Attorney Newsletter (10/30/2009)
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Attorney News
Attorney sues Columbia police official, city over open records request (Columbia Missourian)
COLUMBIA — A Columbia attorney’s quest to see surveillance video from the Columbia Police Department has become a lawsuit. Attorney Stephen Wyse sued the city of Columbia and the Columbia Police Department’s custodian of records on Wednesday about an open records request. Wyse said he filed a Sunshine Law request for surveillance footage from the Police Department lobby and holding area. He … (More)
One-time Alabama law school dean reaches plea deal in health care fraud case (Mobile Press-Register)
Prosecutors said 39-year-old Tari Devon Williams agreed to plead guilty to obstruction of justice and lying to law enforcement. The U.S. attorney’s office said Thursday Williams was an assistant dean at the University of Alabama law school at the time. (More)
Plaintiffs Attorney John M. O’Quinn Remembered as Being ‘Bigger Than Life’ (Law.com via Yahoo! Finance)
News spread fast through the legal community about the death of plaintiffs attorney John M. O’Quinn, named one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” by The National Law Journal in 1997. (More)
District attorney affirms earlier decision on open-meeting law (The Kansas City Star)
The Johnson County district attorney reaffirmed Thursday an earlier opinion that found no violation of the open meetings law during a closed meeting of the county’s community college board. The board’s executive session was held in February to evaluate the performance of college President Terry Calaway. At the end of the session, Calaway presented the board with a document outlining 64 potential … (More)
Ex-Ohio Justice Plans to Replace Stolen Gun After 2 Home Invasions in 1 Week
Former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Craig Wright got a rude awakening by intruders—twice, in the same week. In the first incident on Oct. 20, two men entered the home of the 80-year-old judge, awakened him in his bedroom, and demanded money, the Columbus Dispatch reports. Wright said the two men “took off like big rabbits” when he warned that his son-in-law was on the way over. In the second incident two days later, two intruders awakened Wright and asked him to make out a check for them, the story says. They also stole jewelry and other items. Wright walked out… (More)
Law Prof Argues Pay Czar Is Unconstitutional
Is the appointment of pay czar Kenneth Feinberg constitutional? Stanford law professor Michael McConnell, a former federal appeals judge, thinks not. In a Wall Street Journal (sub. req.) opinion column, McConnell argues that Feinberg’s appointment violates the appointments clause requiring Senate approval of all officers of the United States. Feinberg was appointed to the pay czar position by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner under the law establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program. The law authorized Geithner to require TARP recipients to meet “appropriate standards” for executive compensation. “Because he is not a properly appointed officer of the United States, Mr. Feinberg’s… (More)
US Recommends Asylum in ‘Iconic’ Domestic Violence Case
The United States has recommended asylum in the closely watched case of a Guatemalan woman fleeing domestic abuse. Rody Alvarado Peña will likely win asylum because of the U.S. stance, her lawyer, Karen Musalo, told the New York Times. This “has been the iconic case of domestic abuse as a basis for asylum,” said Musalo, director of the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California’s Hastings College of Law. Asylum lawyer Jayne Fleming of Reed Smith in San Francisco told the Times that the recommendation is “a giant step forward.” Alvarado, who is a housekeeper at… (More)
Attorney Articles
Legal Articles for Checking Criminal Records of Employees
The one biggest mistake if made by some business corporation would be that hiring an employee which has been already proved to be a criminal. You should never hire a person who was a criminal for your organization until he has not been reformed. (More)
How to Search State Court Records on the Internet
Until fairly recently, the general public was able to decide who they allowed to run credit and criminal record checks on themselves. Modern technology has, unfortunately, changed this. State court records are considered public records in many instances, and many states have now made it incredibly simple to find out the details of most court cases. (More)
How to Get Out of Speeding Tickets
In the U.S. over 100,000 people get a speeding ticket every single day. Most of the time these people will just give in and take the fine and the long term effects it has on their driving record and their insurance. This does not have to be the case. You can fight a speeding ticket and you should! (More)
Importance of Property Damage Liability Coverage
Most motorists tend to focus more on liability coverage that covers bodily injuries; they forget that they also have to worry about possible property damage as well. Sometimes, the amount of damage t… (More)
Insurance Claims Do’s and Don’ts
If you have been involved in any accident, whether it is a traffic accident, a slip and fall accident or a product defect accident, it is important that you do not do things that will hurt your insura… (More)
The Difference between Sexual Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
Sexual harassment and misconduct claims are legal actions against behaviors that are sexual in nature in the workplace. Although the two terms are normally used interchangeably, there is a difference… (More)
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Posted: October 30th, 2009 under Uncategorized.