Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills Sunday that will require or encourage convicted drunk drivers to install ignition-interlock devices in their vehicles. The devices allow a car to be started only if the driver blows into the device and has an acceptably low blood alcohol content. “I took action and signed these bills because we must […]
I’ve written many times about the dangers of driving while texting or talking on a cell phone. There have, of course, been bans on these activities put in place in California and several other states, but for reasons unknown to me, the rest of the nation hasn’t taken legal action to stop this dangerous behavior. […]
You’ve probably heard by now that Supreme Court Justice Scalia thinks that some of our greatest minds are being wasted in the legal profession. I was planning on not covering that particular story, partly because it’s already been widely reported on, and partly because I have long been of the opinion that the minds that […]
I’ve been acutely aware of the pharmaceutical industry lately. I’ve been following the first of the test trials in the Foasamax cases, and the ensuing jury tension, and here at GJEL we’re investigating cases for women who have taken Yasmin or Yaz and suffered serious injury as a result. As you can imagine, I’ve been developing some opinions of […]
I don’t have an iPhone, but if I did, I’m not sure if I’d be too crazy about all the applications available for them (applications are “apps,” for short). I do have a Blackberry, but the only apps I use right now are the Google search app, the Slate.com app, and the Pandora radio app. […]
Being a Wisconsin native, I’ve been following the case surrounding State Supreme Court Justice Michale Gableman for the past several months. Of course, it wasn’t a case, exactly, when I started following it–it was just an advertisement on my television. But now the little television has turned into a national discussion surrounding the election of […]
In May of this year, the Supreme Court ruled that Iqbal, a Pakistani Muslim arrested after the September 11th attacks, could not sue former Attorney General John Ashcroft or current FBI director Robert S. Mueller III for “harsh conditions of confinement” that were based on “his race, religion, or national origin, in contra-vention of the First and […]
It’s no secret that the state’s budget is a mess. And though a deal was reached between the governor and the legislature to try and make the best of it, there are a lot of unhappy people as a result. Some of those unhappy people are judges and attorneys who work in courts throughout the […]
There’s been some uproar on the internet this weekend after the New York Times published an article about what legal professionals can and can’t say on the internet. The story begins with the cautionary tale of attorney Sean Conway, who blogged that a Florida judge was an “Evil, Unfair Witch.” Mr. Conway was brought before the […]
You might remember me writing about the case against Merck because of the horrendous side effects of their drug, Fosamax. If you’ll remember, the first “test” case to go to trial was in New York, and when I wrote my last post on the topic, the jury was just beginning deliberations. Plaintiffs’ attorneys were all […]
