Legal, safety and other topics that caught my interest:
- Toyota Must Face Claims Over Unintended Acceleration, Judge in U.S. Rules [Margaret Cronin Fist and Bill Callahan at Bloomberg" [Quote: "A vehicle with a defect is worth less than one without a defect."]
- NFL Owners win another round in courts as appeals court says lockout stays in place until full appeal [AP via WashPo] [On the glass-is-half-full side of things, this likely means more time for college football]
- Tort deform: House Bill 274 further stacks the legal deck in favor of big-money defendants [Houston Chronicle] [Our founding fathers fought and died for the right to a fair and impartial justice system, secured that system in our Constitution and Bill of Rights and now it is being steadily eroded by large corporate interests]
- Paralyzed Car Crash Victim Perseveres and Walk at His Graduation [John Cooper at Injury Board] [Very inspiring story]
- SCOTUS: Flushing your toilet negates your 4th Amendment rights [The Agitator] [Well, crap]
- iPads — The Tipping Point? [Nicole Black at Legal iPad] [Love my iPad and finding more legal uses for it every day]
- Los Angeles Times: Congress Should Overrule Concepcion [LA Times] [Concepcion was a terrible decision for everyone but large corporations — more on why here]
- Joseph Rakofsky — I Have An Answer For You [Eric Turkewitz at New York Personal Injury Law Blog] [The perils of excellent blog writing]
Brett Emison is currently a partner at Langdon & Emison, a firm dedicated to helping injured victims across the country from their primary office near Kansas City. Mainly focusing on catastrophic injury and death cases as well as complex mass tort and dangerous drug cases, Mr. Emison often deals with automotive defects, automobile crashes, railroad crossing accidents (train accidents), trucking accidents, dangerous and defective drugs, defective medical devices.
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