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Minn. court ruling expected in aiding suicide case
Lawyer World News | 2014/04/14 16:57

A former nurse who prosecutors say encouraged people to kill themselves in online chat rooms could soon learn whether Minnesota's highest court accepts his argument of free speech.

The Minnesota Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling Wednesday in the case of William Melchert-Dinkel, who was convicted in 2011 of aiding the suicides of two people.

The 51-year-old is challenging the state law used to convict him that states anyone who "intentionally advises, encourages, or assists another in taking the other's own life" is guilty of a crime. His attorney says the law is too broad.

Prosecutors say Melchert-Dinkel's speech wasn't protected and that he played an integral role in the deaths, including giving step-by-step instructions.

If the court tackles the law itself, the decision could have broad implications.


Court rejects new cases on birth control coverage
Lawyer World News | 2014/04/14 16:57

The Supreme Court has turned away an early look at a challenge by religiously affiliated not-for-profit groups to the new health care law's provision on birth control coverage.

Lawsuits filed by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington and others are making their way through the courts. The justices on Monday declined to weigh in on them before any federal appeals court has reached a final decision.

The Obama administration has devised a compromise to the law's requirement that contraception be included in health plans' preventive services for women. The compromise attempts to create a buffer for religiously affiliated hospitals, universities and social service groups that oppose birth control. Their insurers or the health plan's outside administrator would pay for birth control coverage and creates a way to reimburse them.


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Lawyer World News | 2014/04/12 16:03

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Mr. Scanio represents banks, insurers and other companies in cases involving negotiable instruments under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), electronic bank payments, fraud, fiduciary duty, accounting, lender liability, loan losses, lost profits, statutory and regulatory violations, professional liability, class actions, and claims against the federal government. He advises clients as to liability, defenses and loss recovery on a wide range of bank fraud and corporate fraud schemes, including check fraud, credit and debit card fraud, unauthorized electronic funds transfers (EFT) including fraudulent wire transfers and ACH transactions, identity theft, check kiting, deposit account fraud, malware attacks, cybercrime, account takeovers, loan and mortgage fraud, embezzlement, and bank insider fraud.

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  • American Bar Association: Business Law Section, Committees on Banking Law, Business and Corporate Litigation, Consumer Financial Services, Uniform Commercial Code; Tort, Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Committees on Business Litigation, Fidelity and Surety Law, Insurance Coverage Litigation

  • Defense Research Institute: Committees on Commercial Litigation, Electronic Discovery, Fidelity and Surety, Insurance Law

  • National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Trial Skills



Court rejects cat hoarders' appeal of convictions
Lawyer World News | 2013/07/08 13:16
The Montana Supreme Court has denied the appeal of a northwestern Montana couple's conviction of aggravated cruelty to animals after 116 cats were found living in filthy, snowbound trailers.

The Daily Inter Lake reports the court announced the decision July 2 involving Edwin and Cheryl Criswell.

The cats were found in December 2010 and a jury the following year found the couple guilty. In October 2011 Cheryl Criswell received a two-year sentence deferred over six years. Edwin Criswell received a two-year suspended sentence but later violated his probation by testing positive for marijuana and methamphetamine. In January he was sentenced to two years in prison.

In September 2006, the Criswells entered Alford pleas to 10 counts of misdemeanor animal cruelty in northern Idaho in what officials then called the largest animal hoarding case in state history involving 430 animals.

In the Montana case, the Criswells contended they were wrongly convicted because during the trial Flathead County Deputy Attorney Ken Park called them professional freeloaders, prejudicing the jury.


Court OKs Class-action Suit Over Apartment Leases
Lawyer World News | 2013/06/10 10:20
An appeals court has certified a class-action lawsuit that seeks to invalidate provisions that are routinely included in apartment leases signed by University of Iowa students.

The Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that tenants of landlord Tracy Barkalow can have a trial to challenge lease provisions that critics say are illegal and unfairly shift costs and liability from landlords to tenants.

The provisions being challenged include fees that are deducted from security deposits for cleaning regardless of an apartment's condition and requirements that tenants pay for damage in common areas and routine repairs.

The Iowa City Tenants Project, which is representing the plaintiffs, has said the class could include 240 tenants but the case will have a broader reach since those provisions are the ``industry standard.''


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