The nursing home roommate from hell. A former San Diego nursing home resident was sentenced to 19 years in jail yesterday for setting a series of fires at two local nursing homes while she was a resident. According to an investigation, Mary Wilson tried to kill her nursing home roommate by setting ...

A few weeks ago, a client who will be opening a factory in China within a couple of months told me how much he has been learning about China by following people on Twitter and following their news links. He then asked me who if I had a list of "China people" he should be following. I said abou ...

Dan Immergluck (Georgia State--School of City and Regional Planning) has posted From Global Buck to Local Muck: Capital Markets, Public Policy and Neighborhood Wreckage in the U.S. The abstract: The U.S. subprime crisis was the result of a continual movement...

David Payne Law is being recognized in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Top Verdicts 2009 with the $2 Million settlement of a complex premises liability case involving traumatic head injuries. David Payne Law & Strong-Garner-Bauer represented the Plaintiff. This case settled for policy limits within 5 ...

You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together.Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order.In Drew v ...

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The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Birmingham City Council v Qasim et al (our notes on the Court of Appeal and county court decisions are here and here, respectively). As our friends at the UKSC blog previously noted, it would be helpful if the Supreme Court would publish such inf ...

Past practice and the reversion defenseLocal 891, International Union Of Operating Engineers, AFL-CIO and Board Of Education of The City School District of The City Of New York, PERB U-27711, ALJ CacavasThe term “reversion defense” is used to describe the argument that once the parties reach an agre ...

Announced closings as of 6:00 a.m: Anne Arundel County Circuit Court closed Anne Arundel County District Court closed Baltimore City Circuit Court closed Baltimore City District Court closed Baltimore County District Court closed Calvert County Circuit Court closed Calvert County District Court clo ...

Source: LexisNexis, February 9, 2010. Lexis ID and Password Required for Online Access:   1. The Journal News (Westchester County, New York), February 9, 2010 Tuesday, NEWS; Pg. 5a wp, 282 words, Yonkers police captain injured in fight at bar, By, Will DavidCR ...