On Thursday, the Department of Justice announced that Halliburton had agreed to plead guilty to criminally destroying evidence in the investigation of the BP Gulf oil spill in 2010. The company “signed a cooperation and guilty plea agreement,” will pay the maximum fine of $200,000, and undergo three years of probation. It also had already made a
Rebecca Mead wrote a great article in the New Yorker called “The Sense of an Ending” about the best ways of responding to people suffering with dementia. Mead’s article details nursing home care that should be the standard for every and any facility or any person that works with elderly people, whether they be in Nursing
By Felicia Kitzmiller Published: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 at 5:44 p.m. A sense of distrust is leading many residents of the community surrounding the Palmetto Landfill to reject a proposed exchange of a transfer station for closure of the landfill. Despite the sweltering sun, and faint scent of garbage hanging in the air, community members
By Anna Douglas A Rock Hill family is suing the city of Rock Hill, claiming that faulty utility lines caused sewage to back up in their basement for 20 days, unleashing harmful bacteria and costing thousands of dollars to fix. After nearly two years of asking the city and its insurance company for reimbursement and
Attorneys Gary Poliakoff and Ray Mullman were able to prove that the release of a cryogenic cloud resulted in a pile-up of tractor-trailers on I-85, causing serious injuries and a fatality. Proof of creation of the cloud from a nearby industry was developed by use of expert witnesses, even though the Plaintiff had no eyewitnesses
By Tara Jennings The family of a county solid waste department employee who was killed while collecting garbage along Union Highway has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. Lula Dukes and Robert Lee Littlejohn, personal representatives of the estate of the late Ronnie Dukes, filed the complaint at the Cherokee County Courthouse against R. Vassey Logging
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