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Suit Challenging Constitutionality of Municipal Judge Appointments Is Axed
An Atlantic County judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit challenging the way municipal court judges are chosen, calling the case "a meritless indictment" of every municipal judge in New Jersey.Venture Provides Support for Rape Victims 'Left Behind' by Rwandan Genocide
Two women who have always known safety and material comfort - attorney Lauren J. Wachtler and filmmaker Francine A. LeFrak - are helping women halfway around the world forge new lives after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, during which they were raped and their husbands hacked to death by machete-wielding militiamen.
States Take Practical Steps to Respond to Data Breaches
What does a company do if it is faced with a possible or actual breach of customer, employee, or shareholder personal data? California enacted the first state data-breach notification law in 2003, obligating companies to notify individuals about data breaches. Since then, 45 more states have followed suit as calls for a federal data-breach law remain unanswered.
Adverse Direct Examination of Defendant Doctors
In their Trial Advocacy column, Ben Rubinowitz, a partner at Gair, Gair, Conason, Steigman & Mackauf, and Evan Torgan, a member of Torgan & Cooper, write: There is no better way to prove medical malpractice than through the mouths of the defendant physicians themselves. Although they may never specifically admit that they departed from accepted standards of medical practice, a skillfully pointed adverse direct examination can leave no doubt as to their culpability.Firm of ex-Obama aide settles NY corruption probe
NEW YORK AP - An investment firm founded by President Obama's former car czar Steven Rattner has agreed to pay $12 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to drum up business from New York's giant government pension fund.The Quadrangle Group said it would refund $7 million to the pension fund and pay another $5 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission as part of the deal, which was announced Thursday.Judge Faults Corroboration of Teen's Sex Abuse Claim
Brooklyn Family Court Judge Alan Beckoff has declined to make a finding that a teenager had been sexually abused in a case where the girl disappeared in the middle of proceedings and the judge said her incomplete testimony had been insufficiently corroborated.Trio of Pharma Cos. Settle DOJ Charges for $421 Mil.
The U.S. Department of Justice continued its health care fraud winning streak as it reached settlements totaling $421 million with a trio of pharmaceutical companies that reported falsely inflated drug prices used to set government health care reimbursement rates.
The 25 Greatest: Albert H. Kauffman
Hundreds of thousands of underprivileged children enrolled in Texas public schools are getting a better education today because of the work of Al Kauffman.Trending Stories
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