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Judge’s Angry Rant Results in 4 Year Suspension
April 14, 2013
An admittedly intemperate family court judge has been suspended without pay for the remaining years of his term by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. In one angry rant from the bench that has been viewed on YouTube more than 200,000 times, Putnam County Circuit Court Family Law Judge William M. Watkins III repeatedly told a pastor appearing before him to "shut up." And this was far from the only time he spoke to parties using inappropriate language, according to the opinion (PDF)...
April 14, 2013
An admittedly intemperate family court judge has been suspended without pay for the remaining years of his term by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. In one angry rant from the bench that has been viewed on YouTube more than 200,000 times, Putnam County Circuit Court Family Law Judge William M. Watkins III repeatedly told a pastor appearing before him to "shut up." And this was far from the only time he spoke to parties using inappropriate language, according to the opinion (PDF)...
Securities Class Action Settlement Amounts Increase from 2011
April 14, 2013
The 53 court-approved securities class action settlements reported in 2012 represent a 14-year low, according to Securities...
April 14, 2013
The 53 court-approved securities class action settlements reported in 2012 represent a 14-year low, according to Securities...
Accounting Fraud Cases Plummeted During 2012
April 14, 2013
Class actions asserting accounting irregularities fell sharply last year following a one-time increase in 2011 attributed to a surge of Chinese reverse mergers, according to a Cornerstone Research report. Even so, accounting fraud cases brought larger settlements than most shareholder litigation.
April 14, 2013
Class actions asserting accounting irregularities fell sharply last year following a one-time increase in 2011 attributed to a surge of Chinese reverse mergers, according to a Cornerstone Research report. Even so, accounting fraud cases brought larger settlements than most shareholder litigation.
Some Blue Sky Thinking on Managing Family Conflict
April 14, 2013
Armed with coloured paper, crayons and scissors, myself and nine other mediators spent a good portion of last Friday designing our “ideal” family conflict resolution service. While the background to this was, in part, recent and pending legislative change in the UK, some of which looks likely to impact negatively on families in conflict, these particular family mediators are not easily deterred, and our creativity was in full flow. For my part, I thought about the families I work with – all going...
April 14, 2013
Armed with coloured paper, crayons and scissors, myself and nine other mediators spent a good portion of last Friday designing our “ideal” family conflict resolution service. While the background to this was, in part, recent and pending legislative change in the UK, some of which looks likely to impact negatively on families in conflict, these particular family mediators are not easily deterred, and our creativity was in full flow. For my part, I thought about the families I work with – all going...
Rethinking Law as Process: Creativity, Novelty, Change
April 13, 2013
Dr. James Maclean of the University of Southampton Law Schoolhas published a new book entitled Rethinking Law as Process: Creativity, Novelty, Change, (Routledge, 2013). Here is the abstract: Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from ‘process philosophy’ in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian metaphysics...
April 13, 2013
Dr. James Maclean of the University of Southampton Law Schoolhas published a new book entitled Rethinking Law as Process: Creativity, Novelty, Change, (Routledge, 2013). Here is the abstract: Rethinking Law as Process draws on insights from ‘process philosophy’ in order to rethink the nature of legal decision-making. While there have been significant developments in the application of ‘process’ thought across a number of disciplines, little notice has been taken of Whiteheadian metaphysics...
Hearing Held to Determine Whether NFL Concussion Litigation Should be Arbitrated
April 13, 2013
Yesterday, a hearing was reportedly held in a Philadelphia federal court to determine whether a lawsuit filed by approximately...
April 13, 2013
Yesterday, a hearing was reportedly held in a Philadelphia federal court to determine whether a lawsuit filed by approximately...
A Mention of a Google Alerts Alternative
April 13, 2013
Another Google product which may soon disappear is Google Alerts. Alerts are absolutely essential to keep track of a brand...
April 13, 2013
Another Google product which may soon disappear is Google Alerts. Alerts are absolutely essential to keep track of a brand...
Building a Better Tech School
April 13, 2013
IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University. In truth, it doesn’t look like much — just cubicles and meeting rooms in space donated by Google. But looks deceive; here, with little fanfare, Cornell’s new graduate school of applied sciences is being rolled out. The sparkling, sprawling new campus on Roosevelt Island filled with gee-whiz technology...
April 13, 2013
IF all the hopes and hype are warranted, a nondescript third-floor loft in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan offers a glimpse of the future, for New York City and for Cornell University. In truth, it doesn’t look like much — just cubicles and meeting rooms in space donated by Google. But looks deceive; here, with little fanfare, Cornell’s new graduate school of applied sciences is being rolled out. The sparkling, sprawling new campus on Roosevelt Island filled with gee-whiz technology...
Faltering Courts, Mired in Delays
April 13, 2013
The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial. At a time of slashed judicial budgets across the country, the Bronx offers a stark picture of what happens when an overwhelmed justice system can no longer keep pace: Old cases pile up, prosecutions fail at alarming rates, lives stall while waiting for court hearings and trust in the system...
April 13, 2013
The Bronx courts are failing. With criminal cases languishing for years, a plague of delays in the Bronx criminal courts is undermining one of the central ideals of the justice system, the promise of a speedy trial. At a time of slashed judicial budgets across the country, the Bronx offers a stark picture of what happens when an overwhelmed justice system can no longer keep pace: Old cases pile up, prosecutions fail at alarming rates, lives stall while waiting for court hearings and trust in the system...
Patent Grant Estimate for 2013: 267k Utility Patents
April 13, 2013
The chart below shows the number of utility patents issued each calendar year with an estimate for 2013 based upon the first...
April 13, 2013
The chart below shows the number of utility patents issued each calendar year with an estimate for 2013 based upon the first...
