The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old Arizona girl when they strip searched her based on a classmate's uncorroborated accusation that she previously possessed ibuprofen. The American Civil Liberties Union represents April Redding, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, whose daughter, Savana Redding, was strip searched by Safford Middle School officials six years ago.
"We are pleased that the Supreme Court recognized that school officials had no reason to strip search Savana Redding and that the decision to do so was unconstitutional," said Adam Wolf, an attorney with the ACLU who argued the case before the Court. "Today's ruling affirms that schools are not constitutional dead zones. While we are disappointed with the Court's conclusion that the law was not clear before today and therefore school officials were not found liable, at least other students will not have to go through what Savana experienced."
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for "Slate" writes:
If the Republican attack on Sotomayor is really going to consist of scattershot claims that she is too female and ethnic to be truly fair or impartial, it will be a losing demographic battle. Recall that 67 percent of Hispanics and 58 percent of women voted for Obama in 2008, along with 96 percent of blacks. Folks across the political spectrum may wish that Obama hadn't opened the door to discussions of the complicated connection between experience and judicial "empathy." But now that we are there, it simply has to be a mistake for her opponents to attack Sotomayor as someone who is just too darn human to sit on a court.
Hardly a month after a trademark lawsuit filed in the appeals court against Google's keyword sales, another suit has surfaced in Texas. Search engine titan Google is slammed with a new lawsuit for allowing companies to use competitor's trademarks to trigger their pay-per-click ads. Firepond, a software company in Texas, on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in the eastern district of Texas, against Google alleging its AdWords service profits by selling keywords bearing a company's trademark to its competitors.
Firepond, a small software selling company, based in Marshall, Texas, has sued Google, alleging that its AdWords system infringes its trade marks. The plaintiff claims that consumers are “duped into clicking through to a competitor's sponsored link” when they search for Firepond and are served ads for another company.
A corresponding lawsuit involving PC support company Rescuecom was brought back to the forefront in April by an appeals court after initially being dismissed in 2006. If the case gathers enough participants, the suit could cost the search giant dearly.
Scott talks with Eric Goldman. he's an associate professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute.
Scott Drake and Jordan Kimmel discjuss what it will take to get investors back in the stock market. Consumer and investor confidence are all thats left to jumpstart the economy. They also discuss PBS Frontline's "Meltdown". It chronicles the beginning of the economic collapse and how unsure economic leaders were about not only what to do but what was coming. They also touch on the often misunderstood and shadowy world of credit default swaps.
Could it be? Has the era of greed that began with the election of Ronald Reagan come to an abrupt end? Peter Cohan says, “It appears the seething emotions of greed and envy that come along with bonus time at investment banks will now have fewer dollars attached to them.Talent will now flow to government and academia rather than Wall Street. This could be good for the U.S.!”Cohan says some of the ‘masters of the universe’ in the investment banking industry have seen the value of their stock tumble and many of them are going withoutbonuses this year. For a great discussion on who’s suffering now and what’s coming next to Wall Street Cohan owns a management consulting and venture capital firm and teaches strategy at Babson College. He is a frequent commentator on developments in economics, technology,and finance and has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, PBS’s Wall \$treet Week, and New England Cable News (NECN)
Continuing turmoil in the financial sector, US stock market and life insurance companies is causing unprecedented fear among lawyers, policy holders and clients. Mark Wahlstrom and Jan Schlichtmann discuss how this historic week wrapped up and whether or not lawyers, claimants and policyholders need to fear financial collapse or failure to pay on their AIG insurance contracts. Fear right now is over stated, the bailout is in place, so listen to this report by one of the nations top experts.
Speaking of Settlements is the weekly broadcast of The Settlement Channel. It features Summit broker Mark Wahlstrom and host Scott Drake of the Legal Broadcast Network. Each week they review the issues of importance to settlement professionals, trial lawyers and others. This weeks edition is about the Vioxx settlement, the letters and checks that are going out to clients and what settlement professionals should be doing to let people know they are available to assist them in placement of these funds.
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Joe Tombs, one of the nations leading experts and speakers on the issue of dissipation risk and protecting recoveries was featured at the 2008 Summit Settlements annual meeting. This one hour CE is on the topic of how to understand and plan for the risk that your client, through no fault of their own, might have their settlement proceeds devastated by the combined forces of taxes, liens and other parasites. This is a valuable CE that every trial lawyer and settlement professional needs to view. So often people think just getting the recovery is the end of the job, when it actually is just the first part of the battle to protect these very vulnerable people and help them maximize their award.In this presentation, Joe Tombs outlines the risk, and how to minimize their impact. This is part 4 of a 4 part video set.
Joe Tombs, one of the nations leading experts and speakers on the issue of dissipation risk and protecting recoveries was featured at the 2008 Summit Settlements annual meeting. This one hour CE is on the topic of how to understand and plan for the risk that your client, through no fault of their own, might have their settlement proceeds devastated by the combined forces of taxes, liens and other parasites. This is a valuable CE that every trial lawyer and settlement professional needs to view. So often people think just getting the recovery is the end of the job, when it actually is just the first part of the battle to protect these very vulnerable people and help them maximize their award.In this presentation, Joe Tombs outlines the risk, and how to minimize their impact. This is part 2 of a 4 part video set.
In this video, which is part three of a four part series, Joe Tombs is seen giving his CE on the issue of protecting recoveries from financial and governmental predators. This is the video CE that talks about the death by a thousand cuts that occur when a trial lawyer or settlement planner doesn't strategically plan to protect proceeds from liens, claims and other parasites.
Joe Tombs, one of the nations leading experts and speakers on the issue of dissipation risk and protecting recoveries was featured at the 2008 Summit Settlements annual meeting. This one hour CE is on the topic of how to understand and plan for the risk that your client, through no fault of their own, might have their settlement proceeds devastated by the combined forces of taxes, liens and other parasites. This is a valuable CE that every trial lawyer and settlement professional needs to view. So often people think just getting the recovery is the end of the job, when it actually is just the first part of the battle to protect these very vulnerable people and help them maximize their award.In this presentation, Joe Tombs outlines the risk, and how to minimize their impact. This is part 4 of a 4 part video set.
In this video famed trial lawyer Joe Jamail talks to trial lawyers about structured settlements. Joining Attorney Jamail is another nationally renown trial lawyer, Rick Kuykendall, and in their discussion they cover the concerns trial lawyers have over the decision of whether or not to have their client utilize a structured settlement. If you are a trial lawyer, or are working with one who is on the fence, you have to view this video and get the perspective of this legend of the law. They talk about dissipation risk, fraudulent advisors, protecting the client from predatory family members and most importantly the lawyers obligation to protect his client! This video was produced jointly by NSSTA and The Legal Broadcast Network and was made possible by the efforts of Summit Settlements broker Robin Young of Houston, TX through her long standing friendship and professional relationship with this legendary trial lawyer.
Joe Jamail is featured here in the second of his two videos that were taped in partnership with NSSTA and The Legal Broadcast Network. This video is a short discussion and highlight of his thoughts on why personal injury victims must consider the use of a structured settlement in order to protect themselves from financial disaster. This is an excellent endorsement from one of the nations leading trial lawyers of the use of structured settlements in planning the needs of injury victims and their families. These interviews were made possible by the efforts of one of Summits own brokers, Robin Young of the firm Robin Young and Company of Houston, TX who has a long standing association with Mr. Jamail.
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In this 4 part video podcast Mark Wahlstrom, the President of Wahlstrom and Associates discusses the recent innovations in mass torts and multi-claimant cases that are transforming the practice of law. Lawyers, judges and settlement professionals need to know how to utilize a 468b trust at the start of a case to protect clients, manage litigation, accelerate negotiations and protect proceeds. This is part 2 of the presentation and if you are looking to learn more about 468b trusts and their use in a wide range of cases, this is a video you want to be sure to view.
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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that school officials violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old Arizona girl when they strip searched her based on a classmate's uncorroborated accusation that she previously possessed ibuprofen. The American Civil Liberties Union represents April Redding, the plaintiff in the lawsuit, whose daughter, Savana Redding, was strip searched by Safford Middle School officials six years ago.
"We are pleased that the Supreme Court recognized that school officials had no reason to strip search Savana Redding and that the decision to do so was unconstitutional," said Adam Wolf, an attorney with the ACLU who argued the case before the Court. "Today's ruling affirms that schools are not constitutional dead zones. While we are disappointed with the Court's conclusion that the law was not clear before today and therefore school officials were not found liable, at least other students will not have to go through what Savana experienced."
Scott Drake interviews Adam Wolf
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Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor for "Slate" writes:
If the Republican attack on Sotomayor is really going to consist of scattershot claims that she is too female and ethnic to be truly fair or impartial, it will be a losing demographic battle. Recall that 67 percent of Hispanics and 58 percent of women voted for Obama in 2008, along with 96 percent of blacks. Folks across the political spectrum may wish that Obama hadn't opened the door to discussions of the complicated connection between experience and judicial "empathy." But now that we are there, it simply has to be a mistake for her opponents to attack Sotomayor as someone who is just too darn human to sit on a court.
Scott talks with Dahlia Lithwick
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Hardly a month after a trademark lawsuit filed in the appeals court against Google's keyword sales, another suit has surfaced in Texas. Search engine titan Google is slammed with a new lawsuit for allowing companies to use competitor's trademarks to trigger their pay-per-click ads. Firepond, a software company in Texas, on Monday filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court in the eastern district of Texas, against Google alleging its AdWords service profits by selling keywords bearing a company's trademark to its competitors.
Firepond, a small software selling company, based in Marshall, Texas, has sued Google, alleging that its AdWords system infringes its trade marks. The plaintiff claims that consumers are “duped into clicking through to a competitor's sponsored link” when they search for Firepond and are served ads for another company.
A corresponding lawsuit involving PC support company Rescuecom was brought back to the forefront in April by an appeals court after initially being dismissed in 2006. If the case gathers enough participants, the suit could cost the search giant dearly.
Scott talks with Eric Goldman. he's an associate professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law and Director of the High Tech Law Institute.
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Scott Drake and Jordan Kimmel discjuss what it will take to get investors back in the stock market. Consumer and investor confidence are all thats left to jumpstart the economy. They also discuss PBS Frontline's "Meltdown". It chronicles the beginning of the economic collapse and how unsure economic leaders were about not only what to do but what was coming. They also touch on the often misunderstood and shadowy world of credit default swaps.
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Could it be? Has the era of greed that began with the election of Ronald Reagan come to an abrupt end? Peter Cohan says, “It appears the seething emotions of greed and envy that come along with bonus time at investment banks will now have fewer dollars attached to them.Talent will now flow to government and academia rather than Wall Street. This could be good for the U.S.!”Cohan says some of the ‘masters of the universe’ in the investment banking industry have seen the value of their stock tumble and many of them are going withoutbonuses this year. For a great discussion on who’s suffering now and what’s coming next to Wall Street Cohan owns a management consulting and venture capital firm and teaches strategy at Babson College. He is a frequent commentator on developments in economics, technology,and finance and has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, CNBC, PBS’s Wall \$treet Week, and New England Cable News (NECN)
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