Opponents of the plaintiffs' bar stepped up their rhetoric today with the release of a report trying to detail the lawyers' influence in Washington. The report is part of a series called Trial Lawyers Inc., produced by the New York-based...

The Ninth Circuit has a little ruling today that rejects a Second Amendment challenge to the federal felon-in-possession prohibition in light of Heller. The ruling in , No. 09-10072 (9th Cir. Feb. 9, 2010) ( ), gets started this way: And here is the heart of the panel's analysis of the Second ...

A recent post-Koken decision has been handed down in Philadelphia County in the case of Zerggan v. Rietman and Nationwide Insurance, No. 0906 o1752 June Term 2009 (Phila. Co. Jan. 20, 2010 McInerney, J.). Judge Patricia McInerney sustained the preliminary objections filed by the tortfeasor and trans ...

Microsoft Outlook has worked well for me on somecomputers, but has always been troublesome on one of them. I tried upgrading to the Outlook 2010 beta, and that’s been a horror story. Accordingly, I humbly solict recommendations about an e-mail software program for accessing several POP accounts. Tha ...

Supreme Court Justice David Souter will speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement ceremony. Souter is scheduled to speak on May 27 2010 (the school’s 359th commencement) in the Tercentenary Theatre of Harvard Yard. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his law degree from Harvard Law in 1966. S ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

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 ...

Alternative Fees cannot simply be a different route to the same end.  If AFAs merely become a surrogate for what would have been charged under the hourly model, nothing has changed and we have learned nothing.  The wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.  In the absence of hard befo ...

Alternative Fees cannot simply be a different route to the same end.  If AFAs merely become a surrogate for what would have been charged under the hourly model, nothing has changed and we have learned nothing.  The wolf in sheep's clothing is still a wolf.  In the absence of hard bef ...

In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Tuesday, February 09, 2010  #2     1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Umar Delgado, Defendant-Ap ...