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Eugene Criminal Defense - MJM Law Office, P.C.

2012-01-30T13:25:00.001-08:00

MJM Law Office, P.C. was founded to provide clients with quality representation in criminal defense and family law, including matters such as DUI offenses, drug crimes, divorce, and child custody.

Mr. Mizejewski understands that effectively working through the legal system is a challenging process. MJM Law Office, P.C. works closely with clients to understand and resolve their issues, taking the time to listen to and understand each client's unique situation, and explain the available options.

Located in the heart of downtown Eugene, Oregon, MJM Law Office, P.C. focuses on serving clients in Lane County, Oregon. We are in the Lane County Circuit Court on a near daily basis, and are very familiar with the individual judges, district attorneys and court staff.

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Eugene Criminal Defense - MJM Law Office, P.C.

2012-01-30T13:23:00.001-08:00

Conviction and sentence upheld in Palin email case

2012-01-30T13:22:00.000-08:00

A federal appeals court panel has upheld the conviction and sentence of a University of Tennessee student in the hacking of Sarah Palin's email in 2008.

The three judge panel in a Monday decision affirmed the conviction of 24-year-old David Kernell. A Knoxville jury last April convicted Kernell of unauthorized access to a protected computer and destroying records to impede a federal investigation.

Kernell's attorney, Wade Davies, contended at trial that Kernell had no criminal intent and that guessing his way into the email account was a prank. Palin was governor of Alaska and John McCain's GOP running mate at the time.

Kernell was released in November after serving less than 11 months.

Davies said he will seek a review by the full U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Court rejects appeals in student speech cases

2012-01-17T13:25:00.003-08:00

The U.S. Supreme Court has passed up a pair of cases for the online age — whether schools may censor students who are at home when they create online attacks against school officials and other students.

The justices on Tuesday rejected appeals from Pennsylvania and West Virginia involving questions about the limits on criticism from students and where the authority of school officials ends.

The high court decision left standing lower court rulings that two Pennsylvania students cannot be disciplined at school for parodies of their principals that they created on home computers and posted online.

In the West Virginia case, an appeals court upheld the suspension of a student who created a web page that suggested another student had a sexually transmitted disease, and invited classmates to comment.

Lawyers on both sides were disappointed the high court chose not to step into the fray over student speech posted online, as federal court judges have issued a broad range of opinions on the subject.

The Law Firm of Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Launches an Investigation

2012-01-17T13:25:00.001-08:00

Levi & Korsinsky is investigating potential claims on behalf of purchasers of Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation securities concerning possible violations of federal securities laws.

On January 5, 2012, Integra LifeSciences announced that it received a warning letter from the United States Food and Drug Administration related to quality systems and compliance issues found at its collagen manufacturing facility located in Plainsboro, New Jersey in August 2011. The Company also announced it expects total revenues in the fourth quarter to be approximately 3% below the low end of previously issued guidance. Upon this news, Integra LifeSciences stock fell 20% on January 6, 2012 to close at $24.49 per share; the stock continues to fall, closing on January 10, 2012 at $23.22 per share.

If you own Integra LifeSciences stock and wish to obtain additional information about the investigation and your legal rights, please contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. either via email at jlevi@zlk.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500, toll-free: (877) 363-5972, or visit http://www.zlk.com/integra-lifesciences-holdings-iart.html .

Levi & Korsinsky has expertise in prosecuting investor securities litigation and extensive experience in actions involving financial fraud and represents investors throughout the nation, concentrating its practice in securities and shareholder litigation. Attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee similar outcomes.

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The Law Business Insider

2011-04-06T09:17:00.001-07:00

Steve Murphy, Executive Producer & Host of the nationally syndicated radio Show, The LawBusiness Insider, www.lbishow.com, features well known Wall Street Insider and Bestselling Author Norb Vonnegut discussing his latest bestseller, "Gods of Greenwich", and KQED Public Radio Editor and Bestselling author Tyche Hendricks and her vivid, evocative new book, "The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport"

Publishers Weekly proclaims....“Vonnegut, a financial professional himself, not only gets the language and tone of Wall Street right but has an instinctive feel for dialogue and action. Especially enjoyable is the rip-roaring finale at the Bronx Zoo.”

"The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands", by award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks, was published by the University of California Press in June 2010. Hendricks, a veteran immigration reporter, shows that decisions about how we handle the border and immigration have wide-ranging implications.

Please tune in and listen to these important and exciting interviews
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2 charged with insider trading involving law firms

2011-04-06T09:16:00.003-07:00

Federal authorities have charged two men with running an insider trading scheme that netted more than $30 million with information stolen from law firms.

Garrett Bauer is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J., on Wednesday afternoon. Matthew Kluger will make his first appearance in federal court in Alexandria, Va.

They're accused of trading on inside information stolen from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a law firm with offices in Washington, D.C., New York, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

Authorities also allege the decades-long scheme used information stolen from prominent New York law firms Cravath Swaine & Moore and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

State regulators say two companies have been fined $15,000 each violating Mississippi's No-Call Law

2011-04-06T09:16:00.001-07:00

Public Service Commission member Brandon Presley says Full Speed Funding LLC of Phoenix and Gateway Destinations Inc. of Pompano Beach, Fla., failed to register and purchase the state's "No-Call" list and contacted consumers who had registered on the "No-Call" list.

Presley says company representatives failed to respond to the PSC complaint.

Fixodent The Subject Of Class Action Lawsuit

2011-02-14T23:15:00.003-08:00

A class action lawsuit is alleging that Fixodent denture cream may have caused serious problems.

ABC News reported that lawyers for two former denture cream users are accusing Proctor & Gamble of manufacturing a product that made their clients extremely ill.

Mark Jacoby, a 41-year-old construction worker who wore dentures for 20 years, told ABC News that he believes his debilitating neurological illness is due to the high zinc content in his Fixodent.

"I started getting tingling in my fingertips. And then it started happening in my toes," he told ABC News' 20/20 anchor Chris Cuomo, who is the Chief of the Law & Justice Unit. "I started getting weaker and, you know, I couldn't walk right, off balance and I'm at this point now."

He said his doctors searched for years for the cause of his debilitating neurological illness that robbed him of his independence.

Court rejects bid to remove judge in Pitino case

2011-02-14T23:15:00.001-08:00

A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to remove the judge overseeing the case of a woman convicted of trying to extort millions from University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino.

The two-page decision issued Monday by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals also turned down a request by Karen Cunagin Sypher to delay her sentencing, which is set for Feb. 18.

Sypher was convicted in August of extortion, lying to the FBI and retaliation against a witness. Prosecutors said she sought millions in cash, cars and a house from Pitino to stay quiet about their one-night stand at a Louisville restaurant in 2003.

Her attorney, David Nolan, has filed multiple motions alleging a wide-ranging conspiracy involving Pitino, U.S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson III and multiple people involved in the case. Prosecutors have called Sypher's claims meritless.

Bryan A. Lowe & Associates - Las Vegas Tax Law

2010-05-18T23:04:00.000-07:00

Founded in 1982, Bryan A Lowe & Associates is a law firm based in Las Vegas, Nevada. The firm provides a wide range of services, primarily in the areas of estate planning, probate, bankruptcy, general business (corporate, partnership, and proprietorship), taxation, real estate, asset protection, and elder care.

The firm was founded on a philosophy of service that not only emphasizes quality representation in terms of experience and expertise - but places a high value on initiating appropriate actions to meet the client's legal needs and objectives. Particular stress is also placed on providing individualized service and achieving the desired results while working in a cost-effective manner.

At Bryan A Lowe & Associates, we handle a wide variety of legal cases, including the areas listed below. If you need an elder law, estate planning, corporate, tax, or probate lawyer, see the information below or contact an attorney.

Dallas EEOC sues Charleston, Raleigh companies in employment harassment case

2009-08-10T15:38:00.000-07:00

The women complained about the sexual harassment to Alternative Staffing’s office manager and asked to be transferred to another work site, but their request was denied, according to the lawsuit. The women also complained to Clancy & Theys’ foreman.

The lawsuit said the harassment continued after the complaints, and eventually the women were forced to resign, said Weinberg Law Firm, Employment Lawyer Dallas.

Craig Lake, president of Alternative Staffing, said Monday morning he had not yet seen the lawsuit and couldn’t comment at this point. Officials at Clancy & Theys were not immediately available for comment.

Los Angeles Wrong Way DUI – Who Should We Believe?

2009-08-10T13:04:00.000-07:00

LOS ANGELES - It’s too early to assume Mr. Schuler’s contribution to the accident in this story, but as more information is received, I will discuss the effect it will have on the upcoming litigation. Right now this story is the perfect example of why you engage an attorney as soon as possible after a wreck, said Michael Bialys, California DUI lawyer.

Military Criticized in Report on Soldier Electrocution in New York

2009-08-05T11:30:00.000-07:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military leaders and a major military contractor failed to protect a Green Beret who was electrocuted while showering in his barracks in Iraq, the Defense Department’s inspector general has determined in findings released Monday, said John Q. Kelly, New York electrocution attorney.

The death of the Green Beret, Staff Sgt. Ryan D. Maseth, in early 2008 set off an investigation that included a review of 17 other electrocution deaths in Iraq. The case also led to inspections of the electrical systems of about 90,000 facilities maintained by the United States in Iraq.

The Criminal Defense Lawyer as a Hero

2009-08-05T09:38:00.000-07:00

'A lot of the other lawyers were able to work on other cases during those times, but I wasn't one of them,'' says Mr. Kelley. ''I was full of so much adrenaline that all I could do was replay my arguments in my head -- which didn't help me because then I became less spontaneous. It was better for me to daydream.''

His daydreams included an idea for a movie; a legal thriller that Mr. Kelley, who knew no screenwriters he could tell it to, began to write himself, in longhand. ''Did I know anything about writing screenplays? Well, I had no idea that a screenplay came in three acts. But by coincidence a hockey game is in three periods, so since I played hockey in school I decided to break down my script into three parts.''

The movie was never made, but Mr. Kelley sent the script to Orange County criminal defense lawyer, who was looking for staff writers with legal experience to work on ''L.A. Law.'' By the fifth season he was the show's executive producer.

In 1993 he married Michelle Pfeiffer. They have two small children. In recent years he has headed his own production company, creating the medical drama ''Chicago Hope'' and the quirky small-town potboiler ''Picket Fences.'' Both shows, it is important to note, had or have prominent characters who were or are lawyers.

In fact, says Mr. Kelley, he has another legal drama -- this one about a single woman lawyer -- in development.

''I'm certainly more comfortable in the legal arena than any other one,'' says Mr. Kelley. ''And I'm also more fascinated by it because I love to examine ideas and the law, and the courtroom still is the greatest forum we have for exploring and attacking ideas and social values.

''And don't forget that a legal show fits very well into the budgetary framework of television,'' says Mr. Kelley, delivering his closing argument. ''You can do everything you want on the same set. In one room. Where else in the world does that happen?''

Families of passengers on downed Chicago chopper 'voluntarily discontinue' lawsuit

2009-08-04T15:18:00.000-07:00

By Michael Tutton (CP) – 4 hours ago

But the defendants decided to "deceptively argue" that the 30-minute so-called run dry requirement was "so extremely remote" that the S-92 could be exempted from that FAA provision, the Chicago aviation lawyer alleged.

Allegations made in the complaint have not been proven in court and the defendants have yet to file a response.

A spokesman for Sikorsky declined comment Tuesday.

The lawsuit has also been filed against Keystone because the complaint says the company completed the final assembly and finishing of the helicopter at its plant in Pennsylvania.

13 arrested at Shaler DUI checkpoint

2009-08-04T13:46:00.000-07:00

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

A total of 1,123 vehicles passed through the checkpoint and 19 people were administered field sobriety tests during the detail that ran from 11 p.m. yesterday to 4 a.m. today.

The North Hills DUI Task Force and the Pittsburgh DUI Task Force will next conduct sobriety check point and roving patrols during the July 4th holiday weekend.

The North Hills DUI Task Force includes police from Bradford Woods, Etna, Indiana Township, Marshall, O'Hara, Pine, Richland, Ross, Shaler and West Deer.

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Los Angeles Train Injury Lawyers Ringler Kearney Alvarez LLP

2009-07-31T14:11:00.001-07:00

California train accident attorneys Ringler Kearney Alavarez LLP have established themselves as a premier law firm by providing clients with consistently excellent service. They pride themselves on their intellect, creativity and tenacity.

These Los Angeles railroad injury lawyers have achieved victories in over 100 trials with total verdicts in excess of $250 million.

Ringler Kearney Alvarez LLP achieves their verdicts by utilizing their substantial financial resources to obtain the best result possible for each of their clients. This LA train accident specialist law firm fights tirelessly for their clients, no matter the cost and no matter the foe.

Texas county files appeal to stop border fence

2008-12-18T15:06:00.000-08:00

A Texas county filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court this week in the latest bid to stop construction of hundreds of miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In asking the court to review a lawsuit previously dismissed by a federal court judge, lawyers for El Paso County contend that U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff overstepped his legal authority when he waived 37 federal laws that could have slowed or blocked construction of fencing along the border.

Attorneys for the county also allege that Chertoff violated the 10th Amendment, which grants states the right to enforce laws neither prohibited by nor delegated to the federal government.

Congress authorized the fence to help secure the border and slow illegal immigration, and then gave Chertoff the power to waive the federal laws in 2005.

Previous legal challenges to the waiver authority, which includes a lawsuit by several environmental groups in San Diego, failed to gain traction in courts. The Supreme Court also declined to hear border fence challenges.

El Paso County Attorney Jose Rodriguez said Wednesday he believed the 10th Amendment protects the county and other jurisdictions from Chertoff's action.

Regulators allege illegal monopoly for baby meds

2008-12-18T15:05:00.001-08:00

Federal regulators alleged Tuesday that an Illinois-based company bought the only two medicines approved to treat premature babies born with a potentially life-threatening congenital heart defect, and then increased prices nearly 1,300 percent.

The Federal Trade Commission said in a civil lawsuit that Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc., illegally maintained a monopoly in drug treatments for the heart defect. The commission seeks to prevent Ovation from maintaining simultaneous interest in the two drugs — NeoProfen and Indocin. Also, it seeks forfeiture of all unlawfully obtained profits.

The commission said Ovation purchased the rights to Indocin in August 2005 and then acquired the rights to NeoProfen five months later. It set the price for the two medicines at about $500. Before the second acquisition, Indocin was priced at $36.

An estimated 30,000 babies are treated with the drugs each year.

"Ovation's profiteering on the backs of critically ill premature babies is not only immoral, it is illegal," said FTC Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in a statement issued separately from the lawsuit.

Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc., based in Deerfield, Ill., rejected the commission's allegations. It said NeoProfen is superior to Indocin, and is not interchangeable for most premature infants with the heart defect.

Sen. Kennedy awarded honorary degree from Harvard

2008-12-18T15:04:00.001-08:00

Saying he has "lived a blessed time," Sen. Edward Kennedy smiled broadly and flashed a thumbs up as he accepted an honorary degree Monday from his alma mater during a rare special convocation at Harvard University.

The 76-year-old senator walked onstage to a standing ovation and leaned lightly on a cane. He made no mention of his battle with cancer but sounded a reflective note toward the end of his eight-minute address.

"We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make," Kennedy said. "I have lived a blessed time. Now, with you, I look forward to a new time of aspiration and high achievement for our nation and the world."

In being honored at a special convocation, Kennedy joins a select group that includes George Washington, Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, a former Kennedy staffer, spoke at the ceremony, and Vice President-elect Joe Biden was among those in attendance. The event had been scheduled for last spring but was postponed as the senator recovered from surgery to treat a malignant brain tumor.

Judge gives would-be LAX bomber same 22-year term

2008-12-18T15:03:00.001-08:00

A federal judge in Seattle has re-imposed a 22-year sentence on an Algerian convicted of plotting to bomb the Los Angeles airport at the turn of the millennium.

An appeals court had told U.S. District Judge John Coughenour (COON'-our), to recalculate the 22-year term he handed down three years ago to Ahmed Ressam (AH'-med res-AHM'). But Coughenour on Wednesday kept the same sentence.

Prosecutors had sought a life term because they say Ressam has stopped cooperating on other cases.

The judge earlier had shown Ressam leniency for testifying against two coconspirators and providing other information about his training with al-Qaida.

U.S. border guards in Washington state arrested Ressam as he drove a rented car packed with explosives off a ferry from British Columbia in December 1999. Investigators determined Ressam's target was a terminal at LAX, busy with holiday travel.

A jury convicted Ressam in 2001.

Appeals court upholds embassy bombers' convictions

2008-12-18T15:02:00.002-08:00

A federal appeals court established a legal precedent Monday that U.S. citizens overseas can face searches without a warrant, ruling that three Osama bin Laden followers convicted in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies received fair trials.

"There is nothing in our history or our precedents suggesting that U.S. officials must first obtain a warrant before conducting an overseas search," the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote.

The three-judge panel added, however, that the searches must meet the Fourth Amendment's requirement of reasonableness, saying an individual's expectation of privacy must be weighed against the government's need for certain information.

Defendant Wadih El-Hage of Arlington, Texas, had argued that his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when U.S. authorities searched his home in Nairobi, Kenya, and tapped his telephone lines without a warrant.

The appeals court responded that the searches' intrusion on El-Hage's "privacy was outweighed by the government's manifest need to monitor his activities as an operative of al-Qaida because of the extreme threat al-Qaida presented, and continues to present, to national security."

El-Hage, 48, was convicted in 2001 with three others in the Aug. 7, 1998, bombings at U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans, and prompted President Bill Clinton to launch cruise missiles on bin Laden's Afghan camps two weeks later.

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Train Crash Lawyer Jerry Ringler - Chatsworth Metrolink Accident

2008-09-18T14:17:00.001-07:00

Special Message for Victims of Chatsworth Metrolink Disaster

On September 12, 2008, an unprecedented tragedy occurred in Chatsworth, California when Metrolink Train #111 struck a Union Pacific freight train which was traveling on the same tracks. Our hearts go out to the victims. But this tragedy should not have happened. It happened because of human error on the part of Metrolink employees. Unfortunately, as the lawyers of RKA know well, human error by railroad engineers is not at all unique as a cause of commuter rail disasters.

Jerome L. Ringler has greater experience in representing victims of commuter rail and freight train disasters than any other lawyer in the State of California, if not the country. He has served as lead counsel in every one of the largest commuter rail disasters which have occurred in Southern California in the past 10 years.

In the Placentia Commuter Rail Disaster of 2003, Mr. Ringler was appointed by the Court as lead counsel for all of the Plaintiffs. He was requested by all of the lawyers representing individuals injured or killed in that incident to try the first case. That case resulted in the largest verdict for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder ever rendered by a jury in the United States. That verdict, which was for $9 million, is detailed below in the multimedia section.

In the Burbank Commuter Rail Disaster, which also occurred in 2003, Mr. Ringler was again appointed by the Court to serve as lead counsel. In that capacity he was given the responsibility to try the entire liability (i.e., fault) case for all of the victims. In other words, every one of the dozens of lawyers who represented individual victims in that disaster trusted Mr. Ringler to try the liability phase for them, knowing that their clients would only recover if Mr. Ringler was successful. He was. In fact, Mr. Ringler not only obtained a favorable verdict for all of the plaintiffs, he obtained a $12 million verdict for his own client as well. This verdict was the largest in the State of California for a person with the type of injuries Mr. Ringler's client had suffered. This verdict is detailed below in the multimedia section.

Mr. Ringler is currently lead counsel for all plaintiffs in the Glendale Metrolink Derailment Disaster of 2005. This incident was, before September 12, 2008, the largest Metrolink disaster in history. Interestingly, in that case (which involves 11 deaths and dozens of serious injuries), Mr. Ringler has, against all odds, developed testimony proving that, even though a mentally-ill person placed a jeep across the tracks that the Metrolink train was traveling upon, human error on the part of the Metrolink engineer prevented him from stopping the train before hitting the jeep, which caused the train to derail. In other words, while the jeep certainly never should have been on the tracks, the Metrolink engineer would have been able to stop the train before ever striking the jeep had he only been paying proper attention. That case is scheduled to go to trial on June 8, 2009, with Mr. Ringler as lead counsel.

The verdicts detailed on this page all relate to railroad litigation. However, Mr. Ringler has achieved enormous, record-breaking monetary awards across California in a variety of complex areas. Those accomplishments are detailed elsewhere in this website. To see them, click here.

If you or a loved one has suffered injury or death as a result of the horrific Chatsworth Metrolink Disaster, we are available to discuss your rights with you confidentially and at no charge.

Please feel free to contact us at your convenience. Ask for Mr. Ringler,or any of his partners, at (213) 473-1900.

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Jerry Ringler Featured on Fox 11 - Metrolink Crash

2008-09-18T14:16:00.001-07:00

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Lawyer, LI political pioneer Neal Capria dead at 66

2008-09-03T11:16:00.001-07:00

Neal Capria, an environmental lawyer and a pioneer in Democratic politics who helped bring his party to power in Brookhaven in the 1970s, was found dead in his Port Jefferson Station condominium Tuesday morning. He was 66.

Capria, who last month began work as an aide to the Suffolk legislature, was found in his bed by his son Justin who came by to drive his father to work.

"He was one of the trailblazers," said Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman. "People should know who he was because he is partly responsible for where we are today," referring to recent party victories in the county and various Suffolk towns.

Capria served as part of the Democratic majority on the Brookhaven Town Board from 1978 to 1982. He was the last elected Democratic town board official until the party regained power in 2006. For the past 18 months, Capria worked as an assistant town attorney, but was let go last month when Republicans regained control of the town board.

Von Briesen attorney launches own firm

2008-09-03T11:15:00.000-07:00

John Cabaniss, a trial attorney for the Milwaukee law firm von Briesen & Roper SC, is leaving the firm to launch his own practice in Mequon focusing on personal injury cases.
The move will alleviate some of the conflicts of interest that arose while he worked for von Briesen & Roper, said Randall Crocker, president and CEO of the law firm.

"We’ve discovered that John’s practice as a plaintiff’s trial lawyer and the firm’s continued growth in health care, toxic tort defense, management labor and general business has created conflicts of interest that have precluded John from taking the cases that he’s particularly good at," Crocker said in a press release Friday.

Cabaniss concurs.

"Regrettably, a personal injury plaintiff’s practice is, at times, not consistent with a large corporate, health and business law firm,” Cabaniss said.

The new firm will be known as the Cabaniss Law Office and will be at 10200 N. Port Washington Road in Mequon.