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SCOTUS and a Well Told Fish Story – Kudos to Brian Murray and Meghan Sweeney
It’s great when lawyers mix humor into tight legal analysis. Therefore, I’ve taken the liberty of posting below an article that otherwise...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 20, 20144 min read
The Next 80 Years at the SEC
Courtesy of a November 20, 2014 post at the Columbia Blue Sky Blog, the views of an SEC Commissioner as to its next 80 years....

Kirk Hartley
Nov 20, 20141 min read
Asbestos Litigation Goes More Molecular – Germline BAP1 Mutation Issues Are Said to Exist in 5
Some say that change is the predominant theme in asbestos litigation. For 2014, some of the change arrives in the form of at least five...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 20, 20141 min read
A Soon to Arrive End to Some Causation Questions for Food Illnesses – Spraying DNA Bar Codes o
Causation questions generate lots and lots of issues and fees in litigation regarding contaminated food. One can foresee an end to many...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 19, 20141 min read
Delaware’s Fee Shifting Debate
Various litigation industry interests are involved in ongoing Delaware law debates about rules for shifting fees for litigation. Also at...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 19, 20141 min read


Corporate Web Site Blunders – The Wall Street Journal Example
Like so many of my friends, I’m very, very tired of corporate America wasting the time of millions of users of computers through buggy...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 18, 20144 min read


Would Be Lawyers Should Earn Science Degrees – The Seattle Genetics Example
Young people thinking about law school should consider first earning one or more degrees in science. Proof? See the following press...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 18, 20141 min read
Some Snowballs Grow: More on Sandy-Related Fraud by Insurance Defense Lawyers and Their Engineers
Too often in litigation, unfair things are happening, but it’s difficult to get one judge in one case to pay serious attention because...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 17, 20142 min read
Scientific Surprises – New Questions, New Tools and New Findings
More and more, it makes sense to expect the unexpected, at least when it comes to molecular findings. Said another way, science today is...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 14, 20142 min read
“Asbestos Exposure, Pleural Plaques and the Risk of Death from Lung Cancer”
A new abstract on pleural plaques and subsequent lung cancers. Longer term studies do matter. So do more CT scans. Am J Respir Crit Care...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 14, 20142 min read
“The Computer Did It” Is NOT a Legal Defense, At Least In Bankruptcy Court
Ever had an idiotic business tell you: “Not our fault – the computer did it? ” Say, for example, maybe an irresponsible company such as...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 13, 20141 min read
The Asbestos Pot Continues to Simmer in the UK
Something is going to have to happen in the UK on asbestos after the recent consultation fiasco that was overturned by a UK judge. A...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 13, 20141 min read
Medicare Highly Likely to Start Paying for Low Dose CT Scans for Current and Some Former Smokers
Through the procedures of CMS under the statute governing regarding Medicare, there is news that Medicare is highly likely to start...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 12, 20145 min read
Look into the Future of Finding Diseases – the Association for Molecular Pathology
The Association for Molecular Pathology. The name by itself says a lot. Take a 5 minute look into the future by reading the list of...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 11, 20141 min read
Magistrate Judge Uncovers Tort System Fraud – by Insurance Company Lawyers and Professional En
Fraud, fraud, fraud. Some days one would think the “f” word is the only word known to some in the insurance industry, and some of their...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 10, 20145 min read
Cigna: One of Multiple Examples of Health Insurers Using Health Insurance Plans that Discriminate Ag
Problem: Insurer Discrimination Against Persons with Chronic Diseases Despite “Obamacare,” persons with chronic diseases continue to face...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 10, 20147 min read
Chicagoans Contribute Facts to the Arguments About Caps on Medical Malpractice Recoveries
Some Chicagoans at Northwestern have contributed a factual study to the arguments back and forth about caps on medical malpractice...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 7, 20141 min read
“Google is developing cancer and heart attack detectors”
The tomorrows of the next 5-10 years could be very interesting. Consider the news set out in an October 28, 2014 BBC article regarding...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 6, 20141 min read
“Why Whirlpool’s Class Action Trial Victory [in the Clothes Washer Case] May Be Bad News for C
The headline is the view presented in an October 31, 2014 post by Paul Karlsgodt at the ClassActionBlawg.com. The point he makes in...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 5, 20141 min read
Harris Martin’s Benzene Conference – Genomics, Other Molecular Biology and Law
Genomics and other aspects of molecular biology will be a primary topic at the December 11 and 12, 2014 Benzene litigation conference...

Kirk Hartley
Nov 5, 20141 min read
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