Family Law

Malaysian Court Permits Christian Funeral For Decased Woman
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, a high court has permitted the husband of deceased Wong Sau Lan to have her body cremated in Christian funeral rites. Reuters today reports that the Buddhist husband's 18-day legal battle ensued after his ethnic Chinese wife, who was baptised as a Christian last November, died of kidney failure in a Kuala Lumpur hospital...

Civil-Religious Courts Clash Again In Indonesia
In Malaysia, the ongoing tension between jurisdiction of civil and religious courts has come to the fore in the case of an ethnic Indian, Elangeswaran Benedict, who committed suicide...

Routine UK legal queries to be answered by HSBC banks offshore center
Corp. Counsel, Vol. 15, April 2008 at 100, reports that a team of four lawyers of HSBC Holdings, the global banking giant, will respond to routine queries on UK law from its global service center in Malaysia?s capital, Kuala Lumpur...

Adultery, legal or illegal in Malaysia
  What is adultery? My friend said “adultery is having secret relationship with someone who has married.”   Based on L B Curzon, Dictionary of Law, 4th edition, (International Law Book Services: Kuala Lumpur), 1995, “adultery“ means an act of voluntary sexual intercourse (which need not be completed) between two persons not married to each other, but one or both of [...

Malaysia court accepts Catholic newspaper challenge to 'Allah' translation ban
[JURIST] The Malaysian High Court Monday accepted a challenge by Malay-Roman Catholic Herald [media website] newspaper to a government ban on using the word "Allah" as a synonym for "God," rejecting the government's argument that the lawsuit by the Kuala Lumpur-based weekly was without merit...

Protesters Force Closure of Malysian Lawyers' Conference
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia yesterday a lawyer's group, the Bar Council, had scheduled a conference on legal issues faced by families in which one of the spouses converts to Islam. Today's Straits Times reports that police forced lawyers to end the conference shortly after it started when 300 demonstrators gathered outside the conference carrying signs accusing the Bar Council of attempting to challenge Islam's position as Malaysia's official religion.

Florida Medicaid
Limiting Coverage of Drugs for Kids

US Army Corps of Engineers
Class action dismissed for allegedly failing to protect New Orleans from the levee breach.

Pottery Barn
Recalls Kids Metal Water Bottles

Class Action Settlement Monies to Feed Hungry Kids
Class Action Settlement Monies used to Feed Hungry Kids

Racist Voicemail
Stamford Board of Education pays student $37,500 settlement after failing to protect her from racial discrimination.

Cipro
The FDA is seeking to add black box warnings of the risk of tendon rupture associated with Cipro and Levaquin. The ruptures can involve Achilles tendon, shoulder, hand, bicep or thumb tendons, and is especially increased in patients older than 60, or people who have received kidney, heart or lung transplants, as well as people on steroid therapy...