“House Republicans are hoping the third time is a charm in their effort to sue President Barack Obama over his signature health care law. After two Washington law firms backed out of earlier commitments to represent House Republicans in their legal challenge, House Speaker John Boehner hired J[...]
Posts Tagged ‘lawyers’
November 18th, 2014 - 9:45 pm § in Politics
If lawyers refuse to represent you, maybe you don’t have a case
September 25th, 2014 - 12:46 pm § in Politics, The Ave Scene
RUMOR: Is Jenny Durkan Running For Attorney General
As Eric Holder steps down, Jenny Durkan’s recent resignation raises the possibility that she will be Obama’s nominee as Attorney General. She would, of course, be the first lesbian member of the Cabinet. Her role in reform of the Seattle Police would also be a major topic at Senate h[...]
September 17th, 2014 - 5:08 pm § in Misc.
It’s time to honor Steve Titus with a memorial statue
Today, the city of Lubbock, Texas, dedicated a 13-foot tall bronze statue of a man who died in prison rather than confess to a crime he didn’t commit as a reminder to the community that justice is fallible. Tim Cole, who went to prison for a 1985 rape and died in 1997 at age 39 from […[...]
August 11th, 2014 - 9:58 am § in Misc.
When Lawyers Sell Out Their Clients
A federal judge made headlines last week by rejecting a $324.5 million settlement negotiated by attorneys for tech giants Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe, and 64,000 present and former employees who claimed they were underpaid by the firms as a result of a labor-market-rigging conspiracy. Lucasfil[...]
April 24th, 2014 - 10:50 pm § in Misc.
The Value of a JD
Lawyer With Six Figures Of Debt Forced To Work As Professional Babysitter Meet a nanny with a law degree — and the debt to show for it. Read more »[...]
April 8th, 2014 - 8:20 am § in Science
$9,000,000,000 Finding Against Lilly and Takeda
Jury finds that diabetes drug, Actos, causes bladder cancer. Assuming that the data are correct, Actos increased the risk of bladder cancer by three fold. The other issue here, as in all such cases, is the question of why we use the vastly expensive and over burdened court system, with lawyers gone[...]
April 2nd, 2014 - 12:35 pm § in Misc.
Lawyer Abuse
Edwin H. Armstrong,Invented FM Radio and Was Diven To His Death BY Corporate Lobbyists. The Radio Corporation of America and AT&T lobbied hard to make Armstrong’s technology obsolete. The competitors couldn’t stop FM from becoming hugely popular, but the legal wrangling that ensued[...]
March 24th, 2014 - 12:48 pm § in Misc.
Shysters: The law is what you can get away with
A Couple of Years Ago, the AP Conducted a Poll About Lawyers And Healthcare 54% want it more difficult to sue hospitals and doctors over malpractice, 32% opposed. 58% of Independents and 61% of Republicans want lawsuit limits This public perception arises not so much because of frivolous lawsuits in[...]
March 20th, 2014 - 7:28 am § in Hypocrisy
Legal Thuggery” Threatograms
Legal Thuggery, or Law as Transaction Cost Posted on January 17th, 2011 by Derek Bambauer (Via JZ) BoingBoing has a neat, infuriating post about a ridiculous takedown threat they received over a post about autism. The threat-0-gram is from The Academic Advantage, by way of their personal injury lega[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 6:04 pm § in Misc.
The Doctor And The Lawyer
Spoiler alert: This hoary joke has circulated for many years, so you’ve probably heard it before, and some people think it’s not even funny but that’s their problem. Due to an airline reservation glitch, a doctor and a lawyer were seated together in first class. There was nothing t[...]