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 [...]
Second Dept. Subverts Meaning of “Constructive Notice”
In a case decided on January 27, 2009, Maldonado v. Novartis Pharmaceutical Corp., Novartis seems to have come out on top, to the disappointment of plaintiff, Frank Maldonado, thanks to an unusually harsh application of the concept of constructive notice.
Maldonado endured serious injuries after slipping and falling on snow and ice on a metal grate [...]
NEWS TO END THE WEEK
In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees (although his state’s current fee allows up to 50%).
Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according to Bloomberg News.
And the nation’s preeminent medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, has announced a change in its policy regarding disclosure of its [...]