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Medicare Not Entitled to Beneficiaries’ Wrongful Death Benefits
A child’s loss of parental companionship claim is a property right belonging to the child. Not the secretary of HHS.”
Full StoryGansta on the Federal Bench
Senior United States District Court Judge Jack T. Camp of the U.S. District Court in Atlanta was arrested late Friday night near Sandy Springs, Georgia. The FBI agent’s affidavit for his arrest charges that 67 year old Camp had a relationship with a stripper who had a federal conviction relating to a drug trafficking case. The two would meet when Camp paid the stripper for sex, and they would smoke weed, snort coke, and take the painkiller, Roxicodone, which is known by savvy gangstas like Judge Camp as “Roxi.”
Full StoryYour Face is My Case–Jackie Chiles
Michael Richards, the former Seinfeld star who played Cosmo Kramer, has been sued by a photographer named Brendon O’Neal who claims that Richards on August 25 walked up to him on an LA street in a “menacing manner” with “closed fists.” Richards then allegedly hit him in the face, sent him to the ground and then “proceeded to kick [...]
Full StoryRev. Terry Jones Choses Cheap Publicity Over Troop Safety
By now we’ve all heard about the two-bit huckster in Gainesville, Florida who wants to ensure his 15 minutes of fame by orchestrating a Quran burning. The idea of a group of people who profess to be Christians doing such a thing is hard to understand. Ironically, the name of Rev. Jones’ church is “Dove World [...]
Full StoryCooch Update
Professor Michael Mann researched climate change at the University of Virginia from 1999 to 2005. Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli is investigating whether Mann fraudulently obtained government research grants by falsifying climate change data. In a previous blog today, I discussed the court ruling from Judge Peatross in favor of UVA’s motion to block Mr. [...]
Full StoryThe Cooch’s Effort to Intimidate Climate Researchers is Rejected by Court
Retired Albemarle County Circuit Court Judge Paul M. Petross, Jr. ruled today in favor of the University of Virginia which had filed suit to block Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s attempt to obtain records from former UVA climate researcher, Michael Mann, Ph.D. pursuant to ”civil investigation demands” issued by the AG to the Universityunder the Virginia Taypayers [...]
Full StoryToyota’s Defense Not Consistent with the Past
Toyota has recalled millions of cars due to complaints of faulty floor mats, sticking pedals, and drivers reporting sudden acceleration. Toyota has used the data collected by black boxes in the cars as a defense. They claim that the car accidents may be a result of driver error instead of a mechanical malfunction. In the [...]
Full StoryNHTSA Toyota Study Not Concluded
Contrary to the information released by the Wall Street Journal, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recently stated that they have not reached any conclusions from their study regarding accelerator malfunction in Toyota cars and trucks. An article in the Wall Street Journal had claimed through an anonymous source at NHTSA had determined [...]
Full StoryLetter to the FDA
In a letter to the FDA, a coalition of doctors, hospitals, and consumer groups stated that the FDA has taken too long to implement the use of unique device identification (UDI) as has been required by the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007. UDI is a system used to label and track medical [...]
Full StoryScalia: No Justice for the Consumer
Justice Stevens, in one of his final dissents, argued forcefully that the majority’s position was “fantastic.” If a contract is invalid, he queried, how can the arbitration clause it contains still be valid? How indeed?
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