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 ...

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 ...

Why Does my Insurance Company Want an "Independent Medical Exam?"Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Joe Crumley

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 ...

Why Does my Insurance Company Want an "Independent Medical Exam?"Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Joe Crumley

That line appears at 1:58 in this clip from the great Marx Brothers movie "Duck Soup": It's a funny scene with all sorts of things in it, such as Harpo surreptitiously cutting off the man's pocket and using it as a bag for his peanuts. (Yeah, count the phallic symbols.) But that line — " ...

Yes. I'm going to vote yes to re-legalize marijuana. I mean, c'mon, seriously. We've got a chance with this initiative to take a bite out of a propaganda and law-enforcement campaign that kills and otherwise wrecks the lives of millions, costs billions to pretend that "progress" is being made, corr ...

Mac Clayton offers this perspective on KQED radio: In 1951, before Brown v. Board of Education and before Martin Luther King gave voice to his dream, my grandfather, Philip Davidson, integrated the University of Louisville. As president, he merged a...