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9 Apr 8:25 pm
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Idaho State Police
District 5 5255 S. 5th Avenue, Suite 1
Pocatello, Idaho 83204
(208) 239-9800 FAX: (208) 239-9885
For Immediate Release: 04/09/21 9:25 p.m.
Please direct questions to the District Office
On Friday, April 9, 2021 at approximately 1:17 p.m., Idaho State Police investigated a two-vehicle injury crash on northbound US91 at milepost 32, just south of Downey.
Jeremiah J. Hancock, 37, of Lava Hot Springs, and… [read
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9 Apr 8:09 pm
“For a final collection, RBG picked her favorite arguments and opinions”: Online at The Washington Post, Jeffrey Rosen has this review of the book “Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union,” by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Amanda L. Tyler. [read
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9 Apr 7:20 pm
“Must the Justices Create a Trustworthy Press? Why not just hire smart people and ask them (or free them) to do honest reporting?” Columnist Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. will have this op-ed in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal. [read
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9 Apr 7:16 pm
You have a loved one in prison. He hung out with some people who were not his friends and got involved in a robbery. You want to shorten what seems like an unfair sentence. Are you looking for a commutation or a pardon? It depends on whether your loved one has completed his or her sentence. If you want to get someone out of prison, a commutation could shorten their sentence. If your loved one has completed their sentence and cannot seal or expunge their record, they can petition for a pardon. A commutation can be granted for health reasons or if it appears your loved one has… [read
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9 Apr 7:14 pm
“Clarence Thomas is right. Big Tech will have its day in court, eventually.” Columnist George F. Will has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read
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9 Apr 7:14 pm
We continue to update our “About Sites,” that help explain the most common food borne illnesses and the syndromes caused by these infections – please see www.about-campylobacter.com.
Campylobacter is a genus of bacteria that is among the most common causes of bacterial diarrheal illness in humans worldwide. The name means “curved rod,” derived from the Greek campylos (curved) and baktron (rod). While there are dozens of species, three represent the main sources of human infection: Campylobacter jejuni, Campylobacter coli, and Campylobacter lari. C.… [read
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9 Apr 7:12 pm
“The right’s judicial movement perfected dark money. It takes chutzpah for them to decry it now.” Columnist Ruth Marcus has this essay online at The Washington Post. [read
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9 Apr 7:08 pm
“Biden Commissions the Supreme Court; His panel on court-packing tilts sharply to the legal and political left”: This editorial will appear in Saturday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal.
And online at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has a jurisprudence essay titled “Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Commission Shows He Doesn’t Really Want Court Reform; He’s not even asking for recommendations!“ [read
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9 Apr 6:51 pm
It is not uncommon for people to be familiar with one another without knowing each other’s names. As such, if a person witnesses a casual acquaintance committing a crime, the police and prosecution may rely on pictures or video to help the witness identify the offender. Recently, a Washington court addressed the issue of whether social media posts used to identify a criminal defendant are admissible as evidence in an assault case or if doing so violates the constitutional right to confront a witness. If you are accused of assault, it is vital to meet with a skillful Washington… [read
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9 Apr 6:41 pm
Here in California, the law recognized several types of “duties,” which are legal obligations that people and entities have to others. One of those is the general duty every person and/or entity has to “exercise reasonable care for the safety of others.” If you are hurt because someone didn’t act reasonably to fulfill that obligation, then that failure may constitute negligence. If that negligence took place while you were on someone else’s property, then you may have a potentially winning claim for premises liability and the opportunity to collect a… [read
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9 Apr 6:38 pm
The Oneida County Health Department has learned that an employee of Roma Sausage and Deli has tested positive for Hepatitis A. The employee worked while infectious and may have exposed people who were customers of the shop.
The Health Department is alerting those who consumed tomato pie from either of Roma Sausage and Deli’s locations at Washington Mills or Utica of the potential exposure.
The Hepatitis vaccine is available if given within two weeks of exposure. For those who consumed tomato pie prepared by the shop on March 27, 28, 30, or 31, you must receive preventive… [read
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9 Apr 6:25 pm
The majority of cruise ships employ doctors to provide medical care to passengers who become ill while on board. Cruise ship doctors, like other medical professionals, can be held accountable if they commit malpractice, but they are not always held to the same standards as other physicians. In a recent Florida opinion, a court discussed the burden of proof imposed on a plaintiff alleging harm caused by a cruise ship doctor’s malpractice. If you suffered harm due to the carelessness of a health care provider, you could be owed damages, and it is advisable to speak to a skillful… [read
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9 Apr 6:16 pm
"... toward issues of happiness, love, and spirituality. This deepened some of our friendships, and in other cases showed us that a more fulfilling relationship wasn’t going to be possible—and, thus, where to put less energy.... The key to building perfect friendships is to see relationships not as stepping stones to something else, but as boons to pursue for their own sake. One way to do this is to make friends not just outside your workplace, but outside all of your professional and educational networks. Strike up a friendship with someone who truly can do nothing for you… [read
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9 Apr 6:13 pm
When an employee, former employee, or potential employee seeks to assert an Atlanta employment law claim, he or she must do so in a timely fashion. The exact time for the filing of a claim is dependent upon both the applicable law and the factual circumstances at hand.
For instance, in a “whistleblower” suit filed under Georgia state law, a formal complaint must be filed within one year of the date that the plaintiff discovered the alleged retaliation (but no longer than three years after the retaliatory action). Other factors may come into play as well, but this one-year… [read
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9 Apr 5:56 pm
Comedic takes on family law disputes, like the country song called “She Got the Goldmine (I Got the Shaft)”, are common in popular culture. That song, which teaches that “alimony” rhymes with “baloney,” is one of many where one party believes that the outcome was grossly one-sided and unfair. Here in Florida, there are certain statutory safeguards to help ensure that the outcomes the legal system produces in real life are not ones where the supported spouse exits the marriage “living large” while the supporting spouse is destitute. When… [read
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9 Apr 5:50 pm
A reader named Carl emails.I don't think he's trying to be funny, but that made me laugh. Questions are a literary device — often found in books, where there's never a comments section — unless you scrawl marginalia. I would never undertake to squelch the questions in my writing. They come up naturally as I'm thinking in real time. To form a question is to get somewhere into thinking about a topic. It's progress. It's a thought, not merely a failure to complete a thought. Not every question demands an answer. It might be a rhetorical question. But even when it's a… [read
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9 Apr 5:33 pm
Law.com has Edward DuMont, Former California Solicitor and Wilmer Partner, Joins Stanford Law. He will be the Herman Phleger Visiting Professor of Law.And in other SCOTUS-related news, Law360 has Jones Day Picks Up 9 More Former Supreme Court Clerks and Bloomberg has Jones Day Adds Nine U.S. Supreme Court Clerks from 2019-20 Term (but none will be in the firm's California offices).The Recorder's On Appeals column also Ben Feuer and Rex Heinke's What In-House Counsel Wishes They'd Known About Appeals:They wish they had known to plan for appeals in their… [read
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9 Apr 5:25 pm
In a Syracuse medical malpractice case, the plaintiff has the burden of proving that the defendant medical provider breached the applicable standard of care. This standard must be determined on a case-by-case basis because not every doctor, nurse, or medical clinic owes a patient the same duty.
For instance, physicians in different specialties may have different duties to diagnose a particular disease in a patient. This means that a general practitioner or “family doctor” might not be expected to recognize a rare disease or illness in every situation.
It should also be… [read
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