Today's Legal Headline News... Toyota Motors recalls 8 million Prius cars over sticky gas pedals, Poker lobbyist want to legalize gambling int he US this year, Alan Greenspan says unemployment rates will remain high, Robert Matthews of Faegre & Benson died in a plane crash, Michael Jackson's d ...

437,000 Prius vehicles recalled worldwide due to brake problems In a follow-up to a previous post, Toyota announced it is recalling 437,000 Prius hybrid vehicles due to brake problems. The braking problem occurs in colder weather and on bumpy roads. This recall is the latest hit to Toyota which i ...

Robert Barnes reported yesterday in the Washington Post on the competing claims for Second Amendment incorporation in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Second Amendment case now before the Court (and scheduled for argument on March 2). The article is...

* Representative John Murtha died just one week after having his gall bladder removed. Coincidence? I had to have my gall bladder removed three and a half years ago, I was terrified until they told me they were using "lasers" -- like in Star Trek ... cool. Sorry commenters, I remain as strong as an ...

Investigations into the cause of the Kleen Energy plant explosion in Middletown, Connecticut, and the level of worker safety at the plant are beginning, according to a report by the Hartford Courant. Officials currently believe a welder's torch in the vicinity of the natural gas being purged from th ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

Robert Matthews died Saturday after the plane he was piloting crashed into another plane midair over Colorado City. Matthews was a commercial litigation partner in Faegre & Benson’s Boulder office. He joined the firm in March 2002 when Faegre merged with Boulder’s Chrisman, Bynum & Johnson. ...

Remember Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon, No. A-2963-07 (per curiam), the decision from New Jersey's Appellate Division which held that the government can assert inverse condemnation in order to take property without compensation? As noted in this order dated November...

In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Tuesday, February 09, 2010  #2     1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Umar Delgado, Defendant-Ap ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Robert Khuzami, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) director of enforcement, has initiated a new whistle-blower program to attempt to catch fraudsters in the act. This program hopes to stop the fraudster before they have caused too much damage and to at ...