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On Oct. 3, 2012, six-year-old I.E.S. was on her way to Bonnie Oehl Elementary School in Highland. She tried to cross 9th Street mid-block to get to her bus stop on the other side and was struck by a Subaru Impreza. She suffered multiple injuries, including...

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For more information about this case, see Raul Adrian Castro Manzano and Catheryne Cristina Lucero v. Carey Royal Ramn Mortuary d/b/a Carey, Royal, Ramn Funeral Home, Inc., d/b/a Carey Royal Ram'n Mortuary, Inc. The extended version of the summary...

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Following the Aug. 9, 2014 police shooting of Michael Brown, the City of Ferguson, Missouri erupted into a series of protests and riots stemming from the years of alleged police discrimination against African American residents. The civil unrest dominated...

Pfizer, Inc. manufactured and sold Zoloft, a drug consisting of Sertraline Hydrochloride, which was used to treat depression and anxiety. A few of the women who took Zoloft during pregnancy gave birth to children who suffered from heart defects and some...

Plaintiff Ana Alvarez, as guardian of Aldo Alvarez, claimed that on May 8, 2013, defendant Joshua McGehee, a Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Deputy, shot and unlawfully arrested Aldo, a 37-year-old male who was mentally handicapped, suffered from schizophrenia...

Roslyn Dauber, John Di Costanzo, and Gregory Carlos said that they suffered from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, lymphohematopietic, and other cancers because of their exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). They said that from 1968 through the 1990's...

May 5, 2016 - Plaintiff D.L., mother of minor A.L., claimed that A.L.’s moderate to severe autism rendered him incapable of deviation from routine. One such example was his visiting amusement parks, which required travel in only one direction and...

On Oct. 17, 2012, Cris A. Nelson went to Emory Specialty Associates, L.L.C., a subsidiary of Emory Healthcare, Inc., in Covington, GA. He went for a routine physical exam. Charissa Hurst, a medical assistant, drew blood from Nelson while he was sitting...

May 19, 2016 - In 1965, 10 years after the United States Supreme Court's second decision in Brown v. Board of Education, residents of Bolivar County, Mississippi, filed an action seeking the desegregation of their school system. After decades of litigation...

On May 7, 2013, at approximately 11:00 p.m., David Silva was found lying unconscious on the front lawn of a home across from Kern Medical Center in Bakersfield, California, after Kern County deputies responded to reports of a possibly intoxicated man...

June 2, 2016 - On June 23, 2011, Doris Green was admitted to defendant HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden, LLC, for comprehensive rehabilitation for two weeks towards the goal of her returning home to live with her daughter, Regina Honts,...

J.V., a ten-year old girl, was shopping at a Macy's Inc. department store in Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, NJ on Aug. 16, 2013 with her mother Nora Valdez and her little brother B.V. The family got on an escalator in the store that had reportedly...

June 16, 2016 - In a recent Florida federal civil rights action, Ric Bradshaw, as Sherriff of Palm Beach County, filed a motion to dismiss a 42 U.S.C.S Section 1983 claim for supervisory liability against him. Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks denied the motion...

June 23, 2016 - Nicole Hinson and Cameron Hinson bought a Safety 1st Summit forward-facing car seat that was manufactured by Dorel Juvenile Group, Inc. The Hinsons said that on May 15, 2013, they were traveling with 22-month-old C.H. buckled into the...

Charles Barlow was a taxi cab driver for Yellow Cab Co. of Louisville, LLC. Yellow Cab was managed and owned by Procarent, Inc. and Interlock Industries, Inc. On Oct. 28, 2012, Barlow visited several taverns and stores where he consumed multiple alcoholic...

Volkswagen Group of America, Inc., Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, Audi of America, LLC, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (collectively Volkswagen) sold TDI vehicles which purportedly operated clean diesel motors. However, Volkswagen...

On Jan. 31, 2011, City of Columbus paramedics were called to provide emergency assistance to Sonia A. Bray, who was in cardiac distress. Ms. Bray had been undergoing an MRI when she vomited and began to cough, turning blue in the face and suffering chest...

On Oct. 10, 2013, Olivia Johnson, a senior student at Chapel Hill High School in Douglas County, Georgia, suffered a horrific burn injury while demonstrating a science experiment at her school's after-hours "AP Open House." Johnson was performing...

On June 15, 2014, Patricia Mincey was driving her 2001 Honda Civic when she was involved in a minor collision. Her vehicle airbag, manufactured by defendants Takata Corporation and TK Holdings, Inc., allegedly failed to perform properly, deploying late...

On Aug. 19, 2013, Ok *** Smith was seen by William H. Van Laar, D.O. at McDonough Primary Care, Inc. for right great toenail and right thumbnail problems and diagnosed with onychomycosis, nail fungus, and issued a prescription for Ketoconazole (Nizoral...

Hundreds of plaintiffs filed product liability actions against defendants Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Bayer Pharma AG, and Bayer OY, claiming that they sustained injuries when Mirena, an intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured by defendants...

Plaintiff Patricia Hahn was a licensed vocational nurse working for defendants Scott Davidson, M.D.; Scott Davidson, M.D., P.A.; and North DFW Urology Associates. Plaintiff claimed that she was repeatedly bullied by Dr. Davidson during incidents involving...