I think you’ll get some valuable knowledge out of reading Medical Legal Art’s blog. Last month’s topic was “Soft Tissue Injuries.”
I think it is safe to say that most people involved in car accidents suffer from these injuries. Many times they go away in a matter of weeks or months. Other times it takes a [...]
Authors and publishers now have until September 4, 2009 to decide whether to stay in or opt out of the class action lawsuit settlement involving Google’s Book Search service. The previous deadline had been May 5.
CNET NEWS reports that Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued [...]
I’m following up on a post from my personal blog from last week. I wrote about the UW Law School’s publication entitled, Civil Justice in Wisconsin, a Fact Book. Other bloggers have also commented on the the Fact Book.
I wanted to direct everyone to a few interesting things in this Fact Book. Page 31 asks “Is [...]
Situation Management Systems, Inc. v. ASP Consulting LLC was decided by the First Circuit Court of Appeals on March 19, 2009. The decision has implications far beyond the dispute of the parties; it affects the copyright expectations of the more than $100 billion management training industry in the United States. Bottom line: this decision supports [...]
Most businesses are formed as corporations or LLCs. This is done to provide liability protection to the owner of the business from the risks, debts and obligations of the business. Absent special circumstances (for example, “piercing the corporate veil” or personal guaranties of debts) creditors cannot look past the corporate entity to recover unpaid obligations. [...]
If you counsel a book author, book publisher or any other person who owns a copyright in a “Book” or an “Insert,” a class action settlement regarding Google’s practice of scanning and displaying in-copyright works might affect your client’s rights.
If you haven’t heard about the Google Book Settlement, visit the settlement website and get up to speed. Do [...]
Senate bill 437 is a new piece of legislation being introduced by Senator Arlin Spector (R-Pa.) and back by numerous Republicans and Democrats alike. If passed, the Bill would dramatically effect how plaintiffs firm operate, namely how tax write-offs are handled within Firms that operate on contingent fee agreements (e.g. personal injury, employment, civil rights, [...]
In prior posts I have discussed situations in which the Wisconsin Department of Revenue asserts that an individual is personally liable for a business’ sales taxes. This post gives some generic examples as to how this can happen.
While the circumstances leading to the non-payment of sales taxes often come from entirely different directions, the consistent part among all of [...]
Yesterday, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that injured Wisconsin residents cannot sue the makers of defective medical devices that are previously approved by the Food and Drug Administration. (cite is 2009 WI 19) This decision, which follows U.S. Supreme Court precedent in Reigel v. Medtronic, Inc., 128 S. Ct. 999 (2008), holds that state law [...]
The State of Wisconsin is running a serious ad blitz on TV and radio. The ads talk about the number of deaths and serious injuries that occur daily because of car accidents. In short the ads talk about cell phones, drinking and not paying attention as bad driving habits that we all can work on. If we [...]
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