Fliers cause flap at forum (The Edmond Sun)
EDMOND — Prior to the Tuesday night forum for the Deer Creek School Board election, a handout was circulated addressing Greg Biggs’ background and a past lawsuit filed against him concerning sexual harassment and discrimination.
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Physician lobby shifts strategy on medical-liability reform (The Hill)
Although physician lobbyists recognize that their years-long quest for a federal law capping medical-malpractice lawsuit awards is unlikely to be fulfilled by the Democratic Congress, they are taking the long view.
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Marco PAC chairman will resign Friday, hook up to city sewer system (Bonita Daily News)
The chairman of Marco Island’s most provocative political action committee said he will resign Friday when he will also turn in his decision to hook up to the city’s central sewer system.
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Jury awards $1.5M in birth-injury lawsuit (The Daily Record)
A Baltimore jury has awarded nearly $1.5 million in a malpractice action brought by a woman whose child was injured during delivery, according to her attorneys.
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Lawsuit Focuses Attention on Hazardous Waste Dumping in Africa (Voice of America)
Despite an international ban on toxic waste dumping, environmentalists say unscrupulous companies find ways to continue exporting their deadly cargo. Vast quantities of waste are exported from rich to poor countries, in the name of recycling. Much of that trade is illegal.
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Sure there is reverse discrimination (Delta Democrat Times)
I have been following the lawsuit up in Noxubee County on the reverse discrimination lawsuit going on up there. One of the lawyers made the statement that: there is no history of reverse discrimination in Mississippi.”
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Corporate/ Company Law (Mondaq)
This article summarizes the decisions of state and federal courts handed down during 2006 regarding matters of Georgia corporate and business organization law.
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