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| Dater: Class-Action Lawsuit Against NHL Makes Teams Clam Up | | 
| | The NHL's concussion lawsuit seems like it is starting to become more of a worry to the league. An ever-growing list of former NHL players is joining a class-action lawsuit originally filed last November. A lawsuit filed by former NFL players started out with 75 plaintiffs and eventually grew to more than 4,500. Teams previously were more open about whether players were suffering from concussion symptoms. After the lawsuit, more and more teams are cloaking suspected concussions with "upper body" labels now.
Adrian Dater, Columnist, Denver Post 06/02/2014    | | Read Article: Denver Post |
| New Research Links Iraq Dust to Ill Soldiers | |
| | Titanium and other metals found in dust at a base, Camp Victory, in Iraq have been linked to the dust found in six sick soldiers' lungs, according to a study set to be released Monday. The dust is different from dust found elsewhere in that human lungs are unable to dispel it through natural immune-system processes. The Iraq dust comes attached to iron and copper, and it forms polarizable crystals in the lungs, said Anthony Szema, an assistant professor at Stony Brook School of Medicine who specializes in pulmonology and allergies. The particles — each bit 1/30th the size of a human hair — have sharp edges.
Kelly Kennedy, USA Today 06/02/2014 | | Read Article: USA Today |
| Tiffany & Co. Faces Racial Discrimination Lawsuit | |
| | Jewelry retailer Tiffany & Company is facing a lawsuit by one of it's employees alleging a “systemic, nationwide pattern and practice of racial discrimination.” The plaintiff, the only African-American out of the company's 200 management positions, claims that the company demonstrates “racial bias in the belief, conscious or otherwise, that African-Americans are not appropriate ambassadors for the iconic, luxurious and sophisticated Tiffany brand.”
Elizabeth A. Harris, The New York Times 05/29/2014 | | Read Article: The New York Times |
| $40M Settlement Reached in NCAA Players' Lawsuit | |
| | A $40 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit over the use of NCAA football and basketball players' likenesses in video games. The settlement could go out to 100,000 current and former players whose likenesses were used in videogames made by Electronic Arts featuring college teams. The recently settled lawsuit was filed back in 2009 and attorneys for the plaintiffs say it would be the first time college athletes will be paid for the commercial use of their images.
Wire Report, LA Times 06/01/2014 | | Read Article: LA Times |
| Parents Settle Pittsburgh Zoo Lawsuit in Mauling | |
| | The parents of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled after falling into a wild African dogs exhibit have settled their lawsuit against the Pittsburgh zoo. The couple's son, Maddox, lunged from his mother's grasp and fell some 10 feet from the top of a wooden railing into an enclosed exhibit below in 2012. He had bounced off a net meant to catch falling debris and trash, then into the exhibit, where several dogs fatally attacked him. Details of the settlement will remain confidential.
JOE MANDAK, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 06/02/2014 | | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
| Texas Judge Orders 'Affluenza' Records Turned Over | |
| | A judge has ordered attorneys for the North Texas teenager who killed four people in a deadly wreck to turn over the records of the psychologist who claimed the teen suffered from “affluenza.” Judge R.H. Wallace Jr.’s Thursday ruling rejected arguments by Ethan Couch’s attorneys.
NOMAAN MERCHANT, The Dallas Morning News 06/02/2014 | | Read Article: The Dallas Morning News |
| Hyundai, Olson Families Fought Over $560K Insurance Settlement Before Trial | | | | Before a jury in Lake County decided on May 13 that a manufacturing defect and “actual malice” on the part of Hyundai caused a 2011 car crash that killed two Missoula cousins and an Arlee woman, lawyers for the two sides engaged in a contentious legal battle over a $560,000 wrongful death insurance settlement that the family of passenger Tanner Olson received in early 2012.
David Erickson , Missoulian 06/02/2014 | | Read Article: Missoulian |
| GM Asks Judge to Keep Information From Consumer Advocate | |
| | GM asked a federal judge in Washington to keep confidential information related to its 2009 government rescue from a consumer-advocacy group researching the ignition-switch defect that led to the recall of 2.59 million vehicles this year. The Center for Auto Safety sued the Treasury in 2011 for business information that GM turned over to the government before the bailout. The center continues to demand records about the U.S. role in freeing the carmaker from liabilities so that customers and accident victims have no way of recovering money, it said.
Linda Sandler , Bloomberg 06/02/2014 | | Read Article: Bloomberg |
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