-FTC targets Pom juice health claims – true or false is it a help effective against heart and prostate problems
-Segway company owner rides one off cliff to his death ...year bought the company that makes the Segway scooter fell to his death off a cliff...Heselden bought the New Hampshire-based Segway company in December. The former coal... British law restricts the use of Segway scooters to private land.
-'Pulpit Freedom Sunday' to Defy IRS-church
Pastors Across the U.S. Say They Will Defy Law and Talk Politics-ederal tax law, established in 1954, prohibits churches and tax exempt entities from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
-Mc cord divorce attorney for both changed words after document signed. Contract or no contract?
-Arrested 8 bell officials for corruption
-Vatican bank and alleged money laundering
-First execution set for 9-20-10 in new death room-will it happen? None since 1977
-Ohio University Sorry Its Mascot Attacked Ohio State's Brutus Buckeye
Government to implement planned tax on sweets, ice cream and soft drinks
Medical marijuana growers join Teamsters union
-OAKLAND, Calif. -- As organized labor faces declining membership, one of the country's most storied unions is looking to a new growth industry: marijuana.
The Teamsters added nearly 40 new members earlier this month by organizing the country's first group of unionized marijuana growers. Such an arrangement is likely only possible in California, which has the nation's loosest medical marijuana laws
-FINLAND-On Thursday, the government decided in its general session that a tax is to be levied on candies and similar sweets, chocolate, cocoa products, ice cream, and popsicles.
-Lindsay Lohan's probation revoked, arrest warrant issued-Paris Hilton pleads guilty rat pack continues-who care anymore?
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Monday, September 13, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers legal suggestions each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
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Show Notes 9-13-2010
-Plaintiffs May Sue Over Explosion -Lawsuits are likely on the horizon after last week's massive explosion and fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno that, as of Friday afternoon, had killed four people, destroyed and damaged more than 40 homes and injured dozens.
-Ageless Cher Turns Back Time to 1989 in a very familiar outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards-at 64
-Fitness guru Jane Fonda looks amazing at 72 in new workout DVD for old age pensioners. She is just as famous for her 1980s workout videos as she is for winning two Oscars and protesting the Vietnam War. And now, fitness guru Jane Fonda is stepping back into the lycra to release two new exercise DVDs - aimed at old age pensioners. As these pictures show, the 72-year-old actress has managed to maintain the amazing body she flaunted in skimpy aerobic leotards 25 years ago.
-Sponge left inside Palm Beach County judge during surgery nearly kills him-Palm Beach Post Staff Writer- It has been called the “surgeon’s dread.” The most common mistake made in surgery, according to medical journals, is leaving a sponge or instrument inside a patient. County Judge Nelson Bailey knows precisely what happens when something is left behind. After abdominal surgery at Good Samaritan Medical Center for diverticulitis, the pain in the judge’s belly only got worse. Repeatedly, he says, he returned to his primary doctor and complained. Repeatedly, he was sent for CT scans. And repeatedly, the metal marker on the sponge appearing in the scans was misidentified. For five months, the surgical sponge festered near Bailey’s intestines. The pus- and bile-stained mass measured more than a foot long and a foot wide when finally removed and unwound in March. “I was expecting something like a kitchen sponge,” the longtime judge said. “I was shocked.”
-Invalid conditions of criminal probation
-California DUI and Motorcycle Fatalities Highlight Big Declines in Overall Traffic Deaths /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, DUI deaths dropped in 2009. At the same time, motorcycle fatalities saw their first drop since 1998, marking the end to an 11-year, 175 percent increase. DUI and motorcycle deaths were just two of the highlights of a statewide decline in total traffic fatalities of 10.3 percent.
In figures released by the Federal government today, California recorded 950 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2009, a 7.6 percent decline from 1,025 in 2008. The 2009 totals mark a 26.8 percent drop from the 2005 high of 1,298. Motorcycle fatalities dropped by 29.6 percent, from 560 in 2008 to 394 in 2009. Total traffic fatalities from all causes fell from 3,434 in 2008 to 3,081 last year.
-California Supreme Court seems likely to uphold forced state furloughs-Los Angeles Times-The justices' questions to lawyers indicate they'll rule Schwarzenegger's furloughs legal. The furloughs sparked more than 30 lawsuits.
-Hermosa Beach tattoo parlor ban ruled unconstitutional by appeals court -By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times -Tattoos and the art of tattooing... Beach ban on tattoo parlors is unconstitutional...Cheat'n Heart Tattoo in Gardena, after...coastal community. Hermosa Beach officials had refused...said he expected Hermosa Beach officials to reconside
-Don’t ask don’t tell policy of military violates 1st amendment riverside district court judge rules
-FDA says e-cigarette companies must seek regulatory approval
The FDA targets five firms, warning them that e-cigs need to be approved as drugs and/or drug delivery devices.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
Show Notes 9-13-2010
-Plaintiffs May Sue Over Explosion -Lawsuits are likely on the horizon after last week's massive explosion and fire in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno that, as of Friday afternoon, had killed four people, destroyed and damaged more than 40 homes and injured dozens.
-Ageless Cher Turns Back Time to 1989 in a very familiar outfit at the MTV Video Music Awards-at 64
-Fitness guru Jane Fonda looks amazing at 72 in new workout DVD for old age pensioners. She is just as famous for her 1980s workout videos as she is for winning two Oscars and protesting the Vietnam War. And now, fitness guru Jane Fonda is stepping back into the lycra to release two new exercise DVDs - aimed at old age pensioners. As these pictures show, the 72-year-old actress has managed to maintain the amazing body she flaunted in skimpy aerobic leotards 25 years ago.
-Sponge left inside Palm Beach County judge during surgery nearly kills him-Palm Beach Post Staff Writer- It has been called the “surgeon’s dread.” The most common mistake made in surgery, according to medical journals, is leaving a sponge or instrument inside a patient. County Judge Nelson Bailey knows precisely what happens when something is left behind. After abdominal surgery at Good Samaritan Medical Center for diverticulitis, the pain in the judge’s belly only got worse. Repeatedly, he says, he returned to his primary doctor and complained. Repeatedly, he was sent for CT scans. And repeatedly, the metal marker on the sponge appearing in the scans was misidentified. For five months, the surgical sponge festered near Bailey’s intestines. The pus- and bile-stained mass measured more than a foot long and a foot wide when finally removed and unwound in March. “I was expecting something like a kitchen sponge,” the longtime judge said. “I was shocked.”
-Invalid conditions of criminal probation
-California DUI and Motorcycle Fatalities Highlight Big Declines in Overall Traffic Deaths /PRNewswire/ -- For the fourth year in a row, DUI deaths dropped in 2009. At the same time, motorcycle fatalities saw their first drop since 1998, marking the end to an 11-year, 175 percent increase. DUI and motorcycle deaths were just two of the highlights of a statewide decline in total traffic fatalities of 10.3 percent.
In figures released by the Federal government today, California recorded 950 alcohol-impaired driving fatalities in 2009, a 7.6 percent decline from 1,025 in 2008. The 2009 totals mark a 26.8 percent drop from the 2005 high of 1,298. Motorcycle fatalities dropped by 29.6 percent, from 560 in 2008 to 394 in 2009. Total traffic fatalities from all causes fell from 3,434 in 2008 to 3,081 last year.
-California Supreme Court seems likely to uphold forced state furloughs-Los Angeles Times-The justices' questions to lawyers indicate they'll rule Schwarzenegger's furloughs legal. The furloughs sparked more than 30 lawsuits.
-Hermosa Beach tattoo parlor ban ruled unconstitutional by appeals court -By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times -Tattoos and the art of tattooing... Beach ban on tattoo parlors is unconstitutional...Cheat'n Heart Tattoo in Gardena, after...coastal community. Hermosa Beach officials had refused...said he expected Hermosa Beach officials to reconside
-Don’t ask don’t tell policy of military violates 1st amendment riverside district court judge rules
-FDA says e-cigarette companies must seek regulatory approval
The FDA targets five firms, warning them that e-cigs need to be approved as drugs and/or drug delivery devices.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Researchers see Rise in Children's-Sports Related Concussions (with comment by Stephen Jamieson)
By Jennifer Corbett Dooren Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The number of concussions suffered by school-age children appears to be rising even as participation in certain organized team sports declines, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, by researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University, both in Providence, R.I., is the first national look at concussions in school-age kids, who may be more vulnerable to long-term complications from such head injuries than adults.
The study looked at more than 500,000 emergency room visits for concussions in children ages 8-to-19 from 2001 to 2005 with a focus on concussions caused by sports injuries.
Of the approximately 502,000 emergency room visits for concussions, more than 252,000 were sports-related, which included individual sports like bicycling and snow-skiing as well as team sports.
Children ages 8-to-13 had a higher rate of sports-related concussions at 58% than children ages 14-to-19.
The study's lead author, Lisa Bakhos, who is now a pediatric emergency room doctor at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, N.J., said that while many studies have been conducted on the impact of concussions among high-school, college and professional athletes, little is known about sports-related concussions in school-age children.
"We really don't know what the long-term consequences [of concussions] are in kids," Bakhos said. Researchers speculate that concussions in the still growing brains of young children may produce more severe long-term developmental and cognitive problems than a similar injury in an adult. A concussion is caused when the brain is jarred from being hit and temporarily interferes with the way brain works, affecting things like memory, balance, judgment and even sleep patterns.
The study also looked at concussions in children and compared them with participation rates in five organized team sports-- baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey and soccer--from 1997 to 2007.
During that decade, participation in those sports declined by about 13%, but concussion-rated emergency room visits related to the same sports rose substantially during the same time period. ER visits for children ages 8-to-13 doubled from about 3,800 to 7,800, and among children ages 14-to-19, visits tripled from about 7,000 to 22,000.
Bakhos said researchers don't know if the reasons behind the increase are that team sports have become more competitive or if it's because of an increase in reporting rates, or both.
She also noted that the study looks at only ER visits for concussions, and so it underestimates the actual concussion rate. The National Institutes of Health estimates there are more than one million concussions annually in both children and adults.
Bakhos said parents shouldn't shy away from letting their kids participate in sports, but should make sure they and coaches are following good prevention strategies such as wearing helmets. While most athletes wear proper helmets and other protective gear during football games for instance, Bakhos said she's seen practices conducted without helmets.
**Comment by Stephen Jamieson**
Hi Jennifer, I read with great interest your article, as well as others that are coming out in other publications.
For years I have represented athletes who were put back in too early by coaches, trainers, and physicians.
Horrible consequences result from the athletes, particularly children, not accurately reporting how they are feeling and the "professionals" simply relying on the child's assessment of their own condition, without giving adequate weight to the fact that these kids want to "go back in" right away.
This has resulted in a number of 5 to 10 million dollar verdicts and settlements. Perhaps these verdicts and settlements, and the liability that goes with it, has helped to spur the professionals into action. I hope so anyway.
This baseline testing is excellent news.
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The number of concussions suffered by school-age children appears to be rising even as participation in certain organized team sports declines, according to a new study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
The study, by researchers at Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University, both in Providence, R.I., is the first national look at concussions in school-age kids, who may be more vulnerable to long-term complications from such head injuries than adults.
The study looked at more than 500,000 emergency room visits for concussions in children ages 8-to-19 from 2001 to 2005 with a focus on concussions caused by sports injuries.
Of the approximately 502,000 emergency room visits for concussions, more than 252,000 were sports-related, which included individual sports like bicycling and snow-skiing as well as team sports.
Children ages 8-to-13 had a higher rate of sports-related concussions at 58% than children ages 14-to-19.
The study's lead author, Lisa Bakhos, who is now a pediatric emergency room doctor at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, N.J., said that while many studies have been conducted on the impact of concussions among high-school, college and professional athletes, little is known about sports-related concussions in school-age children.
"We really don't know what the long-term consequences [of concussions] are in kids," Bakhos said. Researchers speculate that concussions in the still growing brains of young children may produce more severe long-term developmental and cognitive problems than a similar injury in an adult. A concussion is caused when the brain is jarred from being hit and temporarily interferes with the way brain works, affecting things like memory, balance, judgment and even sleep patterns.
The study also looked at concussions in children and compared them with participation rates in five organized team sports-- baseball, basketball, football, ice hockey and soccer--from 1997 to 2007.
During that decade, participation in those sports declined by about 13%, but concussion-rated emergency room visits related to the same sports rose substantially during the same time period. ER visits for children ages 8-to-13 doubled from about 3,800 to 7,800, and among children ages 14-to-19, visits tripled from about 7,000 to 22,000.
Bakhos said researchers don't know if the reasons behind the increase are that team sports have become more competitive or if it's because of an increase in reporting rates, or both.
She also noted that the study looks at only ER visits for concussions, and so it underestimates the actual concussion rate. The National Institutes of Health estimates there are more than one million concussions annually in both children and adults.
Bakhos said parents shouldn't shy away from letting their kids participate in sports, but should make sure they and coaches are following good prevention strategies such as wearing helmets. While most athletes wear proper helmets and other protective gear during football games for instance, Bakhos said she's seen practices conducted without helmets.
**Comment by Stephen Jamieson**
Hi Jennifer, I read with great interest your article, as well as others that are coming out in other publications.
For years I have represented athletes who were put back in too early by coaches, trainers, and physicians.
Horrible consequences result from the athletes, particularly children, not accurately reporting how they are feeling and the "professionals" simply relying on the child's assessment of their own condition, without giving adequate weight to the fact that these kids want to "go back in" right away.
This has resulted in a number of 5 to 10 million dollar verdicts and settlements. Perhaps these verdicts and settlements, and the liability that goes with it, has helped to spur the professionals into action. I hope so anyway.
This baseline testing is excellent news.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Brain injuries among athletes and the preventative role appropriate lawsuits serve to make the coaches, trainers, and medical personnel more vigilant
Appropriate lawsuits in these instances can make sports safer.
I have represented brain injured and spinal injured athletes and recreators for many years.
The Supreme Court, however, issued several precedential decisions in 1993, and there are government immunities in place per statutes, in an attempt to severely limit liability for sports programs and other "risky" activities. I wonder if the aftermath of those cases and statutes, and their more recent progeny and refinements, have helped to increase the risk for athletes like you describe, and thus cause what appears to be a greater incidence of injuries.
In the United States we accept that people/companies generally tend to do the right thing, or at least more of it more often, when they otherwise risk civil or criminal liability for their failure to do the right thing, keep people safe, fix defective products, etc. Think about car manufacturers and manufacturers of other products, or wayward financial institutions, for examples.
The development over the years of the immunities available to government entities, like school districts, perhaps have allowed the administrators to become complacent in their duties to keep kids safe and to make sure that training and competition is done in the safest manner and method possible.
Perhaps the greater incidence of injuries, and difference in attitude, you describe in your articles is directly or indirectly the result of years of immunities taking their toll. These things seem to go in cycles and the current state of the law and immunities should be reviewed and evaluated in light of the serious and dangerous effect on our children. The Supreme Court and Legislators attempt to impose personal responsibility on those that engage in sports and recreation. Personal responsibility for one's actions and activities is certainly a laudable goal, but particularly when we are talking about children (even older college age "children"), subject to authority figures like coaches, trainers, and administrators perhaps requires more oversight and legal liability for those that do become complacent in satisfying those duties to our kids. Perhaps the personal responsibility should be that of those responsible for the training and programs, those that are tasked with increasing safety and reducing risk.
Appropriate lawsuits in these instances can make sports safer.
Stephen A. Jamieson, Esq.
I have represented brain injured and spinal injured athletes and recreators for many years.
The Supreme Court, however, issued several precedential decisions in 1993, and there are government immunities in place per statutes, in an attempt to severely limit liability for sports programs and other "risky" activities. I wonder if the aftermath of those cases and statutes, and their more recent progeny and refinements, have helped to increase the risk for athletes like you describe, and thus cause what appears to be a greater incidence of injuries.
In the United States we accept that people/companies generally tend to do the right thing, or at least more of it more often, when they otherwise risk civil or criminal liability for their failure to do the right thing, keep people safe, fix defective products, etc. Think about car manufacturers and manufacturers of other products, or wayward financial institutions, for examples.
The development over the years of the immunities available to government entities, like school districts, perhaps have allowed the administrators to become complacent in their duties to keep kids safe and to make sure that training and competition is done in the safest manner and method possible.
Perhaps the greater incidence of injuries, and difference in attitude, you describe in your articles is directly or indirectly the result of years of immunities taking their toll. These things seem to go in cycles and the current state of the law and immunities should be reviewed and evaluated in light of the serious and dangerous effect on our children. The Supreme Court and Legislators attempt to impose personal responsibility on those that engage in sports and recreation. Personal responsibility for one's actions and activities is certainly a laudable goal, but particularly when we are talking about children (even older college age "children"), subject to authority figures like coaches, trainers, and administrators perhaps requires more oversight and legal liability for those that do become complacent in satisfying those duties to our kids. Perhaps the personal responsibility should be that of those responsible for the training and programs, those that are tasked with increasing safety and reducing risk.
Appropriate lawsuits in these instances can make sports safer.
Stephen A. Jamieson, Esq.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers legal suggestions each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
Legal Help Live Show Notes 9-1-10
-HERE COMES THE JUDGE- Manhattan Judge James Gibbons quits after massive porn cache is found on work computer- porn on court computer linked system-employers can moniter
-HEALTH DEPARTMENT-Berlin 'cannibal' restaurant calls for diners to donate body parts for menu. A website advertising a new restaurant in Germany has called for humans to donate body parts for the menu causing outrage.
-Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio-WARSAW, Ohio (AP) - Strippers dressed in bikinis sunbathe in lawn chairs, their backs turned toward the gray clapboard church where men in ties and women in full-length skirts flock to Sunday morning services. The strippers, fueled by Cheetos and nicotine, are protesting a fundamentalist Christian church whose Bible-brandishing congregants have picketed the club where they work. The dancers roll up with signs carrying messages adapted from Scripture, such as "Do unto others as you would have done unto you," to counter church members who for four years have photographed license plates of patrons and asked them if their mothers and wives know their whereabouts. The dueling demonstrations play out in central Ohio, where nine miles of cornfields and Amish-buggy crossing signs separate The Fox Hole strip clu
-BRAIN DAMAGES AND LAWSUIT
-PARIS HILTON ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF COCAINE
-LA POT ORDINACE- THERE ARE 169 TRYING TO CLOSE 128 FOR CHANGE IN OWENERSHIP OR MANAGEMENT
-Lindsay Lohan Is Licensed To Drive . . . Again-TV.com - Now that Lindsay Lohan is a free woman again, after serving 14 days in jail and 22 days in rehab to satisfy her probation violation for her 2007 DUI
-Self-checkout alcohol ban-In politics, things often are not as they seem. A case in point is Assembly Bill 1060, now awaiting action by the governor, a bill touted by proponents as necessary to prevent teens from obtaining alcohol and lessen incidences of drunken driving. Neither could be farther from the truth, and proponents should be ashamed for lending their names to a blatant union attack on California businesses having the audacity to innovate and improve
-Paralyzed high school player sues helmet maker Riddell-A Los Angeles attorney has filed suit against football-helmet manufacturer Riddell on behalf of an 18-year-old Pomona athlete who suffered permanent brain damage last season. Playing defensive tackle for Garey High School in an October game against Montclair High, Edward Acuna took a hit to the front of his helmet in the fourth quarter and quickly lost consciousness. He suffered a left subdural hematoma and was left partially paralyzed.
His attorney, Ilyas Akbari, claims there is a defect with the padding in the front of the helmet. "Our information is that Riddell Sports has known about this particular defect in their helmets for at least a decade," Akbari said. "It is a parent's worst nightmare to see their child suffer a catastrophic injury while playing the sport they love, especially when that injury could have been avoided by a known and simple fix." Riddell officials were not immediately available for comment. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.
-E-Cigarettes Spark New Smoking War-While the federal case is pending, sellers of e-cigarettes and "juice"—the nicotine-laced liquid that goes into the devices—continue to pop up online and in malls. 7-Eleven Inc. stores in California, New York, Texas and a handful of other states recently began selling an e-cigarette brand. Costco Wholesale Corp. in April stopped selling a version on its website because of concerns about the FDA's stance. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also briefly offered a product on its website this year but discontinued it because it didn't attract much demand and the company was concerned about the FDA's position, a spokesman said.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
Legal Help Live Show Notes 9-1-10
-HERE COMES THE JUDGE- Manhattan Judge James Gibbons quits after massive porn cache is found on work computer- porn on court computer linked system-employers can moniter
-HEALTH DEPARTMENT-Berlin 'cannibal' restaurant calls for diners to donate body parts for menu. A website advertising a new restaurant in Germany has called for humans to donate body parts for the menu causing outrage.
-Bikini-clad strippers protest church in rural Ohio-WARSAW, Ohio (AP) - Strippers dressed in bikinis sunbathe in lawn chairs, their backs turned toward the gray clapboard church where men in ties and women in full-length skirts flock to Sunday morning services. The strippers, fueled by Cheetos and nicotine, are protesting a fundamentalist Christian church whose Bible-brandishing congregants have picketed the club where they work. The dancers roll up with signs carrying messages adapted from Scripture, such as "Do unto others as you would have done unto you," to counter church members who for four years have photographed license plates of patrons and asked them if their mothers and wives know their whereabouts. The dueling demonstrations play out in central Ohio, where nine miles of cornfields and Amish-buggy crossing signs separate The Fox Hole strip clu
-BRAIN DAMAGES AND LAWSUIT
-PARIS HILTON ARRESTED FOR POSSESSION OF COCAINE
-LA POT ORDINACE- THERE ARE 169 TRYING TO CLOSE 128 FOR CHANGE IN OWENERSHIP OR MANAGEMENT
-Lindsay Lohan Is Licensed To Drive . . . Again-TV.com - Now that Lindsay Lohan is a free woman again, after serving 14 days in jail and 22 days in rehab to satisfy her probation violation for her 2007 DUI
-Self-checkout alcohol ban-In politics, things often are not as they seem. A case in point is Assembly Bill 1060, now awaiting action by the governor, a bill touted by proponents as necessary to prevent teens from obtaining alcohol and lessen incidences of drunken driving. Neither could be farther from the truth, and proponents should be ashamed for lending their names to a blatant union attack on California businesses having the audacity to innovate and improve
-Paralyzed high school player sues helmet maker Riddell-A Los Angeles attorney has filed suit against football-helmet manufacturer Riddell on behalf of an 18-year-old Pomona athlete who suffered permanent brain damage last season. Playing defensive tackle for Garey High School in an October game against Montclair High, Edward Acuna took a hit to the front of his helmet in the fourth quarter and quickly lost consciousness. He suffered a left subdural hematoma and was left partially paralyzed.
His attorney, Ilyas Akbari, claims there is a defect with the padding in the front of the helmet. "Our information is that Riddell Sports has known about this particular defect in their helmets for at least a decade," Akbari said. "It is a parent's worst nightmare to see their child suffer a catastrophic injury while playing the sport they love, especially when that injury could have been avoided by a known and simple fix." Riddell officials were not immediately available for comment. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.
-E-Cigarettes Spark New Smoking War-While the federal case is pending, sellers of e-cigarettes and "juice"—the nicotine-laced liquid that goes into the devices—continue to pop up online and in malls. 7-Eleven Inc. stores in California, New York, Texas and a handful of other states recently began selling an e-cigarette brand. Costco Wholesale Corp. in April stopped selling a version on its website because of concerns about the FDA's stance. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also briefly offered a product on its website this year but discontinued it because it didn't attract much demand and the company was concerned about the FDA's position, a spokesman said.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Show Notes 8-18-2010
Legal Help Live offers legal suggestions each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
Show Notes 8-18-2010
-HEALTH DEPARTMENT CLOSES 7 YEAR OLD LEMONADE STAND-PORTLAND, Ore. — A county official in Oregon has apologized after health inspectors soured a 7-year-old's business venture by shutting down her lemonade stand.
Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, the county's top elected official, said the inspectors were "following the rule book," The Oregonian reported, but that regulators should take into consideration the intent of the food safety rules: To govern adults running professional food businesses.
-SECOND-CLASS AT THIRD BASE -The News In Major League Baseball, a racial disparity between the proportion of minority coaches at first base and those in the more prestigious third-base spot has been growing, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Behind the News The gap is meaningful because third-base coaches earn more and often use the job as a springboard to a managerial position. Despite baseball’s commitments to diversity, only 23 percent of third-base coaches are members of minorities, compared with 67 percent of first-base coaches. As a whole, 40percent of major-leaguers are black, Hispanic or Asian.
-$5.5M settlement reached in Redondo Beach cheerleader's injury-County officials are expected to finalize a $5.5 million settlement Tuesday in a medical malpractice case brought by the family of a Redondo Beach girl who suffered permanent brain damage after a cheerleading accident three years ago. The payment is one of the largest in county history for medical malpractice, due largely to the high cost of the girl's ongoing medical needs, county officials said. "This is obviously a very terrible situation," said Rich Mason, an attorney for the county. "We are pleased to have come to a mutual agreement and put this matter behind us." Elizabeth Nicks, now 15, was taken to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance after toppling to the ground during a pyramid-style cheerleading stunt at Aviation Park on Aug. 30, 2007.
She was diagnosed with a relatively small subdural hematoma, or bleeding of the brain, and was initially released after five days of observation, said William Karns, an attorney representing the family. "Over the course of her stay from Aug. 30to Sept. 4, she developed signs that indicated her subdural hematoma had increased in size throughout her hospitalization," Karns said. "Harbor-UCLA chose not to perform a CT scan upon discharge. If they had, they would have seen that the hematoma had grown in size and would have operated."
-Paris Hilton sued for $35M for wearing wrong hair -By ANTHONY McCARTNEY
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton was sued Wednesday for allegedly wearing someone else's hair. A company that manufactures hair extensions claimed the 29-year-old socialite breached her contract to wear and promote their product when she sported the fake locks of a competitor in 2008. Hairtech International Inc. is seeking $35 million in damages - 10 times what she was apparently paid under the contract. The fraud and breach-of-contract suit cites the heiress' partying as contrary to Hairtech's marketing campaign.
-Suit Sees Lead Risk in Bounce Houses -SAN FRANCISCO — It may be one of the most beloved activities of hyperactive children and the parents who love them: bouncing in a bounce house. But, according to Attorney General Jerry Brown of California, it may also be toxic.
-Death row inmate dies of natural causes-San Francisco Chronicle - A former nurse sentenced to death for the killing of 12 patients at two hospitals in Riverside County in 1981 has died. Officials at San Quentin State
-Democrats may pay political price for Obama's words on NYC mosque -Obama Beer: Cop and Professor Gates at White House, Open Talk ...The Great Obama beer fest, with cop and professor is on at the White ... a lifetime of racial oppression while attending Yale Law School
-Church holds fate of nearby store's alcohol licenseJetBlue flight attendant »
The Price of Steven Slater's JetBlue Flight
CBS News - Harry Smith spoke with legal analyst Jack Ford about the charges against Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. CBS News Legal Analyst Jack Ford said the charges brought against him for his behavior are criminal mischief, reckless endangerment
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Show Notes 8-18-2010
-HEALTH DEPARTMENT CLOSES 7 YEAR OLD LEMONADE STAND-PORTLAND, Ore. — A county official in Oregon has apologized after health inspectors soured a 7-year-old's business venture by shutting down her lemonade stand.
Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, the county's top elected official, said the inspectors were "following the rule book," The Oregonian reported, but that regulators should take into consideration the intent of the food safety rules: To govern adults running professional food businesses.
-SECOND-CLASS AT THIRD BASE -The News In Major League Baseball, a racial disparity between the proportion of minority coaches at first base and those in the more prestigious third-base spot has been growing, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Behind the News The gap is meaningful because third-base coaches earn more and often use the job as a springboard to a managerial position. Despite baseball’s commitments to diversity, only 23 percent of third-base coaches are members of minorities, compared with 67 percent of first-base coaches. As a whole, 40percent of major-leaguers are black, Hispanic or Asian.
-$5.5M settlement reached in Redondo Beach cheerleader's injury-County officials are expected to finalize a $5.5 million settlement Tuesday in a medical malpractice case brought by the family of a Redondo Beach girl who suffered permanent brain damage after a cheerleading accident three years ago. The payment is one of the largest in county history for medical malpractice, due largely to the high cost of the girl's ongoing medical needs, county officials said. "This is obviously a very terrible situation," said Rich Mason, an attorney for the county. "We are pleased to have come to a mutual agreement and put this matter behind us." Elizabeth Nicks, now 15, was taken to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center near Torrance after toppling to the ground during a pyramid-style cheerleading stunt at Aviation Park on Aug. 30, 2007.
She was diagnosed with a relatively small subdural hematoma, or bleeding of the brain, and was initially released after five days of observation, said William Karns, an attorney representing the family. "Over the course of her stay from Aug. 30to Sept. 4, she developed signs that indicated her subdural hematoma had increased in size throughout her hospitalization," Karns said. "Harbor-UCLA chose not to perform a CT scan upon discharge. If they had, they would have seen that the hematoma had grown in size and would have operated."
-Paris Hilton sued for $35M for wearing wrong hair -By ANTHONY McCARTNEY
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Paris Hilton was sued Wednesday for allegedly wearing someone else's hair. A company that manufactures hair extensions claimed the 29-year-old socialite breached her contract to wear and promote their product when she sported the fake locks of a competitor in 2008. Hairtech International Inc. is seeking $35 million in damages - 10 times what she was apparently paid under the contract. The fraud and breach-of-contract suit cites the heiress' partying as contrary to Hairtech's marketing campaign.
-Suit Sees Lead Risk in Bounce Houses -SAN FRANCISCO — It may be one of the most beloved activities of hyperactive children and the parents who love them: bouncing in a bounce house. But, according to Attorney General Jerry Brown of California, it may also be toxic.
-Death row inmate dies of natural causes-San Francisco Chronicle - A former nurse sentenced to death for the killing of 12 patients at two hospitals in Riverside County in 1981 has died. Officials at San Quentin State
-Democrats may pay political price for Obama's words on NYC mosque -Obama Beer: Cop and Professor Gates at White House, Open Talk ...The Great Obama beer fest, with cop and professor is on at the White ... a lifetime of racial oppression while attending Yale Law School
-Church holds fate of nearby store's alcohol licenseJetBlue flight attendant »
The Price of Steven Slater's JetBlue Flight
CBS News - Harry Smith spoke with legal analyst Jack Ford about the charges against Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater. CBS News Legal Analyst Jack Ford said the charges brought against him for his behavior are criminal mischief, reckless endangerment
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Legal Help Live Show Notes
Legal Help Live offers free legal advice each Wednesday at 4 PM. During the show the Hosts take calls from viewers with legal situations from parking tickets to personal injury. Viewers can catch the show on LA cable channel 36 or 16 in Santa Monica. Online the show can be viewed on LA36.org.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 8-4-2010
-CITY OF BELL PENSION-CM $ 600,000 A YEAR PENSION-POLICE CHIEF 411,300
PENSION -Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, convicted of
witness tampering, receives a pension of about $215,000 a year. Robert
Citron, who led Orange County into bankruptcy in 1994, collects
$142,000. And Former Vernon City Manager Bruce Malkenhorst Sr.,
indicted for misappropriating public funds, collects the highest
public pension in California, $509,664.
-Does this make my butt look big? Good. -You know you're not on the cutting edge of fashion when you learn about a new trend from the Wall Street Journal, as I did this week in reading a front-page story about the growing market for padded
undergarments to enhance a woman's rear end. Talk about being behind
the curve; there I was still trying to slim down at the gym while JLo,
Beyoncé and maybe even "Mad Men's" uber-curvaceous Joan Holloway were
moving tastes in the other directio
-PERSONAL INJURY & TORTS Adults Who Serve Minors Liable-By Ciaran McEvoy -Daily Journal Staff Writer -A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing
lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors in the
home passed the State Assembly and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger. AB 2486 the Teen Alcohol Safety Act of 2010 passed by
a 67-1 vote. The bill was inspired by the December 2008 death of
17-year-old Shelby Allen of Redding, who died from alcohol poisoning
at a friend's home with the parents present. California is one of only
three states that prohibit civil liability against adults in cases of
alcohol-related injury or death.
-VA ALLOWS MED MARAJUANA IN 14 STATES CA IS INCLUDED
Long Beach City Council votes to pursue medical marijuana tax -8 to 1 on Tuesday night to hold a%The Long Beach City Council voted public hearing next month on whether to place a measure on the November ballot that would levy a 5% tax on medical marijuana
collectives.
-Man falls off surgical table; St. Joseph's Hospital sued-When straps holding a 300-pound, 61-year-old St. Paul man to a surgical table failed, he hit his head on the floor and later died.
-22,700 died since 2007 in Mexican drug war-la times
-Some customers heated over indoor ‘tan tax,' which was part of health-care law-10 percent
-Goldman's $550 million SEC settlement: Who gets the money? -Of the $550 million that Goldman Sachs Group on Thursday agreed to pay to settle the government’s securities fraud suit against the company,$300 million will go to the Treasury as a penalty.
Your share as one of 310 million Americans: about 97 cents. The other $250 million will reimburse two sophisticated investors that were among Europe’s biggest casualties of the global financial-system crash. They were the ones Goldman allegedly duped -- although the Wall Street titan had insisted to the SEC that the investors knew exactly
what they were getting into, or should have known. The German bank IKB in 2007 bought $150 million of the subprime-mortgage-related securities that Goldman concocted and sold.
The SEC alleges that Goldman failed to disclose in its marketing materials that the securities were chosen in part by a hedge fund thatwas betting on their failure.
IKB lost its entire $150 million as the securities crumbled in value with the housing bust. It will get all of that back from Goldman. Interestingly enough, IKB had its own struggle with accurate disclosure: The bank’s former CEO on Wednesday was convicted in
Germany of misleading IKB’s investors about the extent of the bank’s investments in U.S. subprime loans in 2007. IKB required a series of German government bailouts in 2007 and 2008. It was sold later in 2008 to Lone Star Funds, a Dallas-based private
equity firm. Goldman also will pay $100 million to Royal Bank of Scotland, which
bought the Dutch bank ABN AMRO in late 2007. Via credit default swaps, ABN AMRO in 2007 had agreed to insure the highest-quality portions of the Goldman securities. It was a bad move: The collapse of the securities left ABN AMRO on the hook for $841 million. That’s what Royal Bank of Scotland paid to Goldman in August 2008 to unwind the insurance deal. Most of that sum was subsequently paid by Goldman to Paulson & Co., the hedge fund that had helped design the deal. Royal Bank of Scotland had to be rescued by the British government in late 2008 as the bank’s credit losses deepened. Goldman shouldn't have much trouble writing those reimbursement checks: The $550 million amounts to just 16% of the $3.46 billion the firm earned in the first quarter alone, and 4% of its $13.4-billion in full-year 2009 profit
-PERSONAL INJURY & TORTS-Adults Who Serve Minors Liable-By Ciaran McEvoy-Daily Journal
A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors in the home passed the State Assembly and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. AB 2486 the Teen Alcohol Safety Act of 2010 passed by a 67-1 vote. The bill was inspired by the December 2008 death of 17-year-old Shelby Allen of Redding, who died from alcohol poisoning at a friend's home with the parents present. California is one of only three states that prohibit civil liability against adults in cases of alcohol-related injury or death.
-Ex-NFL Player Sues Electronic Arts-By Jean-Luc Renault-Daily Journal Staff Writer
A former professional football player has claimed in a federal class action that a major video game publisher improperly used his and other retired athletes' likenesses in a popular game without permission. The complaint, filed in San Francisco last week, is the latest round in an ongoing fight over the use of professional and college athletes'
images in video games. Athletes have filed several lawsuits against publisher Electronic Arts in recent years, claiming right-of-publicity and trademark violations under both California and federal law.
-Are Medical Marijuana Dispensaries on the Chopping Block?-By Ellin Davtyan
Local governments throughout California are anxiously awaiting the ruling in Qualified Patients Association v. City of Anaheim (G040077). The issue before the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division Three, is one of first impression on whether local governments can enact regulations entirely prohibiting the operation of medical marijuana
dispensaries.
If you'd like to ask the Hosts a question call 1(800)405-4222
SHOW TOPICS 8-4-2010
-CITY OF BELL PENSION-CM $ 600,000 A YEAR PENSION-POLICE CHIEF 411,300
PENSION -Former Orange County Sheriff Michael S. Carona, convicted of
witness tampering, receives a pension of about $215,000 a year. Robert
Citron, who led Orange County into bankruptcy in 1994, collects
$142,000. And Former Vernon City Manager Bruce Malkenhorst Sr.,
indicted for misappropriating public funds, collects the highest
public pension in California, $509,664.
-Does this make my butt look big? Good. -You know you're not on the cutting edge of fashion when you learn about a new trend from the Wall Street Journal, as I did this week in reading a front-page story about the growing market for padded
undergarments to enhance a woman's rear end. Talk about being behind
the curve; there I was still trying to slim down at the gym while JLo,
Beyoncé and maybe even "Mad Men's" uber-curvaceous Joan Holloway were
moving tastes in the other directio
-PERSONAL INJURY & TORTS Adults Who Serve Minors Liable-By Ciaran McEvoy -Daily Journal Staff Writer -A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing
lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors in the
home passed the State Assembly and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger. AB 2486 the Teen Alcohol Safety Act of 2010 passed by
a 67-1 vote. The bill was inspired by the December 2008 death of
17-year-old Shelby Allen of Redding, who died from alcohol poisoning
at a friend's home with the parents present. California is one of only
three states that prohibit civil liability against adults in cases of
alcohol-related injury or death.
-VA ALLOWS MED MARAJUANA IN 14 STATES CA IS INCLUDED
Long Beach City Council votes to pursue medical marijuana tax -8 to 1 on Tuesday night to hold a%The Long Beach City Council voted public hearing next month on whether to place a measure on the November ballot that would levy a 5% tax on medical marijuana
collectives.
-Man falls off surgical table; St. Joseph's Hospital sued-When straps holding a 300-pound, 61-year-old St. Paul man to a surgical table failed, he hit his head on the floor and later died.
-22,700 died since 2007 in Mexican drug war-la times
-Some customers heated over indoor ‘tan tax,' which was part of health-care law-10 percent
-Goldman's $550 million SEC settlement: Who gets the money? -Of the $550 million that Goldman Sachs Group on Thursday agreed to pay to settle the government’s securities fraud suit against the company,$300 million will go to the Treasury as a penalty.
Your share as one of 310 million Americans: about 97 cents. The other $250 million will reimburse two sophisticated investors that were among Europe’s biggest casualties of the global financial-system crash. They were the ones Goldman allegedly duped -- although the Wall Street titan had insisted to the SEC that the investors knew exactly
what they were getting into, or should have known. The German bank IKB in 2007 bought $150 million of the subprime-mortgage-related securities that Goldman concocted and sold.
The SEC alleges that Goldman failed to disclose in its marketing materials that the securities were chosen in part by a hedge fund thatwas betting on their failure.
IKB lost its entire $150 million as the securities crumbled in value with the housing bust. It will get all of that back from Goldman. Interestingly enough, IKB had its own struggle with accurate disclosure: The bank’s former CEO on Wednesday was convicted in
Germany of misleading IKB’s investors about the extent of the bank’s investments in U.S. subprime loans in 2007. IKB required a series of German government bailouts in 2007 and 2008. It was sold later in 2008 to Lone Star Funds, a Dallas-based private
equity firm. Goldman also will pay $100 million to Royal Bank of Scotland, which
bought the Dutch bank ABN AMRO in late 2007. Via credit default swaps, ABN AMRO in 2007 had agreed to insure the highest-quality portions of the Goldman securities. It was a bad move: The collapse of the securities left ABN AMRO on the hook for $841 million. That’s what Royal Bank of Scotland paid to Goldman in August 2008 to unwind the insurance deal. Most of that sum was subsequently paid by Goldman to Paulson & Co., the hedge fund that had helped design the deal. Royal Bank of Scotland had to be rescued by the British government in late 2008 as the bank’s credit losses deepened. Goldman shouldn't have much trouble writing those reimbursement checks: The $550 million amounts to just 16% of the $3.46 billion the firm earned in the first quarter alone, and 4% of its $13.4-billion in full-year 2009 profit
-PERSONAL INJURY & TORTS-Adults Who Serve Minors Liable-By Ciaran McEvoy-Daily Journal
A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors in the home passed the State Assembly and awaits the signature of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. AB 2486 the Teen Alcohol Safety Act of 2010 passed by a 67-1 vote. The bill was inspired by the December 2008 death of 17-year-old Shelby Allen of Redding, who died from alcohol poisoning at a friend's home with the parents present. California is one of only three states that prohibit civil liability against adults in cases of alcohol-related injury or death.
-Ex-NFL Player Sues Electronic Arts-By Jean-Luc Renault-Daily Journal Staff Writer
A former professional football player has claimed in a federal class action that a major video game publisher improperly used his and other retired athletes' likenesses in a popular game without permission. The complaint, filed in San Francisco last week, is the latest round in an ongoing fight over the use of professional and college athletes'
images in video games. Athletes have filed several lawsuits against publisher Electronic Arts in recent years, claiming right-of-publicity and trademark violations under both California and federal law.
-Are Medical Marijuana Dispensaries on the Chopping Block?-By Ellin Davtyan
Local governments throughout California are anxiously awaiting the ruling in Qualified Patients Association v. City of Anaheim (G040077). The issue before the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division Three, is one of first impression on whether local governments can enact regulations entirely prohibiting the operation of medical marijuana
dispensaries.
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