Here are selected January 2010 rulings of the Supreme Court of the Philippines on civil law and related laws: Civil Code Agency; principle of undisclosed principal. It is a general rule in the law of agency that, in order to bind the principal by a mortgage on real property executed by an agent, it ...

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 ...

Cover of Mr & Mrs Smith [Blu-ray]The U.K.'s best-selling newspaper, the Sunday tabloid NewsoftheWorld, is bracing for a libel war with Hollywood glamour couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.While Pitt, 46, and Jolie, 34, watched the Super Bowl Sunday from a private box in Miami's Sun Life stadium (to ...

David Payne Law is being recognized in the Missouri Lawyers Weekly Top Verdicts 2009 with the $2 Million settlement of a complex premises liability case involving traumatic head injuries. David Payne Law & Strong-Garner-Bauer represented the Plaintiff. This case settled for policy limits within 5 ...

Segal v. St. John's University, (N.Y.A.D. 2 Dept.) A swim team member could not prevail on negligent hiring and supervision claims regarding her coach's training methods. Allegedly negligent actions of a university swim team coach were within the scope of his employment, thus defeating negligen ...

Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), if an employer violates the overtime provisions, employees may either bring their own lawsuit or file a complaint with the Department of Labor. In either case, the potential penalties against the employer are substantial and rectifying the original ...

From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Notes other famous people wrote on their hands: Lincoln: 4score + 7 yrs ago = Baby USA Civil War still goin' on, but... Perish? Us? Balderdash! FDR: No fear 'cept spiders fear itself Belief pretty firm on that Bush II: Words are on teleprompter Read right ...

* "Justice Hillary Clinton?" Next up in this traffic-whoring Daily Beast series: "Supreme Court Justice Palin?" [Daily Beast] * Faegre & Benson partner Robert Matthews and his brother died in a small plane crash over the weekend. Matthews had a mid-air collision while piloting a Cirrus SR20 plane, ...

But in a move that had long been rumored, discussed and debated; debated, discussed and rumored, the Los Angeles district attorney finally took action against Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray.

At a recent continuing legal education program in Wisconsin members of the plaintiff and defense civil trial bar raised their concerns over the Rules governing CMS set-aside arrangements. While both sides recognized the need to reimburse Medicare, the methods being utilized by CMS to obtain reimburs ...