In a complaint filed in United States District Court, (Central District (Los Angeles)), Plaintiff Dr. John Wagner, Professor of Pediatrics, Director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Director of the Center of Molecular and Cellular Therapeutics, and Medical Director of the Stem Cell Institute at the University of Minnesota, among other […]
Blogging on Administrative Law and the Public Sector, E.L. Lipman on his blog Within The Scope, sums it up well.
The press release is here. The FBA specialty items are here.
Minnesota Public Radio reporter Sasha Aslanian broke a story about alleged free and public access to confidential and personal data of Minnesota state employees through a Houston, Texas-based company, Lookout Services. As a consequence, there appears to be a threat of Computer Fraud and Abuse Act complaint against her (Minnpost Piece, here). Talk about a […]
Recently, as reported on this blog, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit emphasized that a party waives its right to arbitration by litigation. And, again, today, the Eighth Circuit has reiterated this straight-forward rule, holding that a defendant’s motion to dismiss a putative class action (without invoking the arbitration clause) resulted in […]
A while back, this blog reported on a Minnesota case (C.H. Robinson v. FLS Transportation) involving a Canadian firm bound by a forum selection clause in a contract to which it was not a party. Today, U.S. District Court Judge John Tunheim ruled against British Confectionary, a British company with a plant in Labrador Newfoundland, […]
Minneapolis criminal defense counsel, Rachael Goldberger’s website promotes her services with the tagline, “Because feeling guilty is punishment enough.” It is very early in what appears to be a criminal prosecution of her client, Minneapolis attorney Aaron Biber, but the allegations are serious. If proven, it would seem that feeling guilty is not enough under […]
Jennifer Eisenbarth, of Shakopee, Minnesota lost a whole lot of weight, was a participant in the hit show, The Biggest Loser, and now sues certain weight-loss firms that, she alleges through her lawyers at M&G, “are wrongfully capitalizing on Plaintiff’s reputation and intellectual property rights to lure consumers into ordering their Infringing Products on the false premise […]
In Minnesota, as in many states nationwide, the priority of loans secured by mortgages on real property is normally determined by the order in which the mortgages are recorded. But what if the first-in-time mortgage is recorded second through some foul-up or delay for which the first-in-time mortgage is perhaps not completely blameworthy (or worse, […]
Well over 90% of cases settle, many on the courthouse steps, some while the jury deliberates, and others, post-verdict while the case is on appeal. Too bad the court system does not permit a “dual track” scenario where the parties settle the case, but also, just out of curiosity, the court decides a pending motion, […]