Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and the National Federation of the Blind have negotiated a deal with Apple to make its online services iTunes and iTunes U fully accessible to the blind. Apple has reportedly agreed to make iTunes U, which provides educational content, fully accessible by the end of the year and to make […]
A San Francisco law banning the sale of tobacco products in pharmacies, possibly the first of its kind in the country, will go into effect today after surviving an attempt by Walgreens to halt it. The Deerfield, Ill., company had sought a preliminary injunction Tuesday in Superior Court, arguing that its suit challenging the law […]
Almost everything we do is affected by laws. There are so many laws that it would take a person with an average reading skill over a thousand years just to read the law book. As if we have nothing else to do with our lives but read laws. So what do we do when a […]
Allen & Overy has opened its first office in Brazil with the formal launch of its Sao Paulo base Tuesday. The office, which will focus on corporate finance work, will be led by New York-based project finance partner Bob Kartheiser, who also co-heads the firm’s Latin America practice group. Kartheiser will split his time between […]
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During a medical exam required for a personal injury suit against a driver who rear-ended him in a fender bender, Lewis J. Bazakos allegedly suffered a second injury when the orthopedic surgeon grabbed his head, rotated his neck and pulled. Bazakos’ suit against the doctor presented a novel, threshold issue: Did the claim sound in […]