An antiquated system exposes Americans to unnecessary risks. By JEFF ALMER and LOUIS TOUSIGNANT Shirley Almer was a cancer survivor and a fighter who had twice defied her doctor's prediction by beating both lung and brain cancer. Clifford Tousignant was a fighter, too. A decorated veteran of the ...

Wall St. Journal: Birth Weights Fell From 1990 to 2005, by Shirley S. Wang:Researchers Can't Explain the Two-Ounce Decline in U.S., Worry the Trend Could Lead to Increase in Health Problems Mothers are giving birth to lighter babies in the...

$7 Million Net Will Go Back Into the City’s Spending Fund. City of Long Beach recently won a lawsuit against insurer AIG for reimbursement of portions of a $20 million settlement paid to Shirley McClure in a case alleging a councilmen-planning director conspiracy to keep her from operating ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a court ruling that invalidated a former Black Panther's death sentence for killing a Philadelphia police officer in 1981, one of two rulings it issued that reversed actions by lower courts. The first move was the latest twist in Mumia Abu-Jamal's racially ti ...

Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run December 20, 2009. New York Chapter Laws reported as signed from December 10 through December 20, 2009. To retrieve the text of any of the New York Chapter laws listed below, go to http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi&# ...

On Wednesday of this past week, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit heard oral argument in the case of Wersal v. Sexton.As readers of these pages will recall, in February of this year, Judge Ann H. Montgomery of the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, turned aw ...

In Denton, a 78 year old woman named Shirley George understands the importance of proper vaccinations for dogs. T.V. channel WFAA reports that George was bit by a dog at a dog park when she was attempting to protect her daughter’s small terrier mix from a larger and aggressive dog. After Georg ...

From Bluegrass Politics Blog is a post on Angela Ford and Fen Phen Crusade earning her a top ten lawyer award for 2009!  Pretty heady stuff.  Interestingly enough, Angela did not make the " " or " " lists for Kentucky.  Keep in mind has been fighting this good fight for 5+ ye ...

Defendant was asked about consent to search a car, and he said that it wasn’t his, it was his sister’s and she wasn’t around. He lacked standing to contest the search. United States v. Winters, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114353 (W.D. La. September 22, 2009).* Defendant’s property was subjected to a c ...

"Phelps-Roper loses appeal": The Topeka Capital-Journal has a news update that begins, "The Nebraska Supreme Court has dismissed Shirley Phelps-Roper's latest appeal in a case involving a Nebraska flag-desecration law, but her attorney said the legal battle isn't over."