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Mass. high court allows employer to modify employee's job to avoid disability payments
Employees in Massachusetts who injure themselves at work may not be entitled to disability retirement benefits if their employer accommodates them with a lighter job. A recent Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling held that employers can change an injured worker's duties to keep him on the job and prevent him from going into retirement and collecting disability.Plaintiffs Bar Ready for New Fight Over Malpractice Caps
Earlier this year, the Consumer Attorneys of California said its top priority with the Legislature was revamping the state's cap on medical malpractice damages. Now the session is well under way and bills have come and gone -- along with legislative deadlines -- but no one has introduced a measure to overturn the 1975 Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act, or MICRA -- at least not yet. Reworking MICRA remains a gleam in the eye of Consumer Attorneys President Bruce Brusavich.Suppressing Dangerous Clients Before They Strike
When he lost a custody fight for his three children, accountant Nicholas A. Lucarella hired two hit men to get revenge — against his own lawyer, Peter Paras of Red Bank, N.J. Shortly after meeting with Paras about a phony custody case, the men ran him down with a Jeep in his office parking lot.Donvito v. Northern Valley Regional High School Board of Education et al
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Federal Reserve Ordered to Turn Over Data on Bailout Loans
The Federal Reserve has been ordered by a federal judge to release records about emergency loans made to investment banks and other financial institutions during the height of the economic meltdown. Rejecting a Federal Reserve claim that the material was exempt from disclosure, Southern District of New York Judge Loretta Preska granted a Freedom of Information Act request from the Bloomberg organization. Her decision contrasted with one made by fellow Southern District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in July.Oral Argument Still Mystifies U.S. High Court Advocates
Tony [email protected] long ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg described the first oral argument she made to the Supreme Court, when she worked as an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in the early 1970s. She recounted the anxiety, the butterflies and then the "feeling of extraordinary power" as she addressed her captive audience of the "nine top judges in the land.Sotomayor won't sell NY apartment in this economy
Justice Sonia Sotomayor plans to keep her apartment in New York for the time being, even as she gets a place in Washington. "Right now I - like many other Americans, it would not be wise for me to sell my home in New York because the market is so low," Sotomayor said.Trending Stories
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