Today we bring you Part II of my conversation with Wayne Burton and Cyndy Nayer of the Center for Health Innovation, where we get into some specific examples of successful programs.  The Center represents over 40 million lives, and brings together employers and providers to focus on a limited number ...

"Senate finally approves judge": The Record of Bergen County, New Jersey has a news update that begins, "The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a Newark federal judge's promotion to the nation's second-highest court Tuesday, five months after the Judiciary Committee decided unanimously to support his ...

I didn't even realize this was a milestone that had not yet been reached, but apparently it is:Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is recommending to President Obama that he nominate for the first time ever an openly gay male to serve on the federal bench, according to the senator’s office. The senator has ...

The Visa Bulletin for March 2010 is now available. The Department of State (DOS) issues the Visa Bulletin, which summarizes the number of available immigrant visas (green cards) according to preference categories, each month.Family-Sponsored Green Card CategoriesThe Family-Based First Preference ...

Here's one more reason for law bloggers to keep the faith: If you can crank out great content for over half a decade and grow your readership to a massive number of subscribers, you might be acquired by a public company. And that is exactly what just happened to Michelle Leder and her consistently e ...

On January, 18, 2010, Governor Jon Corzine, on his last day in office, signed a measure, the “Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana” law, making New Jersey the 14th state to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. Based on an nj.com article, the marijuana bill (S119) is anticipated to take effect w ...

The Ninth Circuit has a little ruling today that rejects a Second Amendment challenge to the federal felon-in-possession prohibition in light of Heller. The ruling in , No. 09-10072 (9th Cir. Feb. 9, 2010) ( ), gets started this way: And here is the heart of the panel's analysis of the Second ...

Toyota is coming under fire because more and more agencies are coming out of the woodwork claiming that the car manufacturer knew about unintended acceleration problems in their vehicles years before the recent recalls. The Detroit News reports that State Farm Insurance told federal regulators that ...

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 ...

Below is a Reuter’s article about the first Bear Stearns High Grade Fund arbitration case won by an investor. John Rich and Ross Intelisano of Rich & Intelisano, LLP were lead trial counsel and Jake Zamansky and Ted Glenn of Zamansky & Associates were co-counsel. "Investor in Defunct Bear Fund Win ...