Personal Injury Law

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.

Can States Have Their (Patent) Cake and Eat It, Too?
In Biomedical Patent Management v. State Of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that a state?s initial waiver of Eleventh Amendment sovereign immunity ? when it intervened in an earlier, related action that was dismissed for improper venue — doesn?t mean that it waived sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment [...

Sovereign Immunity for School Districts 403(b) Fiduciary Choices?
Sovereign Immunity for School Districts 403(b) Fiduciary Choices?   Written by: Bob Toth   Many professionals have been advising certain governmental employers for a while that just because ERISA doesn't apply to their 403(b) plans, state trust and fiduciary laws...

Another attention getter on the campus infringement front
Bill Patry draws our attention to a copyright case in the 9th Circuit's Southern District of California that addresses the liability of individuals in their individual capacity for infringement of copyright: The Patry Copyright Blog: State Sovereign Immunity and State Employees...

Work Visas
Types of work permits

Temporary Work Visas
Differences Between H-1B, J-1, E-1, E-2, L-1, and R-1 Work Visas

H-1B Work Visa
H-1B Visa Assistance

How do i go bout geting a free laywer to sue the durham police department for drug raids and nothing is found?they have been in my house 4 or 5 times seems like every 4 months or so and breaking down my door tearing up m
They need a warrant to get into your house...if they never showed you one...you ...

Is a child fathered out of wedlock by an American diplomat to a foreign women on foreign soil entitled to US Citizenship by jus sanguinis?
This is a very tough situation your friend is in. It is difficult to know the ex...

Can I sue my employer for creating a hostile work environment and lying about my work performance to get me to quit?
How does the owner of the business feel about all of this? I suggest that you tr...

How can i sue for a straw purchase?
Anyone can co-sign. A straw purchase would be if you has someone buy the car for...

Can the so-called proprety manager enter my duplex without permission?
The manager (sister of owner) has NO right to be in the apartment unless there w...

Railroad Workers
concerning the growing number of work-related injuries in the railroad industry.

Unsafe Work Site
Employee awarded $2.5 million personal injury settlement after suffering burns to his lower body.