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10 Nov 9:23 am
... the everyday challenges of common folk, but as Dennis Quaid, the late Ed McMahon, Dana Carvey, and others have shown, they can be victims of medical malpractice just like anyone
else. Now Academy Award-nominated actor, and Rhode Island native, James Woods is suing Kent Hospital in Rhode Island for the wrongful death of
his 49-year-old brother, Michael, who died in 2006 after going into cardiac arrest on a hospital gurney in the hospital's hallway. Woods, who is bringing suit on behalf of his ...
19 Mar, 2007 7:55 am
... of review for legal determinations of an Orphans' Court. In this matter, the Court of Appeals saw "no need to deviate from the standard of review that we have applied to
interpretations and conclusions of law by courts of general jurisdiction." Facts: James Russell Hoffman ("Decedent") died leaving a will instructing the P.R. to pay all estate taxes from the estate without apportionment. This is in contrast to Md. Code
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18 Mar, 2008 9:00 pm
... to be my only life's chance to meet the late blank">Abbie Hoffman, who spoke just two blocks away. America has been at all out bloody
war ... during the last five days, I have met Winter Soldiers, Amy Goodman, and James Yee. Here is a short rundown. With the Winter Soldiers, I
resume where I left off on March 4, when ... case, and he was honorably discharged after resigning his commission. Yesterday, I met James Yee
and Amy Goodman at the end of the ACLU awards gathering. For years I have felt that ...
10 Jan, 2008 11:10 am
Dan M. Kahan (Yale University - Law School), David A. Hoffman (Temple University - James E. Beasley
School of Law) & Donald Braman (George Washington University - Law School) have posted Whose Eyes are You Going to Believe? An Empirical (and Normative) Assessment of Scott v.
Harris on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This paper accepts the unusual invitation to see for yourself issued by the Supreme Court in Scott v. Harris, 127 S. Ct ...
31 Mar 9:08 am
/**/ David A. Hoffman & Salil Mehra (Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law) have
posted Wikitruth Through Wikiorder on SSRN. Here is the abstract: How can large-scale social production (LSSP) coordinate individual behavior to produce public goods online? Hardin
(1968) suggests that public goods creation in the absence of government or market-enabling institutions will not be possible. Benkler (2006), Shirky (2008), Zittrain (2008), and Lessig
(2008) argue ...
7 Oct 1:28 pm
/**/ Christina L. Boyd and David A. Hoffman (State University of New York - Department of Political Science and Temple University -
James E. Beasley School of Law) have posted Disputing Limited Liability (Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, Forthcoming) on SSRN.
Here is the abstract: This project presents six years of hand-collected federal district court data to analyze the first representative sample of veil piercing litigation. Our method
...
6 Aug, 2008 2:30 pm
Welcome back to the fourth day of the Fourth Annual Conglomerate Junior Scholars Workshop. Today's author is James Park, an assistant professor
at Brooklyn Law School, where he teaches securities regulation, corporations, corporate finance and civil procedure. ... star-studded lineup of commentators and past workshop
participants: Adam Pritchard, Larry Cunningham, Joan Heminway, Elizabeth Nowicki, Dave Hoffman and Michael Guttentag. Our own Fred Tung is also
waiting in the wings with some thoughts.
24 Sep, 2007 2:23 am
The National Law Journal, in Law Profs Debate Mandatory Attendance Policies, picks up on an issue that has resurfaced recently, as evidenced by the quantity and intensity of comments to
Dave Hoffman's Paternalism and Compulsory Attendance posting on Concurring Opinions. Dave takes the position that compulsory class attendance
cannot be justified sufficiently to warrant continuation of the ABA accreditation standard that requires law schools, in effect, to make attendance mandatory. It is ...
19 Sep, 2008 6:11 pm
Imagine for a moment you are James McMillan-a forty-four-year-old former Fulton Fish Market worker in New York City and victim of the 2003
Staten Island Ferry crash which killed 11 people and injured scores more. On that horrible day, while...
15 May 9:16 am
... on our recent story, "Just Say No to Medical Device Hooey." Like prior POL hat tips, this one didn't include much (any) analysis-but it did quote us-which let's face it, wasn't
quite as cool as being quoted in the sonorous voice of James Earl Jones or something, but it still left us with a warmish feeling. Most
importantly, though, in its own special way, it drew much needed attention to the dangers posed by the most dangerous medical devices, and the total lack of recourse that currently
exists ...
8 Jun 7:08 am
Last September, we told you about a former Fulton Fish Market worker named James McMillan who was left a quadriplegic as a result of the 2003
Staten Island Ferry crash. The gist of the story was related to McMillan's fee arrangement with his attorney, Evan Torgan. Torgan, who had fought and won at trial on McMillan's behalf,
inexplicably had his fee reduced by the judge from 33 percent down to 20 percent (shaving $2.5 million from what Torgan had coming to him). This left Torgan with roughly the ...
19 Aug 11:12 am
... papers in medical journals has become a fundamental marketing practice for most of the large pharmaceutical companies. "Just three days ago, I got a request to be the author of a
ghostwritten article about the effectiveness of a cholesterol-lowering drug," Dr. James H. Stein, professor of cardiology at the University of
Wisconsin School of Medicine, said this month. "This happens all the time." He declined to attach his name to the paper. Allegations of industry-sponsored ghostwriting date back ...
8 Oct 12:37 pm
... safe harbor provision of Section 121. The following case illustrates whether the safe harbor applies to a patent application that is a divisional in "substance" but "designated" a
continuation in the application's documentation. In Amgen Inc. v. F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd (Sept. 15, 2009), the Federal Circuit held that a
patent application "designated" as a continuation patent application (even if in "substance" it qualifies as a divisional patent application) does not fall within the safe harbor ...
13 Dec, 2006 7:17 pm
... R. Hansen, Eric Hansen, Merrill Hansen, Dave Harding, Celia Hardwick, Kevin Hardy, James T. Harkrider, Craig Harlow, Buzz Harris, Leslie
Harris, Matt Harris, Tommy Harris ... , Jason Hinkley, Wayne Hinson, Matt Hoban, Paula Maggiore Hoerner, Garey Hoffman, Ron Hoffman, Kevin Hofing, Tim Hogan, Chris Hogue, Janine Holmgren, Eric Hood, ... , Megumi Inaji, Ivan Irizarry, Malini Ivatury, Peter Ivie, Bob Izenberg, Peggy
James, Warren Jamieson, Cedric Jamison, Terry Jandernoa, Joey Janisheck, Ross W. Jardine, ...
1 Apr 6:35 pm
... . Republic Indem. Co. of Am., 341 Or. 642, 147 P.3d 329 (2006), which addressed anti-assignment clauses, and Hoffman Const. Co. of Alaska
v. Fred S. James & Co., 313 Or. 464, 836 P.2d 703 (1992), which ... cause of action that has accrued under the policy, such as breach of
contract. Groce, however, was decided before Hoffman provided the analytical framework for interpreting insurance policies. In Holloway, on the
other hand, the Oregon Supreme Court employed the analytical ...
5 Jun 3:25 pm
... to appeal denied, 93 N.Y.2d 833] City of Binghamton firefighter James L. Furch applied for General Municipal Law Section 207-a benefits,
claiming that ... 363 of the Retirement and Social Security Law [RSSL]. When the City refused to pay Hoffman wage supplement benefits pursuant
to Section 207-a(2) of the General Municipal Law, ... ), citing the Court of Appeals ruling in Cook v City of Utica; and b. Hoffman failed to
exhaust his administrative remedy, apparently alluding to the fact that Yonkers could ...
14 Oct, 2007 5:01 pm
... rounds up advice offered new UC-Irvine law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky at the TaxProf Blog. Speaking of professors, Professor James Maule
gives us Reason #2939 I Want to Teach Property Law: a recent legal dispute over a human leg ... has thoughtful advice on "how not to incorporate virtual documents" when it comes to
drafting agreements. While we're on the subject of contracts, Dave Hoffman (not to be confused with collaborative lawyer and mediator David
Hoffman) has suggestions on "Drafting a ...
28 Dec, 2008 9:01 pm
... , the year of the Civil Rights Act and one year after the assassination of President Kennedy. Father Flynn (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) is a
progressive Priest who takes a special interest in the Catholic school's first (and only) black student, eleven year old Donald Miller ... these are all signs of Flynn's decadence and
she can barely hide her disdain for them and him. Sister James (Amy Adams), a timid young teacher, sees Flynn put a boy's undershirt in his
locker and dutifully tells Sister Alyosius ...
6 Oct 8:24 am
... (Co-director, Location One), Barbara Simons (IBM Research [Retired] and former president ACM), and James Tyre (Co-founder, The Censorware
Project and EFF policy fellow). Pioneer Awards keynoter Reid Hoffman is Executive Chairman and a co-founder of ... Vice President of PayPal and
has also held management roles at Fujitsu Software Corporation and Apple. Hoffman serves on the Board of Directors for SixApart, Kiva.org, and
the Mozilla Corporation. Sponsors of the Pioneer Awards ...
15 May, 2008 7:47 am
At the Washington Post's On God blog, Claire Hoffman interviews Steve James, one of the filmmakers
behind the documentary, "The Struggles of a Minister of Death." I had breakfast a few weeks ago with acclaimed documentary filmmaker Steve James whose ... national premiere of a documentary, "At the Death House Door." The film, co-directed by Peter Gilbert and Steve James, is set in Texas and explores the effects of the death penalty on those closest to the process -- mainly the condemned inmates and a ...
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