Archive for January, 2007



Fliers cause flap at forum (The Edmond Sun)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 10:22 pm
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.



Physician lobby shifts strategy on medical-liability reform (The Hill)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 8:18 pm
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.



Marco PAC chairman will resign Friday, hook up to city sewer system (Bonita Daily News)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 6:34 pm
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.



Jury awards $1.5M in birth-injury lawsuit (The Daily Record)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 6:30 pm
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.



Lawsuit Focuses Attention on Hazardous Waste Dumping in Africa (Voice of America)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 4:58 pm
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.



Sure there is reverse discrimination (Delta Democrat Times)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 4:51 pm
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.”



Corporate/ Company Law (Mondaq)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 4:18 pm

This article summarizes the decisions of state and federal courts handed down during 2006 regarding matters of Georgia corporate and business organization law.




Both parties agree to drop accident suit (Danville Register Bee)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 3:55 pm
DANVILLE - A lawsuit filed by a man severely injured in a February 2005 automobile crash was dismissed last month.



Fair housing group’s lawsuit claims religious discrimination (New Mexico Business Weekly)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 3:49 pm
A nonprofit group in Las Cruces has filed a lawsuit against an apartment management and development company alleging it discriminated against tenants because they refused to attend a church where the apartment manager was the pastor.



Judge rules bar could be liable in accident (The News & Observer)

Wednesday 31 January 2007 @ 3:31 pm
A judge ruled today that, for now, a Chapel Hill bar could still be held liable for a former doormans drunk-driving accident that injured a blind woman and killed her guide dog.



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