Nevada's Supreme Court has reached a milestone this week after hitting its 60,000th case.

Court officials say Monday that the distinction went to an appeal in a complex homeowner's association case with 74 defendants.

Supreme Court officials say that filings at the Nevada's only appellate court have been growing rapidly as the state's population has increased.

It took 112 years of statehood for the court to hit 10,000 cases. That milestone came Aug. 12, 1977.

But it took just more than four years to accrue the most recent 10,000 cases. The court hit 50,000 cases in August 2007.

Chief Justice Nancy Saitta says the number of cases is memorable, but also points to a backlog that delays resolving the legal matters.

WATCH: http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/410-dream-vacations-gone-bad--the-paul-brunner-and-doug-otte-story.html

A Dream "Big Game" Hunting Vacation.... to the Arctic Circle goes horribly wrong.... in the flash of a  moment .....On August 26, 2001.....for experienced big game bow hunters, Paul Brunner from Montana and Doug Otte from Nebraska...who were two of six hunters on a musk ox expedition north of the Arctic Circle in Nunavut, Canada. They went on a trip to the Cambridge Bay area of Nunavut Province, north of the Arctic Circle that was sold to them by Canada North, a foreign based company, to include the housing, food, a cook and other provisions during this 10 day hunt for musk ox.  

An explosion turned their cabin into an inferno, burning and trapping Brunner, Hampson and Otte. In this TV Special,   The Insider Exclusive presents  "Dream Vacations Gone Bad - The Paul Brunner and Doug Otte Story     ...... and the "legal challenges" Americans face when you purchase your "exotic vacations" from a "foreign-based company".

Litigating on behalf of travelers who have been seriously injured in exotic and distant locations can be challenging.... indeed.  Where and who, for example, are the viable and liable defendants in real life vacation disasters?

This INSIDER EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL discusses the "Rights of Americans" while traveling to exotic locations and liability of tour operators and air carriers for the tour participant's injuries sustained in foreign destinations.  Foreign companies cannot solicit U.S. Citizens for adventure trips and not be responsible for their negligent operations on those trips which result in serious, deforming injuries to their U.S. customers. A tour operator may be held liable for the consumer's physical injuries if the tour operator promised.... either expressly or implicitly.... that the tour would be delivered in a safe and careful manner.

Gilmer M. Heitman, P.E.

Principal Attorney
Heitman Law Firm, PL

Mr. Heitman earned his degree in civil engineering from Georgia Tech in 1992. Upon graduation, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kenya from 1992 until 1994. Once he had returned from Kenya, he worked building heavy civil construction projects throughout the Southeastern United States. He earned his licenses as a Florida Professional Engineer and Florida Certified General Contractor in 1999. 

Mr. Heitman earned his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law and his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Samford University 2005.  He was admitted to the Florida bar in 2005. Mr. Heitman is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Heitman is certified by the Florida Bar in Construction Law. Florida bar Board certification is synonymous with the term ‘specialist’ and ‘expert’ because of its very high standards for professional excellence. The Florida bar's board certification program is one of the finest in the country, and helps the public identify lawyers if you have been evaluated by their peers for experience, competence and integrity.

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In 1957, the American Shipping Industry sold the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  "a billion dollar - "pig in a poke".... the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Project or MRGO.  A Multi-Billion Dollar Engineering Project...On the scale of the Panama Canal, costing Billions of Dollars....  A superhighway for marine commerce.... A navigational channel to directly connect the Gulf of Mexico to the city of New Orleans.   Right here in the good ole USA....including building levees that maintain the highway to transport goods worldwide..... while providing flood protection for those living along its banks.     WHY?.....  Because it would benefit the shipping industry...and of course .....the state of Louisiana!

The new passage was supposed to shorten a ship's journey to the Crescent City by 40 miles, and provide an economic boon to St. Bernard, the parish most impacted by the project. The cost? A mere $95 MILLION. That's $95 Million in 1957 dollars...

But in 1958, a report published by the Department of the Interior, warned that "excavation of the (MRGO) could result in major ecological change with widespread and severe ecological consequences."

Too bad no one was listening.

The MRGO certainly provided access. Not just to ships, however,.... which largely ignored it.  But It also provided access to saltwater! The Gulf of Mexico now had direct access into some of the most productive marshes and wetlands in the entire United States.

In short order, it killed more than 11,000 acres of cypress swamps and turned over 19,000 acres of brackish marsh into saline marsh. Vegetation died. Wildlife died off ......or disappeared.

The freshwater marshes that once supported over a quarter million wintering ducks and provided an annual fur harvest of over 650,000 animals vanished due to saltwater intrusion.

A recent report jointly sponsored by the LSU Agricultural Center, Sea Grant and Coastal Wetlands and Restoration, , said...

"The New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers speculates that the loss of land in the area approaches nearly 3,400 acres of fresh/intermediate marsh. More than 10,300 acres of brackish marsh, 4,200 acres of saline marsh and 1,500 acres of cypress swamps and levee forests have been destroyed or severely altered."

Part #1   http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/396-us-army-corp-of-engineers-mrgo-disaster--part-1.html

Part #2   http://www.insiderexclusive.com/show-content/398-us-army-corp-of-engineers-mrgo-disaster--part-2.html  

In 1957, the American Shipping Industry sold the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers  "a billion dollar - "pig in a poke".... the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet Project or MRGO.  A Multi-Billion Dollar Engineering Project...On the scale of the Panama Canal, costing Billions of Dollars....  A superhighway for marine commerce.... A navigational channel to directly connect the Gulf of Mexico to the city of New Orleans.  

Right here in the good ole USA....including building levees that maintain the highway to transport goods worldwide..... while providing flood protection for those living along its banks.     WHY?.....  Because it would benefit the shipping industry...and of course .....the state of Louisiana !

The new passage was supposed to shorten a ship's journey to the Crescent City by 40 miles, and provide an economic boon to St. Bernard, the parish most impacted by the project.

The cost?    A mere $95 MILLION.  That's $95 Million in 1957 dollars...

But in 1958, a report published by the Department of the Interior, warned that "excavation of the (MRGO) could result in major ecological change with widespread and severe ecological consequences."

Too bad no one was listening.

The MRGO certainly provided access. Not just to ships, however,.... which largely ignored it.  But It also provided access to saltwater! The Gulf of Mexico now had direct access into some of the most productive marshes and wetlands in the entire United States.

In short order, it killed more than 11,000 acres of cypress swamps and turned over 19,000 acres of brackish marsh into saline marsh. Vegetation died. Wildlife died off ......or disappeared.

The freshwater marshes that once supported over a quarter million wintering ducks and provided an annual fur harvest of over 650,000 animals vanished due to saltwater intrusion.

A recent report jointly sponsored by the LSU Agricultural Center, Sea Grant and Coastal Wetlands and Restoration, , said...

"The New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers speculates that the loss of land in the area approaches nearly 3,400 acres of fresh/intermediate marsh. More than 10,300 acres of brackish marsh, 4,200 acres of saline marsh and 1,500 acres of cypress swamps and levee forests have been destroyed or severely altered."

And the damage continues today. The saline-rich water continues its deadly encroachment, further worsening an already incredible soil erosion rate. Every 24 minutes, Louisiana loses another acre of land. Nationally, the average beach subsides about 2 feet per year.

Here in Louisiana, they lose upwards of 35 square miles per year. That's larger than..... the size of Manhattan. The fact is Louisiana is losing at least that much ground to erosion and subsidence every year, and no real response had been forthcoming from the state or from Washington.

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, environmentalists and others, including voters in St. Bernard Parish whom the canal was intended to help, called for its closure. Criticism intensified following Hurricane Katrina, when engineers implicated the MRGO in the failure of levees and flood-walls protecting large parts of Greater New Orleans.

MRGO was derisively termed a "Hurricane Highway" in Katrina's wake, due to its apparent role in amplifying the impacts of storm surges.

Many of the citizens and government of St. Bernard Parish had consistently voiced their concerns about the channel, the erosion of their parish, and the direct access the MRGO has provided for tropical storm surges and hurricanes, giving them an unimpeded superhighway from the Gulf into the city of New Orleans.Their concerns were not without cause. As far back as the October 2001 an issue of Scientific American warned that a worst-case hurricane impact could swamp the entire city of New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands of people.
 

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Disability Insurance Expose - UNUM Insurance & Dr Anthony Sterling's Story

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"Disability Insurance Expose - UNUM Insurance & Dr Anthony Sterling's StoryWe expose how Unum, the world's largest disability insurance company, "regularly" delays legitimate claims, denies legitimate claims, and then files "frivolous lawsuits against their own policy holders to "strong-arm them" in an attempt to "not pay" legitimate policies and illegally and immorally line their own individual and corporate pockets.

They tried this with Dr Anthony Sterling and FAILED, and in this Insider Exclusive special we show how Frank Winkles, Member @ the Winkles Law Group and member of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association,  successfully represented  Dr Anthony Sterling to Force Unum Disability Insurance Company to honor their own disability policies.We hope you'll tune in to "Disability Insurance Expose - UNUM Insurance & Dr Anthony Sterling's Story. This January  and join us on our TV website to watch it again.
 

Henry J. Price Contact Information: Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC Hammond Block Building 301 Massachusetts Avenue Indianapolis, IN 46204 Phone: (317) 633-8787 Toll Free: (800) 905-2856 Fax: (317) 633-8797

Education:

J.D. cum laude, University of Michigan Law School
LL.M. (Trial Advocacy); Georgetown University Law School, Graduated First in Class


Honors and Awards:  

Michigan Law Review, Assistant Editor, 1962; National Moot Court Competition, Third Place in Finals, 1962; Henry M. Campbell Moot Court Competition, Winner, 1961; Best Lawyers (1983-2011); Indiana Super Lawyers (2004-2011); AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell


Bar Admissions:

     Indiana, 1963
      District of Columbia, 1962
      U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
      U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 1968
      U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana, 2001
      U.S. District Court Southern District of Indiana, 1962

Profile:

Henry is a principal member at the Indianapolis based plaintiffs’ litigation firm, Price Waicukauski & Riley, LLC.  His current practice concentrates primarily on class actions litigation, commercial disputes, property rights litigation, and personal injury litigation.

Henry graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School. He has continually been recognized for his excellence in practice.  He holds honors from Best Lawyers in America (2006-2010), Indiana Super Lawyers (2004-2010) and was awarded an AV Rating from Martindale-Hubbell which designates the highest rating for quality and ethics by this organization.

Henry practiced with Barnes & Thornburg for 22 years handling many of their most challenging litigation cases, including antitrust, products liability, commercial disputes, personal injury litigation and civil rights and other cases.