Friday, December 10, 2010

San Francisco Law Headlines, Charges Filed in tragic personal injury Case

In law news out of the San Francisco area involving what turned out be personal injury that was eventually fatal to the victim, DPI’s pressroom manager, 50-year-old Alick Yeung, and his employer, Sanjay Sakhuja, the 52-year-old owner of Digital Pre-Press International, are charged with manslaughter, in addition to and labor code violations. If I may suggest this fine San Francisco personal injury attorney who also does car and motorcycle accident plus wrongful death, here you go, a very fine attorney in San Francisco indeed
Prosecutors will argue that the company’s workers had inadequate training to confirm that the cutting machine was correctly turned off as Mojica worked with it. They will also charge that DPI should have kept the dangerous machine padlocked in the off position or set rules that would require two employees to be on hand when the equipment is being set up to start. This case reminds me of a recent Dallas case and was also written about by Mary Alexander, a San Francisco workplace injury attorney.
In a further breach of safety, the company had allegedly removed a safety bar to allow thicker cardboard to pass through the machine.
Sanjay Sakhuja and Alick Yeung face fines of up to $250,000 each and could possibly spend up to four years in prison.
Alexander also reports that when federal regulators were sent in to inspect and the San Francisco printing plant, they found 14 safety violations, and assessed nearly $81,000 in fines. Might I add that should you require avery good Personal injury attorney Houston then I can certainly suggest this elite firm which also covers motorcycle and auto accident as well as personal injury related cases as well.
Alexander cites an October 19, 2010 San Francisco Chronicle report, as reporting that $1 million in fines and a wrongful death lawsuit, which was filed on behalf of the victim’s family, also resulted from the tragedy. That suit is said to have been settled for $6 million.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Sarkozy’s Bro. and Sister-in-law in NY Court over Divorce Assetts

Forgive me if this post is just a little bit off topic but this is a topic that is rather important to me overall. I went to Seattle recently ( I am now back in Chicago though) to see my divorce attorney and it made me think of the subject in general. In a particular turn of events which might have actually shocked his wife’s family, he attained a very high position over at the Carlyle Group. If the judge agrees to throw out the prenup agreement in question, their marital estate would be divided according to the said New York community property law and be divided equally. Like the estate planning laws it is pretty clear. Incidentially if you are in need of a quality San Diego divorce attorney who also specializes in family law, criminal defense plus being a DUI attorney too.
On the other hand, if the prenup stands, the assets which include an $11 million Upper East Side town house - and bank accounts would be directed to whichever spouse currently holds title.
All in all, Charlotte’s attorney, Robert Stephan Cohen, delivered remarks to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Laura Drager, saying that when Olivier returned to his homeland in 1997 to sign the prenuptial agreement, he "had not been in France for some 20 years" because his passport had been confiscated for avoiding military service. Of course estate planning is a whole other can of worms. Speaking of that, if in Chicago and looking for a first rate Chicago estate planning attorney I can recommend Matt Miller.
For his part, Robert Michaels, Olivier's attorney in question, responded that his client had flown in expressly to sign the prenup" because he was summoned by his future father-in-law," who was concerned about protecting his daughter's stake in a family trust because the pair had known each other for only three months.”
Attorney Cohen argued that the prenuptial agreement should be voided in this divorce because the couple had not met certain conditions of it, such as getting married in the country of France.
Cohen explained that Charlotte and Olivier married in Nantucket in October 1997 and then had "a fake marriage" in France shortly after.