February 23, 2010
State lawmakers voted Monday to give childhood victims of sexual abuse an entire lifetime to sue those who assaulted them.
Without dissent, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a measure to repeal the existing laws that require civil suits to be filed within two years of a victim’s turning 18. For incidents that take place in the [...]
February 16, 2010
Spurned in his effort to get out of jury duty, salesman Tony Prados turned his attention to the case that could cost him three weeks’ pay: A Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy was suing his former sergeant, alleging severe emotional distress inflicted by lewd and false innuendo that he was gay.
Prados, an ex-Marine, leaned forward [...]
January 11, 2010
Neurosurgeons might be able to charge more than other experts for their deposition testimony but $7,000 for two hours is "near to being extortionate," a New Jersey federal magistrate judge says.
As a consequence of her Dec. 30 ruling, the defendants in Crawford v. American Legion Ambulance Association, 08-cv-2338, will not have to [...]
November 15, 2006
Woman Needs Knee Replacement After Tripping During Arts Festival
Tempe taxpayers could shell out more than $170,000 in the coming year from one lawsuit.
Of that amount, $150,000 will go to a California woman who tripped on a pothole and injured a knee during one of the biannual Festival of Arts shows. The case against the city [...]
July 22, 2005
He Says Rights Were Violated, Threatens to Sue
An army reservist arrested in April for holding seven undocumented immigrants at gunpoint is demanding $1 million from Maricopa County for wrongful arrest and incarceration.
Sgt. Patrick Haab, who spent four nights in jail before the Maricopa County attorney dismissed all charges, accused Sheriff Joe Arpaio and a deputy [...]
July 1, 2005
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is tired of forensic television shows tainting jurors and creating unrealistic demands for forensic evidence.
Thomas wants shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation on CBS and Law and Order on NBC to flash disclaimers, saying defendants are not automatically innocent if there is a lack of physical or forensic evidence.
“These shows [...]
June 26, 2005
Party Mood Results in Risky Behavior
The judge stared crossly at the defendant before him, a clean-cut young man found guilty of killing a young girl in a boating accident.
The young man was drunk when his boat ran over the girl’s jet ski.
“It’s the judgment of the court that the defendant be sentenced to 22 years [...]
June 16, 2005
A Tempe law firm that bills itself as “beyond aggressive” expected an exclusive spot in Verizon’s Yellow Pages when it paid more than $100,000 for a full-color advertising insert in the book.
But when Verizon sold a similar cardboard “tab” ad to a competing firm, and gave it better placement in the book, the Law Offices [...]
July 19, 2002
As Paul K Charlton, the US attorney for Arizona, prepared to announce that he was not going to file criminal charges in the catastrophic “Chediski” fire, Overgaard resident Steve Lillie entered the gymnasium toting a charred pine log.
“I had 12 acres I was building a resort on,” Lillie said, “and this is what’s left. … [...]
April 6, 2002
How many motorcyclists hell-bent on keeping their good name can you cram into a one-road community of 3,600 residents?
Inspired by accusations that Cave Creek is prejudiced against motorcyclists, thousands of the leather lovers are expected to descend on Cave Creek this weekend for the unsanctioned, nine-day Cave Creek Main Street Rally.
Last month town officials denied [...]
October 26, 2001
Women who go for their yearly gynecological exam know the drill.
If their doctor is male, the exam doesn’t begin until a female nurse or medical assistant is present.
But few women know that the assistant is there to protect the doctor, not the patient. And if the patient is abused, the assistant is under no legal [...]