GlaxoSmithKline published a study fourteen years ago that concluded that its antidepressant drug, Paxil, was safe for teenagers to consume. This week, the medical journal, BMJ, published a new interpretation of that...
A gay male couple and a lesbian couple had a child together. According to the New York Post, one of the men donated his sperm to the women. Both couples decided to purchase identical apartments in New York...
A few weeks back, we wrote about infections caused by contaminated duodenoscopes that have recently come to light. In the wake of these discoveries, other medical instruments have become the subject of scrutiny. ...
After marrying in Sweden in 2001, a couple had three children, all of whom were born in Sweden. The wife is a Swedish citizen and the husband is a Canadian citizen, and the children have dual Swedish and Canadian...
After the trial court in Kaller v. Gogan determined that the husband’s alimony payments should be reduced to $175 per week, the wife appealed that decision. The appellate court sent the case back down to the...
During a minimally invasive hysterectomy, Viviana Ruscitto’s doctors at The Valley Hospital used a medical device called a laparoscopic power morcellator. According to NorthJersey.com, the device has a spinning...
Canagliflozin, a drug for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, may increase the incidence of bone fractures and decrease the bone mineral density in people on the medication. According to MedPage Today, the Food and...
Tennessee Refusesd to Grant Divorce to Straight Couple, Citing Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
Sep 10, 2015
Last week, a couple in their sixties sought a divorce in Chattanooga, Tennessee. According to WZTV Fox 17 Nashville, Chancellor Jeffrey M. Atherton refused to rule on the couple’s divorce. He said that the...
Unwitting Consumers Killed By Powdered Caffeine
Sep 02, 2015
Powdered caffeine is becoming increasingly popular, and it is commonly mixed into beverages by people looking for a boost of energy. But it can be lethal, and it is additionally known to cause dangerously erratic...
Last week, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the lower court’s ruling in Coshland v. Coshland, a case in which an ex-husband wanted to stop paying alimony to his ex-wife. The former couple was married for...
In L.I.B. v. D.M.B., the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the trial court’s decision to enter a final restraining order against the ex-husband for harassing and stalking his ex-wife. His behavior violated the...
This week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Moffitt v. Moffitt, in which the ex-husband appealed an order that required him to pay 81 percent of the parties’ daughter’s Stafford and Perkins student...
Scoping Device Linked To Deadly Bacteria
Aug 27, 2015
Recently, there have been many reported cases of a deadly “superbug” resulting from the incomplete cleaning of duodenoscopes. The superbug, formally known as carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaceae, or CRE, has...
The National Safety Council (NSC) recently reported that deaths and serious injuries from auto collisions are on the rise for the first time since 2007. According to Yahoo! Autos, the number of traffic fatalities...
After giving birth to twin girls, a mother in the case T.M. v. A.S. sought child support from the man she believed to be the father of her babies, A.S. The Passaic County Board of Social Services filed an...
In issuing the judgment of divorce in Terry v. Terry, the trial judge made two interesting decisions when dividing up the marital property. First, he decided that a rental property in only the husband’s name was...
The New Jersey Appellate Division recently decided N.J. Div. of Child Protection and Permanency v. M.H. When a man went to pick his three daughters up from their maternal grandmother’s house, a physical and...
While grandparents may play a big role in the lives of their grandchildren, a parent may object to the grandparents’ involvement. Unless the kids would suffer a real harm without their grandparents, a competent parent...
There are fourteen different acts that constitute domestic violence under N.J.S.A. § 2C:25-19(a). Domestic violence is often thought of as the use of physical force, but that is not always the case. ...
Last week, the New Jersey Appellate Division decided the case Yannuzzi v. Yannuzzi. After a couple with three kids got divorced in 2004, they entered into an agreement that the husband would pay the wife $120,000...
