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Laughter is the Best Medicine? Patient Whens Lawsuit Against Medical Practice For Mocking Him During Colonoscopy
As it turns out, a colonoscopy procedure is not the best time to be tongue-in-cheek. The Washington Post reports that last month a Fairfax County jury awarded a man half a million dollars in a lawsuit he had filed against the medical practice which performed a colonoscopy on him. The man found out the doctors […]
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Payroll Provider ADP Sues Startup Zenefits Over Defamation
In what some commentators paint as a David vs. Goliath feud, payroll services provider ADP is suing recent startup Zenefits for “defamation” and the “intentional interference with prospective economic relations.” USA Today reports that last month, ADP filed a lawsuit against Zenefits after it accused the company of infringing on its services. ADP, one of […]
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Marriage Equality Is the Law of the Land Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Latest Decision
It’s official: marriage equality is the law of the land in the United States. On Friday, June 26, the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold same-sex marriages performed in the U.S. — and by extension has now made such unions legal in all 50 states. Washington, D.C., and 37 other states already permitted same-sex couples […]
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MTA Metro-North Railroad Faces More Than 30 Lawsuits After 2013 Accident
Two years after a disastrous train derailment in Bridgeport, Connecticut injured more than 70 passengers, several victims have filed lawsuits against the railroad. The Hartford Courant reports that more than 32 lawsuits have been filed against the MTA Metro-North Railroad since the accident. State laws mandate that personal injury lawsuits must be filed within two years of […]
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Driver Charged with Manslaughter After Semi Truck Accident Leaves U.S. Steel Worker Dead
A truck driver in Sterling Heights, MI, has been charged with manslaughter after his involvement in a fatal truck accident. The accident, which took place on April 18, resulted in the death of a U.S. Steel employee in Ecorse. Miho Saljic, 48, who works for ALCO Transportation, has been accused of backing up a semitrailer […]
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Legionnaires’ Victim Files the First Claim against Co-Op City for Negligence
Back in November 2014, several residents living in Co-Op City (located in the Bronx, NY) started developing symptoms of a potentially-fatal disease called Legionnaires’ disease; by January 2015, the NBC New York reported that 12 cases of the disease had been diagnosed, and that the city’s Health Department believed at least 75% of those cases […]
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Supreme Court Appears to Sympathize With Woman Rejected for Abercrombie Job Due to Headscarf
A much-watched case regarding religious and employment discrimination made its way before the Supreme Court Feb. 25, with most commentators saying the court appears to be sympathizing with the would-be employee in question, Samantha Elauf. In 2008, when she was 17, Elauf applied for a job at clothing retailer Abercrombie and Fitch, and says that […]
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Woman Sues U.S. House of Representatives to the Tune of $200K — Over a Dog Bite
Government officials aren’t always popular, but one West Virginia woman certainly has a bone to pick with the U.S. House of Representatives. She has recently filed a lawsuit and is suing the House for $200,000. Her reason? She was bitten on her index finger by a dog in one of their offices. Two years ago. […]
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Murder Suspect to Be Tried in Utah, Faces Death Penalty After Shooting Elderly Couple in 2011
A 26-year-old man charged with shooting a retired Utah couple three years ago may be extradited from Nevada to Utah to stand trial. Logan McFarland has been charged with aggravated murder after going on a crime spree across both states and shooting 70-year-old Leroy Fullwood and his 69-year-old wife, Dorothy. The couple’s bodies were discovered […]
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This past November 12, a judge in West Virginia revised the sentence of a man convicted of shooting a pregnant woman in the stomach in 2009, ruling that he could possibly be eligible for parole in the future thanks to a new law. When Kelly Chapman was 15, he shot a woman, who then lost […]