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  January 31, 2013

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Laws/Cases


 

 

Suit: NYPD Supervisor Caused Officer's Suicide

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A New York woman has filed a lawsuit against the NYPD, claiming her husband killed himself because "his supervisor demanded sex from him in exchange for a favorable work schedule and job assignments." The suit says the victim's entire career depended on his forced participation in sexual contact with his married female supervisor and was told he would "suffer tangible detriment" if he resisted. The man killed himself in February 2012. The lawsuit is seeking unspecified damages.
Wire Report, The Washington Post 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Hotel Sued After Boy Injured by Falling Wall Tile

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An Oklahoma woman has sued the Comfort Inn & Suites in Galveston, Texas, claiming her son suffered permanent injuries when he was hit by a falling wall tile. The boy, 8, was struck in the head, chest and leg by the tile, causing him "severe pain, disfigurement and impairment." The lawsuit is seeking damages for medical bills and mental anguish.
Robert Stanton, Houston Chronicle 01/30/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Texas Judge Backs Order on Boy Scout Abuse Files

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A Texas district judge on Wednesday reaffirmed an earlier ruling that requires the Boy Scouts of America to turn over so-called "perversion" files kept on abuse claims, one of three states where the Scouts are involved in court battles over the private files. The ruling by Judge Laura Salinas in San Antonio is largely procedural and likely won't result in an immediate release of the ineligible volunteer files, which were kept by the group on sexual abuse complaints against adults within the organization. Attorneys who have sued on behalf of former Scouts say releasing the newer files could show whether the national organization kept its promises to improve its protections against child abuse.
NOMAAN MERCHANT, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Priest Files Will Include Key Names

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The long-awaited release of 30,000 pages of internal church records was thrown into turmoil when attorneys for the Los Angeles archdiocese proposed, and then disavowed, a plan to turn over the documents with the names of Cardinal Roger Mahony and other church leaders handling cases of child abuse blacked out. The church had agreed to make public the personnel files of 89 priests accused of sexually abusing children as part of a 2007 court settlement. Fourteen files were released last week in ongoing civil litigation. Those files showed Mahony and his chief advisor on abuse, Msgr. Thomas Curry, plotted to hide the sexual abuse of children from police in the 1980s.
Victoria Kim and Harriet Ryan, LA Times 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Wis. Court: Couple Can’t Sue for Costs of Raising Child Resulting from Birth Control Mix-up

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A clinic that mistakenly gave vitamins instead of birth-control pills to a Wisconsin woman doesn’t have to pay to raise the child she conceived but can be sued for other financial damages, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday. Shelby Nell and the boy’s father, Austin Omernick, appealed to the 2nd District Court of Appeals after a lower court concluded public policy considerations such as preventing fraud and making sure awards are fair to defendants protected the clinic from liability in their case. Citing a 1990 Wisconsin case, the appeals court said a parent must have undergone an unsuccessful sterilization before he or she can make claims for costs relating to raising a child from an unwanted pregnancy. Claims of temporary contraception failing or getting wrong pills can be rife with fraud as parents try to collect huge awards, the court said.
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Products


 

 

During Trial, New Details Emerge About Hip Maker

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When Johnson & Johnson announced the appointment in 2011 of an executive to head the troubled orthopedics division whose badly flawed artificial hip had been recalled, the company billed the move as a fresh start. But that same executive, it turns out, had supervised the implant’s introduction in the United States and had been told by a top company consultant three years before the device was recalled that it was faulty. In addition, the executive also held a senior marketing position at a time when Johnson & Johnson decided not to tell officials outside the United States that American regulators had refused to allow sale of a version of the artificial hip in this country.
BARRY MEIER, The New York Times 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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BETSY MCCAUGHEY: When Hospitals Become Killers

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In 2011, the lethal germ known as CRK—short for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella—raced through the National Institutes of Health Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Antibiotics couldn't stop it. Infection-control precautions recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention could not contain it. Six patients died because of it, including a 16-year-old boy. Last week, public-health researchers released alarming data in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology showing that the same germ that swept through the NIH is invading hospitals across the country. Researchers writing this month in another medical journal, Emerging Infectious Diseases, warn that CRK poses "a major threat to public health."
BETSY MCCAUGHEY:, Wall Street Journal - $$ Subscription Required 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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Man's Drowning Prompts Lawsuit in San Francisco

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The family of a man who died in a South San Francisco parking garage structure last year have filed suit against the city and the people that run the lot. The man was spraying weed killer when he fell through some rotted boards into a 9-foot-deep water-filled pit and drowned. The suit accuses the defendants of failing to warn the public of the danger and failing to properly maintain the area.
Joshua Melvin, San Jose Mercury News 01/31/2013   Facebook iconTwitter iconLinkedIn Icon

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