According to Banerjee, myths abound about propensities falsely attributed to H-1B workers and anti-immigrant propaganda is rife with falsehoods.
H-1B visas have always been controversial among certain segments of the U.S. population. But right-wing and anti-immigrant talk shows, blogs, and other venues have been ratcheting up the rhetoric lately. “It makes me sad to consider that [...]
While she is elated with President Obama’s pick of Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court nominee, her expectations remain tempered with cautious optimism.
Houston-area immigration lawyer Annie Banerjee is pleased, bordering on elated, in respect to President Barack Obama’s choice of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his much touted U.S. Supreme Court nominee. “She’s Hispanic and she’s [...]
When organizers of an anti-immigrant rally in Deathtown, Pennsylvania, realized they’d invited a neo-Nazi to a May 30, 2009, event to rabble rouse around the acquittal of two young men involved in the killing of Luis Ramirez, their best-laid plans never made it to fruition.
It’s almost ironic. Deathtown became a death knell for a scheduled [...]
Although the LCA Legacy System remains operational until June 30, 2009, it’s being phased out – soon to be replaced by the iCert portal system. Is the Department of Labor really improving the employer-worker situation, or merely trading in one set of administrative issues and glitches for another?
Now that the old LCA system is to [...]
Tony Francis of the Orlando-based Francis Law Firm offers some pertinent observations about a recent Osceola County accident in which a fourteen-year-old girl’s inexperience behind the wheel may have resulted in the tragic death of a second female passenger riding in her car who was only twelve.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a car accident [...]
Tony Francis of the Orlando-based Francis Law Firm notes the all-too common incidences of accidents in Orange and Seminole County, and urges stricter adherence to safe driving practices.
Sometimes accidents have consequences that are improbable. When a driver in Oviedo lost control of his car and surged into a power line, interrupting electricity to thousands of [...]
A 51-year-old man and a 12-year-old girl, both from St. Cloud, were killed in separate automobile accidents during the first half of June.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, a St. Cloud man died in a one-car crash near the intersection of Nova Road and Oak Shore Drive in Osceola County late Tuesday June 2. Steven Fox, [...]
A 1996 Ford pickup truck driver killed a 70-year-old bicyclist in Brevard County on the 8th while on the 30th another driver in Seminole County near Oviedo plowed into a power line – cutting off electricity to thousands of residents.
On the 30th of May, an unidentified man driving a white Cadillac surged his vehicle into [...]
In early December, the CLASS, or Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act, survived a vote aimed at removing it from the Senate health reform bill. The House and Senate bills both contain a version of the act.
Although the CLASS Act is buried deep in both bills and has garnered little media attention, its potential [...]
As the cost of health care increases, many people are turning to the internet. Using health insurance comparison services, many people and families are lowering costs.
During tough economic times, many individuals and families start looking at their monthly budget to determine where they can cut costs. Unfortunately, for families that do not have group health [...]
Wrongful death verdicts are rarely less than $1 million, no matter what the precipitating circumstances.
Wrongful deaths are the saddest events of all, so it makes sense that the ensuing verdicts arising from these invariably emotionally devastating cases are the most fruitful as to settlements and awards. No matter who dies “wrongfully” as precipitated by negligence [...]
