http://client.baseurl.com Rominger Legal News 16-MAY-2008 us=en http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1412808216&z=950241694 WASHINGTON-Actor Dennis Quaid told the U.S. Congress on Wednesday of a harrowing, near-fatal drug mix-up in which his newborn twins were administered 1,000 times the normal dose of a blood thinner. The 54-year-old actor said his family's brush with tragedy underscores the need to hold pharmaceutical companies accountable through lawsuits, a remedy that is becoming increasingly problematic for ... Calibre Macro World May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhlnqmRTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Ryan Taboada and his family checked into a Roanoke hotel on March 27, 2003. When he went outside to get his luggage, a man shot him eight times and stole his van with his 3-year-old daughter still inside. This week, a Roanoke judge signed an order dismissing the $3 million lawsuit Taboada filed against the owners of Holiday Inn Express on Gainsboro Road, saying the two sides "have ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5Ckhhlqpr%5BTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Allstate Insurance Co. and nine of its affiliates were temporarily banned by the state insurance commissioner from selling new insurance policies in Florida. The suspension followed a ruling issued Wednesday by the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee denying Allstate's request for another hearing in its court case with the state over property insurance prices. McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1411983924&z=950241694 Shareholders Now Offered $36.00 Per Share in Cash in Deal Valued at $17.9 Billion Shareholders May Still Elect to Invest in New Corporation Formed to Acquire Clear Channel Board of Directors Unanimously Approves Settlement of Litigation and Amended Merger Agreement New Special Meeting of Shareholders to Be Held SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Clear Channel Communications, Inc. Business Wire via Yahoo! May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhkksqRTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Death-row inmate Christopher Scott Emmett asked the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday to restore his lawsuit challenging the way Virginia conducts lethal injections. Emmett says U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson erred when he tossed out his case last year before it came to trial. Emmett wants the state to use only the first of three drugs now injected via intravenous lines -- ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhjotsXTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Rep. Rick Glazier and others called on leaders across the country Wednesday to scrutinize the death penalty and its application to help prevent executing innocent inmates. Glazier, a Cumberland Democrat, spoke in the legislative auditorium as part of a panel that included legal scholars, a filmmaker, a minister and a Chicago Tribune investigative journalist. McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhjpqkTTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--After striking out with the state Supreme Court, The News Tribune has asked the state Court of Appeals to speed up its review of a case involving Federal Way Municipal Court Judge Michael Morgan. The newspaper filed the motion Tuesday after the Supreme Court denied The News Tribune's request to take up and decide the Morgan case in an expedited manner. McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhloqqWTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Lawyers for Sonics owners tried to get Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels during a deposition last month to admit that the team's departure would have little impact on the city -- and would even have the benefit of improving traffic around KeyArena. In a further sign of an apparent legal strategy of downplaying the Sonics' importance, the team's lead local attorney, Brad Keller, repeatedly asked ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhjnsmRTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--The Bush administration added polar bears to the list of threatened species because of fast-melting sea ice but took steps to ensure the decision would do nothing to slow greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the dizzying loss of Arctic habitat. It was the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's first addition to the list of threatened and endangered species in two years and one of the ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhlkqvXTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--OKLAHOMA CITY -- State Rep. Sally Kern renewed her criticism on Wednesday of "radical homosexual rights groups" that are planning a national day on Thursday to promote their civil rights in the workplace. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said Oklahomans who support traditional families need to get more involved in policy fights "or we will cede the victory to groups seeking special rights based on ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhgpppsVTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--The Senate blue-ribbon committee has set a hearing for the new witness in the national broadband scandal, who has photos of President Gloria Arroyo's "secret visit" to ZTE headquarters in Shenzhen, China six months before she witnessed the signing of the firm's $329-million contract for the scandal-plagued project. Malacanang confirmed Wednesday that President Arroyo met with officials ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhmnmoWTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 16--ONE good that comes from the Judiciary, Executive and Legislative Advisory Consultative Council (Jelac) is that the Supreme Court gets the full attention of Congress for the monies, judges and personnel badly needed by the courts. Malacanang last year invited the Supreme Court to join the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council (Ledac) whose main function is to prepare, review ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 16, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhjmsvZTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--No, judges aren't mean A game show-like format for an educational program sponsored by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office brought teens and state judges eye-to-eye recently for a learning and fun experience. One of the kids in the event said she thought the judges, including the outgoing and incoming chief justices of Florida's Supreme Court, would be "mean." She learned they ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhkkmmTTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's dismissal of the state's lawsuit challenging the No Child Left Behind Act, pledging to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary. The lawsuit, filed in 2005, challenged the way the 2002 school reform law is funded. Blumenthal argued that the law imposes costs on the state and towns that violate the ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1412771810&z=950241694 May. 13, 2008 re: 'Melanie Scarborough: Colorblind government a joke' Examiner Reader said: Melanie Scarborough: Colorblind government a joke 2008-05-12 07:00:00.0 shows an apalling lack of research. First, none of the organizations are anything but membership organizations - they are not federally funded. Second, when they put on training they are just as any other vendor - ... Examiner-WashingtonDC May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1412804131&z=950241694 Today a group of consumers filed a series of class-action lawsuits against the nation's largest title and escrow companies, claiming they engaged in a series of schemes and deceptions designed to bilk customers out of millions of dollars in excessive fees, among other allegations. The companies named in the suit are Fidelity National Title Company, First American Title Insurance Company (NYSE: ... Calibre Macro World May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhmqojSTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--JEFFERSON CITY -- St. Louis judges, already buried in a backlog of criminal cases, are holding their breath this week as the Missouri Legislature considers a proposal to eliminate six of their jobs. The measure, which would add two associate judges in St. Louis County, was spurred by a recent workload study of Missouri trial judges. Researchers found that courthouses in growing areas ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhklmoWTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--The Michigan company hoping to extract natural gas from deep beneath Nockamixon Township has filed a lawsuit asking Bucks County Court to pre-empt two township ordinances that restrict gas and oil exploration. The suit, filed by Arbor Resources and three related legal entities, seeks an injunction prohibiting the township from enforcing the ordinances, which put a variety of regulations ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhlquvZTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--Commonwealth Court judges on Wednesday issued a ruling upholding a Luzerne County Court order to reinstate Dallas Borough's police chief and give him back pay and benefits possibly amounting to approximately $250,000. Borough officials appealed Luzerne County President Judge Michael Conahan's Aug. 8, 2007, ruling that upheld arbitrator Thomas G. McConnell Jr.'s April 26, 2007, decision ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 Supreme Court http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhknnlUTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--St. Paul police have mapped out the long-awaited route that war protesters will be expected to use to march on the Republican National Convention Sept. 1: a 2-mile trek the city contends strikes the "difficult balance" between security and free-speech rights. With marchers passing within 300 feet of the convention site at the Xcel Energy Center, Deputy Chief Matt Bostrom said Wednesday, ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1411984137&z=950241694 TORONTO (Reuters) - The judge overseeing a massive restructuring plan for Canada's nonbank asset-backed commercial paper market doesn't have the jurisdiction to give banks immunity from lawsuits, a lawyer told a court hearing on Tuesday. A sticking point in the $32 billion court-approved restructuring plan is that it prevents corporate noteholders from suing the banks and brokerages that sold ... 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McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS http://www.intellisearchnow.com/branding/193/contentreader.html?http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?z1413098686&z=950241694 Consumer Watchdog: George Gombossy Article tools E-mail Print Reprints Text size: Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has filed a civil suit against two Rocky Hill travel companies that charged as much as $9,000 for memberships that promised, but failed to deliver, great savings on exotic trips. Blumenthal filed the lawsuit on behalf of Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell ... Hartford Courant May 15, 2008 Attorney http://www.romingerlegal.com/newsviewer.php?ppa=8oplo%5F%5CkhhjnnmWTkh%216C%29bfen%5F%21 May 15--BRADENTON -- Councilman Harold Byrd Jr. wants the city to reimburse him for legal fees he's paid to fight a lawsuit filed against him and the city's canvassing board. Byrd made the request at Wednesday's City Council meeting, saying he shouldn't have to pay nearly $10,000 in legal fees for an ongoing case that centers around a city election. "I'd like to formally request some financial ... McClatchy Tribune Business News May 15, 2008 LEGAL NEWS