Blog Posts in May, 2011
Posted on May 31, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
On May 13, 2011 , a Wilson County jury awarded $1.6 Million in damages to 23-year old Samuel C. Rollings , as just compensation for an injury he suffered while at work at the Fredonia Cooperative ...
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Posted on May 27, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The father of an up-and-coming, Bosnian-born fashion model whose body was discovered inside her car submerged in the North Branch of the Chicago River filed a wrongful death lawsuit today against the ...
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Posted on May 27, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A lawsuit brought by four young male members of an Atlanta megachurch who said its pastor, Eddie Long, coerced them into sex has been "resolved," their attorney said on Thursday. B.J. ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The deputy was drunk when his sheriff's SUV collided with a smaller car, seriously injuring the other driver — who was high on methamphetamine and opiates. On the morning of June 29, 2008, ...
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Posted on May 24, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The Metropolitan Police Department will pay $1 million to the family of a mentally ill man killed two years ago in a confrontation with officers. The settlement approved Monday by the agency's Fiscal ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
An Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who claimed he was the victim of retaliation for being gay awarded $1.16 million on Thursday by a jury. Jurors deliberated about a day before finding in favor ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
An 11-year-old girl became pregnant and contracted a sexually transmitted disease after she was raped in a sauna by a summer camp counselor at a YMCA in upstate New York , the family's lawyer ...
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Posted on May 23, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
California's biggest provider of medical lab services, accused of overcharging the state's medical care program for the poor and disabled, agrees to pay $241 million in what is the largest ...
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Posted on May 20, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A teenage robber's mother filed a wrongful- death lawsuit Tuesday against the pharmacist who fatally shot him. Cleta Jennings sued pharmacist Jerome Jay Ersland over the death of her son, Antwun ...
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Posted on May 20, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
'Blackout in a Can' Called Danger to Underage Drinkers at Prom Time CHICAGO , May 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Calling attention to the dangers of a beverage that packs a whopping 12 percent alcohol and ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A former South Mecklenburg High School student who says she had a 13-month sexual relationship with her high school band director is suing him and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school board, claiming ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A Wayne County jury today awarded $12.5 million to a Grosse Ile girl who repeatedly was raped by an attendant during a 50-minute ride in a Superior Ambulance in July 2006. The 7-member jury ...
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Posted on May 19, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Attorneys for a 23-year-old Latino man announced Wednesday that they have reached a settlement with Cobb County in a lawsuit against the county's police department. Angel Francisco Castro Torres ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A superior court judge approved a $7 million settlement yesterday in a lawsuit brought by a Shrewsbury woman against four medical professionals at a Worcester hospital, whom she accused of failing to ...
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Posted on May 17, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Dillard's will pay $50,000 and offer additional concessions to settle an age discrimination suit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a Cary employee. According ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
WASHINGTON, May 13, 2011 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed a Freedom of ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A former Mississippi State University baseball player is accusing Bulldog coach John Cohen of intentionally breaking NCAA rules while conspiring to force the player to quit the team. If MSU is found ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
The daughter of a 49-year-old immigrant detainee who died in 2009 after an infection overwhelmed his body filed a federal lawsuit yesterday, accusing officials at the Suffolk County House of ...
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Posted on May 16, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) said it is recalling about 1,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets because of a software glitch a month after the device went on sale, a setback for the company as it tries to ...
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Posted on May 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
J&J's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit recalled one lot of Tylenol 8 Hour Extended Release Caplets, or 34,056 bottles, from retailers, the company said. The company cited a musty odor that has ...
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Posted on May 10, 2011 By Joseph Tosti
A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of a Walt Disney World monorail worker killed in 2009 while he was on the job has been voluntarily dismissed, according to court records. Part of the court ...
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