One mega beer company is alleging that it isn’t getting fair treatment under tax laws, and the First Circuit Court of Appeals isn’t cutting the company any slack.
Coors Brewing Company sued the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, asking for federal jurisdiction as it related to taxes.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled recently that the scope of expert witness testimony is not narrowly tailored to the content in a pre-trial expert report.
Frank Gay is the executor of his sister's estate. His sister, Anita, died after a slip and fall accident at a casino. Hospital records listed Anita's death as an accident, and stated that she died as the result of a nonsurvivable closed head injury that caused extensive bleeding in her brain.
The autopsy found that Anita had suffered a "fractured skull with subdural and subarachnoid hemorrhage following acute cerebral hemorrhage." The autopsy report stated that Anita's manner of death was an "accident," from having "collapsed at race track."
If electronic discovery is the vehicle through which lawyers conduct business, the meet and confer is the pre-purchase inspection.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(f), enacted in 2007, requires that parties to litigation "meet and confer" to negotiate the terms of electronic discovery at least 21 days before a scheduling conference is to be held, or a scheduling order is due.
Whether aspiring to be Atticus Finch or Gloria Allred, law students can get an early shot at the big time in First Circuit Court of Appeals.
The First Circuit has adopted amendments to Local Rule 46.0(f), broadening the scope of law student representation. Under the expanded rule, a law student may represent the federal government or a federal agency, and a law graduate may represent clients under certain circumstances while waiting to sit for the bar for the first time or waiting for bar examination results.
Of course, there are limitations to the not-quite-lawyer's new-found freedoms.
