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Breaking Legal News Picks Roth Law Group

Chicago law firm, The Roth Law Group announces its selection as a Featured corporate law firm by the recognized leader in legal news reporting, Breaking Legal News.
As a business law firm, we pride ourselves on our skill and success in the practice areas of business litigation and contract negotiations.
A Roth Law Group corporate attorney (corporate [...]

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Los Angeles Metrolink Train Wreck Lawyer Jerome Ringler

Attorney Jerome Ringler, who represents Jennifer Kilpatrick, the injured woman, said the intersection was clearly marked to warn motorists of oncoming Metrolink trains.
Ringler accused the 63-year-old delivery truck driver, who died at the scene, of trying to beat the train running along San Fernando Road where it crosses Buena Vista Street.
“There were lights. There were [...]

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Metrolink Train Crash Lawyer Jerome Ringler

…Macek, a 53-year-old mother of three, was on her way to work as chief financial officer for Arrow Industries the morning of April 23, 2002, when a mile-long Burlington Northern p;owed head-on into the Metrolink train she was riding.
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So Cal Train Wreck

Metrolink worker sued Burlington Northern Santa Fe, saying his alcoholism returned after the fatal 2002 Placentia collision.
A metrolink conductor who said his drinking problems resumed after the Placentia train crash in 2002 will receive $8.5 million to settle his lawsuit against one of the nations largest railroads.
Patrick Phillips of Riverside agreed [...]

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Court Reverses $78.9M Verdict Against DirecTV

  The Federal Circuit overturned a $78.9 million verdict against DirecTV in a patent dispute with California-based Finisar Corp. over broadcasting technology.
    Finisar’s patent covers a system for broadcasting video and audio programs through high-speed satellite or cable links.
    A jury in 2006 concluded that DirecTV had willfully infringed on seven patent claims [...]

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Zimbabwe Reporter ‘tortured’ by Police

JONATHAN Clayton, The Times’s Africa correspondent, has arrived safely in Johannesburg after being imprisoned, tortured and interrogated by the Zimbabwean security services.
Clayton was arrested last Wednesday on a minor immigration charge when he flew into Bulawayo, the country’s second-largest city.
He was quickly handed over by the police to security services, who blindfolded and handcuffed him, [...]

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Feds to Collect DNA from Every Person they Arrest!

The government plans to begin collecting DNA samples from anyone arrested by a federal law enforcement agency – a move intended to prevent violent crime but which also is raising concerns about the privacy of innocent people.
Using authority granted by Congress, the government also plans to collect DNA samples from foreigners who are detained, whether [...]

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Class Action Cites Zetia & Vytorin

In a shareholder’s class action that neatly summarizes complaints about Schering-Plough Corp.’s sales of its cholesterol drugs Zetia and Vytorin, the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System claims: “Sixteen months after completion of a study showing that its two most profitable drugs had no greater health benefit than far cheaper generic competitors – and may even be [...]

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Court rules inmate has no right to starve himself

The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Washington state constitution does not provide a right for prison inmates to starve themselves to death. Convicted arsonist Charles R. McNabb sued the Washington State Department of Corrections to stop his force-feeding. McNabb pursued his case under the Article I, Section 7 guarantee of privacy enshrined [...]

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Girl in Polygamist Sect Says Was Beaten

Court documents say the 16-year-old girl whose call triggered the police raid on a polygamist sect’s Texas compound said that her husband beat her.The San Angelo Standard-Times newspaper is citing the court documents as also saying the girl was the seventh wife of a sect member who is named in an arrest warrant on possible [...]

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