Most religious people look to their pastors for moral guidance, so when religious leaders file for divorce, some ask the question “why?”
If a man or woman of the cloth cannot make their marriage work, how are others supposed to? Successful televangelist Benny Hinn now must face his followers—and his soon to be ex-wife.
Although Hinn preaches the word of God and shares his healing powers with the masses , Hinn was unable to mend his marriage of 30 years.
But Hinn is not your typical pastor. His ministry, based out of Grapevine, Texas, is one of the most financially successful in the world. He has been scrutinized by many people for his lavish lifestyle while preaching religious virtues of modesty and humility.
According to an ABC News article, Hinn’s wife Suzanne filed for divorce in the Orange County Superior Court on February 1. She cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the separation.
The couple had actually separated on January 26th, according to the divorce court papers. Since then, Hinn has been living in an apartment in Dana Point, Calif.
On Hinn’s website, his ministry released a statement saying that “Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn ... Read more..
Please, don’t throw tomatoes yet! Everybody knows that prevention in the twentieth century, particularly due to use of infectious disease vaccines and more recently some innovative invasive procedures, has changed the demographic face of our population and the world’s.
Of course, while what “everybody” knows is never the whole of the matter, the inspiring story of diagnosis, followed by treatment, followed by survival is a wonderful sequence of events.
An upcoming symposium is about the flip-side of that coin (although it has been very hard to get people to talk about it). About eighteen months ago, we chose to bring together scholars who don’t necessarily presume that the mainstream health care perspective of diagnosis and follow-up treatment is more than a single widely endorsed perspective. The upcoming symposium, part of the annual series on health/disability/elder law held by Marquette’s Elder’s Advisor law review, proposes that prevention is often enough overrated that close examination is warranted. The symposium is titled “The Institutionalization of Prevention: We Win, We Lose.”
Cancer diagnosis and treatment is particularly, but hardly exclusively, illustrative.
Shortly after planning for the meeting, federal agencies stated or reiterated some reservations about screenings. Most notably, the Preventive Services Taskforce has recommended abbreviated screenings – ... Read more..
In his terrific Hallows Lecture yesterday evening, former U.S. District Judge Mark Filip criticized a number of recent trends in the federal criminal justice system, including the use of return-on-investment measures of law enforcement success and the requirement that corporations suspected of wrongdoing retain costly compliance monitors. Audio of the Lecture is now available here. We expect to post the text of Judge Filip’s remarks and additional commentary in the next few days.
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On behalf of the staff of the Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review, I am pleased to announce the arrival of the first issue of volume fourteen, available now in print and online.
This issue highlights the work of several scholars. Dr. Dana Beldiman, a partner with the law firm of Carroll, Burdick & McDonough LLP in San Francisco, examines of the concept of originality within the context of the “knowledge based economy” in her article, “Utilitarian Information Works — Is Originality the Proper Lens?”
Jay Dratler, Jr., Goodyear Professor of Intellectual Property at the University of Akron School of Law, offers an insightful revision of patent law in “Fixing Our Broken Patent System.” In this article, Professor Dratler incorporates never-before-codified principles of judge-made law into an improved statutory scheme that recognizes invention as a commercial and economic process, discourages patents on abstract research, and places the focus of patent law on practical economic and commercial criteria.
This issue also continues our Emerging Scholars Series with an article by César Ramirez-Montes, intellectual property lecturer at the University of Leeds, U.K.
In his article, “A Re-Examination of the Original Foundations of Anglo-American Trademark Law,” Dr. Ramirez-Montes critiques the view among prominent scholars that trademark law originally developed ... Read more..
The United States Supreme Court granted cert today in the public employee privacy case of NASA v. Nelson, No. 09-530 (petition for cert here). The case will consider whether NASA, a federal agency, violated the informational privacy rights of employees, who worked in non-sensitive contract jobs, by asking certain invasive questions during background investigations.
General Kagan, for the government, filed the petition for cert and is asking the Court to overturn the 9th Circuit decision which directed a district court to issue a preliminary injunction on behalf of contract workers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) operated by the California Institute of Technology under a contract with the federal government. The General maintains that the privacy expectations of the employees are minimal because they have are in the government employment context, these are standard background forms that the government is using, and the Privacy Act of 1974 protects this information from disclosure to the public.
The case was originally brought in 2007 by twenty-eight scientists and engineers employed as contractors at JPL on behalf of a potential class of 9,000 employees that NASA classifies as low-risk employees. Questions included in the background check ask about “any treatment or counseling” for illegal ... Read more..
