Court considering canine quarrels

Posted on March 4th, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

The Supreme Court is going to the dogs.

This month, the court will hear two cases involving canine issues.  The first, to be argued tomorrow, March 7, at the University of Minnesota Law School, is a bitch of a problem.  In Anderson v. Christopherson, the respondent was staying at a home owned by his father, the appellant, when his dog got into a fight with the neighbor’s dog.  The neighbor, also a respondent, fell and broke his hip while trying to separate the dogs. The neighbor sued the father and son under Minn. Stat. sec. 347.

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Police: Security guards shoot man

Posted on March 3rd, 2012 by Gabrielle Frome and filed under Legal News

DAYTON — Dayton police continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of a 25-year-old man Thursday night on Summit Square Drive.

According to Dayton police, Ranger Security personnel asked Dante Price to leave the apartment complex around 11:20 p.m. for allegedly trespassing.

Price’s mother, Saprena Riley, told the Dayton Daily News that he remained, however, in his car. She said he was waiting for Dayton police to arrive to help resolve the situation, but security guards opened fire.

Riley said Price was there to visit his 1-year-old son.

“That’s his only son and he came to see him,” Riley said. “It shoul

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Mark Cuban’s Wonderview project stalled in South Dallas

Posted on March 1st, 2012 by Gabrielle Frome and filed under Legal News

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DALLAS — The big development in a depressed area of southern Dallas — where Mavericks owner Mark Cuban planned to build a new team training facility along with offices, homes and retail — is stalled, and likely dead in its original form.

Cuban’s company announced the Wonderview project with much fanfare two years ago. But th

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Simmons represents ex-Olympus chief in Employment Tribunal case

Posted on February 28th, 2012 by Leah Schonell and filed under Justice Points

Simmons & Simmons is advising former Olympus president Michael Woodford, who was sacked after blowing the whistle on dubious deals at the company, as he takes his case to the London Employment Tribunal.

Woodford began his claim for unfair dismissal at the East London Employment Tribunal today and is reportedly seeking a payout worth tens of million of pounds for the loss of up to 10 years’ earnings.

Woodford was fired as president and chief executive officer of Olympus in October after he raised the alarm on $1.7bn (£1.06bn) of questionable deals that were later admitted to be fraudulent. Af

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