Defective & Dangerous Products

• AB 483 Revises Procedures on Execution of Property

  Steve Klearman | October 29, 2007 12:42 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Assembly Bill No. 483 dated March 20, 2007 revises Nevada law regarding the execution of property and wages from a judgment debtor. The bill makes personal property whose total value does not exceed $1,000.00 exempt from execution. It also exempts tax refunds from federal earned income credit or a similar state law from being garnished. The original bill includes the proper forms for a notice of...

• New Legislation on Sealing Records

  Steve Klearman | October 25, 2007 12:34 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This is more of my continuing series on new legislation in Nevada.Assembly Bill 519 dated March 23, 2007 prohibits the district court from sealing a public record unless certain circumstances are met. For example, sealing the records may not have the purpose of concealing a public hazard and may not create a state of imminent danger to the public. Before sealing a public record, the court also...

• Child and Adult Care Facilites Subject to New Disclosure

  Steve Klearman | October 08, 2007 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Nevada law requires that child and adult care facilities be licensed and follow certain rules and regulations. Assembly Bill No. 283 adds new requirements to this law. Chapter 432A of NRS now requires that child and adult care facilities maintain and provide certain information to parents, guardians or legal representatives. New requirements also make failure to comply grounds for revocation of...

• Personal Email May Be Discoverable

  Steve Klearman | September 17, 2007 8:21 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This entry was sent to me today by Scott Roseland at CyberControls.net:Around the same time that a number of White House staff members were trying to extricate themselves from the probing questions of certain congressional inquiries about personal e-mail accounts being used to allegedly bypass the official government provided e-mail service, a very interesting survey was being released called,...

• Stem Cell Research in Cardiology

  Steve Klearman | August 29, 2007 10:50 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Stem cell will create countless new legal issues in coming years. The following article from Reuters, taken from Yahoo News, describes recent developments in stem cell research in cardiology: By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A nutritious cocktail helped human embryonic stem cells thrive and repair the damaged hearts of rats, U.S. researchers reported on Sunday....

• A Nation in Pain or Addiction?

  Steve Klearman | August 20, 2007 8:59 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Injury attorneys have long been aware of America's increasing problem with prescription pain medicines and the article below, pulled off Yahoo News this morning, confirms that a new national dialogue on this subject is in order. Legal addiction has become a major problem for the United States:MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping...

• Canned Meat Recall

  Steve Klearman | July 24, 2007 9:35 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  This from CBS News:Castleberry Food Co. is recalling every product manufactured on a specific production line in the past two years in response to four cases of botulism poisoning in Texas and Indiana.The production line is one of "four or five" in its Augusta, Ga., facility. On Saturday night the company also shut down the entire plant for one week while it investigates the cause of the...

• Easy Bake Oven Recall

  Steve Klearman | July 19, 2007 8:14 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  What's the world coming to when Easy Bake Ovens get dangerous? This from Yahoo News:The Easy Bake oven, an iconic toy with a four-decade history, has been recalled for the second time in less than a year, government safety advocates announced on Thursday. In February Easy Bake's parent company, Hasbro Inc., recalled 985,000 of the toys because children were getting their hands and fingers...

• China Deserves the Scrutiny

  Steve Klearman | July 16, 2007 8:49 AM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  There's a headline on Yahoo News today: China is blaming the media for inflating concerns about product safety (rather ironic on the wake of the execution of the minister in charge of drug safety).I lived in Taiwan for several years and travelled extensively through China. It is, without doubt, one of the most polluted countries in the world.China deserves the blame. They endanger the entire...

• Cleaners and Justice Prevail

  Steve Klearman | June 27, 2007 12:25 PM | 0 CommentsReno, NV

  Alright: what was destined to happen happened: the greedy unrealistic judge (with an anger problem perhaps) lost. As well he should have. Here's the story as reported by the Reno Gazette Journal on June 25, 2007:WASHINGTON (AP) -- A judge ruled Monday that no pair of pants is worth $54 million, rejecting a lawsuit that took a dry cleaner's promise of "Satisfaction Guaranteed" to its most...