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November 09, 2009 |

Failing the smell test

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is right to crack down on products that make false claims or cause harm, but it shouldn't have forced Zicam — a proven, effective cold remedy with no demonstrated links to harm — off the market.
5 minute read
December 07, 2006 |

Federal Judge Won't Recognize Employers' 'Self-Critical Analysis Privilege'

Employers cannot invoke the so-called "self-critical analysis privilege" in refusing to turn over internal documents in an employment discrimination case, a federal judge has ruled. Eastern District of Pennsylvania Judge Paul S. Diamond found that the majority of federal circuits "have refused to recognize or apply the self-critical analysis privilege," and that while the 3rd Circuit has not yet done so, it has hinted that it would do the same. The ruling vacates an order Diamond handed down in May 2005.
5 minute read
October 02, 2003 |

Federal Court Headed for Paperless Filing System

Signing court documents in ink and delivering hard copies to a clerk may soon go the way of the quill pen. Judges in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania are pushing the Electronic Case Filing system into further acceptance, with paperless procedures due in January. Under the amended rules, attorneys will have to submit filings on disk and complete a form authorizing an electronic signature code. Thirty-two district courts around the country participate in the ECF system.
5 minute read
July 07, 2010 |

French court hands Noriega 7-year prison term

A Paris court on Wednesday convicted former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega of laundering drug money in France in the 1980s and ordered him to spend seven years behind bars - a sentence that comes on top of his two decades already spent in a U.S. prison.
3 minute read
June 21, 2011 |

Time for Post-Koken Rules?

In Pennsylvania, the adjudication of uninsured and underinsured motorist claims has undergone a substantial change.
7 minute read
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July 06, 2011 |

Court: No liability for motel owner

The Supreme Court of Georgia on Tuesday ruled 4�????3 that a motel doesn't have a legal duty to check on a guest's welfare at his worried wife's request.The decision likely means the end to the wrongful death action brought by the wife of Sidney Rasnick, a 77-year-old Texas man who on March 13, 2006, was found in distress on the floor of his motel room in Jesup, about 65 miles southwest of Savannah.
7 minute read
July 03, 2007 |

Settlement Voided Where Lawyer Mum About Pending Appeal on Same Issue

A lawyer's failure to tell a court and his adversary that he is counsel of record in an appeal involving the same legal issue is cause for throwing out a settlement based in part on the murky state of the law
5 minute read
October 09, 2008 |

Matter of Sedore, petitioner-respondent v. Epstein, respondent

Free With Registration: District Attorneys Cannot Delegate Prosecution Of Noncriminal Breaches to Complainants' Lawyers
15 minute read
January 14, 2009 |

Double Victory for Criminal Defendants at the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court issued two opinions Tuesday morning, both of them striking down lower court opinions that had favored prosecutors. In one, the justices agreed that a conviction on the charge of "failure to report" to prison isn't the kind of prior "violent felony" conviction that triggers a 15-year mandatory prison sentence for someone found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm. The second involved the deadline for filing a federal habeas appeal under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act.
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