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The Friendship Temple filed a federal civil rights lawsuit over the church, at 812 Washington Street. Reverend Joseph Chase and his wife filed the case alleging the council had violated their civil right to freedom of religion when it voted to deny Friendship Temple a use permit to reopen the vacant building as a church. The city of Portsmouth has agree... - Morgan Keegan: Losses, Claims and Lawsuits
Oct-7-08 Boca Raton, FL If you are an investor with Morgan Keegan and had money in certain Morgan Keegan Investment Funds you are no doubt upset (to say the least) about the loss of your hard-earned money. If it's any consolation, you are not alone. Many people lost money in the Morgan Keegan stock crisis and are fighting back by filing FINRA arbitration clai... - Trucking Accidents Rumble through the Courts
Oct-5-08 Forth Worth, TX When a semi truck accident happens, you don't even have to read beyond the headlines to know what comes next. Trucking accidents translate to death, injury, and carnage on the highways. Until they find a way to segregate 18-wheelers onto their own highway and out of the path of smaller cars, the carnage will continue. Imagine what c... - $1 Million Preliminary Settlement Reached in ValueClick Class Action
ValueClick and its subsidiaries Commission Junction and Be Free have reached a preliminary settlement in the class action they are facing, that alleges that the online advertiser did little to no monitoring of its own network in order to ensure that its codes of conduct were adhered to. As part of the settlement, ValueClick has agreed to pay $1 million... - Hall Financial Services Mortgage Foreclosures Settlement
Charlotte, NC: (Aug-02-07) The NC Commissioner of Banks and the Attorney General's Office brought charges against James Hall, a mortgage broker based in Matthews. The lawsuit alleged that Hall originated loans for borrowers without considering whether or not the borrower would be able to repay the loans, and with frequent misstatements in loan documents. T... - Ninety Year Old Shoots Herself After Foreclosure
Oct-3-08 Cincinnati, OH Amid the talk of economic bailouts, takeovers and mergers from Wall Street and Washington, two shots rang out in Ohio, possibly an omen of what is to come. While the big wigs in Washington figure out what to do about the economic crisis, including the failures of AIG, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual and Fannie Mae and Freddie Ma... - Abogado de Horas Extraordinarias de Agentes de Acciones
Aunque normalmente sólo se les paga comisión-, los agentes de acciones y comodidades pueden tener derecho a pago de horas extras en virtud de las leyes federales y estatales. Agentes de acciones y comodidades típicamente suelen trabajar más de las 8 horas al día necesarias, empezando tan temprano como las 6:00 am y trabajando hasta después... - Al Gerhart of the Solid Surface Alliance discusses Granite Countertops
Sep-26-08 Oklahoma City, OK Al Gerhart, of the Solid Surface Alliance is concerned about the use of unsafe granite countertops in homes. He says that not all granite is unsafe, but some of it is—and the dangerous granite is what the Alliance is trying to get taken off the market. Most of the news recently has been about granite countertop radon emissions and... - Trucking Accidents: "Every Right to be Concerned"
Oct-1-08 Washington, DC If you worry about sharing the road with tractor trailers and trucking accidents, Public Citizen says you have every reason to be concerned. Joan Claybrook, President of Public Citizen, says trucks are involved in a high number of accidents, putting both the truck drivers and the rest of the public at risk for serious injury. "People... - City of Miami Beach Police SUV Wrongful Death Settlement
In February 2003, Stephanie Tunc and her sister Sandrine Tunc were sun tanning on Miami Beach when they were run over by a sport utility vehicle driven by Miami Beach police officer George Varon. Stephanie was killed in the accident while her sister Sandrine survived with a punctured leg, lacerated liver, and tire burns. Their family filed a wrongful de... - Plane Crash: Wrongful Death Lawsuit Settled
Sep-29-08 Glandorf, OH The family of a man who was killed in a plane crash has settled their lawsuit with NASCAR for $2.4 million. The family filed the wrongful death lawsuit after an airplane crash took the lives of 2 people in the plane and 3 people on the ground, who died when the crash started a fire in 2 homes. The 2 men in the plane had been on a flight... - Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft: Long List of Perks for Docs
Sep-27-08 Anchorage, AK Patients who underwent the Medtronic Infuse Bone Graft may be surprised to learn that Medtronic has been accused in a lawsuit of providing surgeons with a number of incentives to use Medtronic products. According to the Wall Street Journal, doctors were given a wide variety of gifts to induce them to use the Infuse Bone Graft. Accor... - ADHD sudden death, stroke, heart attack
ADHD Medications allegedly linked to Sudden Death, Heart Attack, Stroke Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) have substantially increased over the years. At school, children now line up to receive their daily ADHD medications. The National Institutes of Heath estimates that 2... - ATV Accidents: Interview with Carolyn Anderson
Sep-23-08 Brockton, MA Carolyn Anderson, co-founder of Concerned Families for ATV Safety knows all too well the pain of losing a child in an ATV accident. Her son, James, died at the age of 14 in an ATV crash. It was his first time on an ATV and the accident occurred while James was on a vacation with family friends. Now, Anderson is fighting to make sure that... - ATV Rollovers: ATVs are not Toys
Sep-16-08 Milwaukee, WI Despite how they are portrayed in television commercials and magazine advertisements, ATVs are a risk for rollover accidents and should not be considered toys. They can be driven at high speeds and some are prone to rollover accidents, making them all the more dangerous. According to Robin Ingle, a statistician in the Directorate for... - Agricola Zaragoza Recalls Jalapeno Peppers
Peppers Contaminated with Saintpaul Salmonella Agricola Zaragoza, Inc. of McAllen, TX is recalling Jalapeno Peppers distributed since June 30th, 2008 because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened i... - Car Accident Data Released
Sep-15-08 Washington, DC The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has released its 2007 Annual Assessment of Motor Vehicle Traffic Crashes, in which fatality counts and estimates of injuries stemming from [ car accidents ] and other motor vehicle crashes are compared with the counts and estimates from 2006. Although the numbers are down from last... - Epilepsy Drug May Increase Risk of Birth Defects
Link Between Topiramate and Birth Defects Taking the epilepsy drug topiramate alone or along with other epilepsy drugs during pregnancy may increase the risk of birth defects, according to a study published in the July 22, 2008, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. For the study, researchers examined women... - Grande Produce Recalls Jalapeno Peppers, Serrano Peppers, and Avocados
Strain of Salmonella not Saintpaul Grande Produce, LTD. CO of Hidalgo, TX, is recalling Jalepeno Peppers and Serrano Peppers distributed between May 17th and July 17th, 2008; and Avocados, all sizes, with lot #HUE08160090889 because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infect... - Doctor Blamed Ortho Evra Patch for Aneurysm
Sep-19-08 Queensbury, NY: Brenda S. started using the Ortho Evra patch in March 2005 and she had an aneurysm in January 2007. Now she wants to know how the manufacturer--Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Ortho McNeil-- can say that Ortho Evra's benefits outweigh the dangers? "Why would anything be marketed that could possibly be a risk to someone's health, or even ki...