April 2008 Archives

The New York Times reports on April 28, 2008 that "(t) he mortgage industry, facing the prospect of tougher regulations for its central role in the housing crisis, has begun an intensive campaign to fight back." Loan Industry Fighting Rules on Mortgages. 

Whose fighting for the homeowners?

For all some lenders care, people can live in discarded cardboard boxes under a freeway overpass.

In USA Today, April 23, 2008, the editors opine on the right of citizens to sue the FDA for defective drugs, "Our view on pharmaceutical safety: If a drug has FDA's OK, should you be able to sue?" http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2008/04/our-view-on-pha.html.

USA Today acknowledges the important role of attorneys in holding drugs companies accountable but would limit the right of citizens to collect for damages unless they can demonstrate that a company deliberately deceived the FDA or knowingly failed to warn about the risks of its medicines, they shouldn't be able to collect a dime.

In Personal Injury Adoption Fraud Case Report of an $800,000 Recovery the tragic violation of the civil and human rights of Anna and Gary Moore and their family at the hands of unscrupulous social workers is fully reported.

Moore v. Tulare County and Mindy Wall, Tulare County Superior Court Action No. 04-211141 is the second major claim paid by the Tulare County Department of Social Services in ten years.

The San Jose Mercury's story, "Maxwell's Pledge," whitewashed the facts in its cover page story and photo of the heart-rending reactions of the parents of Maxwell Harding to the death of their son and their plan to take action because of it.