They are untouchable. Unlike you and I, who can be held legally accountable for our negligence and wrongdoings, they are beyond the reach of the law. Unlike those wrongly arrested who are forced to plead guilty to crimes they did not commit in order to avoid going on trial for crimes with even longer
This video contains graphic surgical images. Running about seven minutes in length, this is a perfect example of the reality of Essure for tens of thousands of women around the world.
Over 25,000 women (and many men, too!) around the U.S. are holding their collective breath waiting for a federal judge in Philadelphia to decide whether five suits against Big Pharma giant Bayer will proceed. The focus of the cases: did Bayer violate FDA rules regarding Essure? If the cases move forward and the plaintiffs win,
A bill before a committee of the Indiana Senate proposes to raise the cap on medical malpractice payments in the state. According to an article on nwitimes.com, the proposed legislation, sponsored by Republican Senator Brent Steele, would increase the current limit on victims’ awards by $400,000, to $1.65 million. It would be the first increase
In his excellent memoir of 1920’s and 30’s Berlin, Defying Hitler, German historian Sebastian Haffner recounts an experience he had as an apprentice lawyer. He describes the reading room of the Kammergericht, Berlin’s large, imposing law building at the time. Haffner recalls the proud satisfaction he felt to be working among professionals in the beautiful
Where are the professors? The students are in the streets, but where are the professors? The people of Ferguson, of Baltimore, of Cleveland are in the streets, but where are the professors? The Bill of Rights has been traduced and eviscerated, and where are the law professors? Mainstream news is a product of the Pentagon
More than eight years after the market crash of 2007-08, no bank or mortgage company executive has faced criminal charges for fraudulent activities that resulted in millions of foreclosures and the Great Recession. Just as no General Motors executive will see the inside of a jail cell for the deaths of hundreds of car-owners who
As the scales of the American criminal justice system continue to tilt against the interests of defendants, developments in Louisiana’s Orleans Parish threaten to pull us back to the days before Gideon v. Wainwright, the 1963 Supreme Court case that established the constitutional right of indigent defendants to court-appointed counsel. The American Civil Liberties
Aus der Bratpfanne ins Feuer (out of the frying pan, into the fire) for Volkswagen. The beleaguered automaker is now facing a derivative lawsuit on its home soil as 66 institutional investors prepare to sue VW for lost share value resulting from the recent emissions scandal. According to Klaus Nieding of Nieding & Barth, the
The rulers of the earth are now gathered to determine our fate. It should be abundantly clear to anyone in America who has been paying attention for the past fifteen years that no one in Davos, Switzerland, has our best interests in mind. One need not subscribe to any implausible conspiracy theory to recognize the