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In 1990, Carol Lewellen was diagnosed with *** cancer. In 2003, scans showed that the cancer had metastasized to her bones. Lewellen was prescribed Zometa, a medication manufactured by Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation and designed to prevent complications...

Cassie Terry, Tammy Jones, Nathan Ryan Means, Melissa Means, Kendra Stroud, Patricia Pruitt, Michelle Maddox, Barbara Anderson, Mary Crosby, Lenora L. Brooks, I.J. Mckinney, Wayne Gardovsky, Martha Ackley, Virginia Burkett, Lisa Anderson, Pamela Morris...

On Nov. 29, 2010, 23-month-old J.D. climbed out of his crib and opened a door that had a "Safety 1st Clear Grip Door Knob Cover" on it. He walked outside and fell into a pond, where he died. His parents, James Coterel and Crystal Naylor, found...

From the late 1950s to the late 1980s, Donald Walter Schultz worked as a paint booth or room sprayer and as a maintenance painter at plants located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Cleveland, Ohio, and Los Angeles, California. Shultz worked for American Motors...

In February 2012, Turner Chanse Cox was hired to work as a machine operator by Gregory Packaging, Inc., doing business as Suncup Juice. Cox suffered from HIV, a physical impairment that substantially limited him in the major bodily functions of the immune...

Beginning approximately Nov. 15, 2013, and continuing until it was discovered on approximately Dec. 17, 2013, Target Corporation suffered a data breach of customer information. Hackers accessed the credit and debit card account information of about 40...

On Aug. 31, 2005, Marc Jacobs was a passenger in a taxicab that was owned or operated by Yellow Cab Affiliation, Inc. and was being driven by Cornelus C. Ezeagu. Jacobs, a real estate attorney based in the Chicago area, was returning home from an evening...

Juan A. Rivera, Jr. was wrongfully convicted of the rape and murder of an 11-year-old girl that occurred in 1992 in Waukegan, Illinois. Rivera was 19 years old at the time of the crime. New DNA testing showed that a different man had raped and killed...

On Feb. 11, 2012, Kristopher Rongen, a law enforcement officer with the Washington Department of Corrections, went to a home located on 42nd Avenue South in Auburn, Washington to arrest an individual for failing to report to a community custody meeting...

Beginning in August of 2003, Emily Herx worked for the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend Inc. as a teacher at St. Vincent De Paul School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She taught Literature and/or Language Arts. Herx suffered from a medical condition that caused...

Carlos Chacon alleged that on April 29, 2011, he called the police to report suspicious behavior of several individuals. Chacon claimed that when Eric Copeland and Russell Rose, police officers for the City of Austin, Texas, arrived, they treated Chacon...

On July 19, 2011, Michael Bruno was driving a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado when the right front Michelin brand tire suffered a tread/belt separation. He lost control of the vehicle, and it collided with the rear of a disabled tractor trailer that was parked...

On July 14, 2011, plaintiff Colin T. Lacy was operating a 2004 Freightliner Model 16M truck on Interstate 10 in Walton County, FL. On that day, he had picked the truck up from having repairs performed on the anti-lock braking system at defendant Empire...

On Dec. 26, 2007, Brandon Apela Afoa was injured in a collision that occurred while he was operating a powered industrial vehicle on the airplane ramp at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, which is owned and operated by the Port of Seattle. At the...

In August 2008, then-sixteen year old Anna Rahm became experiencing back pain. Rahm's pain steadily grew worse and she began experiencing radiating pain down her left leg in January 2009. In February 2009, Rahm went to a chiropractor, but treatments...

On Sept. 9, 2010, Yvonne Hiller engaged in a verbal altercation with two other employees, Tanya Wilson and LaTonya Brown, at her workplace, a Kraft-Nabisco bakery in northeast Philadelphia, PA. Hiller was suspended. She was escorted out of the building...

On Aug. 24, 2010, Luis Acuna filed an action against Riddell, Inc. and a number of other defendants in the California Superior Court for Los Angeles County. Acuna filed the action as guardian ad litem for Edward Acuna, a young man who had been declared...

On June 14, 2013, plaintiff Glen Abdu-Nur and his wife, plaintiff Donna Abdu-Nur, filed a civil action against more than 70 defendants. The action, which was based on Mr. Abdu-Nur's contraction of mesothelioma, was filed in the Superior Court of Los...

On March 6, 2012, R.S., a minor, filed a civil rights action by and through her mother, S.S., against the Minnewaska Area School District No. 2149 and a number of other defendants in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The additional...

On Sept. 13, 2009, Thomas Walker was driving a truck at a racing event in the annual Redneck Games, organized by Bithlo Motorsports, in Orange County, FL, when he crashed his truck into a bulldozer. By the time Walker's race came up, the track was...

On July 14, 2006, the United States of America filed an action against the Wyoming And Colorado Railroad Company, Inc. (Wyoming R.R.) and a number of other defendants, including the Marvin M. Brandt Revocable Trust and Marvin M. Brandt, Trustee, in the...

On July 27, 2010, Randy R. Roginski, a 41-year-old man, was struck by a car and killed while he was working in a construction zone on I-271 in Summit County, Ohio. At the time of the accident, Roginski was working for Solar Testing Laboratories, Inc....

Defendant Novartis Pharmaceuticals manufactures Aredia? and Zometa?, two drugs that are bisphosphonates and are used when cancers have metastasized to bone. Zometa? is the successor drug to Aredia?. Both medications are FDA-approved. In 1997, plaintiff...

On Jan. 8, 2009, Tiana Notice sought and obtained a judicial restraining order against James Carter, Jr., her former boyfriend, that prohibited him from contracting or communicating with her any way. Police officers allegedly allowed Carter to violate...

Tatiana Mironova began working as a bartender at Da Marino Ristorante Italiano in September 2009. Da Marino was owned and operated by Pasquale Marino and Peter Rossignuolo. Mironova claimed she was subjected to constant sexual harassment and inappropriate...