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Jones Walker is grateful to publicize that Michael W. Magner has signed up with the company’s New Orleans agency of criminal law attorneys as special counsel. Mr. Magner practices in the firm’s Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group. His training focuses on precautionary and litigation services for businesses and individuals in corporate and white collar criminal law matters. He also represents individuals and companies in connection with grand jury and several other investigations.

Mr. Magner’s particular expertise is in anti-corruption conformity and Litigation matters on both a domestic and international level. He served as a federal prosecutor in New Orleans for 20 years where he was a key member of the team that successfully prosecuted former Louisiana Governor, Edwin Edwards, following a 5 month trial. He was also the lead prosecutor in the Department of Justice‘s long term investigation and prosecution of judicial and related public corruption in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana known as “Operation Wrinkled Robe.” In recognition of his work, Mike was awarded the Department of Justice‘s highest award for Litigation, the John Marshall Award, as well as the Director’s Award for Superior Performance by a Litigative Team.

Mr. Magner stated, “Joining Jones Walker and being able to work with the Jones Walker white collar team is an exciting opportunity. Their law firm has a number of former U.S. Attorneys and Assistant U.S. Attorneys, all of whom have a stellar reputation in representing clients in the defense of government investigations and prosecutions.”

Mr. Magner has also served as a supervisor of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s Anti-Terrorism/Crisis Response Unit, Organized Crime Strike Force, and Violent Crime Unit, and has tried over 40 jury trials to verdict, in virtually all sections of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Louisiana. He specialized in long term, complex white collar investigations and trials, including export control, mail and wire fraud, government contract fraud, bribery, money laundering, police misconduct, civil rights violations, and RICO. In 2011, he served as the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Advisor to the Kenyan Anti-Corruption Commission (“KACC”) in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was embedded in the KACC’s principal headquarters for nearly two months, and provided training to KACC’s investigators, auditors, and attorneys on corruption compliance, investigative, and prosecution matters. He has also trained foreign judges and prosecutors in Central Asia and Africa and has regularly trained federal prosecutors through the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute.

Right before assisting the KACC, Mr. Magner was with the Department of Justice‘s first Counsel for Emergency Management and Crisis Response in the Office of Director, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys in Washington, D.C. for 18 months, where he represented the DOJ at various White House level emergency exercises and planning meetings relating to the federal government’s response to major criminal events, natural disasters, and pandemics. While with DOJ, Mike was also selected as a trained evaluator of other U.S. Attorneys’ Offices throughout the country on various substantive legal areas as well as ethics and professionalism.

Mr. Magner obtained his juris doctor degree via Tulane University School of Law, cum laude; and was Managing Editor of The Maritime Lawyer. His Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/International Relations was earned from The George Washington University.

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GS Battery Inc. recently released they have begun to offer its ECO R model SLC 70-4 and SLX246-12 batteries for use in Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions. Co-Branded with the Suniva and GS Battery logo, these high capacity batteries provide extended life and also excellent cycling capacity held up by numerous years of working experience in Japan.

This collaboration allows Suniva and GS Battery to optimize their alternative energy products to improve the performance and reliability of the entire PV system, thus improving the Levelized Cost of Electricity. Custom engineering support to help meet individual project needs is also available. The ECO R batteries are a significant component to Suniva’s Balance of System Solutions.

“Market interest continues to be very positive for the ECO R batteries and has been aided by Suniva’s introduction of the Balance of System Solutions (BOSS) at Solar Power International,” said Jay Northey, Executive Vice-president and General Manager, GS Battery (USA) Inc. “We are excited to continue our collaboration with Suniva as our co-branded offerings expand globally.”

GS Battery Inc. is an American subsidiary of GS Yuasa Group of Japan, a world leader in automotive, motorcycle and standby storage batteries, which serves the power sports, telecommunications, UPS, and the emergency lighting markets. GS Battery Inc. recently announced that they will enter the renewable energy photovoltaic and storage market in North America.

Suniva® is an American manufacturer of high-efficiency crystalline silicon PV solar cells and high-power solar modules used in solar panels. The company uses patented, low-cost manufacturing techniques and industry-leading technology to produce its high-quality products and maintain competitive costs. Headquartered in metro-Atlanta, GA, Suniva sells its advanced PV cells and modules globally.

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The law organization of Lee Tran & Liang has achieved yet another Ninth Circuit appeal; actually is its 4th direct victory in the Ninth Circuit since 2009. On Jan 26, 2012, the 9th Circuit confirmed a grant involving summary judgment which LTL received for its client, the accused in a copyright and industry dress court case. Firm teammate Enoch H. Liang – as well as attorney Daniel Taylor – defended Bedrosian’s (in Orange County) and Hirsch Glass Company (in New Jersey) both before the District Court and the Ninth Circuit. The complaintant has been represented by distinguished intellectual property specialist Christie Parker & Hale.

As reported in LTL’s June 2010 press release, the District Court granted LTL’s motion for summary judgment on Plaintiff’s trade dress claims in mid-2009. Then, in September 2009, less than 4 days before a jury trial was scheduled to begin, the District Court also dismissed Plaintiff’s 17 copyright claims. In July 2010, Plaintiff appealed to the Ninth Circuit, arguing that the District Court erred in both holding that the scope of Plaintiff’s copyrights were “thin,” and finding that “there is no substantial similarity (much less virtual identity) insofar as the protectable items are concerned as between Plaintiff’s copyrighted products and Defendants’ glass tiles.”

After extensive briefing, on January 13, 2012, LTL Partner Enoch Liang argued the case, defending the District Court’s ruling. Fewer than 2 weeks following the oral argument, the Ninth Circuit Judges W. Fletcher, Fisher, and Zouhary—issued their unpublished opinion. The Ninth Circuit held that “protection over designs is thin.” The Court further held that the defendants’ designs “are not ‘virtually identical’ to because the streaking effect, color blends, and appearance of randomness in designs are different…”

This final decision reaffirms the necessity of a two-pronged tactic in copyright infringement actions. Often, the issue of infringement is determined by the “scope” of the copyright that the court determines as a matter of law. Hence, in litigating copyright matters, plaintiffs should pay particular attention to avoid falling into various limiting doctrines that may limit the scope of their copyrights. Defendants should do the opposite.

Lee Tran & Liang, APLC is a California based law firm focusing exclusively on business litigation. The firm’s partners have practiced at prominent law firms, and are graduates of top law schools including Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and Michigan. Primary practice areas, as outlined by the firm itself and every attorney directory, include business disputes (breach of contract, aggrieved investors and professionals, and commercial disputes) intellectual property litigation (patents, trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets), and employment litigation (defense). What sets the firm apart is actually its ambition of aligning itself with its customers’ desires, by offering up quite a few imaginative fee arrangements in appropriate matters.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration is telling small business that Feb. 24 is the filing deadline day regarding federal government financial injury disaster loans obtainable in Lee and Scott counties in Virginia. The SBA declared a catastrophe as a consequence of severe storms, tornadoes, straight-line wind gusts in addition to flooding that started on April 23, 2011.

In addition, the Small Business Administration announced recently that federal economic injury disaster loans are offered to smaller businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small companies engaged in aquaculture and the majority of private non-profit establishments of all sizes found in the counties of Dillon and also Horry in South Carolina because of Hurricane Irene that came about in August.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” said Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is readily available to eligible farm-related in addition to nonfarm-related businesses that suffered monetary losses as a direct result of this calamity. Apart from aquacultural businesses, agricultural producers, farmers and ranchers are not eligible to apply to SBA.

Financing for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA determines eligibility in line with the size of the candidate, form of undertaking as well as its financial assets. The agency sets loan amounts along with terms based upon each and every candidate’s financial condition. These SBA small business loans may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. These particular small business loans are not developed to substitute already lost gross sales or net income.

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During the aftermath of the sharpest court budget cuts in California’s history, plaintiffs’ trial lawyer Michael Alder of AlderLaw, P.C. in Beverly Hills assumed the office of president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the nation’s largest local association of plaintiffs’ attorneys, which is comprised of roughly 3,000 legal professionals.

“Consumer lawyers are vital, now more than ever, to protecting the civil rights of people who’ve been left without access to judicial relief, which is just about everyone except the super-rich,” said Alder. “Legal bills add up to astronomical sums very quickly, because litigation is such an intensive process. Without lawyers who work on a contingency fee basis, which means they risk their own money instead of the clients’ and agree not to be paid unless they win the case, even people with big incomes quickly find their resources drained when faced with the large legal bills that result from a contested matter. Consumer lawyers must be prepared to provide leadership, vision and most of all integrity.”

Alder can be described as a steadfast proponent of plaintiffs’ lawyers, otherwise known as consumer lawyers, working to raise public awareness of their importance at a time of corporate fraud and abuse. He’s been a member of CAALA for 14 years and spearheaded a city-wide billboard campaign to fund billboards that highlight the good that consumer lawyers do for society. He also is one of five founding members of the Trial Lawyers Charities, a non-profit institution which donates capital in addition to legal assistance to people in need within Los Angeles.

Alder is at the present time accomplishing some of the most cutting-edge litigation work in the nation. He has tried well over 70 litigation cases in his professional career and obtained over $140 million in verdicts and pay outs for his clientele this year alone. Lately, in December last year he attained a nearly $33 million verdict for Concept Chaser, Co., Inc. in the advertising fraud case Concept Chaser Co., Inc. v. Pentel of America Ltd.

CAALA officially installed Alder as its 2012 president on Jan. 21 at its 63rd Annual CAALA Installation & Awards Banquet at the Four Seasons Beverly Wilshire in Beverly Hills. The group also announced its new officers and Board of Governors. For more information, visit www.caala.org.

AlderLaw, P.C. is a Los Angeles criminal attorney and plaintiffs’ law firm that represents plaintiffs in personal injury, business tort and employment litigation nationwide. The firm was founded in 2000 by attorney Michael Alder, current president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and past CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year. Alder has tried more than 70 cases in his career, and works with a team of seven associate attorneys. AlderLaw, P.C. obtained more than $140 million in verdicts and lawsuit settlements for its clients last year. For information, visit www.alderlaw.com.

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Juhl Wind Inc, the first choice in Community Wind Power, has introduced the official industrial start-up and functioning of the two turbine project for Gundersen Health System in Winona County, MN. The 4.95 megawatt venture is the first-of-its-kind in North America to be created explicitly to address the alternative energy concerns of a big regional health and wellness organization, in this instance, Gundersen Health System.

“This unique wind project represents the continued activity by Juhl over the past two years and highlights our strength and diversity in the community wind energy market,” proclaimed Corey Juhl, Vice President of Development for Juhl Wind Inc. “We are seeing an increased demand for large commercial and industrial organization projects such as Gundersen’s as they fit extremely well within Juhl Wind’s area of expertise. This community-based project will provide significant economic benefits to the region. As one piece of their Envision program, the wind farm project will help Gundersen Health System achieve their goal of becoming 100% energy independent by 2014.”

“This is an exciting time for Gundersen and our Envision program. This community wind project we have done with Juhl Wind was about two years in the making, and we’re happy to report that the turbines are now creating energy,” outlined Jeff Rich, executive director, GL Envision, LLC.

Juhl Wind is an established pioneer in Community Based Wind Power creation and management, dedicated to wind farm projects throughout the United States and Canada. Juhl Wind pioneered Community-Based wind farms, developing the currently accepted financial, operational and legal structure providing local ownership of medium-to-large scale wind farms. To date, the Company has completed 21 wind farm projects and provides operations management and oversight across the portfolio of renewable resources. Juhl Wind services every aspect of wind farm development from full development and ownership, general consultation, construction management and system operations and maintenance. With its consolidation of the Valley View, Winona County and Woodstock Hills wind farms, the Company has now invested in and operates 21.7 MWs of wind power through its independent power producer subsidiary, Juhl Renewable Asset, Inc. Through its Next Generation Power Systems subsidiary, Juhl Wind also offers total product sales and service to smaller sized, on-site wind and solar panel ventures along with the company’s larger Community Wind turbine Farms.

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Men and women who have gynecologic cancer have brand-new expectation with a creative technology currently made available at the Seidman Cancer Center at University Hospitals Case Medical Center. A team of cancer specialists, led by Robert DeBernardo, MD, is among the first in the nation to launch a dedicated program using Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) to treat ovarian, endometrial and select other cancers.

Completed immediately following surgery, HIPEC provides heated chemotherapy through a ‘hot bath’ into the abdominal cavity, where it can penetrate diseased tissue directly. Once the physician takes out all the visible cancer as workable, a heated, a sterilized chemotherapy solution is circulated all through the mid-section through a technologically advanced perfusion procedure to kill the remaining cancer cells.

“This is a new and potentially revolutionary way of treating women with gynecologic cancers, which tend to be quite responsive to chemotherapy,” says Dr. DeBernardo, gynecologic oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. “Our preliminary data and experience has been overwhelmingly positive and the therapy has been well-tolerated and effective. HIPEC promises to extend lives in a meaningful way.”

HIPEC has been used for years for public health care in patients with colon, pseudomyxomas, malignant mesothelioma and appendiceal cancer, cancers of which usually are not responsive to chemotherapy, but it’s currently looked at as an encouraging new treatment for gynecologic malignancy.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration stated recently that federal economic injury disaster financial loans are offered to smaller businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, small corporations operating in aquaculture and the majority of private non-profit establishments of all sizes based in the counties of Dillon along with Horry in South Carolina due to Hurricane Irene that took place in August.

“These counties are eligible because they are contiguous to one or more primary counties in North Carolina. The Small Business Administration recognizes that disasters do not usually stop at county or state lines. For that reason, counties adjacent to primary counties named in the declaration are included,” explained Frank Skaggs, director of SBA’s Field Operations Center East in Atlanta.

“When the Secretary of Agriculture issues a disaster declaration to help farmers recover from damages and losses to crops, the Small Business Administration issues a declaration to assist eligible entities affected by the same disaster,” noted Skaggs.

Under this declaration, the SBA’s Economic Injury Disaster Loan program is accessible to qualified farm-related as well as nonfarm-related organizations that sustained economic losses being a direct result of this disaster. With the exception of aquacultural organizations, agricultural producers, farmers along with ranchers are definitely not eligible to a href=”http://www.sba.gov/content/how-apply-sba-loan”>apply to SBA.

Loan options for small business can be up to $2 million, with interest rates of 3 percent for non-profit organizations and 4 percent for small businesses. Terms can be up to 30 years. The SBA determines eligibility in line with the size of the candidate, type of endeavor along with its financial means. The agency controls financial loan levels in addition to terms based on each and every candidate’s fiscal condition. SBA small business loan may be used to pay fixed debts, payroll, accounts payable, and other bills that could have been paid had the disaster not occurred. The small business financing loan is not intended to replace lost sales or profits.

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Hazelden, among the planet’s largest and most looked upon non-public, nonprofit alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers, expressed at this time that it will extend its out-patient addiction treatment and mental health care solutions to Chaska, Minnesota, in a that will aid adults plus youth as early as twelve.

“Addiction affects people of all ages, and Hazelden understands the growing need for outpatient treatment for busy families,” stated Mark G. Mishek, president and CEO of Hazelden. “In addition to expanding services for adults, Hazelden is reaching out like never before to young people. We don’t want them missing out on the good stuff of growing up: being with friends they can count on, figuring out what they’re good at and achieving their academic goals.”

Hazelden in Chaska is going to open up its doors to grown ups about March 1, and also to young people about April one. The center is located within the 3rd floor of the Hazeltine Gates building, 1107 Hazeltine Blvd., with convenient access from Highways 212 and 41. The 5,400-square-foot alcohol treatment center features individual places for youths and grownups, such as a get together place for younger people that promotes peer interconnection and also kinetic understanding. The north-facing windows expose to a look at the Chaska Town Golf Course.

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{Yung Joc is likely to be contemplating a court struggle after Master Mind Music Incorporated., an Atlanta-based pop music establishment, filed legal action in opposition to the rap artist and his earlier label Block Enterprises. Within the lawsuit which was filed in the United States District Court in Georgia, Master Mind Music affirms that they inked the rap artist to a creation long term contract and exclusive recording accord back in 2005. The Atlanta-music organization has supplied a number of claims opposed to Block and Yung Joc including copyright infringement, breach of contract, torturous interference with contractual relations, deceitful misrepresentation, as well as fraud.

Donald Scarinci of Scarinci Hollenbeck announced today the official release of Scarinci Hollenbeck’s “Sports and Entertainment Law Blog,” edited by Anthony R. Caruso, the Chair of its Sports and Entertainment Law Practice Group. Caruso is nationally established as an attorney appearing together with clientele and also as a commentator for CNBC, NBC, Fox, and other media outlets.

A legal office proclaimed that it is commencing a class action lawsuit that would involve shareholders of Chemed Corporation. The objection is a result of information which came up November 16 of a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that Chemed cheated Medicare. Chemed’s stock fell $6.87 per share, or 11 percent, to close at $50.65 per share that day. San Diego law firm, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, stated it submitted the lawsuit on behalf of an institutional investor in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati.

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