The numbers kept rising. After 50 meters it was more than half a second, and after 100 meters it was 1.28 seconds, and after 150 meters it was 2.52 seconds, and after 200 meters it was 3.34 seconds, and after 250 meters it was 4.91 seconds, and after 300 meters it was 5.25 seconds, and at that point, when the Iron Lady led the Rio Games’ women’s 400-meter individual medley like …
A recently enacted law amending Illinois’ Health Care Right of Conscience Act (HRC Act) is the subject of a new lawsuit claiming the change unlawfully limits the conscience rights of health care personnel by requiring them to refer patients to other providers for procedures they object to on religious grounds. SB 1564 requires health care facilities to develop protocols that …
A Jefferson County Jury on Friday night awarded a $16 million verdict to a Mountain Brook couple on claims against Brookwood Medical Center for medical negligence and reckless fraud for the hospital’s natural birth advertising campaign at the time of their child’s birth in 2012. The verdict came in just before 10 p.m. Friday after about 10 hours of deliberations and a two-week trial, said David …
A federal judge has ruled the former warden and deputy warden of the women’s prison in McLoud are not to blame for sex crimes there. Eleven inmates who were victimized by guards at Mabel Bassett Correctional Center sued the Oklahoma Corrections Department, former Warden Millicent Newton-Embry, former Deputy Warden Carla King and others in 2013. The lawsuit was filed in Oklahoma City federal court. It alleged the wardens …
Delaware has settled with a company suing it over its abandoned property laws. In a Friday filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, the state and Temple-Inland jointly requested Judge Gregory Sleet dismiss a lawsuit that argued Delaware’s method of estimating abandoned …
[JURIST] The US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] dismissed [Opinion, PDF] on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by third party presidential candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein against the Commission on Presidential Debates [official website] requesting that third party candidates be included in the presidential debate this year. The candidates did not receive …
Front-loading washing machines are popular among customers who want to “go green” by using less water than a traditional top-loader. However, in a recent class action lawsuit, some people said their Whirlpool, Maytag, and Kenmore washing machines were a little too “green” — with foul-smelling mold building up after every cycle. Sears customers who purchased the front-loaders first filed the …
Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Washington and pro-life activist David Daleiden to halt the release of public documents. Mr. Daleiden, who spearheaded the undercover Center for Medical Progress video series, made a public records request in February for documents detailing transactions between the university’s Birth Defects Research Center and Planned …
A lawsuit has been filed against Texas’ governor and secretary of state regarding the alleged denial of equal opportunity for Latino voters in electing judges of their race. The suit filed by five Latino voters alleges that Texas is in violation of the Voting Rights Act for the process used to elect judges to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal and the Supreme Court. The legal team …
A US JUDGE has given the go-ahead for a $1bn lawsuit against PwC over claims the firm provided bad accounting advice which contributed to the 2011 collapse of MF Global. MF Global and its parent company, MF Global Holdings Ltd, collapsed in October 2011 after investors left the firm on learning about risky bets on sovereign debt taken by former chairman and New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine. In a …