By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JAN. 15, 2015, 1:31 P.M. E.S.T SPOKANE, Wash. — A federal judge has ruled that a large industrial dairy in eastern Washington has polluted drinking water through its application, storage and management of manure, in a case that could set precedents across the nation. U.S. District Judge Thomas O. Rice of
The Alliance for Justice has produced a brief video addressing the inequity of arbitration. It’s narrated by Robert Reich and well done. Below are links to the video. Alliance for Justice’s 2014 First Monday Film Lost in the Fine Print tells the story of three everyday people who tried to seek justice when they were harmed
Bloomberg reported that the bankruptcy judge in the Fundamental Long Term Care Holdings, Inc. bankruptcy stated that Fundamental Long Term Care Holdings LLC’s owners engaged in a “carefully orchestrated sham transaction” by selling a Trans Healthcare Inc. unit in 2006 to Barry Sacks. Murray Forman and Leonard Grunstein (who pled guilty to perjury recently) were
McKnight’s reported that Skilled Healthcare Group and a Nevada hospice that it operates have been charged with submitting “tens of millions of dollars” in false Medicare and Medicaid claims, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Management at Creekside Hospice in Las Vegas used the term “chart killers” to describe documentation showing patients were improving and
By: Jeff Green and Margaret Cronin Fisk, November 18, 2014 Confidential settlements over defective Takata Corp. air bags are sealing off relevant information that other victims could use to pursue injury claims. The accords make financial sense for the settling parties, but Takata and other defendants, including Honda Motor Co., General Motors Co. and Fiat
By Paul Samakow WASHINGTON, November 2, 2014 – Our nation’s court system is a wonderful vantage point for seeing hypocrisy in action at the highest levels. The Seventh Amendment to our Constitution is one of our most valuable protections. It assures us the right of trial by jury in civil cases, to have an impartial
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