Apr 10
DeWitt, NY — Onondaga County sheriff’s deputies say a DeWitt man was driving drunk and speeding early Sunday when he crashed his car on East Seneca Turnpike in the town of DeWitt.
Brian Jackson, 4, of 635 E. Seneca Turnpike, was driving a 1996 Chevrolet Lumina east in the 61 block of East Seneca Turnpike at :5 a.m. Sunday when he went off the south side of the road, sheriff’s deputies said in a news release.
The car struck a ditch, flew into the air and then hit a tree, deputies reported.
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Apr 09
Washington, DC: Avaulta mesh is but one player in a women’s health issue that, to some in the legal profession, represent a particularly alarming portfolio that sees many patients no longer existing as the women they once were.
Lawsuits involving the Bard Avaulta mesh implant have been consolidated in federal court in the Southern District of West Virginia. Lawyers and industry watchers have found that lawsuits appear to be on the rise since the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warnings against vaginal mesh products in July of last year. Read all post…
Apr 07
Alaska’s Deal With Oil Execs Ushers in Pipeline
By PURNA NEMANI
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CN) – Three oil giants reached a settlement with Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday on the future development of North Slope energy resources.Exxon Mobil, BP and ConocoPhillips have agreed to work on the Alaska Pipeline Project(APP) with TransCanada Corp.The Alaska Supreme Court indicated a day earlier that a settlement might be in the works by dismissing its review of disputed leases on the Point Thompson gas fields.Point Thompson is North America’s largest known oil and gas field.
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Apr 04
ABA Techshow keynote speaker Ben Stein applauded technological advances that enable U.S. (and Canadian) lawyers to increase access to justice for their fellow citizens in a Friday session titled The Life of Law is Not Logic But Experience.
Referring to the Constitution and the legal system it fosters as the heritage of Americans and a national treasure, Stein urged members of the legal profession to strive to put the needs of others before their own in a wide-ranging, anecdote-filled speech that covered issues ranging from letting Lehman Brothers fail to the importance of skilled and unskilled immigrant workers to economic recovery and a nation facing what he predicts will be an inevitable debt default.
Stein also acknowledged the many Canadian attendees throughout the program, although his words were geared toward U.S.
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Mar 30
Another twist in the Trayvon Martin case: The chief homicide investigator probing the teenagers shooting wanted to charge George Zimmerman with manslaughter, but was overruled, sources tell ABC. Investigator Chris Serino filed an affidavit on the night of the shooting saying he was not convinced by Zimmermans claims of self-defense, but the state attorneys office decided there was not enough evidence to make an arrest, the sources say.
As tensions around the case continue to rise, an elderly Florida couple named Zimmerman who have no connection to the case have moved out their home after receiving hate mail and unwanted visits from journalists, the Orlando Sentinel reports.
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