Megan Spicer

June 16, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

David Crespo's victims will receive full restitution after being tricked into spending thousands of dollars on fake pieces of art, most of which were purported to be works by Pablo Picasso or Marc Chagall.

By MEGAN SPICER

8 minute read

June 13, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A children's museum is not a place one would expect to find a hostile work environment. But one former manager is claiming she was subject to verbal abuse at the Stepping Stones Museum for Children in Norwalk and was eventually fired for no reason, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Connecticut.

By MEGAN SPICER

3 minute read

June 10, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Gov. Dannel Malloy's Second Chance Society legislation has recently faced pushback from lawmakers who recently declined to reform the state's bail system or raise the maximum age for juvenile court jurisdiction from 17 to 20. But state officials are not alone in their efforts to keep individuals out of prison. The Connecticut federal courts have established one successful program and are about to launch a second.

By MEGAN SPICER

11 minute read

June 09, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawyers for Jack Montague, who was expelled in February, say Yale was bent on making an example of him and deprived him of due process.

By MEGAN SPICER

7 minute read

June 08, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Betty Advertising argues that the commercial concept it developed and the reality that played out on TV were virtually the same: the artist walked through rooms, singing and dancing in the styles of different decades.

By MEGAN SPICER

7 minute read

June 03, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The legal community will likely feel a significant impact from hundreds of layoffs already announced by the Judicial Branch and the offices that oversee the state's prosecutors and public defenders.

By MEGAN SPICER

5 minute read

June 03, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

On the night of Sept. 2, 2013, Susan Tyrol-Bagcal got a call from the Oak Hill School, a group home in Bristol, where she was a nurse. One of the residents had spilled hot coffee, causing burns on her chest and stomach.

By MEGAN SPICER

6 minute read

June 02, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In January 2007, Samuel Kearse says the heat was not working in his New Haven apartment. His solution was to turn on the gas stove. In the process, his clothes caught fire and he was left with second- and third-degree burns all over his body, according to court records.

By MEGAN SPICER

9 minute read

June 01, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State and federal officials have reached a $1.5 million settlement with a former Connecticut group home operator that was alleged to have submitted improper Medicaid claims for interest expenses

By MEGAN SPICER

7 minute read

May 31, 2016 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Some officials refer to it as the school-to-prison pipeline. And they want to slow the flow of juveniles who pass through it

By MEGAN SPICER

11 minute read