New Legal News

A student at Harvard about to start her residency lost a court battle asking for extra time to pump breast milk during a national clinical test.

The test is made of 2 9 hour sessions broken up by 45 minute breaks. While it wold be difficult to pump milk in that time, it is possible.The judge denied the injunction to require the testing board to give her a 60 minute break.

Sophia Currier, accused the board of gender discrimination and violating her constitutional rights. Judge Patrick Brady did not find a problem that was worthy of injunction.

Currier cannot begin her residency until she passes the test.

Currier’s attorney claims that women are being screened out and being forced to choose being a professional or a mother. He claims its unjust, unfair, and against public interest.

The makers of OxyContin and the compnay that markets it had their day in court recently. Seems they messed up. They plead guilty to criminal charges against them, admitting they misled people, including the doctors, the government officials, and of course the patients themselves. They lied about how addictive the drug was/is. OxyContin is a potent, painkilling narcotic.

OxyContin was touted as being safer than other painkiller such as Vicodin or Percocet because OxyContin is “time released”. This ploy was to get medical doctors with little knowledge of pain management practices to subscribe the drug to even lesser informed patients.

The plan was effective and bt 1996 the sales hit one billion. Of course, the success meant that may were showing signs of addiction…

A Federal Jury  has given  a man $10 million dollars by deciding his employer’s insurance carrier acted in bad faith when they turned down his claim for benefits from a  back injury.

The jury is debating  to also award the man with  compensation for punitive damages in additional to the 10 million.

The worker was a computer tech at Norwest Financial at the time he injured his back while  picking up papers that had dropped to the floor. He was diagnosed in severe pain, but his workers compensation claim had been rejected.

The adjusters say he had  two prior surgeries on his back. They claim the injury worsened an existing condition.

The 10 million dollar verdict was to assuage his mental and emotional pain after being denied medical assistance based on a bad faith ruling.

Fascinating were the protests here in America, the weekend of March 25th. Congress is finally addressing the illegal immigration issue, and consequently we have seen some protesting. Whst appears to be most startling, is these very large protests, were superbly organized, and not just locally, but yet on a national level.

Perplexing, when nearly 100% of Americans want their govenrment to do soemthing about this problem of illegal citizens, and still the illegals manage to organize a protest, in the land where they are criminal? These criminal people demand our government ignore the tax paying CITIZENS and cater to the population of illegal citizenry.

I know they have had problems with the student population walking out and refusing to return to class in Texas. This was done the monday and tuesday imediately after the protesting took place. These children were marching defiantly, exclaiming their rights were violated. {Oh really? Which constitution grants right to the populace of a foreign nation?} Most of the children asked , responded that they were not american citizens, and neither were their parents. Whats really interesting is how all these kids just started protesting, coincidence?, no, they are being instructed.

Even more infuriating is this criminal population struts about decrying our nation, plainly exhibiting their presence, demanding their ‘rights’, yelling about what they should be given, what they are ‘owed’. But noone is asking to be made an American, or even pretending to be one. They just want a free education, and they want an american job, to have the benefits of our social system, and admission to our american universities. And during all that, they wave the flag of mexico, and stomp on and disrespect the american flag. How damn perplexing!.

These protesters, the rabble rousers who demonstrated the weekend of the 25th, they dont wish to be a productive member of the nation, paying taxes, and commiting to serve this nation in one fashion or another. They want what americans have broke their balls to get, and they want it free and easy. They want what our systems provide, they want our top notch education, the income generated by a healthy economy, and the humanity provided in our social system. HOWEVER they dont wish to be american, to work to obtain that citizenship like so many of our families had to do. they seem almost subversive in their methods.  The flag they hold shows me their true heart.

If our government caves to this display of arrogance by this criminal faction, then there is little hope, we will have let them doom us as a country, and our economy and morals will be in shambles. They demand things they have no right to! Its time the government took a stance and remove their hostile presence.

these people dont wish to join us, but to live in our nation and take our jobs, and evidentally to cause a ruckus.

Perhaps if the USA made prisons less “comfy”, we would have less crime and even less re-offenders. Many countries don’t have nearly the crime issues  we have. You could cite the Arab style laws in which a thief has his hands removed, thats one hell of a deterrent!

On a more humane note, we can review our ally, the Japanese.

In Japanese prisons you get 8 ounces of rice, and 18 ounces of tea per day. These prisoners stay locked up in small cells for 22 hours a day, and have oppurtunity to shower just 3 times a week. They dont possess televisions, or games. There is no festivities, no movie night, no swimming pool, etc. The shedule allows for just one visit per week.

In Japan, NOONE wants to be jailed. Its plain torturous.  However, their crime rate is very low,  especially for violent crimes.  Whats lower than that is their reoffense rate.  Ha, people who been to a Japanese  prison dont wanna go back… A system that works!

Perhaps America could learn a lesson here, tougher jails, shorter sentences, less burden on taxpayers, and a system with reform in mind.