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Circus animals greeted with inspections under new Sacramento lawSacramento BeeOn Wednesday, city veterinarian Laura Warner checked elephant feet and horse hooves, among other things, for injury or damage. …and more View full post on Injury Law News RSS feed

When a debtor owes several distinct debt to a creditor and makes a payment which is insufficient to the whole debt, the question arises to which debt the payment is to applied. Section 59 to 61 provides the rules which governs the appropriation of payment made by a debtor to the creditors. View full post [...]

Bailment means a legal relation that arises whenever one person delivers possession personal property to another person under an agreement by which the later is under an obligation to return the property to the former. The term baillment is derived from a French word ‘baillior’ which means to deliver. View full post on Injury Law [...]

The law of contract is a very important branch of Mercantile Law. It is that branch of law which determines the circumstances in which promises made by the parties to a contract shall be legally binding on them. Acceptance is signification of assent to the proposal. It takes two to make a bargain. So acceptance [...]

A determined Republican stall campaign in the Senate has sidetracked so many of the men and women nominated by President Barack Obama for judgeships that he has put fewer people on the bench than any president since Richard Nixon at a similar point in his first term 40 years ago. Despite the Democrats’ substantial Senate [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sitting en banc, the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 30 held that the key inquiry under the patent misuse doctrine is whether the patentee has “leveraged its patent beyond the scope of rights granted by the Patent Act” (Princo Corporation and Princo America Corporation v. International Trade Commission and [...]

Posted by Salvatore J. Zambri, founding member and senior partner Once again, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration NHTSA is promoting its annual national drunk driving enforcement during the final weeks of summer vacation in an effort to crack down on impaired driving and reduce highway fatalities. 2010 Impaired Driving National Enforcement Crackdown August 20 [...]

Con man could get life under Calif. 3-strikes lawThe Associated PressBut critics are questioning whether it's a proper use of the law that voters passed in 1994. "I've never heard of such a case," said Stan Goldman, …Man accused of fraud may get life in prison under California's three-strikes lawLos Angeles TimesThree strikes law in [...]

Los Angeles Times Con man could get life under Calif. 3-strikes lawSan Jose Mercury NewsBut critics are questioning whether it's a proper use of the law that voters passed in 1994. "I've never heard of such a case," said Stan Goldman, …Man accused of fraud may get life in prison under California's three-strikes lawLos Angeles [...]

NEW ORLEANS – Because an insurer accepted coverage for a chlorine gas release under the policy’s pollution legal liability provision, the insured is not entitled to coverage under the policy’s general liability provision pursuant to the policy’s other coverages exclusion, the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Aug. 24 (DPC Industries Inc. v. American [...]