Posts tagged sc

• Zero Tolerance with Zero Common Sense

  Linda Chalat | February 20, 2012 6:30 PM | 1 CommentDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Two eighth graders in Lewis-Palmer Middle School learned the hard way how extreme rules can result in absurd, and arguably unfair, results. The two girls were in gym class together, the...

• Brawling at the Ball Park

  Linda Chalat | July 13, 2011 12:19 PM | 3 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A little league game in Castle Rock turned the worst kind of ugly last month. A youth baseball tournament was underway at Metzler Park last month, when a brawl among the adults broke out. The...

• House Committee Votes to Not Fund CPSC Database

  Linda Chalat | July 08, 2011 11:16 AM | 1 CommentDenver, CO Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  In March of this year, the Consumer Product Safety Commission launched a Web site database that allows the public to search for complaints about the safety of everyday products. Called...

• Supreme Court Sides with Drug Companies

  Linda Chalat | July 05, 2011 5:04 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Supreme Court has struck down a Vermont law that prevented pharmacies from selling prescription information for drug marketing purposes, by a 6-3 vote. This case was a closely watched...

• Avoid Tragic Apartment Fires

  Linda Chalat | March 28, 2011 4:15 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  On Saturday, an apartment fire spread so quickly, that residents were jumping to safety from the second and third stories. Just as the sun was rising, the Aspen Wood Apartments near East Sixth...

• Colorado Attorney Praised for “Wonderful Retainer Letter”

  Linda Chalat | February 09, 2011 5:33 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Even attorneys get taken by scam e-mail, and a Fort Collins attorney, who serves as general counsel for the Better Business Bureau serving Northern Colorado and Wyoming, was recently targeted. He...

• School District Faces No Criminal Charges

  Linda Chalat | August 18, 2010 9:33 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Surprisingly, no criminal charges will be filed against a suburban Philadelphia school district that secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots on laptops issued to...

• Did You Forget Jury Duty?!

  Linda Chalat | July 29, 2010 7:07 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Miscellaneous
  

  You receive a phone call from official identifying himself as an officer of the court, calling to inform you that you failed to report for jury duty and that a warrant has issued for your arrest....

• Fire Danger for Elderly

  Linda Chalat | June 24, 2010 12:07 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Property Owner's Liability (Slip & Fall)
  

  Although 15 fires have erupted in high-rise apartments for the elderly in the past three years in Denver, required fire drills for residents are less frequent than citations issued to building...

• Discipline Action Late But Appropriate for Drunk Lawyer

  Linda Chalat | June 14, 2010 8:10 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Last summer, an attorney driving a luxury SUV struck a cyclist on the Interstate 70 on-ramp in Evergreen. The driver, lawyer Jeffrey Detlefs, sped away with several of his children as passengers in...