Kentucky.com: “The former attorney for accused killer Steve Nunn has filed a lawsuit against unnamed defendants who posted comments about her on Kentucky.com, a Web site operated by the Lexington Herald-Leader.”
Law.com: “A federal jury on Tuesday awarded more than $6.2 million in an age discrimination suit brought by two scientists who said they were fired from their jobs at a Chester County, Pa., chemical manufacturing firm when the company targeted only older workers in layoffs in 2005. Significantly, the jury concluded that PQ Corp.’s age discrimination was “willful” — a finding that leads to an automatic doubling of each plaintiff’s back pay award. The jury also awarded hefty compensatory damages — $2 million to plaintiff Roman Wypart and $1.5 million to plaintiff Bonnie Marcus — for the emotional damage they suffered as a result of the discrimination.”
Law.com: “The State Bar of California’s crackdown on attorneys for alleged loan modification misconduct has claimed five more lawyers in Southern California, three of whom have resigned. Since the State Bar of California launched its Loan Modification Task Force in April, 14 attorneys have resigned or been placed on involuntary inactive status. About 250 lawyers are under investigation.”
Wall St. Journal: “There’s nothing like a good old fashioned separation-of-church-and-state case to get a community all riled up. Politicians hurl barbs; interest groups from the right and left make brazen accusations; TV talk-show hosts lean just a little closer to the camera when they make their appeals. And bloggers, well, we eat it all up. The latest to hit the airwaves: a smackdown in South Carolina over religiously themed license plates.”
Law.com: “We’re betting that no one was more relieved by Verizon’s Nov. 2 defeat of a $1.67 billion ERISA class action than a former Bell Atlantic in-house lawyer named Barry Peters. Peters, as he testified at a September hearing in the case, was responsible for the typographical error in the Bell Atlantic ERISA plan that was the basis of the billion-dollar class claims.”