Too much tort for just one fork!
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Tue Aug 31, 2010 at 09:07:31 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A poorly rated nursing home corporation may be headed for bankruptcy after a California jury awarded an aggrieved patient's daughter and others $677 million dollars for negligence. Cindy Cool said she'd show up to the home and find her father (who had Alzheimers and is now dead) wearing urine soaked clothes and that even with her presence she would have to wait 20 minutes for the understaffed facility to send somebody to change her dad into new clothes. She was part of a 32,000 person class action suit against the Skilled Healthcare Group Inc corporation.
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Breaking News: Blagojevich Guilty On One Charge
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Posted to Legal on Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 11:37:17 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
In what may come as a severe shock to some, the jury declared itself hopelessly deadlocked 23 of 24 charges filed against the former Democratic Governor of Illinois, only able to agree that he did in fact lie to the FBI.
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Featured Diary: Viento de libertad sangre combativa
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Posted to Legal on Tue Aug 17, 2010 at 08:09:57 AM EST (promoted from Diaries by port1080). RSS.
Imagine a network of prisons run like Abu Ghraib during the torture and abuse scandal of 2003, and worse. Now imagine that the network in being run on US soil. Now imagine that it's set in Arizona, and all the prisoners are Latinos.
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Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Sun Aug 15, 2010 at 09:43:09 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
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Allgedly Racist Guy is Alleged Serial Killer
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Posted to Legal on Fri Aug 13, 2010 at 10:42:16 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The US Customs and Border Patrol ripped an Israeli citizen/US National named Elias Abuelazam off a plane about to leave Atlanta for Tel Aviv. It turns out he is the suspected killer and serial stabber in a nationwide (and perhaps worldwide) string of attacks wherein he attacked people, usually blacks, for no reason. The attacker killed at least five people in Flint, Michigan before cops there realized a serial killer was loose, then promptly turned his attention to northern Virginia until he was captured.
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Kagan's Confirmed.
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Posted to Legal on Thu Aug 05, 2010 at 04:57:38 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
By a vote of 63-37, Elena Kagan was confirmed by the US Senate to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. She could be wearing black robes by week's end.
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Breaking News: California's Proposition 8 Overturned
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Posted to Legal on Wed Aug 04, 2010 at 10:51:29 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Perry et al. v. Schwarzenegger et al. verdict is in. Chief Judge Vaugh Walker ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, overturning on constitutional grounds the November, 2008 vote which limited state recognition of marriages to only those entered into between a man and a woman.
Gay marriages are still unavailable in the state, however, as an immediate stay on the ruling was placed in advance of the inevitable appeal.
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WikiLeaks Documents the Afghanistan War
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Posted to Legal on Mon Jul 26, 2010 at 01:46:10 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.
Pro-transparency website WikiLeaks just published about 90,000 pages of documents detailing the American war effort in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. The documentation covers all aspects of the war that resulted in causalities with the exception of US Special Forces activities.
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Consenual Rape!
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Posted to Legal on Sat Jul 24, 2010 at 10:44:38 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
A Israeli Palestinian man is facing 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to rape by deception in a Jerusalem court. While the sex was consensual the woman pressed charges after the married father of 2 was not the single Jew he claimed to be.
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Roman Polanski free, Swiss refuse to extradite him
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Posted to Legal on Tue Jul 13, 2010 at 07:51:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Famous film director Roman Polanski is free after the Swiss refused to extradite him to the United States to face resentencing for a 1977 sex crime.
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Oakland prepares for riots, mayor prepares to flee in panic!
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Posted to Legal on Mon Jul 05, 2010 at 07:56:07 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The situation is getting tense in Oakland as the jury has the case of former police officer Johannes Mehserle who shot a restrained Oscar Grant. Mr. Grant was restrained by another police officer on the floor of a subway station when Officer Mehserle shot Mr. Grant in the back. The incident was captured on film from multiple angles and quickly inflamed the situation. Minor rioting occurred after the shooting itself and experts are predicting things could rapidly degenerate if the locals disagree with the jury verdict.
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At first I demanded the children be safe at any cost, then I found out what that cost was...
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Posted to Legal on Thu Jun 24, 2010 at 07:01:08 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
After a variety of incidents involving sex offenders occurred, many changes were made. For example, the murder of Dru Sjodin caused lawmakers and the Department of Justice to create a nationwide sex offender registry. States began civilly committing sex offenders for life to mental hospitals. The Supreme Court recently upheld laws that send these people to mental institutions for life after the expiration of their prison sentences since the commitments were not punishment and were for the purpose of mental health treatment. This had lead to a situation where states have sent thousands away to the loony bin for life at an exorbitant cost. With thousands in hospitals and treatment environments many states are beginning to rethink their cunning plans.
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