Personal Injury Lawyer News
Suing Over Bed Bugs – What You Need to Know
July 13, 2018
Planes, trains, automobiles, hotels, apartments, houses, and even movie theaters – what do all these places have in common? Bed bugs have attacked people there!
In Southern California a family was awarded $1.6 million against their apartment owner for suffering a bed bug infestation that left their child, then
In California, Courts Can’t Force Yelp to Remove Negative Reviews
July 5, 2018
Lawyer Dawn Hassell filed a defamation suit against her firm’s former client, Ava Bird. Bird acknowledged she wrote a one-star review of the Hassell Law Group that complained her lawyer had withdrawn from her personal injury case “because her mom had a broken leg, or something like
Your Online Shopping Will Cost More After this Supreme Court Ruling
June 24, 2018
For most of its early years, most Amazon customers paid NO sales tax, which saved them significant amounts on items like electronics. Critics argue that this gave Amazon a huge early advantage that traditional brick and mortar retailers did not. Now, Amazon has almost $120 billion in revenue from product
Fact or Fiction: The Trump Administration “Lost” 1,500 Children
June 16, 2018
As I worshipped in Hampton Roads this morning, I couldn’t help but consider how Scripture commands compassionate treatment of migrants and refugees. Yet this administration is separating kids from their parents and unable to account for 1,500 lost children! Shame. https://t.co/oSyMYcS3y3
That Gay Wedding Cake Case
June 8, 2018
Colorado baker Jack Phillips welcomes and serves everyone, of all sexual orientations, selling them coffee and off-the-shelf baked goods. In the past he has declined requests for Halloween, Satanic, and divorce cakes, and he has even refused to create cakes with anti-gay messages.
However, he does not design custom
Did the California Supreme Court Just Turn All Uber Drivers into Employees?
June 1, 2018
Did you know that the following types of workers are often classified as independent contractors aka “1099ers”, rather than employees in California:
Uber and other ride-share drivers
Strippers
Hair stylists and nail salon workers
Many truck drivers
Food delivery couriers
Even FedEx had been classifying its drivers as independent contractors,
How Do Parents Evict Their Adult Children?
May 25, 2018
After allowing their son to live in their home for over eight years, parents Christina and Mark Rotondo resorted to legal action after a series of notes to their son Michael failed to get him moving.
2 February 2018
Michael,
After a discussion with your Mother, we
Fact or Fiction: It’s Illegal to Sell Cakes out of Your Home in Some States
May 20, 2018
This is a fact! New Jersey completely bans the sale of homemade food. In Rhode Island, only farmers can legally sell food made at home, while if they wish to sell jams, fruits pies or syrups, they have to grow the main ingredient.
The biggest issue, of course, is health
Does Seattle Have the Craziest Rental Laws in the Country?
May 12, 2018
Does Seattle have the kookiest rental laws in the country?
In most states existing laws already prohibited landlords from choosing renters based on characteristics such as race, gender and sexual orientation.
But in 2016 the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance requiring landlords to pick the first
Is Your DNA Private? How Investigators Used Public DNA Data to Catch A Killer
May 6, 2018
You may have never heard of the “Golden State Killer,” who went on a spree of murder and rape back in the 1970s and 80s. He killed at least 12 people, raped more than 50 and committed 100 burglaries between 1974 and 1986 in Northern and Southern California, without leaving