U.S. District Court: EXCESSIVE FORCE RESTRAINTS.
Concepcion v. Morton 125 F.Supp.2d 111 (D.N.J. 2000). Prisoners brought an action against corrections officers and officials under [ss] 1983 asserting violation of their civil rights through the use of excessive force on two separate occasions. The district court held that an informal inmate complaint procedure that was established...

Nursing license suspended: no lawsuit until administrative avenues are exhausted.
A nurse filed a lawsuit for damages against the State Board of Examiners for Nursing. After the Board had suspended her license she was unable to work and lost her home to foreclosure. The Superior Court of Connecticut was able to rule in the Board's favor without...

The impact of Medicare coverage policies on health care utilization.
Medicare finances health care for nearly 40 million elderly and disabled Americans. The Medicare statute authorizes reimbursement only for items or services that are "reasonable and necessary." Medicare administrators have struggled to interpret and apply the "reasonable and necessary" standard (Foote 2002). Over the years, Medicare has developed a...

Vioxx Legal Fee Financing Program Announced by Entrepreneur Growth Capital.
Program has Lowest Rate in Industry NEW YORK, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Attorney Funding Division of Entrepreneur Growth Capital ("EGC") today announced a new financing option for the hundreds of plaintiff's attorneys awaiting payment of their Vioxx legal fees. EGC's new service accelerates receipt of the...

State denies liquor license to proposed strip club in downtown Springfield.
Byline: Andrea Damewood The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - The fate of Jack Dugger's proposed Shakers Bar and Grill downtown may have been sealed by its own troubled surroundings. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission denied a liquor license for the proposed strip club, according to the decision...

Logging plan gets one more review.
Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard The Bureau of Land Management reversed itself this week and decided to allow a 30-day protest period for a broad new proposal that will increase logging in Western Oregon. The Western Oregon Plan Revision, the result of a lawsuit settlement...

Akerman Senterfitt Expands Labor and Employment Practice.
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Akerman Senterfitt announces the continued expansion of its Labor and Employment practice group, with the additions of Paul Waters as Shareholder in the Tampa office and Deborah Catalano, Of Counsel, in Orlando. Mr. Waters' practice will focus on counseling management regarding workplace health...

Centrify Introduces Centrify Suite 2008, Industry's Most Comprehensive, Active Directory-Based Solution for Cross-Platform Identity and Access Management.
End-to-end integrated suite addresses security, IT efficiency and regulatory compliance MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Centrify Corporation, the leading provider of Microsoft Active Directory-based auditing, access control and identity management solutions for non-Microsoft platforms, today announced Centrify Suite 2008, an integrated family of Active Directory-based...

Mortara Extends CRADA with FDA.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-19 November 2008-Mortara Extends CRADA with FDA(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Mortara Instrument announced the extension of its Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER). Under this extension,...