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13 Jun, 2007 11:00 am
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has appointed Jeff Van Horn the new State Prosecuting Attorney,
who files all Petitions for Discretionary Review with the CCA and writes appellate briefs on behalf of prosecutors. Van Horn has worked in the three-attorney agency since 1991, and has been the #2 man since 1996. I guess nobody saw any need for new blood. Via TDCAA.
6 May 10:55 am
VOTING WITH THEIR TRAILERS: Comparing Texas with Californa U-Haul fees. (Via Gus Van Horn).
18 Dec, 2008 11:11 pm
See someone stuck in a car crash and worried that the car might catch fire or explode? Don't pull 'em out. Or at least don't pull 'em out if you don't want to potentially get sued.
'Cause you can be. I'm not saying that the 4-3 decision here is right or wrong. It's a statutory interpretation matter, and there are reasonable arguments on both sides. I'm just
telling you what the law is. There's no immunity, at least in California, for pulling someone out of a burning car. Giving 'em CPR? Yep. ...
17 Jun, 2007 5:35 am
Mr Cillian Donnelly on EU Reporter:"[...] 'Patents are granted too easily', suggested Wim Van der Eijk, Principal Director of the International
Legal Affairs and Patent Law Department at the European patent Office (EPO). 'We need to have a more critical look, and steer policy in the direction of less, but stronger patents'.
[...]"Did Mr Van der Eijk speak on behalf of the EPO or did he merely
9 May, 2007 3:40 am
From the website of the EPO:"EPO Chief Economist Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie has joined forces with his predecessor Dominique
Guellec (now at the OECD) to analyse the economics behind the European patent system. The result of their work was published recently by the Oxford University Press. [...]"Read more...
Has anyone read that book? Is it worth buying? Technorati Tags: Patents
26 Mar, 2007 10:09 pm
Alexandra Van Horn was a passenger in a car that ran into a light pole at 45 mph. Lisa Torti, a
passenger in a car following behind, stopped at the crash scene and tried to render assistance by lifting Van Horn out of the car. Van Horn emerged from the accident a paraplegic,
although court testimony differed on whether ... state's Good Samaritan liability shield does not protect Ms. Torti from Ms. Van
Horn's negligence suit because it "only protects people from liability if they are ...
2 Jul, 2008 11:39 pm
... agents parked in their familiar green and white 4 wheel drive trucks Van Horn, a town of about
2,500 people, is headquarters for border enforcement for over a thousand ... . However, I spotted over a dozen troopers working the interstate between Pecos and Van Horn, a distance of about 85 miles. Some cars were cruising at below speed ... stretch of IH 10 through the
mountain passes. On one of my trips through Van Horn, I happened to be present during a DPS shift
change. I watched as troopers emerged ...
2 Jul, 2008 11:39 pm
... agents parked in their familiar green and white 4 wheel drive trucks Van Horn, a town of about
2,500 people, is headquarters for border enforcement for over a thousand ... . However, I spotted over a dozen troopers working the interstate between Pecos and Van Horn, a distance of about 85 miles. Some cars were cruising at below speed ... stretch of IH 10 through the
mountain passes. On one of my trips through Van Horn, I happened to be present during a DPS shift
change. I watched as troopers emerged ...
25 Dec, 2008 8:44 am
... . Torti, who said she thought the wrecked car was about to catch fire, grabbed Alexandra Van Horn
and pulled her out. Pulling her out "like a rag doll" ... Horn's spinal injuries worse. The court's ruling allows Van Horn, now a paraplegic, to sue Torti. It also indicates that the provision that shields good Samaritans from
liability, ... -- barely. In a 4 to 3 split decision, the Supreme Court paved the way for Alexandra van Horn, the injured accident victim, to sue her rescuer, Lisa Torti. An important ...
14 Jan 6:03 pm
... California Supreme Court decision. Legislators have introduced three bills to address Van Horn v.
Watson, 08 C.D.O.S. 15199, which ... victims while removing them from a burning building or other potentially dangerous scenarios. The Van
Horn case stems from a 2003 car accident in the Los Angeles area. The passenger ... , out of what she thought was a smoldering car at risk of
exploding. Van Horn was left a paraplegic and sued the rescuer as well as the car's driver for
negligence. The rescuer sought ...
23 Jan, 2008 7:42 pm
... this to go forward. I'm not putting my stamp of approval on it yet," Judge Carol Van Horn said of
the plea agreement. The judge expressed concerns about the proposed sentence of 11 1/2 to ... at the couple's South Mountain Road home where the man forced his wife into a
van, made her perform a sexual act and threatened to choke her to death, according to court records. The case was brought before
Van Horn as a no-contest plea, in part because of the man's hearing impairment, which defense
attorney ...
27 Jun, 2007 9:54 am
Alexandra Van Horn was travelling in a car as a passenger that hit a light post. In the car
travelling behind, upon seeing the accident and Ms. Van Horn trapped in a burning car about to
explode, Lisa Torti jumped into action to pry her loose. Ms. Van Horn's life was saved, but she was
rendered a paraplegic in the accident.
23 Dec, 2008 7:00 am
... considering this is the question that got this case on the docket. California resident, Lisa Torti, pulled her friend, Alexandra Van
Horn, out of a car she believed was going to explode following an accident. Van Horn was left paralyzed and ... not need the assistance provided and would not be in the condition she is today if it was not for Torti. The court agreed with
Van Horn and decided that in addition to the fact that it was not an emergency, Torti did not use
reasonable care when removing her ...
29 Jul, 2008 6:42 pm
The husband was awarded all of the marital assets. But the New Jersey divorce judged denied him alimony, and denied both parties counsel fees. These rulings are affirmed because the
wife's inheritance was substantial, the parties' living circumstances were extremely modest during the marriage, and the husband can earn enough to meet his needs in a style
characteristic of the marital standard of living. Van Horn v. Van Horn, New Jersey App. Div., July 23, 2008
19 Dec, 2008 10:59 am
... because the care she rendered wasn't medical. Torti, according to the L.A. Times, allegedly worsened the injuries suffered by Alexandra Van
Horn by yanking her "like a rag doll" from the wrecked car on Topanga Canyon Boulevard. Van
Horn was rendered a paraplegic in the accident. In 1980, the California legislature enacted the Health and Safety Code, which provides that "no
person who in good faith, and not for compensation, renders emergency care at ...
15 Jan 8:17 am
On December 19th, we wrote an article about a poorly decided California Supreme Court decision, Van Horn v. Watson, S152360, which held that California's Good Samaritan statute, Health & Safety Code ... there rendering help," said state Sen. John Benoit,
R-Palm Desert, who has authored a bill challenging the Van Horn ruling. "We wouldn't want that type
of thing to stop." Sen. Benoit is seeking to combine his proposed bill with one proposed by Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, the chairman ...
26 Jun 1:38 pm
... the finals: 1. Devon Quasha and Jeffrey Thorn 2. Saralisa Brau and William Van Horne 3. Linda Cho and James Brennan More about these
impressive legal-eagle newlyweds, after ... just have a pathetic need to be the most-credentialed person in the room? 2. Saralisa Brau and William Van Horne (Buy them a sugar bowl.) The Case: - This bride, a graduate of Duke and UVA Law, is a deputy assistant director at the FTC, where she works
in the division charged with investigating and litigating antitrust cases ...
17 Sep 1:33 am
Yesterday, the BankruptcyBill.us website reprinted an interesting article from the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal entitled "Restructuring the Misperception of Lawyers: Another
Task for Bankruptcy Professionals." The article, authored by Dallas bankruptcy attorney Eric Van Horn
and Professor Nancy Rapoport of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, investigates public ...
2 Oct 9:42 pm
... an automobile involved in an accident) if the conduct was not related to rendering emergency medical care? In the case of Van
Horn v. Watson, the Supreme Court confirmed the earlier law and allowed an injured drunk driver to ... vehicle was going to catch fire and burn
the driver. In Dec. 2008, the California Supreme Court articulated a narrow construction of Health & Safety Code Section 1799.102 in Van
Horn v. Watson. The Supreme Court held the Good Samaritan law applied only to the rendering ...
20 Oct, 2008 8:40 pm
... change the Good Samaritan law regarding the expectation of "medical care" to the accident victim. The case involved a woman, Alexandra Van
Horn, who was a passenger in a car who ran into a light pole at 45 mph. A passenger in the car following her ... at the accident scene to
render assistance. She lifted her out of the wrecked automobile and as a result, Ms. Horn became a paraplegic. Even though court testimony was
debated as to whether the accident or the lifting could have caused the paraplegia, ...
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