It was part of my black 1993 Eagle Talon’s cassette player’s (and later my 2005 Chevy Cobalt’s CD player’s) rotation for well over a decade. It also introduced me to a new and dangerous vocabulary. Growing up in the somewhat sheltered confines of Wichita, I’d never heard of nor seen a “Gat” a “tech 9 tronic”, a “Six-Fo”, “hollow …
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Student Loan Discharge In Bankruptcy: How Hard Is It?
In Steven Harper’s The Lawyer Bubble: A Profession In Crisis, the author (quoting a newspaper article) describes Federally guaranteed student loans as the closest thing to a debtor prison in existence. Lawyer Bubble, p. 11. This statement, while jarring, has some empirical support. In the book, Harper cites bankruptcy code changes that have made it virtually impossible to get student …
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Discovery Sanctions and Getting Medical Records Into Evidence – Illinois Case Note
In Fraser v. Jackson, 2014 IL App (2d) 130283, the Second District affirmed a $600K-plus jury verdict for the personal injury plaintiff. The Court also upheld the trial court’s exclusion of defendant’s medical expert testimony at trial and found that the defendant failed to answer plaintiff’s request to admit medical records in good faith. Discovery Sanctions: Rule 219 …