit challenging the New York court system's practice of selling data on tenant-landlord disputes to third-party companies is "not grounded in common sense," according to a response filed in court Monday from the ...more »
Below are a couple of tips on bankruptcy by Michael Primus: One issue that most people are concerned with is if they can file for bankruptcy even if they have already filed in the past. "Generally, the law allows people to file bankruptcy even if they ...more »
Any failure by industry super funds to out-perform retail superannuation funds over the long haul may act as a catalyst for future litigation. Mike Taylor reports. When the Australian Securities and Investments ...more »
The bar's position in Hunter's case conflicts with the general movement in legal advertising that encourages the use of social media without placing undue burdens on lawyers, said Brad Shear, a Bethesda attorney who specializes in social media law. ...more »
... on the special committee exchanged and found agreement on — the sale of federal assets, restructuring of federal employee benefits and the elimination of a tax break for corporate jet owners — to see if they can be traded for the military cuts. ...more »
The treaty, which was opened for signatures in November 2001, sets guidelines for laws and procedures for dealing with Internet crime. The treaty has formed a foundation for global law enforcement of cyberspace, requiring countries who abide by it to ...more »
A Carmarthenshire businessman has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), after an employee suffered serious personal injury in a fall from height accident. Twenty four year old Daniel Elliot, from Nottingham, was working for Towy ...more »
"So Wong, in the middle of the night, has to decide, 'Is this a clear violation of Turkish law?' on which case it comes down, [or] is it an edge case and should be protected as free speech? In the end, she decided to block access to certain videos ...more »
Every lender, creditor, partner, limited partner, insurer, or anyone else who is interested and makes a payment on behalf of a client can now waive all of the protections under Georgia law and bring a professional malpractice claim. ...more »
First, it can help stakeholders comply with federal and state laws that protect the confidentiality of consumers' health information. Some of these laws provide special protection for sensitive health information, which can include genetic, ...more »
NewswireToday - /newswire/ - Houston, TX, United States, 11/07/2011 - Alejandro L. Padua, Esq., of Padua Law Firm in Houston, with his excellent drafting of real estate related contracts and related lawyering solved complex Fernandez family commercial...more »
The Act prevents a federal court with diversity jurisdiction from making any order affecting rates charged by a state rate-making body. Bennett likewise ruled that the Act doesn't apply in a bankruptcy context. Bennett gave the contending parties an ...more »
Neither administrator notified law enforcement or child protection officers as required by law. Paterno, 84, also can't escape the fact that 20 of the charges against Sandusky date to the period from 1995 to 1998, when Sandusky was Paterno's defensive ...more »
As detectives continue to investigate the Black Friday pepper spray attack at a Porter Ranch Wal-Mart, one legal expert said it could be a challenge to bring criminal charges against the woman who allegedly used the spray. Defense attorney Dmirty Gorin ...more »
“We have practical seminars,” said Sa, like what sort of taxes to expect, what it means to be audited by the IRS, and even how to attract customers. “The IES is an event where we call out to people, to help them to be self-sufficient. ...more »
CHINA'S civil service is not offering equal opportunities in recruitment, according to a law school study. Many public office employers discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, education and health, researchers at the Constitutionalism Research ...more »
... ineffective regulation and relatively little law enforcement action by the federal government in the wake of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown resulted in widespread speculation that special interests had taken priority over the rule of law. ...more »
When I asked Martin Wolf, The Financial Times columnist whose crisis coverage has been indispensible, why the ECB was reluctant to act, he theorized that it 'accepts the German view that monetizing government debt is inherently immoral. ...more »
Janet Boyanton, an attorney for elder law and the author of Alone and Alive and Dealing with the Death of Your Husband will be dealing with issues on probate, wills, estate planning, Medicaid and other topics. Sheila Venters will demonstrate how to ...more »
"The landlord was telling them that they had to pay out the remainder of the lease in exact opposition to the service member relief act." The mess was cleared up with the help of Cooley Law School's Service to Soldiers: Legal Assistance Referral ...more »
File Photo Nicor Gas has agreed to pay a $125000 workers' compensation settlement to Bruce Brummel, a former employee who claims he was sickened by contaminated water at the company's Aurora facility. For nearly a decade, Brummel, 49, has argued that ...more »
