Dave Collins

September 09, 2013 | Daily Report Online

It's a divorce and child visitation case that already has produced nearly 600 motions and rulings and evidence of insider trading that brought down a multibillion-dollar hedge fund.

By Dave Collins

5 minute read

February 10, 2009 | National Law Journal

A Connecticut Superior Court judge charged with drunken driving and using racial slurs while arguing with police officers was suspended Monday for 240 days by a judicial review panel. Judge E. Curtissa Cofield, the state's first black female judge, had apologized to the panel, calling the night of her arrest "one of the worst experiences of my life." The panel determined Cofield's "disparaging and demeaning" comments failed to live up to the standards of integrity and impartiality expected of judges.

By Dave Collins

5 minute read

April 30, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - A former executive of Connecticut-based General Re Corp. was sentenced Thursday to a year and a day in prison for his role in an accounting scandal that authorities say cost shareholders of American International Group Inc. more than $500 million.Robert Graham, 61, of Westport, will also have to serve two years supervised release after the prison time and pay a $100,000 fine.

By DAVE COLLINS

4 minute read

July 18, 2011 | Daily Report Online

Annie Ling understood little of what was being said in a Georgia courtroom where she was put on trial, convicted by a jury and sentenced to 10 years in prison for abusing her two young children.The Malaysia native speaks Mandarin but little English, and there was no interpreter for her during the 2008 proceedings in Spalding County, an hour south of Atlanta.

By Dave Collins

7 minute read

June 30, 2009 | Daily Report Online

HARTFORD, Conn. AP - The Supreme Court ruling in favor of white New Haven firefighters who said they were victims of reverse discrimination will probably leave employers confused, civil rights advocates and labor attorneys say.The court ruled 5-4 Monday that the white firefighters were denied promotions unfairly because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as a federal appeals court judge.

By DAVE COLLINS

5 minute read

September 04, 2007 | Law.com

Attorney Jonathon Edington, who stabbed his neighbor Barry James to death because he thought James had molested his 2-year-old daughter, was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for first-degree manslaughter. Police had investigated the molestation allegation and said there was no evidence. Also Friday an attorney for the Jameses served Edington's wife with a wrongful death suit, accusing her of triggering the stabbing by making up the abuse claim. A similar lawsuit is pending against Edington.

By Dave Collins

2 minute read

January 29, 2007 | Law.com

A national organization of health care executives has agreed to disband amid an investigation by Connecticut authorities into whether it illegally gave preferential treatment to vendors who joined the group. Connecticut's attorney general announced an antitrust settlement Thursday with Healthcare Research and Development Institute, which is based in Florida. Under the deal reached with both the Connecticut and Florida attorney generals' offices, HRDI also agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000.

By Dave Collins

4 minute read

August 20, 2009 | Law.com

A Connecticut police department's surveillance video appears to contradict an officer's report of an incident that ends with police subduing a former state agency lawyer with stun guns. Officer Erik Hansen was fingerprinting former Connecticut Freedom of Information attorney Henry Pawlowski Jr. on Aug. 5 on allegations he assaulted another officer in June. The video shows Pawlowski raising his right arm when Hansen roughly drives him to the floor and two other officers shoot Pawlowski with stun guns.

By Dave Collins

3 minute read

January 29, 2007 | Corporate Counsel

A national organization of health care executives has agreed to disband amid an investigation by Connecticut authorities into whether it illegally gave preferential treatment to vendors who joined the group. Connecticut's attorney general announced an antitrust settlement Thursday with Healthcare Research and Development Institute, which is based in Florida. Under the deal reached with both the Connecticut and Florida attorney generals' offices, HRDI also agreed to pay Connecticut $150,000.

By Dave Collins

4 minute read