Two freedom of information decisions, one in the Federal Court, the other by the Queensland Information Commissioner went against Dr Mohamed Haneef recently, adding to the mixed FOI record of attempts to access documents concerning his detention and cancellation of visa in 2007. The fact that he has ...

At In These Times, Roger Bybee writes Labor Day 2010: Obama Returns to Milwaukee to Make Case to Working Families: When President Barack Obama, Labor Secretary Hilary Solis, and ... AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka come to Milwaukee, Wisc., on Monday to deliver Labor Day addresses, they will be gre ...

By Sherri Oslick -- About Court Report: Each week we will report briefly on recently filed biotech and pharma cases. Pfizer Inc., et al.v. Mylan Inc. et al. 1:10-cv-06463; filed August 20, 2010 in the Southern District of New York • Plaintiffs: Pfizer Inc.; Pfizer Products Inc.; C.P. Pharmaceuticals ...

The information leaked to EurActiv remains the main basis for the public discussion about the communication ‘revolution’ planned by commissioner Viviane Reding for the European Commission, but the information is far from complete. The College of commissioners has discussed Reding’s communication pr ...

56% of lawyers personally maintain a presence in an online community/social network such as Facebook, LinkedIn, LawLink, or Legal OnRamp. This compares with 43% in the 2009 and 15% in the 2008. Such are the findings of the American Bar Association's Legal Technology Resource Center Survey of ABA ...

The essence of traditional international trade theory is that poorer countries produce goods and services with resources that they have in abundance, mainly low skilled labor and sometimes natural resources. They export these goods, and import goods from the richer countries that require s ...

As reported previously on this blog, the requirements under the HIPAA/HITECH statutes and regulations for public disclosure of security breaches of Protected Health Information (“PHI”) have continuously been bringing to light new breaches of PHI involving highly respected and sophisticat ...

LG Electronics U.S.A., Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp., 2010 WL 3397358 (N.D. Ill.)Previous reporting in this case that is exploring the increasing role of materiality in false advertising cases. Whirlpool moved to exclude LG’s damages expert Mohan Rao and portions of the rebuttal expert report of LG’s ...

Wrapping paper: $5.00 Holiday lights: $25.00 Cookie ingredients: 15.00 Christmas morning with the family? Priceless Master Card is responsible for one of the best known advertising schemes of the past decade. With heartwarming precision, the company expresses the idea that the most valuable things ...

A negligence lawsuit brought by Patricia Miller, of Ferndale, Washington, against the Mt. Baker Ski Area has gone to jury. Miller suffered a spinal injury which left her a paraplegic in 2008 at White Salmon Lodge when accumulated snow and ice slid off the roof on top of her while she sat reading a ...