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Frequently, written policies and procedures are used to instruct nurses or other non-physician employees on the protocols for a variety of activities. This practice can make training and employment performance issues easier for the provider. However, it can also expose the organization to criticism when these seemingly arbitrary policies are not precisely followed.

A recent new statute in New York provided for automatic temporary restraining orders against assets commencing with the filing and service of divorce papers. A number of other states have enacted, or tried to enact, such legislative provisions. However, there are serious constitutional issues that should be addressed.

Congress left the estate tax law in a state of complete confusion at the end of 2009. Even if the bigger question of whether we will have an estate tax is resolved by the time you read this article, many issues that affect matrimonial practitioners, not just estate planners, will still remain unresolved.

On Feb. 2 of this year, the Supreme Court of New Jersey held that a foreign manufacturer of an industrial recycling machine is subject to New Jersey's long-arm jurisdiction under the stream-of-commerce theory. This has broad implications.

On April 1, the Third Circuit upheld a June 2009 decision by U.S. District Judge Thomas N. O'Neill Jr. that rejected claims by a mother and her daughter who suffers from Fragile X syndrome, a mutation known to cause a group of serious maladies.