This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

Source: NLJ.com, February 8, 2010. Subscription required for online access: http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/subscribe.jsp Snow Covers Washington Courts "Scenes from around Judiciary Square in downtown Washington today -- in case you are at home and wondering what it looks like." ...

Well the TV series American Chopper is suddenly coming to an end; the last show is this Thursday at 9:00pm EST on the Learning Channel. Many of you may have read the article I wrote about the Teutul family lawsuit here. I became aware of the fact that the show was ending when I saw a commercial on ...

As detailed in , today a "federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' lethal injection procedure ... [by affirming] the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three death-row inmates, including two who are scheduled to die over the next nine weeks."  The Eighth Circuit's panel ruling in , ...

King & Spalding is adding three partners to its litigation practice. Trial lawyers James J. Capra Jr. and James P. Cusick will join the firm’s New York office and Diana L. Weiss will be resident in the Washington D.C. office. All three are former partners at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcli ...

That question is now on trial in a small west Texas town, where a nurse stands accused of a felony for reporting a doctor whom she thought was guilty of malpractice on patients. Even if the nurse is acquitted, the case could have a chilling effect on nurses' willingness to act as whistle blowers wh ...

With his longtime friend Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. in the audience, Georgetown University Law Center professor Richard Lazarus was officially installed last week as the new William J. Brennan Jr. professor of law at the school. Lazarus, a member...

Three litigation partners have signed on to join King & Spalding's Washington and New York offices. The team, which is joining the firm from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, includes Diana Weiss, James Capra Jr., and James Cusick. Weiss will be...

…so people will understand that I’m about as interested as David Freddoso in being overly nice in pointing out his past bloviating. My back isn’t actually killing me, right now, but that’s only because I was being very, very careful about removing all that anemic winter from ...