Updating our August 12 item: “A King County Superior Court judge refused Monday to vacate a nearly $13 million award to a Seattle firefighter who was injured at a fire station in 2003. The city of Seattle appealed the award after an investigator it hired captured Mark Jones on surveillance video dancing, chopping wood, playing horseshoes and bocce ball this past spring.” Judge Susan Craighead said the city should have developed its evidence earlier and that the standard for demonstrating fraud is an extremely high one in cases of this kind. [KOMO]
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Point of Law- Coming soon: felony to satirize TSA?Overcriminalization alert: a Republican House member has introduced HR 3011, which would make it a felony towithout written permission, use the words, acronyms, or symbols of those agencies on apparel or in a publication "in a matter that is reasonably... […]Ted Frank
- Senate hearing on arbitration and cell-phone contractsTo promote Senator Franken's bill stripping consumers of the right to agree to lower prices in exchange for precommitting to arbitration proceedings, the Senate is holding a hearing today with the misleading title "Arbitration: Is It Fair When Forced?" Of... […]Ted Frank
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- Another lawless jackpot award over propofol in NevadaWe've previously discussed a series of lawless cases in Nevada against Teva Pharmaceuticals and Baxter Healthcare over the misuse of propofol by the Desert Shadow Endoscopy Center, whose ludicrously unsanitary practices caused dozens of cases of hepatitis C: May 19,... […]Ted Frank
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Was Judge Susan Craighead on the OJ Jury?
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