Police officers accused of excessive force in Florida are trying to claw their way behind the state’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law. Intended to protect civilians from accusations of force when using a firearm to defend their lives, ‘Stand Your Ground’ was intended to let ordinary people defend themselves without fear of arrest or incarceration. But,
I’m pleased to say that Legal Analytics provider Lex Machina announced the release its end of year quarterly litigation trends update. The update includes Q42017 trends in the areas of Patent, Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB), Copyright, Trademark, Securities, Antitrust, Commercial, Employment, Bankruptcy Appeals, and Product Liability litigation. This is a valuable source of information for any litigator. That announcement, and excerpts from the report, are reproduced below, courtesy of the company.
Most people are familiar with ‘The Walking Dead’ t.v. Show, but few are aware that many of the stunts on the show are performed by stuntmen and women, and fewer realize that sometimes those stuntmen and women get injured. Tragically, accidental deaths have also been known to occur on film sets, and that’s exactly what happened to John Bernecker, a stuntman who “fell to his death on the set of ‘The Walking Dead’ in Georgia.” As a result of the accident, Bernecker’s mother, Susan Bernecker, recently filed a lawsuit against the “show’s network and other parties, saying unreasonably low budgets led to inadequate safety precautions.” The accident itself occurred on July 12, 2017.
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Polish national and practicing physician Lukasz Niec has been living in the United States since he was 5 years old. His mother, father, and young sister were fleeing a country on the cusp of chaos. The year then was 1979, shortly before Poland’s Communist-dominated government declared martial law. A decade later, Niec became a lawful
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A federal lawsuit was filed earlier this week by Marc Lansberry, the father of “Wyatt J. Lansberry, a 12-year-old seventh-grader, who took his own life on May 18 after experiencing a ‘particularly brutal day of bullying’ at the Altoona Area Junior High School.” The lawsuit itself was filed in Johnstown with the blessing of Wyatt’s mother, Terri Bradford, and “outlines in detail the psychological toll that persistent bullying took on the child.”
A U.S. Army veteran and convicted felon is being deported to Mexico, a country where he was born but hasn’t lived in over 30 years. [Video “Family rallies behind US Army vet fighting deportation to Mexico; posted by JS worldwild_news on YouTube.”] Miguel Perez, a former soldier and green card holder who’d served two tours
Eight activists have been charged with federal crimes after being caught leaving water and blankets for illegal immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border. The volunteers were all members of the faith- and community-based organization ‘No More Deaths.’ Appearing in court on Tuesday, the group was charged with a series of offenses, ranging from driving in a