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Newly Added Criminal Cases Pose Intriguing Constitutional Questions
Can police frisk a missing person once he or she is found, even if they suspect no crime? If you drive drunk in a school zone once, can you be punished for doing it twice? And can a drunken-driving suspect, no matter how high the Breathalyzer reading, avoid prosecution if the police officer inadvertently fails to sign the summons? These are a few of the intriguing constitutional and procedural questions raised in 10 criminal cases the state Supreme Court put on its agenda Monday for the coming term.In the Dole Nicaraguan pesticide litigation, Gibson caught plaintiffs lawyers making claims for people who never even worked on banana plantations. Now, in Chevron's long-running Lago Agrio case, they've uncovered allegedly false expert witness report filings by the other side. And the whistleblower is the plaintiffs own expert.
Examining Fraudulent Conveyances and Successor Liability
In Lippe v. Bairnco Corp., the 2nd U.S. Court of Appeals entered a summary order regarding fraudulent conveyances and successor liability. The summary order will not be published in the Federal Reporter and, by its terms, may not be cited as precedential authority. However, the case presents an interesting discussion regarding the potential liabilities of corporations involved in corporate restructurings.Cost-splitting at issue in New York case
The issue of enforcing arbitration agreements has generated a fair amount of controversy.Legal Recruiting Firm Claims Misappropriation by Ex-Worker
Rights of Disability Insurance Claimants Boosted With Decision
Kevin Schlosser, a partner with Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, and Robert C. Angelillo, an associate with the firm, write that tere are significant differences in the rights afforded to an insured under a disability insurance policy depending upon whether the insurance is provided pursuant to an individual policy or under an employer-sponsored plan covered by ERISA.Genome Patents: Bad Rap Undeserved
Much has been written regarding President Bush`s plan for federal funding of stem cell research. See, for example, Evan P. Schultz`s article, Patent Laws and Health Care Collide, Texas Lawyer, Sept. 17, 2001, page 35, which addresses federal funding and patenting of stem cell research. I support the view that while some curbs on gene patents might be warranted, patenting genes is no more problematic than patenting other chemical compounds. Schultz states, Wisconsin can keep anyone, meaning any human embComplaint Lacks Details in Suit Against Drug Cos.
The Commonwealth Court yesterday dismissed the state's lawsuit accusing 13 pharmaceutical companies of a price-inflation scheme but gave the state attorney general leave to submit an amended complaint with more specific pleadings against all defendants but one.Life is good for clothing maker that wins copyright appeal
Clothing and accessories maker Life is good Inc. got a happy ending to 2012 following a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit ruling that a cartoon on its products doesn't infringe a poster maker's copyrights.Trending Stories
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