The wife of Morton Scheinbaum has sued Las Vegas Mountain View Hospital over the death of her ex-husband. Linda Scheinbaum claims nearly an hour had passed from the time her husband arrived at Mountain View Hospital while a nurse insisted on getting his Social Security number, emergency contact and insurance…
DuPage County, IL, Judge Dorothy French ordered the Indian Prairie School District’s to hand over records they’re hoping will show hypocrisy in the school district’s objection to reimbursements the Brach and Brodie trusts are seeking over a failed land deal. The records include contracts, bills, invoices and payments for its…
Oral argument Tuesday at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals centered on a pharmacology expert witness who contends the acne drug Accutane causes inflammatory bowel disease. DailyReportOnline.com writes: Three trials over an alleged link between the acne drug Accutane and serious gastrointestinal problems have resulted in verdicts of more…
In Industry Standards, Technology Associates, the forensic engineering expert witness company discusses cases where there may be no significant amount of “good” custom and practice within an industry. …where there is no good custom and practice within the industry, the need for dispassionate engineering judgment is even greater. Further, the…
Ray Everett-Church has been appointed Director of Privacy and Industry Relations at Responsys, a leading global provider of on-demand email and marketing automation solutions. Mr. Everett-Church, an internationally recognized author and expert witness on privacy and technology policy issues, has spent nine years at the forefront of industry efforts to…
On August 15, attorneys for the Detroit City Council submitted a witness list to Governor Jennifer Granholm for the removal proceedings against Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. A supplemental witness list includes Wayne State Law School professor Peter Hammer who will serve as a contracts expert witness. WXYZ.com reports: Most of…
The Texas Forensic Science Commission is investigating negligence and misconduct complaints against forensic labs and has agreed to look into allegations that Cameron Willingham was convicted and sentenced to die on fire officials’ faulty testimony. Willingham was executed four years ago for the 1991 murder of his 1-year-old twins and…
Michael Stephen Gorbey, 38, was sentenced Friday to 22 years in prison in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia following his conviction on multiple weapons charges, including possession of explosives and the attempted manufacture or possession of a weapon of mass destruction near the U.S. Capitol in January…
This week a jury found that a forklift manufacturer was not liable for a 1999 tip-over accident in which the operator was thrown from a forklift resulting in catastrophic injuries. The injured party lived seven years as a quadriplegic. Massachusetts U.S. District Court Judge Reginald C. Lindsay presided over the…
In Strategic Security Management: A Risk Assessment Guide for Decision Makers, author and security expert witness Karim H. Vellani provides a “definitive text on security best practices, introduces the concept of analysis for security decision making, and discusses advanced threat, vulnerability, and risk assessment techniques that you can apply to…