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In her former law practice, consultant Debra Bruce had a habit of waking up in the middle of the night with thoughts of work, which she didn't mind, unless she couldn't get back to sleep for hours. For others with the same habit, she has some tips to help them get back to sleep quickly.
Law school may cost a pretty penny, but anyone interested in the legal side of health care reform can get a deal from the University of Iowa College of Law. The school is offering its new course on health care reform law to the public for free via the university's Internet-based distance learning system. "I think we're the only ones doing this," said law professor Sheldon Kurtz, who conceived of the course with a colleague. "We believe we have an outreach mission that involves informing the public about policy issues."
Citing multiple trial errors, a New Jersey appeals court has reversed an $18.9 million verdict against an obstetrician whose delay in ordering a Caesarean delivery a jury found to have caused cerebral palsy in the child. The panel found that the trial judge failed to limit the testimony of a labor-and-delivery nurse, to issue the jury a contemporaneous limiting instruction on the nurse's testimony and to allow the defendant to admit into evidence a report that had exculpatory value for the obstetrician.
A California appeals court has sided with Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy in a dispute over a novel contingency fee deal that called for more legal fees than the amount of money the client recovered. Upholding an arbitration award for the firm of $7.5 million, the court rejected arguments that the award -- based on a contingency fee of 16 percent of the client's estimated damages -- was unconscionable. A lawyer for the Cotchett firm's former client said the case "cries out" for California Supreme Court review.
A teleconference company is off the hook, at least for now, from paying the legal fees of a former chief executive who was sent to prison for securities fraud. The 10th Circuit has ruled that a trial judge erred in granting a preliminary injunction in favor of ClearOne's former CEO who had an agreement with the company to pay her legal fees. The panel found that the agreement did not create an unconditional obligation to cover her fees and permitted the company to assert its own financial problems to avoid payment.
A Texas appeals court has sided with the state office of the attorney general, ruling that a same-sex couple cannot get divorced in Texas. The panel said the trial court erred in holding that Texas law violates the Equal Protection Clause, and found that state law "recognizes that only opposite-sex couples are naturally capable of producing children," and gives them the option of legal formalization "with the legitimate legislative goal of encouraging such formalization and thereby promoting the well being of children."
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled that an anti-competitive agreement between two companies to restrict the availability of one of their patents in favor of two others is not misuse of the favored patents. Applying the patent misuse doctrine narrowly, the court determined that the patents at issue are enforceable. The case involves the technology for recordable compact discs and rewritable compact discs.
A new legal effort to force California's governor and attorney general to defend Proposition 8 in court may have some political potency, but is unlikely to win in court, legal observers say. The Pacific Justice Institute, a conservative group that has filed a petition for a writ of mandamus with a state appeals court to force the governor and AG to defend the statute, is up against issues of executive branch discretion and separation of powers, said one law professor. He called the effort "a long shot."
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