Blog Justice: SSKRP’s Blog
Events in the law with emphasis on bioethics, insurance law and New Jersey business practices.
Author: Alan C. Milstein practices at Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky which has offices in Pennsauken, N.J. and Bala Cynwyd, Pa.
Blawg Related Categories: Insurance Law • Science & Technology Law • States • New Jersey • Solo / Small Firm
Recent Posts from Blog Justice: SSKRP’s Blog
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Sunset, Sunset
An Illinois appeals court has struck down a provision in a will declaring that any of the testator’s grandchildren who marry outside the Jewish faith be deemed deceased and , thus, not entitled to…
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No Fury Like a Client Scorned
Ernest Allan Cook and his wife, Kathleen, hired Oxford, Mississippi attorney Ronald Pierce to represent them and their son in a medical malpractice case in 1997. Not too long after, Pierce began an affair…
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The Andy Oliver Saga
The NCAA is at it again, committing what a parent to a 20 year old college athlete calls “Gestapo tactics” by interviewing his son without an attorney late into the night prior to his…
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Now if we Could Just Get Rid of That Pesky Patriot Act
In a closely followed court proceeding, a California court today decided that a reporter could not be compelled to disclose his source in an article about a Chinese espionage ring because the reporter’s…
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FCC Stripped Of Its CBS Fine
The Third Circuit has rightly thrown out the $550,000 fine against CBS for the Janet Jackson “costume malfunction” lasting 9/16th of a second during the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show. The Court concluded that…
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Finally, A Sensible Preemption Decision
In a startling reversal of his own ruling, Chief Judge David Hamilton of the Southern District of Indiana issued a 28 page Opinion reversing his preemption ruling in an SSRI suicide case. The Judge…
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Gambling Addiction Suit Faces Long Odds
Randolph Simens, 55, claims he took Pfizer’s drug Mirapex once he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and developed hand tremors. Simens says he was a recreational gambler before taking the drug but soon started…
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Redemptionist is Mine Sayeth the Department of Corrections
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed the conviction of an individual concluding and affirming the conclusion that documents the individual presented to the Internal Revenue Service were unlawful…
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CAS Panel Upholds Landis Disqualification
Here is the Opinion of the Court of Arbitration for Sport upholding the decision to disqualify Floyd Landis and strip him of his Tour de France Title. The panel concedes that the initial testing…
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Waxman Wants To Pre-Empt Riegel v Medtronic
Representative Henry Waxman has introduced a bill to essentially overrule the recent court rulings such as Riegel v Medtronic holding that civil claims against medical device manufacturers are pre-empted by FDA action. The Medical Device…