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This week a Florida judge in the case concerning the shooting of Trayvon Martin ruled that details about Martin’s possible marijuana use and suspensions from school could not be used in opening statements, despite the defense’s contention that the drug use and suspensions made it more likely that George Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.
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30
May
2013
HS&A Joins Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP
Effective June 1, 2013, Hernandez,Schaedel & Associates will become the Los Angeles/Pasadena office of Gonzalez, Saggio & Harlan LLP, a national minority-owned law firm.
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17
May
2013
HS&A Welcomes Becky Raizman
HS&A welcomes Becky Raizman to the firm. When asked why she chose a career in law, Becky shared, “I went to law school because I enjoy working with and helping people resolve problems and conflicts they face.
Read moreOn May 10, Jack Schaedel attended the California State Civic Learning Award Ceremony at San Marino High School. SMHS was honored for a series of curricular and extra-curricular programs involving students in civic participation. Jack’s contribution during the year was to serve as a judge in a mock trial of the Frankenstein monster for a senior English class taught by Jacqueline Schaedel.
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15
May
2013
Can a Biotech Company Own Your Genes?
Yesterday Angelina Jolie revealed in a brave and candid op-ed in the New York Times that she underwent a preventative double mastectomy earlier this year after discovering that she carried a “faulty” gene that placed her at an increased risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. The faulty genes referenced in Ms. Jolie’s article are called BRCA1 and BRCA2 and are currently a source of dispute in the medical research community. Ms. Jolie’s article comes in the wake of oral argument last month before the Supreme Court in Association for Molecular Pathology, et al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et al. (Docket 12-398) regarding the right to patent the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
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13
May
2013
Law, Lunch and Scholarship
Don Hernandez, Jack Schaedel, Kristin Petersen and Jamie Lopez attended the Pasadena Bar Association’s Law Day lunch on May 9. HS&A’s guests of honor, Irwin Evans and Nelson Atkins, were in attendance as well.
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10
May
2013
What Are the “Cool Kids” Wearing? A Brand With A Lot of Potential Liability On Its Hands
Abercrombie & Fitch’s CEO Mike Jeffries and his controversial comments from a 2006 Salon article are back in the hot seat. Jeffries told the magazine, “In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids. Candidly, we go after the cool kids…”
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10
May
2013
Update: The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, 100 Years Later, and the TSCA: Responsibility as Opportunity
On May 3, 2013, we reported on the Bangladesh garment factory collapse at Rana Plaza and its connections to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911. Since then, the Rana Plaza tragedy has deepened as the death toll has soared to over 1,000, placing it among the worst workplace disasters in history
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09
May
2013
Copyright Infringement: a Novel Song
This month is less than half over and already, two well-known works have been subject to different lawsuits dealing with copyright issues.
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08
May
2013
Delivering Happiness in Workplace Culture
Seven members of the HS&A team, Agnès Markarian, Amanda Smith, Becky Raizman, Carrie Thompson, Christina Paquette, Jamie Lopez, and Kristin Petersen, attended Pasadena Magazine’s fifth annual Women in Business Luncheon 2013.
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