Charged with a federal crime? Don’t start packing bags for beach resort vacation
Federal judges are hesitant to grant defendant requests for vacations outside the U.S. But as two recent cases involving Texans show, it does occasionally happen.
Cabo San Lucas, México. A federal judge in Dallas recently granted a defendant s request to travel to this popular resort with his wife to celebrate his 57th birthday. But that is a rarity in federal court, according to experts.(Agencia Reforma)
When people are charged with federal crimes, they tend to lay low and save money for legal fees and other expenses, attorneys say.
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On Thursday, Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson of the Southern District of Indiana issued a mixed ruling in a case challenging a benefit denial by defendants Golden Rule Insurance Company, Savvysherpa Administrative Services LLC, and United Healthcare Services Inc. (collectively, Golden Rule). The plaintiff seeks to represent a class of insureds who were denied coverage for urine drug tests because Golden Rule deemed them not “medically necessary” to treat substance abuse.
The court’s opinion explains that on Feb. 1, 2013, the plaintiff, his wife, and son entered into a health insurance contract with Golden Rule. The plaintiff’s son was diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and other disorders, as well as an opiate use disorder at different times in his teenage years.
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CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - Netflix, Hulu and other video streaming services have asked a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s order sending a dispute over franchise fees back to state court in Indiana, saying the case belongs in federal court because it is a class action, not an attempt to collect state taxes.
The difference matters, the streaming services say, because the Class Action Fairness Act requires class actions seeking more than $5 million to be heard in federal court. Indianapolis and several other cities, represented by private lawyers working on contingency, sued to collect franchise fees from the video services and structured the case as a class action on behalf of every other Indiana municipality.
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US to carry out 13th and final execution under Trump administration
Dustin Higgs was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for overseeing the kidnapping and murder of three women in Maryland in 1996.PHOTO: AFP
UpdatedJan 16, 2021, 4:10 pm
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