New Legal News

US immigration authorities are conducting raids without warrants, kicking in the doors of homes where hispanics live and hoping someone is living in America illegally. This is happening in NYC mostly.

15 people have filed a class action lawsuit in response claiming their rights are being violated, specifically the fourth amendment.

In once incident, the feds bust into a home scaring the women and children, looking for illegals, and everyone was a citizen. Now try to convince those young kids that the men kicking in the door at 3 am with guns are the good guys. Yeah i somehow don’t think alot of illegals are hiding in East Hampton.

The suit seeks punitive damages and an injunction to prevent further raids until they get a genuine system to prevent further rights violations.

Three personal injury lawyers sat in jail uniforms and shackles. The same attorneys involved in the fen-phen cases went to a federal court today to seek their release.

The crime is somehow acquiring 64 million of a 200 million dollar settlement relating to fen-phen in 2001. The three of them wanted, and got, and delay of their federal trial for fraud until January. the judge feels they are a flight risk but witnesses testified otherwise.

The judge ruled that the 3 lawyers will remain in jail until they complete a detail report of what money they received and where it went. At least one of the victims thinks the lawyers incarceration is an amusement.

The best attorney for Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr charged up to $850 an hour for his time representing Broadcom Corp. in a patent fight with a industry rival.

That amount, while staggering to some, is still lower than the expensive attorneys, who charge 1000 and up an hour.

Specifics of Wilmerhales 8.5 million dollar fees were released at the end of August. Qualcomm has waived rights on to of the patent arguments due to the litigation being so fierce.

Wilmerhale partner William Lee’s rates are 790 to 850 an hours and the associates rates were  275 up to 490 hourly. Wilmerhale did delay a rate hike for 6 months, which in effct allowed broadcom to get much cheaper srvice than they would have.

Wilmerhale feels their rates are fair, and believes that results speak for themselves.

You do get what you pay for.

The embarrassed once  prosecutor who had filed charges of rape against one time players of the  men’s lacrosse team from Duke University was judged guilty in criminal contempt of court and punished to one day in jail.

District Attorney M.Nifong’s choice to keep DNA evidence from defense attorneys that had the potential to have freed the three defendants was an kick in the face to the integrity of the  justice system.

The DNA evidence discovered on the female entertainer purchased to do her stuff at a team celebration who accused men of raping her did not match up that of any of the 46  team members. If this proof had been introduced at the proper time as is the law, then it would have been dismissed outright.

Nifong was disbarred in June because of the case.

Stokke is recalling around 1,000 Sleepi Crib Foam Mattresses due to the fact the mattress does not fit cribs correctly and this can present a risk of a baby becoming stuck in  the space between the crib and the mattress.

Only the oval sized Sleepi cribs with foam mattresses distributed under the following model numbers are recelled: 660321, 660320, 660301,660305, 660318, 652268, 652269, 652246, 652247 and 652248. The cribs were distributed in many of colors, including white, walnut, natural, cherry and whitewash. The  number of the model can be located on the packaging and underneath  the crib.

Currently no injuries have occurred and the Stokke compnay is aware of none as well.The product was sold at childrens stores all over America and also on the Internet. The company is asking  parents to remove these mattresses from their babies’  cribs right away.

I think this is a prudent and responsible move by this business. So many companies involved with children’s products are responsible to their stockholders, well heres one acting responsible to the kids! My hats off to you guys. Thanks.