In what is being reported as a case of interest to the business community, the United States Supreme Court granted review on Monday in Norfolk & Western Railway Co. v. Ayers, No. 01-963, a case arising from the Circuit Court of Kanawha County, to determine: (1) whether FELA plaintiffs may recover damages for emotional distress without any physical manifestation of emotional injury or other corroboration; and (2) whether FELA requires the apportionment of damages between railroad and non-railroad tortfeasors.   The petition for appeal Clifford Vance, et al. v. Norfolk and Western Railway Company, No. 011209, was refused (4-1)(Justice Maynard would grant) by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia at conference on October, 4, 2000.

Amicus briefs in support of the petitioners are due on Wednesday, May 15, 2002, and amicus briefs in support of the respondent are due on Friday, June 14, 2002.

Well the light has gone on for me, thanks to the Shifted Librarian.  After using and configuring Radio for a month, to produce both this site and some separate work pages, the first true referral came today, when the Shifted Librarian said very nice things about some ideas I have regarding free legal information. 

I'm glad to help shift.

Jim McGee is teaching a course on Knowledge Management at the Kellogg School of Management.  Nothing so remarkable about this, except that many of the lessons and explorations are being simultaneously rendered to McGee's Musing's, the professor's weblog, as well as his I/O. 

I'm hoping that we can add large scale peer-to-peer publish and subscribe of legal information to McGee's "idiosyncratic list" of "seminal events that constitute the roots of today's knowledge management."