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Court overturns $1M award against U of M, Smith
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2012/08/08 12:39
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The Minnesota Supreme Court has overturned a $1 million award against the University of Minnesota and men's basketball coach Tubby Smith over the hiring of an assistant coach.
Jimmy Williams quit his job as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State in 2007 because he believed Smith had hiring authority when he offered him an assistant coaching job. Minnesota later withdrew the offer because Williams had NCAA rules violations during a previous stint as an assistant for the Golden Gophers more than 20 years ago.
Williams sued, and a Hennepin County jury and the state appeals court sided with him. But the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed those decisions, saying Williams was not entitled to protection against negligent misrepresentations from Smith about his hiring authority. |
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China Trademark & Patent Law Office
Law Firm News |
2012/08/07 11:26
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China Trademark & Patent Law Office (CTPLO) is a high qualified and professional intellectual property service firm. They have been providing services such as worldwide trademarks, industrial designs, patent and copyright registration since 2004. With its headquarters located in China, it has served several Chinese clients but has also assisted with clients overseas in other Asian territories. CTPLO has helped with the intellectual property rights around the world including foreign law firms to ensure the security and protection on behalf of their clients in China.
China Trademark & Patent Law Office can provide for you the intellectual property solutions you need. Based on Chinese Classification, our company will categorize your trademark into certain classes according to your goods and services. We can fully protect your interests in China by providing you with a trademark status report.
Patent
- Application process in patent filings in all fields including: mechanical, metallurgical, petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, biotechnological, light industrial, agricultural, electric, aeronautic and space engineering, oceanological and geological and other fields;
- Reviewing over patents, and request for revocation and abandonment of patent rights and other issues;
- Client appeals to the People’s Court; clients who are not satisfied with the decisions of patent review, revocation and abandonment concerning the patent right.
- Provide services involving consultation, investigation, obtaining evidences, request for administrative mediation, institution of legal proceedings in court for the interested party
Trademark
- Application process for trademark filings, requests for trademark reviews, adjudication of trademark opposition and the process of cancellation for improperly registered trademarks;
- Services for licensing and assignments of trademarks;
- Services for consultation, investigation, and obtaining evidence for trademark disputes;
- Infringement monitoring services for clients through networks established in the main cities of PRC
Copyright
- Legal services including copyright protection and registration of computer software;
- Other legal services on technical trade, investment, evaluation of intangible assets with respect to consultation, drafting of contract and negotiation;
- Translation of technical documents and other legal documents
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New DC drunken driving law to take effect
Law Firm News |
2012/08/03 16:41
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A new law that toughens penalties for drunken driving in the nation's capital takes effect Wednesday, but the city's police department still is not using breath tests on suspected drunken drivers more than a year after the tests were suspended.
The new law, which was approved by the D.C. Council and signed by Mayor Vincent Gray earlier this summer. It doubles mandatory minimum jail terms for people with blood-alcohol concentrations of .20 percent or higher and establishes a blood-alcohol limit of .04 percent for commercial drivers, including taxi drivers.
The law also establishes new oversight for the district's breath-testing program. But there's still no timetable to the resumption of breath tests, which D.C. police stopped using in February 2011 in the wake of revelations that their breath-testing devices had produced inaccurate results. Police have been using urine and blood tests instead.
A year earlier, District of Columbia officials had notified defense lawyers about nearly 400 drunken-driving convictions that relied, at least party, on inaccurately calibrated blood-alcohol tests.
More than two dozen people sued the district over convictions based on those flawed tests, and the district Attorney General's office said Tuesday that all the outstanding lawsuits had been settled. The district paid a total of $136,000 to 17 plaintiffs, with individuals receiving between $2,000 and $42,000, said Jeffrey Rhodes, a lawyer for the plaintiffs. |
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Ind. court upholds life sentence for teen killer
Court News |
2012/08/02 16:41
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The Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a sentence of life without parole for a teenager who said he wanted to be like the fictional television serial killer Dexter a few weeks before strangling his 10-year-old brother.
Andrew Conley was 17 in November 2009 when he killed his brother, Conner, while wrestling in their home near Rising Sun and dumped the boy's body in a park. He unexpectedly pleaded guilty in September 2010, averting a murder trial.
In the 3-2 ruling, the justices said Conley acted "as if nothing was out of the ordinary" after the killing. According to testimony during the five-day sentencing hearing, Conley joked with his mother and watched football the day after he killed Conner.
Conley told police he fantasized about killing people since he was in eighth grade. A few weeks before the killing, Conley told his girlfriend that he wanted to be just like the TV serial killer as they walked on the trail where he later disposed of his brother's body.
Three different psychological experts who interviewed Conley all said he was seriously mentally ill, but his appellate lawyer, Leanna Weissmann, said the judge gave too much credence to a psychologist's testimony that the teen could be a psychopath.
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