Texas DPS Settles Cavity Search Lawsuit |
| The Texas Department of Public Safety has agreed to pay $185,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by two Dallas women who were subjected to body cavity searches along a local highway. The two women were subjected to cavity searches with the same glove, the suit says, and no drugs or contraband were found. The female officer who conducted the searches has been fired and faces two counts of sexual assault. Wire Report, KHOU-TV 06/26/2013 | Read Article: KHOU-TV |
Suit Filed Against Friends over Girl's Disappearance |
| The parents of an Indiana University student who disappeared two years ago have filed suit against three fellow students who were with the girl the night she vanished. The lawsuit claims the three defendants were negligent and owed the girl a "duty of care" to make sure she got home safely after a long night of drinking. The girl's parents believe that those who were with their daughter on the night she disappeared "have not been forthcoming about what they know." No criminal charges have been filed against the defendants. Alex Campbell, Indianapolis Star 06/27/2013 | Read Article: Indianapolis Star |
Federal Agency Finds Lax Regulation of Chemicals |
| A federal agency investigating a deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant told a Senate committee Thursday that regulation of the dangerous chemicals used in the industry fall under a "patchwork" of standards that are decades old and are far weaker than rules used by other countries. The U.S Chemical Safety Board is the first federal agency to acknowledge the lax oversight of ammonium nitrate, the chemical blamed for an explosion in West so massive that it registered as a small earthquake, flattened swaths of the small town and killed 15 people. The agency, one of several investigating the April incident, made 18 recommendations in a preliminary report obtained by The Associated Press. The findings have been submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ramit Plushnick-masti, Associated Press, Houston Chronicle 06/27/2013 | Read Article: Houston Chronicle |
How the Temps Who Power Corporate Giants Are Getting Crushed |
| America is now dotted with “temp towns” – places where it’s difficult to find blue-collar work except through a temp agency and where workers often suffer lost wages, no benefits and high injury rates. In cities all across the country, workers stand on street corners, line up in alleys or wait in a neon-lit beauty salon for rickety vans to whisk them off to warehouses miles away. Many get by on minimum wage, renting rooms in rundown houses, eating dinners of beans and potatoes, and surviving on food banks and taxpayer-funded health care. They almost never get benefits and have little opportunity for advancement. Michael Grabell, ProPublica 06/27/2013 | Read Article: ProPublica |
Man Files Malpractice Suit Against Missouri Clinic |
| A Missouri man has filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Mercy Clinic in Springfield, Mo., claiming physicians at the clinic failed to properly treat him to stop the spreading of flesh-eating bacteria. The man went to the clinic's emergency room in 2010 but was seen only briefly and then discharged. Four days later he was rushed back for a series of emergency surgeries to remove infected tissue that had ravaged his buttocks and left leg. The plaintiff claims he was initially discharged from the ER because he had no primary insurance and he was deemed "bad debt." Jim Doyle, St. Louis Post Dispatch 06/02/2013 | Read Article: St. Louis Post Dispatch |
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