Litigation

SG recommends denial in sovereign immunity case
The federal government on Tuesday recommended the Court deny certiorari in Biomedical Patent Management Corp...

Why the Queen Can Enjoy Her New iPod
EFF’s Fred von Lohmann has a very nice analysis of the copyright law quagmire caused by President Obama’s gift of an iPod with 40 show tunes to the Queen of England...

More Sovereign Immunity Fun
Most readers of this blog are all-too-aware of the havoc that the Supreme Court's state sovereign immunity jurisprudence has wreaked upon labor and employment law...

Kotler on Sovereign Immunity & Preemption
Martin A. Kotler (Widener University - School of Law) has posted Shared Sovereign Immunity as an Alternative to Federal Preemption: An Essay on the Attribution of Responsibility for Harm to Others (Hofstra Law Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN...

Fourth District: Sovereign Immunity
Does the $100,000 sovereign immunity cap on claims against the state include attorney's fees? Yes, said the Fourth District in this decision.

Sovereign Immunity over French Buildings
On November 19, 2008, the French Supreme Court for private matters (Cour de cassation) delivered an interesting judgment on the scope of the sovereign immunity of foreign states in France...

How can I get my parents away from my bulling brother?
First of all, if you are paying your lawyer, you should not be on the back burne...

Workplace Law:Is there anything I can do about having my hours cut, being suspended, and losing my position ?
look up TANGIBLE ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTION.............under RETALIATION...........

I am a paralegal at the Colorado Dept. of Labor and Employment. In law, do we still refer to the master-servant relationship or is it being replaced by the employer-employee relationship.
The question is really one relating to respondeat superior or the liability of a...

Victim forced to pay criminal $5,000.00 Why will no Attorney challange AAA?
Money, Power And Greed over Truth and Justice...

In criminal testimonry, what is the difference between transactional immunity and use immunity?
"Use immunity" essentially prohibits the prosecution from using the witnesses te...

Disability Discrimination
WA Corrections Dept. agrees to pay $300,000 settlement in class action lawsuit.

WA Dept. of Social and Health Services
Class action settlement reached will give $45,000 each to thousands of minority day-care providers.