It is hard to know where to begin with this case. A woman goes to a dentist for a breast reduction and is shocked that he botched the job. The unnamed woman is suing dental surgeon Thomas Laney of Seattle for a surgery done on her when she was 15 years old. Laney has faced a series of 10 malpractice lawsuits, including one alleging a wrongful death.
Category: Criminal law
Charges are being discussed against Juergen Gansel, a deputy in the Saxony state legislature for the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany. Gansel made racist remarks regarding the election of Obama and the American Jewish Committee’s Berlin Chapter wants action. The move, however, would add a violation of free speech to Gansel’s breach of decency.
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In a major blow to the prosecution, U.S. District Judge George H. Wu has indicated that he will suppressed the fact that 13-year-old Megan Meier killed herself after her adult neighbor Lori Drew attacked her on MySpace while pretending to be a young boy.
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Voters often complain that politicians do little but piddle on them. Well, New Jersey Councilman Steven Lipski is accused of taking this metaphor to a more literal extent by urinating on people at a concert. There was a time when simply a warm handshake would do.
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A Florida Appellate court has struck down an unconstitutional state law in Florida that made it unlawful to wear military uniforms if you are not in the military. The court ruled that the law violated the first amendment.
It seems that Alaskans are not only returning convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens to the Senate, but they are adopting his novel criminal defense. If you recall, Stevens insisted that gifts from lobbyists and industry were not “gifts” if he did not consider them gifts in his mind. Thus, a massage chair in his basement for years was simply left there and not really accepted by him. Now, Alaskan Charles J. Schultz in Fairbanks appears to have learned from the master. When stopped by police, Schultz insisted that he did not steal the car despite that fact that it was not his.
While Barack Obama insisted that he would not take your guns away, he may want to make an exception for James G. Dewalt, 34. In Burlington, Vermont, Dewalt was so excited that Obama had won that he fired his Russian-made .22 caliber rifle 18 times in this home — sending bullets into neighboring homes.
Alaska’s Senate race has Stevens leading with 48 percent of the vote compared with 47 percent for Democrat Mark Begich, with 96 percent of precincts reporting. There more than 40,000 absentee ballots to be counted within 10 days of the election — many of which probably preceded his corruption conviction.
Continue reading “Alaska is Pro-Family and Pro-Felon: Alaskans Decide that Earmarks Are More Important Than Ethics”
In an example of judges overcoming personal and public outrage to rule dispassionately on the law, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Missouri officials should be barred from enforcing a law that bars protests at or near funerals. The law is highly suspect on constitutional grounds and the court found that there was sufficient likelihood that Westboro would prevail in the action.
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In 2000 and 2004, GOP activists misled voters with fake fliers that told democrats that they would vote on Wednesday rather than Tuesday. The fliers have appeared throughout Virginia and the culprit has been identified. However, the state officials have decided not to charge the person responsible.
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Texas businessman Jeff Hawn has pleaded guilty in one of the largest illegal slaughters of bison in decades. Hawn, who is the CEO of Seattle-based software company Attachmate, admitted that he allowed hunters on his land to shoot 32 bison belonging to his neighbor. He will be sentenced appropriately enough in Fairplay, Colorado.
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In Eloit, Wisconsin, two perfectly suited men found each other. Two drunk drivers spared other drivers and ran head on into each other. A 17-year-old driver struck Joshua Krueger, 35, who was also driving drunk at the time. This is only one of a number of bizarre recent drunk driving cases.
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Juror No. 4 has been located. If you recall, the trial of Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was thrown into disarray by the death of the father of Juror No. 4. In the latter matter, efforts to locate Juror No. 4 were strangely unsuccessful. Now, Marian Hinnant has come forward and admitted that she lied about her dad dying and went to California for a horse race. Her dad is very much alive.
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In Los Angeles, there is a case that raises both criminal and tort allegations of a doctor accused of hastening the death of a young man to harvest his organs. Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, a San Francisco transplant surgeon, is accused of the crime 2 1/2 years ago in the death of Ruben Navarro, 25.
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The stoning death of Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow for adultery in Somalia was disturbing enough, particularly after the local cleric said that Duhulow asked for the stoning. Now, Amnesty International has reported that Duholow was not 23, as claimed, but only 13 years old and had been raped by three men. BBC reports that these grown men slowly stoned her to death as the little girl begged “Don’t Kill Me, Don’t Kill Me.” A signature moment for these Sharia courts.
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