While some schools are extremely strict on their tardy policies, forcing students to get to class on time no matter what, that is probably not what caused a seventeen year-old boy from Shoreline, Washington to crash his parents’ car through the doors of his high school and drive it down the hall. Th ...

The Court of Appeals recently emphasized the due process required before incarcerating a person for contempt of a divorce decree. In Bauman v. Humphries, according to the parties’ divorce decree, the wife was required to enroll the minor children in private school and pay all associated expenses. B ...

Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference Sept. 9-12, 2010. The conference theme is Our Country, Our World in a “Post-Racial” Era. It will feature panels on the “war on terror,” urban revitalization, criminal law, health ca ...

HLP is pleased to welcome a new addition to our growing firm, attorney Kathryn Hickner-Cruz, formerly of Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, P.C. Kathryn specializes in health care corporate matters, including fraud and abuse, mergers and acquisitions, and private offerings, and has significant e ...

Margaret Gilhooley, Seton Hall University School of Law, has published "Drug Safety and Commercial Speech: Television Advertisements and Reprints on Off-Label Uses." Here is the abstract. This paper examines how the constitutional protections for commercial speech have limited the ability...

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 ...

I’m not sure whether it was the interception Peyton Manning threw last night, or my work earlier in the day trying to get my notebook to talk to my new router, but this week started looking like it was all about failed connections: Pharmacy Benefits Managers (PBMs), pharmaceutical companies an ...

By Chinta Puxley, THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG – There was no lasting help for a man who twice risked his life last year to save drowning people, his stepdaughter said after a vicious weekend attack left the “Homeless Hero” unrecognizable in hospital. Kristy Assin said Faron Ha ...

ResQNet sued Lansa in 2001 for infringing five patents related to terminal emulation. Lansa found art, two unpublished user manuals for a software product called Flashpoint, that it argued anticipated one of the asserted patents, 6,295,075. But the district court wouldn't admit the art as public ...

The Journal of Food Law & Policy just announced that it is seeking submissions for placement in the Spring 2010 issue, to be published in June 2010. This unanticipated need presents an opportunity for an author to place an article and see it in print in a very short period of time. Articles may be s ...