LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard CORRECTION (ran 3/16/04): William De Villers' last name was misspelled in the signature of a letter published March 12. No one forced to be a teacher Tim Broadbent says that he's been labeled a terrorist (Letters, March 5). But in...

Courts threaten civic freedoms.
Catholic Insight staff Catholic Insight published Rory Leishman's article "The judicial imposition of "gay" rights in our November 2001 edition in order to raise the readers' awareness of the growing threat from the courts and the homosexual movement to the rights and freedoms of Canadians. Since that...

High Court asked to unseat GMA.
Byline: REY G. PANALIGAN & MARIO B. CASAYURAN Two lady senatorial candidates of the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) asked the Supreme Court yesterday to stop President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from exercising her functions as Chief Executive and to declare her resigned from office or on leave....

Jury's Award To San Diego County Landowner Gets Greatly Reduced.
A state appellate court has greatly reduced the amount of damages that San Diego County must pay to a landowner in an inverse condemnation case. The court reduced a jury's award of $646,000 by $187,000 and directed the trial court to reconsider other costs included in the award. ...

OH: Pt. Alleges Surgical Screw in Leg `Too Small': Is Screw Instruction Manual a `Learned Treatise?'.
CASE FACTS: On November 29, 1996, Henry DiNofrio was injured in a motor vehicle accident. He was taken to Massillon Community Hospital where Dr. Charles Paquelet operated on his broken leg. Dr. Paquelet inserted an eleven millimeter intermediary nail into patient's femur. Eight months after the operation, the patient...

Old & new watchdogs; (Editor's note: Government auditors who are shy cannot protect the taxpayers as seen in this article.).
IN the old days government auditors in the provinces and cities were feared and quick to report anomalies and questionable disbursements of tax money. They were complainants and testified as main witnesses in malversation cases. Judges were equally fast in assigning stiff prison terms to treasurers, cashiers, and high...

Tort immunity.
Catberro v. Naperville School District No. 203 Appellate Court of Illinois, Second District 317 Ill. App. 3d 150; 739 N.E. 2d 115; 2000 Ill. App. LEXIS 864 (2000) Bryan Catberro, a fourth grader at Riverwoods School in Naperville, Illinois, tripped and fell while jumping over a rope...

Operative notes can be significant in defending malpractice cases.
CAN WHAT IS OR WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN OPERATING NOTES MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE DEFENSE OF A MALPRACTICE CASE? That was the issue with which the courts were confronted in this interesting Colorado case, in which a surgeon maintained that he had used two ligatures. His operative...

Failure to Give Anticoagulants to Sternotomy Pt. - Death Results.
CASE ON POINT: Brown v. Macheers, 2001 WL 357385 S.E.2d - GA ISSUE: In this extraordinary Georgia case, a physician performing a second sternotomy on a patient failed to administer anticoagulants. The death of the patient precipitated a law suit against the physician. An issue arose as...

Students learn through `Trial & Error'.
Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard "All rise, this court in now in session." In fact, it was the only court in session Friday at the Lane County Courthouse. In place of the usual array of grizzled attorneys and shackled defendants, this room was...