Feb 24 2009

Flushing Hospital Nurse Awarded $15 Million After Dr.’s Harassment

Today’s Gothamist features a story on the “relationship” between a doctor and a nurse at NYC’s Flushing Hospital.  Apparently, instead of ordering the nurse to “pass the scalpel,” Dr. Matthew Miller tended to order her to lift up her dress, but did so using body language, such as groping the nurse below the waist.  The [...]

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Feb 23 2009

UPDATE: Ginsburg Rejoined the Bench This Morning.

CNN.com reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg rejoined her colleagues on the Supreme Court Bench this morning, without fanfare.  This marks her return to work after undergoing surgery for cancer of the pancreas.

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Feb 23 2009

Republican Senator from Kentucky Predicts Justice Ginsburg’s Death

According to Debra Cassens Weiss in today’s ABAJournal.com, Senator Jim Bunning, R-Ky., made a speech Saturday in which he proclaimed that the Supreme Court was likely to have a vacancy within nine months, “because Ruth Bader Ginsburg…has cancer.”
On behalf of all of us lawyers, Jim, thank you for the classy send-off.  Perhaps you’ll find time [...]

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