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What Kind of Damages Can you Receive from a Personal Injury Claim?
What Kind of Damages Can you Receive from a Personal Injury Claim? Whenever you are filing a lawsuit for a personal injury claim, there is a good chance that you could be awarded damages for your pain and suffering. You will also need compensation for the medical bills, loss of work, and any other injuries…
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Judges and Prosecutors Fight for Minor Traffic Violations to Remain on Criminal Law Books
Judges and Prosecutors Fight for Minor Traffic Violations to Remain on Criminal Law Books Judges and prosecutors are urging legislators to keep misdemeanor traffic offenses in the criminal law books after recent recommendations that such offenses be turned into civil violation as a way to trim court costs. Reducing traffic offenses from misdemeanors to civil…
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Paula Deen Lawsuit Over Racial Discrimination is Thrown Out
Paula Deen Lawsuit Over Racial Discrimination is Thrown Out There has been a lot of discussion going around about the lawsuit against Paula Deen and her brother, but the claim for racial discrimination was tossed out. A federal judge in Georgia ruled on Monday, August 12, that Lisa Jackson, the plaintiff, had no standing to sue for…
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Proposed Legislation Would Allow a Police Officer to Search Your Cell Phone History
Proposed Legislation Would Allow a Police Officer to Search Your Cell Phone History Each day in the United States, more than 9 people are killed and more than 1,060 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver. With this in mind, would it bother you if along with your license and registration, a police officer asked you…
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Should you be able to drink at all after you drive?
The government wants to lower blood alcohol content in order to decrease alcohol impaired driving fatalities. Many people have either witnessed or experienced the devastating effects of drunk driving. The National Transportation Safety Board, NTSB, is now recommending that blood alcohol content, or BAC, be lowered from .08 percent to .05 percent. Their research has…
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Should jury duty be limited to citizens?
Should jury duty be limited to citizens? The question of why jury service is limited to citizens has raised a great deal of criticism in the past month. A few weeks ago, California Assembly passed legislation that would allow non-citizens to be eligible for jury service. If the State Senate ends up passing the bill, they would…
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Supreme Court Rules That Police Can Take DNA Samples From Arrestees
Supreme Court Rules That Police Can Take DNA Samples From Arrestees A division in the U.S. Supreme Court, it was ruled on Monday that law enforcement could now take DNA samples from someone who is arrested without being convicted of a crime. The ruling reversed a decision made last year in a Maryland court that overturned the…
Read MoreAttorney was accidentally locked in jail for four hours
Attorney was accidentally locked in jail for four hours A California lawyer in the San Diego area was furious after being trapped and forgotten inside a jail for hours. The attorney, Erubey Lopez, said that it began when he went to visit a client in jail. He went into the locked visiting room and patiently waited…
Read MoreCleveland judge convicted of bribery
Cleveland judge convicted of bribery A former Cleveland judge was sentenced to more than five years in prison by the federal appeals court. The judge had fixed foreclosure cases with improper rulings requested by a local politician who had helped him get the judgeship. Judge Jeffrey Sutton stated the seriousness of the matter when addressing…
Read MoreMother denies neglect of her baby that had cocaine in his system
Mother denies neglect of her baby that had cocaine in his system The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that a woman did not neglect or abuse her baby even though the boy was born with cocaine in his system. The woman who was only identified only as “A.L.” gave birth to the baby boy in…
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