UW Law School students will help Dane County homeowners facing foreclosure take their cases through a mediation process with their lenders, reports UW-Madison News. Beginning in February, Dane County Circuit Court will require lenders to tell homeowners they have an option to mediate their foreclosu ...

Holocaust insurance claims. The plaintiffs, relatives of victims of the Holocaust, sought to recover insurance proceeds from policies purchased by the victims. The Second Circuit, agreeing with the District Court, held that the state law claims were preempted by the United States foreign policy, w ...

Paul Robinson of Rockland, Massachusetts was arrested last week after employees of a Dunkin' Donuts reported that he had exposed himself to them several times since last October. Apparently the manager of the store had reported the activity days before the arrest but no one was able to locate the su ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

By John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

After fifty 'leven recent examples of trials being upended by jurors improperly using their cell phones, computers, Twitter or other communications technologies during jury service, a committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States has had enough. The Blog of the Legal Times' Marcia Coyle ...

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...

Reasonable suspicion is not required to calling a license plate for an NCIC check. Suppression order reversed. State v. Herrera, 2010 NMCA 6, 2009 N.M. App. LEXIS 280 (October 30, 2009), Certiorari Denied, December 11, 2009: [*12] We agree with this reasoning of the Ninth and Tenth Circuits. B ...

Yesterday, the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion in U.S. v. Patterson. Even though the criminal defense attorney below failed to object to the Presentence Investigation Report (PSI) and Patterson lost his appeal on the plain error standard, this opinion provides a good review of the Eleventh Circu ...

Yesterday the FAA published it's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRM") titled New Pilot Certification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations which I discussed in my February 4, 2010 post. According to the ANPRM, "[t]he purpose of this notice is to gather information on whether current el ...