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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Hospital's radiology contractor must answer negligence claim over patient death, per third-party doctrine

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Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Terageorge~commonswiki via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 A hospital's radiology contractor ma...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Hospitals may track patients online and sell their data without violating state wiretap law, high court rules

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Mike MacKenzie (via Flickr ) CC BY 2.0 State wiretap law does not prevent hospitals from tracking patients on the web and selling their dat...
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Transparency never goes out of style

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This autumn, I am privileged to serve as a new member of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Advisory Committee, a U.S. federal entity con...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Niagara conference on workplace mobbing examines failure of academic freedom to prevent abuse

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NCWM participants at Niagara University in July © used with permission With colleagues from around the world, I participated, as chair of th...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Enríquez disputes impact of marijuana offenses on federal sentencing since legalization in Missouri

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The extraordinary scientist-lawyer Paul Enríquez argued an intriguing problem on the effect of legalization on federal sentencing in the Eig...
Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Remembering peaceful times in Tyre

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I'm saddened by the expansion of the war in the Middle East into Lebanon upon yesterday's attacks by Israel on Hezbollah. To be clea...
Monday, September 23, 2024

IP, business stories of Tupperware bankruptcy minimize female marketing pioneer, dangers of plastics

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Brownie Wise on Business Week in 1954 via America Comes Alive ; © fair use The Tupperware bankruptcy has been much in the news , though the ...
Friday, September 20, 2024

Possibility that 'Titan' victims died instantly works curious disadvantage in tort claims over disaster

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Still image of Titan wreckage from USCG video (below). Hearings over the Titan submersible disaster point to the problem of compensation fo...
Thursday, September 19, 2024

Spoliation risk shows ill wisdom of state awarding contract to defendant in lawsuit over same project

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The eastbound span of the Washington Bridge remains functional. Jef Nickerson via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0 The state of Rhode Island has found i...
Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Remembering Professor Frances S. Fendler

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Congregation B'nai Israel Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024, RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 At Congregation B'nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkan...