PARENTING: Supervisory control granted vacating sua sponte parenting plan by Judge Christopher for injecting her own parenting experiences into largely amicable proceeding to order immediate custody of 5-year-old to Oregon father for 5 years with no contact by mother without proper consideration of best interest factors… remanded for transfer to Judge Owen and restoration of custody to mother pending a final parenting plan… order. [Read more…]
UI, corporate officer working without pay
UI: Corporate officer working without pay under implied contract required to report hours… properly ordered to repay $28,387 plus 33% penalty… Townsend reversed. [Read more…]
Medical malpractice, fistula bleed death, expert
MEDICAL MALPRACTICE: Plaintiffs’ standard of care instruction properly rejected, Defendant’s instruction on “mere fact of injury” properly given… fistula bleeding death defense verdict affirmed… Seeley affirmed. [Read more…]
Trust, distributions from house sale
TRUST: Distributions from house sale properly made first to brothers who had pitched in to save house, then to sister for whom trust was created… McLean affirmed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, med-mal, A/V fistula, death
VERDICT: Defense, med-mal, alleged failure to timely revise A/V fistula leading to bleeding death. [Read more…]