Litigation

Attorney General's Opinion on Effect of Expiration of Judicial Selection Commission
The Judicial Selection Commission and the Judicial Evaluation Commission are in a wind-up period after the General Assembly let them die last year.  (I serve on the later commission as an appointed of former Lt...

Columns Urge Retention of Tennessee Plan
Tennessee should keep its current system of appointing appellate judges, a Nashville Tennessean editorial has declared, saying that ”when it comes to naming state appellate court judges, including those on the state Supreme Court, Tennessee has a better way...

Full EHR by 2014
Obama Wants Full EHR by 2014 | EMR and HIPAA. Full EHR by 2014 is certainly an ambitious goal but if we do not put a stake in the ground it will be 2050 and there will be little or...

Upcoming Elections: Appellate Court Retention
Along with everything else, Hoosiers get to decide whether the appellate court judges should be kept or sent back to civilian life. Three Supreme Court Justices, one Court of Appeals judge, and the Tax Court judge are up for retention...

Alabama Rejects Bills for Nonpartisan Elections
The Alabama Legislature has voted down two bills that would remove politics from judicial elections, according to a report by the Associate Press. The bills would have created nonpartisan elections and limited campaign contributions for appellate judge candidates...

SLA Through 2015
Just in case you plan ahead like me . . .SLA has announced the dates/locations of our annual conferences through 2015. Annual conferences: 2009: June 14-17 in Washington, DC, USA...

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.