FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Someone is booked into jail for murder, and then released. Some people find this unfathomable. First, it’s not murder until there’s a conviction. Second, the Constitution ...
In 2011, Robert McCoy was tried on three counts of first-degree murder for the 2008 shooting deaths of Christine and Willie Young – the mother and stepfather of McCoy’s estranged wife, Yolanda – and ...
This article was published in the October 2017 issue of AGC's ConsensusDocs Construction Law Newsletter (Volume 3, Issue 5). It is reprinted here with permission. At its core, the FCA is designed to ...
Under the Lanham Act, a plaintiff who prevails on a trademark infringement claim may be entitled to recover the “defendant’s profits” as damages. The Supreme Court in Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry ...
Defendant as Plaintiff’s Expert Witness: Part 2 In Part 2 of his two-part series, Robert Genis explores how plaintiffs can examine defendants as expert witnesses, including the breadth of permissible ...
Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...
A Black defendant has received a new trial in a Michigan court after a district judge, who is white, said that the defendant “looks like a criminal.” The Washington Post reported that in a 3-0 ...
In Part I of his two-part series, Bob Genis reviews how the plaintiff s in negligence and malpractice cases can strategically require the defendant to appear at trial during the plaintiff’s direct ...