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Frank Gimbel offers insight into Derek Williams Inquest - Fox 6 Legal Matters
The Derek Williams inquest has offered plenty of heated debate and emotion in recent days. Fox 6 News asked GRGB's Frank Gimbel to offer some insight into the inquest process and provide background on the allegations of the case.
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Frank Gimbel Discusses Carnival Class Action Lawsuit - Fox 6 Legal Matters
In a recent edition of WITI Fox 6 Legal Matters, GRGB Attorney, Frank Gimbel was asked to provide insight into the legalities of a recent class action lawsuit brought against Carnival Cruise Lines. The cruise ship operator is under intense scrutiny after their luxury ship, Triumph, broke down in the middle of the ocean, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded for several days. Gimbel provides clarity regarding aspects of the suit that might be considered reasonable and those that might be thrown out.
Ray Dall'Osto Discusses NYC Sugary Drinks Ban - FOX 6 LEGAL MATTERS
The recent sugary drinks ban in NYC has endured both criticism and staunch support as the US tries to come up with solutions to the obesity crisis. GRGB attorney, Ray Dall'Osto sat down with WITI Fox 6 to discuss the implications of such a law as well as the current efforts to appeal the ban.
Ray Dall'Osto Offers Insight on NFL Concussion Lawsuit - Fox 6 Legal Matters
In a recent edition of Fox 6 Wake Up's Legal Matters, GRGB Attorney, Ray Dall'Osto was asked to provide input on the Concussion lawsuit being brought against the NFL. The lawsuit surrounds CTE (Chronic
In a recent edition of Fox 6 Wake Up's Legal Mattes, GRGB Attorney, Ray Dall'Osto was asked to provide input on the Concussion lawsuit being brought against the NFL. The lawsuit surrounds CTE (Chronic Traumatic Enchelopholthy) injuries that have been endured by players over the years. Dall'Osto offers viewers some insights into the complexities of the case and arguments on both sides of the issue.
The Value of Trial Experience to a Young Lawyer
A GRGB attorney was recently the alumni blogger for the MU Law School Faculty Blog. Here is what she had to say in her first blog:
As a new lawyer, I struggled to come up with blog topics. Being only two years out of law school, I don't pretend to have near the amount of knowledge or experience as the frequent contributors and readers of this blog. I contemplated a post about the recent United States Supreme Court decision inMissouri v. McNeely, but Dean O'Hear would cover that topic in a much more eloquent and researched fashion. I then contemplated a post about the privacy implications regarding the recent news on the NSA collecting phone records (or even more recently-the criminal defendants demanding the records as exculpatory evidence). However, as a past student of Professor Boyden's Law of Privacy class, I'm inclined to believe his post on that issue would make a much more interesting read. I finally decided on a topic that has monopolized my attention this Spring and Summer: jury trials. While a post on jury trials authored by Professor Blinka would likely be deemed so sage as to be cited by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, I'll tackle the area from what I've learned as a new lawyer.
The Calling of the Trial Lawyer - A Modern Day Atticus Finch
Perhaps you saw the opinion letter that was submitted in to the Milwaukee Journal last week regarding GRGB's Frank Gimbel and the recent high profile Spooner case. In case you missed it...here is what it said:
A man murders an innocent, unarmed young boy at point-blank range. Then, against the strong advice of his lawyer, he takes the witness stand to proclaim that justice was served by his heinous crime.
Properly convicted now and still without even a hint of remorse, he complains about his lawyer, who had the courage to represent an unpopular and manifestly guilty client ("Spooner says truth didn't come out,").
By taking this case, lawyer Franklyn Gimbel evokes the name of the model for all trial lawyers - small-town Alabama lawyer Atticus Finch. In Harper Lee's classic "To Kill A Mockingbird" Atticus explains to his daughter, Scout, his duty to defend accused rapist, Tom Robinson, this way: "It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." Finch would be proud of Gimbel.
Jack Clark, Defamation, Pujols and PEDs - A Great American Pastime?
In recent years America's national pastime has been wrought with scandal. It seems that the use of performance enhancing drugs (PED's) takes up more headline space than the recaps of the latest box scores. With that said, yet another PED scandal is making headlines, and includes an accusation, denial, defamation lawsuit and now a possible polygraph test.
In early August, during his now defunct radio show "The King of the Ripper" former St. Louis Cardinal, Jack Clark, accused Anaheim Angels player, Albert Pujols of using steroids. Clark stated that he knew "for a fact" that it was true, citing a conversation from the year 2000, with Chris Mihlfeld, a former trainer for Pujols. Clark stated that in this conversation, Mihlfeld indicated that he "shot Pujols up" with drugs earlier in his career.
While Clark firmly stands behind these allegations, even to the point of losing his radio gig, Mihlfeld is not backing him up. Within a week of Clark's on-air comments, Mihlfeld submitted his own written statement noting that he would "bet my life" that Pujols would "never use illegal drugs in any way."
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GRGB's Dall'Osto Weighs in on SCOTUS Cell Phone Ruling
In a recent blog, we discussed the ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the legalities of searching a person's cell phone without a warrant. The blog investigated two such cases that were before the court in which a defendant's phone was confiscated without a warrant and content on the phone entered as evidence.
GRGB's Raymond Dall'Osto was recently asked to provide insight about this case to the Wisconsin Radio Network. Dall'Osto applauded the US Supreme Court's finding indicating that they upheld the 4thAmendment privacy rights of the American people "in its application to modern technology."
Dall'Osto, who is a former director of the ACLU, noted that the information that a police officer can acquire on a cell phone is "critical evidence which law enforcement will still be able to obtain with relative ease, it just means they're going to have to have enough evidence to show probable cause, to get a warrant,"
Don't Wait Until it is too Late - Avoid Identity Theft Now
By Attorney Raymond Dall'Osto
According to a recent article in the New York Times, on January 12, 2015, President Obama proposed that Congress strengthen laws against identity theft by requiring notification to consumers when their confidential information is hacked and by providing greater annual access to credit scores, in addition to being able to obtain annual credit bureau reports. The President also called for stricter laws and more vigorous prosecution for those committing cyberattacks on businesses and government, with substantially increased criminal penalties.
Under current law, individuals can request their credit bureau reports each year, free of charge. This right was enacted into law in the 2003 Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA), and allows individual consumers to obtain credit reports from the three major national credit bureaus - TransUnion, Experian and Equifax. President Obama’s new proposal would expand this free access to also include a person’s credit score.
