WBA meeting focuses on financial matters
Vince B. Mastrovito of Heritage Private Wealth LLC will provide an economic update for Women’s Bar Association (WBA) members and guests on Wednesday, September 21, at 6 p.m. at Big Rock Chop House in Birmingham.
This educational event will include an economic briefing of financial issues impacting attorneys in several practice areas and stages of an attorney’s career.
This event is free, but space is limited. Register with Nicole Wilinski at nwilinski@plunkettcooney.com.
Priority will be given to WBA members if the event fills up.
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Judges claim too many civil cases kept secret
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges who set the rules for U.S. courts say too many civil lawsuits are being kept from public view and are urging their colleagues to seal cases only in extraordinary circumstances.
Chief Judge David Sentelle of the federal appeals court in Washington said the Judicial Conference voted unanimously recently to adopt a policy aimed at limiting the number of sealed civil cases.
Sentelle said judges “should not do something in secret” without compelling reasons.
A study of civil cases filed in 2006 found that 576 out of 245,326 cases were sealed.
Sentelle said the 26 judges who form the policy-making Judicial Conference believe too many cases are being sealed in their entirety. NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island police say two suspects picked the wrong pizza delivery guy to rob: An undercover police officer.
The Providence Journal reports that a 30-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy were arrested in Newport recently after they approached the officer.
Police say one of the suspects had a BB gun in his waistband.
Two delivery drivers were robbed in the same area earlier this month.
Police had asked restaurants to call if they received delivery orders for the neighborhood.
A-1 Pizza received the call and notified police, who sent the officer in place of the usual driver.
Lt. William Fitzgerald says the suspects were “quite shocked” to discover the delivery man was actually an officer.
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Mom says she took son’s cancer benefit money
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — An upstate New York woman has admitted to gambling away thousands of dollars raised to help her son fight cancer.
The Buffalo News reports that 46-year-old Sherry Holcomb of Cortland pleaded guilty recently in state Supreme Court to a felony count of scheme to defraud.
The newspaper reports that Holcomb confessed to losing $15,000 of her son’s benefit money while gambling at casinos in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Canada.
Prosecutors say the money had been raised for her 21-year-old son, Ryan O’Donnell, who’s being treated for leukemia.
She faces up to four years in prison when she’s sentenced in November.
Judges should instead try to shield individual documents or black out information in a file.
Cop goes undercover on pizza delivery holdups
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