Wyoming rancher defends $339K award for stock he claims grizzlies killed
The paw of a grizzly caught after killing stock. (provided by Josh Longwell)
A Hot Springs County rancher who lost dozens of sheep and numerous cattle to grizzly bears in 2018 asked a judge Wednesday to honor an arbitration panel’s award the state says is more than $200,000 too much.
Josh Longwell’s Cheyenne attorney Drake Hill asked District Judge Bill Simpson not to vacate or modify an arbitration panel’s award, saying the three members were justified when they arrived at $339,730 for stock lost to grizzlies and other predators. Attorneys representing the state and the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission claim the Hot Springs County panel in 2020 exceeded its authority and awarded Longwell $215,286 more than laws and regulations allow.
“The Supreme Court sided Monday with Google in an $8 billion copyright dispute with Oracle over the internet company’s creation of the Android operating system used on most smartphones worldwide.
“To create Android, which was released in 2007, Google…used 11,330 lines of code and an organization that’s part of Oracle’s Java platform.”
Justice Stephen Breyer’s 6-2 majority opinion relied heavily upon the “fair use” portion of copyright law. Which is most of the reason why the ruling was so idiotic. Behold the definition of “fair use”:
“The doctrine that brief excerpts of copyright material may, under certain circumstances, be quoted verbatim for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and research, without the need for permission from or payment to the copyright holder.”
Dershowitz: Derek Chauvin Conviction Should Be Reversed on Appeal
20 Apr 2021
Renowned defense attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday that the conviction of former Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd should be overturned on appeal because of the public intimidation of the jury and the judge’s refusal to sequester the jury.
Dershowitz noted the “outside influence” of people like Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), who encouraged unrest at a protest on Saturday night in nearby Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, if there was no murder conviction in the case.
Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of all of the charges in the case second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter.
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The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, that M&K Construction must reimburse an employee, Vincent Hager, for the cost of his medical marijuana in his workers’ compensation case, upholding the lower court ruling.
Mr. Hager sustained an injury to his lumbar spine while working for M&K in 2001. Surgery was unsuccessful, leaving Mr. Hager with chronic pain that he managed with opiates until 2016 when he was approved for medical marijuana. Some of the evidence most impactful at trial was that Mr. Hager was able to reduce his opiate intake and alternatively treat his pain with medical marijuana. He ultimately submitted the receipts for the cost (2 ounces at $616 a month) to the carrier for reimbursement and was denied. The Judge of Compensation ordered the employer to reimburse the petitioner for the cost of his medical marijuana. The ruling was upheld by the Appellate Division in its January 2020 dec