Google has added a new search function that will find full-text legal opinions from federal and state courts. Users can go to the Google Scholar online search engine and type in case names, topics or key words to find the relevant cases.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission held a "Town Hall on Toy Safety" in New York City to discuss with parents the new rules aimed at making toys.
Those opposed to real health care reform are flailing to come up with real, alternative solutions to our current crisis. With all the talk of death panels, government takeovers, and rationing of care, now tort reform has been thrown into the mix.
Yet it will do practically nothing to lower health care costs, and certainly will not fix our broken health care system. However, it will most definitely hurt patients injured through no fault of their own.
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released its findings for safety ratings of 2010 vehicles. The group provides the ratings on an easy to use website at http://www.iihs.org/ratings/default.aspx with drop down menus to quickly see results for most makes and models. New to the study this year is a rating for rollover safety which assess vehicle roof strength. This new element led to the failure of any Toyota vehicles making the top recommendations for safety. The IIHS website also provides several helpful brochures for consumers, including one on new teenage drivers and another on shopping for a safe car.
Next year when you bite into that leftover Halloween candy, the discomfort won't only be from the calorie count but also increased cost due to taxes if Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter's proposal to tax candy and soda-pop sales is adopted. Colorado would become one of a growing number of states and localities going after candy bars and soft drinks.
A Denver District Court judge rebuked the state board of health today for changing rules about medical marijuana without providing adequate notice to patients.
In his ruling, Chief Denver District Court Judge Larry Naves struck down the state board's actions from a meeting earlier this month. At that telephone conference meeting the board repealed the definition of medical-marijuana "caregiver", casting the burgeoning industry into uncertainty ---- all without taking public testimony. Naves also ordered the state to pay the attorneys' fees of medical-marijuana advocates, who filed a motion saying they were wrongly blocked from participating in the hearing.
More than 200,000 people might be driving illegally in Colorado, and such drivers were involved in crashes that caused nearly one-fourth of all state traffic deaths last year, state auditors reported last week. State legislators requested the audit after Francis Hernandez, an unlicensed driver unlawfully in the United States, was accused of speeding through traffic, hitting another vehicle and killing three people in Aurora, including a 3-year-old in an ice cream shop, in September 2008.
