On February 9, 2010, the medical malpractice lawsuit of Marshall v. Moniz, No. CL08-2018 in Circuit Court for the County of York and the Town of Poquoson, Virginia, was heard on the Defendants’ three dilatory pleadings. Plaintiff alleges that various surgery-related acts and/or omissions caused him ...

There has been a lot of discussion of the massive data set that Pete Warden has been collecting from Facebook and the initial visualization of American groupings of people, based on their friends and other profile information. He's going to be releasing this data for researchers tomorrow - all gear ...

On February 4, 2010, Defendant Sentara Hospitals filed Emergency Petition for Immediate Relief in the medical malpractice case of Mahone v. Sentara, No. CL09-560 in Circuit Court for the City of Suffolk, Virginia. Sentara was represented by its attorney of record, Ted G. Yoakam, Esq., and its Risk ...

To avoid adverse ruling at hearing on February 2, 2010, Sentara Obici Hospitals capitulated after oral argument and produced the incident report to Plaintiff that it claimed was privileged in a medical malpractice action. The case is Mahone v. Sentara Hospitals, No. CL09-560 in Suffolk Circuit Cour ...

In Arnaiz v. Warden, No. 07-12649 (Jan. 26, 2010), the Court held that the writ of habeas corpus under 28 U.S.C. § 2241 does not encompass claims that challenge the restitution portion of a judgment of conviction. The Court reasoned that habeas is about release from custody. A challenge to restituti ...

Includes both useful resources and a request for information from the courts. Nora Sydow reports that the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) has recently developed a Social Media and the Courts web module. Included in this module is a state links page that links to courts that are using Twit ...

On Jan. 15, we wrote about the Superseding Indictment returned against David Headley, formerly known as Daood Gilani, and Tahawwur Rana regarding the Mumbai attacks and alleged planned attack in Denmark. Also indicted were Retired Pakistani military officer Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed (Pasha)and allege ...

A 27-year-old parking warden was attacked by a driver who was angry about a parking ticket the warden’s colleague had previously issued. The warden confirms that they had saw the man at around 3:30 in the afternoon on the 20 November and had issued the ticket to his vehicle which was illegally parke ...

Last February, the trial of Kaing Guek Eav (alias “Duch”) started at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Duch faces charges for his involvement as warden of the S-21 prison, where an estimated 15,000 prisoners faced torture before being executed in Cambodia’s “killing fie ...

Officials from the prison firm Wackenhut Corrections Corp. and Willacy County, Texas jail warden David Forrest reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with the family of a man who was beaten to death in 2001 while in a Texas prison. The lawsuit claims that Gregorio de la Rosa Jr. was beaten t ...