Category Archives: General

The State sought a writ of prohibition to bar the Commission from compelling the production of medical marijuana records and cited constitutional provisions making those records confidential. But the Constitution also makes medical marijuana records available for the licensing process, … Continue reading →

Home prices soared almost 19 percent higher in 2021 as a severe lack of supply and low borrowing costs poured fuel on housing costs. The S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller housing price index, an important gauge of home prices, rose 18.8 … Continue reading →

Courts are on the verge of shutting the door, once and for all, on “net winners” from the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme who refuse to pay back fictitious profits they received in the two years before commencement of the liquidation … Continue reading →

The Education Department will cancel federal student loans for at least 1,800 students who attended DeVry University, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, because it fraudulently lured in applicants for years with vastly inflated claims about their … Continue reading →

The most-awarded luxury cruise line in the industry, Crystal Cruises, unceremoniously shuttered its doors without a word to consumers and travel agents. Its parent company, Genting Hong Kong, abandoned it leaving a trail of debt—to travelers, agents, employees, and vendors. … Continue reading →

Hertz Corp., battling hundreds of customers who say they were falsely arrested for auto theft after renting cars, was ordered by a federal judge to disclose how many renters it accuses every year. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath sided with advocates … Continue reading →

Statute allows termination of maintenance upon a substantial and continuing change of circumstances that makes the maintenance obligation unreasonable. That can include recipient’s cohabitation, if the cohabitation is a substitute for marriage, which requires a circuit court’s conclusions of law … Continue reading →

Statute bars compensation for injury resulting from “risk unrelated to the employment to which workers would have been equally exposed outside of and unrelated to the employment in normal nonemployment life.” Claimant choked on his breakfast, passed out, and crashed … Continue reading →

Circuit court was not required to believe that any non-verbal communication between a juror and a spectator addressed, or affected the juror’s view, of the action’s merits. Statutes address evidence from mentally incapacitated persons. One statute provides that such a … Continue reading →

One statute, governing procedure in non-judicial foreclosure, provides for notice by publication in “a newspaper of general circulation” as further defined. Another statute “allows a circuit court to establish procedures for newspapers seeking to be qualified, but does not require … Continue reading →