Joseph Grove, P.C.

• Letting the Conscious Non-Terminal, Incompetent, Patient Die: Hold On a Minute - Not So Fast

   

  It is an injustice to cause patients to unnecessarily prolong the process of dying. Actual futile care must be avoided. But it is equally an injustice to easily acquiesce to patient’s demands that my result in unnecessary death.

  On August 17, 2010 the Class Certification Denied in Microwave Popcorn Litigation

  A federal court has denied class certification in a proposed consumer fraud class action arising from the sale of microwave popcorn with artificial butter flavoring. See Courtney Fine v. Conagra Foods, Inc., No. CV 10-01848 SJO (C.D. Calif., Aug. 27, 2010).

  The facts: Diacetyl is a naturally...

• Top 25 Business Law Blog? Only If You Say So

  As I approach the three-year anniversary of this blog (stay tuned for more details), it's certainly touching to receive accolades for this blog. 

  Each year, LexisNexis “honors a select group of blogs that set the online standard for a given industry.” Amazingly,...

• Grandma Robbed by Nazis - Grandson Sues Spain to Recover Stolen Paintings

  In August, 2009, the Ninth Circuit decided en banc by 9-2 that a California resident Claude Cassirer can sue Spain to recover his grandmother's oil painting "Rue Saint-Honore, apres-midi, effet de pluie," painted by the French impressionist Camille Pissarro and taken by the Nazi government. (Cassirer v. Kingdom of Spain, 2010...

• That May Be A $500 Bow Tie I'm Wearing

  I will admit it.  My sense of style is not for everyone.  Atypical.  Iconoclastic. Nerdy. Or just bad.  I would accept any of those words as accurate descriptors.

  But as I sit here in my Brooks Brothers seersucker suit and my Brooks...