Legal News

Bucks Fizzle - IPO kill The original Bucks Fizz
Allan James, the principal hearing officer, at the IPO has made his mind up, and decided that Heidi Manton is the only person who owns a piece of the action with regards the rights to the name Bucks Fizz...

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz
These sausages are virtually guaranteed to cause severe intellectual indigestion. As if anyone needed further proof that mechanisms used to perpetuate upper-class privilege are even more dangerous in the hands of the nouveau bourgeosie, British libel law is being asserted against a rhetorical flight of fancy criticising extreme claims for chiropractic care - and it's harming science

" Litigating over the environment makes big bucks for trial lawyers"
MI's Jim Copland with a good op-ed in the Washington Examiner.

Bucks County Judge-to-be Sees Lag in Domestic Cases
By Amaris Elliott-Engel Of the Legal Staff As James M. McMaster of Bensalem winds down his practice in the next month before taking the oath of office to become a Bucks County Common Pleas judge sometime next month, he said...

PA: Judge halts topless dancing
Bucks County Courier Times: "Bucks County Judge Robert Mellon on Monday ordered bar owner Bruce Young to put a stop to all adult entertainment at his bar in Warwick. The judge decided that Young's hurried attempt to add topless dancers at Just Sports bar before Warwick officials could amend their zoning ordinance to prohibit the practice was not enough to establish a non-conforming use...

Pssst: it really isn't that hard of a job.
Okay, so I was a little off. Stunningly wrong, actually. This is why they don't pay me the big bucks. Then again, people pick the Cubs to win the World Series every year and still get paid the big bucks...

Virgin Atlantic Flight
Makes Emergency Landing

Ownership Transfer
Amsol to pay $5.625 million settlement in buyout lawsuit.

Baltimore Strip Search Class Action
Judge Gives Go-ahead

Canceled Insurance
Judge orders Health Net Inc. to pay $9 million settlement after terminating a policyholder's policy after being diagnosed with breast cancer.

Labor and Delivery
Judge awards mother $6 million medical malpractice settlement after baby was born with brain injuries.