Phil Law Weblog

One afternoon a wealthy lawyer was riding in his shiny limousine, when he saw two men along the roadside eating grass. Disturbed, he ordered his driver to stop, and he got out to investigate the situation.

The North Carolina Medical Board is scheduled to take action Wednesday concerning local neurologist Dr. Richard Paul Greenberg, who has limited vision and multiple lawsuits against him.
The board is to consider a consent order for Greenberg, which could mean his license to practice could be annulled, revoked, suspended or surrendered, according to Dena M. [...]

A professor accused of sexually harassing a student has given up his tenured job at Western Oregon University. For the next three years following his retirement, he will be allowed to work halftime in a nonteaching capacity.
“I think his effectiveness was compromised during this last year,’’ Minahan said, referring to the sexual harassment [...]

Two families listed as plaintiffs in a bias lawsuit against Elgin School District U46 have reportedly dropped out of the suit. Meanwhile, lawyers have filed a motion asking that the suit take on class action status in federal court.
In the class action filing, the plaintiffs aim to make all Hispanic and black students in [...]

Wechsler Harwood LLP has filed a Federal Securities fraud class action suit on behalf of individuals and entities who purchased or otherwise acquired the publicly traded securities of World Health Alternatives, Inc.
World Health Alternatives, Inc, et al, Case No is pending in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and [...]

Five weeks into a trial over whether the now-off-the-market drug caused a man’s heart attack, a company researcher said that Merck & Co. executives privately discussed adding a compound to Vioxx to make the blockbuster painkiller protect the heart the way aspirin does.

Three pieces of DNA evidence help to accuse alink a mechanic to the murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio in Australia, prosecutors have told a Darwin court.
Lawyers have been outlining the case against Bradley Murdoch, 47, accused of murdering Mr Falconio, 28, in July 2001 after flagging his van down. Mr Murdoch denies shooting [...]

According to the the Armenian pontiff Catholicos Aram I, two recent insurance settlements for descendants of Armenians killed 90 years ago by the Turkish Ottoman Empire are a first step toward international recognition that the bloodshed was an act of genocide.
Aram I, on a two-week visit to Southern California, said the financial settlements could [...]

An Oregon court declined to grant class-action status to a lawsuit brought by a group of Marlboro Lights smokers against Philip Morris, a unit of Altria Group Inc., USA.
According to the report of the Associated Press, they cited the large number of individual issues that would need to be considered in the case.
The case, [...]

A settlement of a class action which is made in British Columbia Supreme Court for Canadian women who had silicone gel breast implants has been approved by Mr. Justice E.R.A. Edwards.
The settlement, which was made without any admission of liability by the defendants, made or supplied by Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Baxter Healthcare or [...]