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DOMINALAW Group pc llo sues city in wrongful death claim -Clarence Mabin, Lincoln Journal Star
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 The mother of a Lincoln woman who died after an asthma episode at her home is suing the city in a wrongful death lawsuit. | Full Story |
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Banking Issues – Mortgage Crisis Poses Threat to Individuals.
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 2008’s July 4 celebration weekend was barely over when the nation’s banks and financial markets were rocked with news of a major lender’s insolvency in California, and the need for an emergency bailout of America’s two largest mortgage lenders, FNMA and FMAC. | Full Story |
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DOMINALAW Group pc llo sues California firm, local attorney -Clarence Mabin, Lincoln Journal Star
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 A Nebraska man is suing a local attorney and a California firm associated with famed defense lawyer Johnnie Cochran, claiming they mishandled his criminal appeal. | Full Story
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Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Struggles with Issues Following Bankruptcy
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 DOMINALAW Group pc llo’s arguments to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit produced a split decision, in a complex legal area involving bankruptcy procedure. | Full Story
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DOMINALAW Group pc llo Wins Accounting Malpractice Appeal. Precedent Established Governing Malpractice Rules.
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 The Nebraska Supreme Court’s 6-1 opinion in favor of DOMINALAW Group pc llo’s clients Fred A. Lockwood and his accounting firm announced important rules in the complex area of damages from alleged accounting malpractice. | Full Story |
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Important Landfill Case Tried. Following Success on Summary Judgment Proceedings.
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 Two widows in their 80s who, with their husbands contracted to sell their family farm to Waste Management, found themselves in court over their contractual right to buy back their farm. They chose DOMINALAW Group pc llo for the task. | Full Story |
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DOMINALAW Group pc llo Wins Property Tax Relief Issue for Client
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 In Michigan, when a land purchaser acquires real estate, they are often met with the un-welcomed event of the property’s taxable value becoming uncapped. When the taxable value becomes uncapped it can rise to the level of the capped value and thus increase the annual tax burden significantly. | Full Story |
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Special Investigator Appointed to Evaluate Policyholder Claims Against Insurer
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 The Douglas County District Court appointed a former district judge from Lincoln to conduct a statutory investigation of Medico Insurance Company. The appointment came after David Domina’s cross examination of the proposed investigator in open court, and with the consent of his client who initiated a shareholder derivative action against the insurer. | Full Story
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Nebraska Supreme Court Hears Condemnation Appeal
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 The Metropolitan Utilities District condemned easements across a west Omaha developer’s subdivision to install two large subterranean aqueducts. The 54 and 48 inch diameter lines were installed to move water to, and from, a 20 million gallon reservoir on the City’s west side. | Full Story |
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Court of Appeals Reverses! Trial Court Erred by Rescinding Agreement.
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 Domina Law Group pc llo’s real estate investor client learned an Omaha property owner’s asset was about to be sold by the County Sheriff to collect a judgment. The property had equity, and it seemed clear the foreclosure should be avoided. | Full Story |
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Appeals Court Considers Rescission Claims
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 A homeowner, facing a sheriff’s sale following an adverse judgment for a substantial consumer debt, turned to a private investment firm for help to save her house. She signed a deed, other closing documents, a closing statement, and a lease providing she could lease the property back, with an option to buy it back, at a later date. | Full Story |
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Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Spirited Oral Argument from DOMINALAW Group pc llo
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 A Complex Legal Issue, created by two Federal Statutes enacted nearly 100 years apart, recently served as the backdrop for a remarkable oral argument before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco. | Full Story
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Jury Finds Hospice Care Liability
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 A jury found professional negligence, and inadequate care was provided to an 85-year-old hospice patient who sought a dignified, painless death from multiple, concurrent cancers. The case is Nebraska’s first hospice care verdict. | Full Story |
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United States Supreme Court Expands Preemption Doctrine; Limits State Law Claims
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 The United States Supreme Court’s mid-February 2008 decision in Riegel v. Medtronic, impacts efforts by lawyers to find relief for injured clients suffering from the adverse consequences of defective, or misdesigned, medical devices. Riegel v. Medtronic, number 06-179, decided February 20, 2008, decided a case brought by Mr. and Mrs. Riegel against Medtronic after one of its catheters ruptured in Mr. Riegel’s coronary artery during heart surgery. They alleged the device was not properly labeled under New York law. | Full Story
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Jury Finds Failure to Treat Pain of Dying Cancer Patient Negligent
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 An Omaha jury has decided in favor of the daughters of Frances Tolliver, an 85 year old woman who died of cancer while a resident of Hospice House, based on the nursing staff’s failure to provide Mrs. Tolliver adequate pain management in her final weeks of life. | Full Story |
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Fight for control of foundation returns to state high court- Josh Funk, ASSOCIATED PRESS(AP)
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 The fight for control of one of Nebraska's oldest and most prestigious charitable foundations will return to the state Supreme Court on Friday for a second round of arguments. | Full Story |
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Serious Injuries Lead to DLGpc Attack on Constitutionality of Damages Cap
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 DOMINALAW Group pc llo’s Lincoln, Nebraska client decided her successful high school education would be followed by college years in her home town. The young lady, literally the queen of her prom at one of Lincoln’s public high schools, was crossing the street with friends, in a residential area, well dressed and conducting herself appropriately, when a no lights, no sirens, high speed police cruiser responding, silently, to a domestic call, struck her. Since then, for more than a year the young lady has been cast into a persistent vegetative state. | Full Story
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Jury Finds Against Charity Awards Judgment for DOMINALAW Group pc llo Client
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 A northeast Nebraska jury told a local YMCA it would not be permitted to get away with improprieties simply because of its status. Despite a $7.5 million building campaign and a high-visibility new structure in its community, the Y will pay a judgment for converting the property of small business owners.
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Supreme Court Hears Business Dispute
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 The third appearance of a father-son controversy over a significant manufacturing business’s control made its way to the Nebraska’s Supreme Court in February. | Full Story |
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Oral arguments continue to dominate DLGpc activity
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 DOMINALAW Group pc llo's extensive trial and appellate practice continues unabated, as 2008 opens. | Full Story
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California Raisin Producers select DOMINALAW Group pc llo for US Supreme Court filing
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 A petition for a writ of certioria asking the US Supreme Court to review decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the Federal Claims Court, was filed with the Supreme Court of the United States on December 28. The filing, consisting of the Raisin Producers petition for writ of certiorari, asks the Supreme Court to consider whether the Federal Marketing Order governing raisins is unconstitutional as applied to the producers.| Full Story |
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Jury Returns Criminal "NOT GUILTY" Verdicts
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DOMINALAW Group pc llo's Physician Assistant client was acquitted on all three criminal charges against her by a Sarpy County, Nebraska jury. The case, which rose from a domestic dispute, threatened the successful PA's licensure, as well as her liberty..
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Developer's Ability to Alter Covenants Thwarted. Homeowner's Subdivision Protected!
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 During 2006, DOMINALAW Group pc llo's efforts prevented a change in protective covenants, and removal of some of a subdivision from their protection. The result was that Walmart could not build a store in proposed location in an Omaha suburb. | Full Story |
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Oral Arguments Scheduled in Cases Opposing Questions of First Impression
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Nebraska Supreme Court will hear oral arguments December 5, 2007 in two cases presented by DOMINALAW Group pc llo, each raising an issue of first impression under Nebraska law, and each posing an issue about which there is little appellate precedent elsewhere.
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The Nebraska Supreme Court rules for a DLG client in a first-impression corporate governance case.
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 The judicial removal of corporate directors, governed by a statute adopted in Nebraska from a model act enacted in many states, was without any judicial interpretation when an elderly Nebraska couple sought advice from DOMINALAW Group pc llo. | Full story
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David A. Domina recognized as "Leading Lawyer"
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A newly published book by London legal publisher "Chambers & Partners" entitled Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business 2007 - The Client's Guide, recognized David A. Domina, Founder, DOMINALAW Group pc llo, in the litigation section as follows:
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Appeals Court Hears Arguments for Former NFL Player
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 Oral arguments, in the Nebraska Court of Appeals in mid-November, submitted, for appellate decision, a long standing dispute involving a former veteran National Football League star. DOMINALAW Group pc llo's David Domina tried the case to a successful jury verdict in 2005. | Full Story |
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