Have you or a loved one been injured in a motorcycle accident?

Motorcycle accidents are very common and can be among some of the deadliest, simply because the driver is unprotected. Many people have started considering the option of riding motorcycles with the rise of gas prices. This form of transportation can save them money in the long haul and is also a fun way to get around. However, the risks for cyclists are high due to the lack of visibility on the road. Many times, automobiles involved in a motorcycle accident tend to blame the driver of the motorcycle due to the common stereotype of recklessness. If you have been injured due to someone else's mistake, you need to contact a personal injury attorney. McDonnell Law can represent you to help file a claim and establish your rights as a citizen.

What to do once you have been involved in a motorcycle accident
It is crucial to understand what actions to take once you have been involved in a motorcycle accident. The first step to take is to sit down with San Diego's motorcycle accident lawyer from McDonnell Law to discuss any questions or concerns you may have. Our free consultation is really here for us to offer our legal advice to anyone who is confused and stressed about the accident. We review over the details and conduct a thorough investigation to determine the liable party for the accident. An accident could also occur at the expense of a defective auto part, in which it is no ones fault. However, there are many cases in which cyclists have been injured due to careless commercial truck or negligent automobile drivers and you deserve every compensation for your physical and emotional suffering.

It is not uncommon for motorcycle accidents to occur when a driver is distracted, loses their focus, or is texting or eating. These accidents should not be taken lightly because a life is at risk and can be changed in an instant whether a drunk driver is behind the wheel or a driver fails to see a motorcycle in their blind spot. Motorcycle injuries are much more serious and traumatic because the severity of injuries can vary on a wide spectrum from injury to the spine, head, neck or brain, sometimes even leading to amputation of the limbs. Your life may never be the same again and it is our goal to get you the compensation you deserve to have a quality life in the future. In a tragic event where you lose a loved one, our job is to defend for the emotional damage a death can bring.

McDonnell Law understands it is not easy going through such hardships and will be there for you every step of the way. The emotional and physical drain that comes along with an accident can last for a long period and we promise to seek justice for you. Our attention to detail and investigation will determine the accountable party and move forward from there.

Consult a motorcycle accident attorney in San Diego today to discuss your case at 619 857 9020.

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Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber can delay the lethal injection of a death-row inmate who wants to waive his appeals and speed his execution, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.

The Oregon Supreme Court said Kitzhaber did not overstep his power when he granted a reprieve delaying the death sentence of Gary Haugen, who was convicted of two murders.

Kitzhaber opposes the death penalty and intervened weeks before Haugen was scheduled to be executed in 2011. The governor said he refused to allow an execution under a state death-penalty system he views as broken, vowing to block any execution during his term in office.

Haugen challenged Kitzhaber's clemency, saying the reprieve was invalid because Haugen refused to accept it. He also argued that it wasn't actually a reprieve but rather an illegal attempt by the governor to nullify a law he didn't like.

The governor argued that his clemency power is absolute, and nobody - certainly not an inmate on death row - can prevent him from doing what he believes to be in the state's best interest.

Gov. Tom Corbett plans to nominate state appeals court Judge Correale Stevens to temporarily fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court.

Two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press of Corbett's plans on condition of anonymity, saying the information was part of private conversations.

The decision comes more than a month after the opening was created following the resignation from the bench of Joan Orie Melvin. Melvin was convicted of using public employees to help her political campaigns.

Stevens will require a two-thirds approval by the state Senate to take a seat on the bench.
   
Stevens is a familiar face in state politics and government, and is currently president judge of state Superior Court, which handles criminal and civil appeals. His long career in public service also includes time as Luzerne County's district attorney, a county judge and seven years as a state representative.

Melvin and Stevens are both Republicans, so if he is confirmed the court will return to a four-to-three Republican majority.

A special U.S. Senate election to replace the late Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg can be held in October, as it was scheduled by Republican Gov. Chris Christie, a state court ruled Thursday.

The ruling could be appealed. And while it keeps an election on course it does not seem likely to chill criticism of the popular governor for how he chose to replace Lautenberg, the Senate's oldest member, who died last week at age 89.

Four Democrats and two Republicans have filed petitions to run in the Senate race to complete Lautenberg's term, with three early polls showing Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker as the front-runner.

Christie scheduled the election for Oct. 16. A group of Democrats sued, saying it should be held Nov. 5, the day voters are going to the polls in the general elections anyway.

Christie's critics have complained that holding the election in October will cost taxpayers unnecessarily. Officials say each election costs the state about $12 million to run.

Judge Jane Grall wrote Thursday that objections to the costs of the election are policy matters that aren't questions for the court.

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that companies cannot patent parts of naturally-occurring human genes, a decision with the potential to profoundly affect the emerging and lucrative medical and biotechnology industries.

The high court's unanimous judgment reverses three decades of patent awards by government officials. It throws out patents held by Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics Inc. on an increasingly popular breast cancer test brought into the public eye recently by actress Angelina Jolie's revelation that she had a double mastectomy because of one of the genes involved in this case.

Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the court's decision, said that Myriad's assertion — that the DNA it isolated from the body for its proprietary breast and ovarian cancer tests were patentable — had to be dismissed because it violates patent rules. The court has said that laws of nature, natural phenomena and abstract ideas are not patentable.

"We hold that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated," Thomas said.

Patents are the legal protection that gives inventors the right to prevent others from making, using or selling a novel device, process or application. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been awarding patents on human genes for almost 30 years, but opponents of Myriad Genetics Inc.'s patents on the two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer say such protection should not be given to something that can be found inside the human body.