Lawsuit to retain question of prices.
Byline: DIANE DIETZ The Register-Guard McKenzie-Willamette Hospital has won the first, albeit small, skirmish in its antitrust battle with the PeaceHealth medical chain. U.S. District Judge Ancer Haggerty has ruled that McKenzie-Willamette might be able to prove that PeaceHealth required a major insurer to buy...

Letters.
A CALL TO ACTION: PATIENTS' ACCESS TO CLINICAL TRIALS Finding more effective and less toxic ways to prevent, diagnose, and manage the causes of premature life threatening diseases is a goal nearly everyone can embrace with enthusiasm. Evidence-based medicine relies on the accumulation of reliable and gene...

AL: Production of Physician's Records Ordered: Protective Order of Court `Limits Production'.
CASE FACTS: James Trotter was referred to Dr. Robert Anderson for consultation for a "bump" on his forehead. Dr. Anderson, had previously removed a cancerous tumor from the patient's forehead. Dr. Anderson determined that this was a squamous cell carcinoma tumor, which also had to be excised. On February...

Medical Error Accountability.
In February, President Clinton announced an initiative to improve patient safety and reduce the number of medical errors by 50% over the next 5 years. The plan was developed by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force, which was established by the President in 1998 to coordinate patient safety efforts...

NOTES FROM THE MICROSOFT TRIAL.
- Court proceedings on Monday at the Microsoft antitrust trial began with a closed session, while Microsoft witness Richard Schmalensee fought it out with the Department of Justice over - depending on who you believe - pricing or the Netscape/AOL deal. Microsoft filed a motion on Friday to initiate...

Preventing Medical Errors.
In February, President Clinton announced an initiative to improve patient safety and reduce the number of medical errors by 50% over the next 5 years. The plan was developed by the Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force, which was established by the president in 1998 to focus and coordinate patient...

The unrecognized right of criminal defendants to admit their own pretrial statements.
In Agard v. Portuondo, the United States Supreme Court held that a prosecutor did not violate a testifying defendant's constitutional rights by inviting the jury to infer from the defendant's presence at trial that the defendant altered his own version of events to accord with other witnesses' testimony. Justice...

How can Japanese corporations protect confidential information in U.S. courts? Recognition of the attorney-client privilege for Japanese non-bengoshi in-house lawyers in the development of a new legal system.
ABSTRACT U.S. courts have seen a significant increase in the number of lawsuits involving both U.S. and Japanese corporations. In deciding these cases, U.S. courts may have to choose how to apply the attorney-client privilege to in-house lawyers retained by corporations in Japan, where the legal system...

How about one-day trials?
Some daring litigants and counsel are utilizing a strategy that's valuable in settling eases before they get overly expensive. Originating in the '80s and used by innovative judges to counter court congestion and eases languishing for years without trial, "summary jury trials" include one-day jury trial with relaxed evidence...

Motion denied: systematic impediments to white collar criminal defendants' trial preparation.
I. INTRODUCTION The rules governing trial preparation in criminal cases were developed in a bygone era when the bulk of federal prosecutions focused on crimes such as narcotics trafficking, organized crime, theft, and bank robbery. White collar prosecutions for offenses such as fraud and tax evasion were...