Legal and safety news of interest from around the internet:
- When sharing is bad: Judge orders shut down of LimeWire [Ashby Jones at WSJ]
- Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline to pay $750 million because of manufacturing defects at its drug plant [Ashby Jones at WSJ]
- Interesting take on texting while driving and a call for more transparency [Miriam Cherry at Concurring Opinions]
- Missouri Supreme Court says injured plaintiffs are entitled to recover the full amount of medical expenses charged by their health care provider [Donna Walter at MO Lawyers Blog]
- Free speech fight over "Girls Gone Wild" [Howard Bashman at How Appealing]
- Another reason politics should stay out of the courtroom [Ashby Jones at WSJ]
- Hammer Time: Tom DeLay election fraud trial starts in Texas [Elie Mystal at Above The Law]
- "People bring lawsuits for a lot reasons, and very often money is not the motive." Inspiring and tragic tale of the Coble Family. [The Pop Tort]
- Yet another reason politics should stay out of the courtroom [direct link to NPR via Howard Bashman at How Appealing]
- Rep. Peter DeFazio wants impeachment investigation of Chief Justice John Roberts [Amanda Terkel at HuffingtonPost]
- Taking home almost $1 million per hour (assuming 24 hour work day), Ford posts record $1.7 billion profit for 3Q [Fred Meier and Chris Woodyard at USA Today]
- State Attorneys General investigating GlaxoSmithKline over Avandia dangers [Katherine Hobson at WSJ]
- Abbott Labs’ Meridia pulled from market [Lindsay Bigda at WhistleBlower.org]
- Bayer faces at least 4,200 lawsuits for birth control Yaz side effects [Jim Edwards at bnet.com] [More on Yaz side effects at Injury Board]
- BMW says it would not have recalled 150,000 cars for fuel pump defect without ABC News investigation [Chris Cuomo, Chris Vlasto, James Hill and Lauren Pearle at ABC News]
- How the U.S. Chamber of Commerce hypocritically uses lawsuits to keep you from having your day in court [AAJ]
- Oklahoma City railroad crossing wreaking havoc on cars [Vallery Brown at NewsOK.com]
(c) Copyright 2010 Brett A. Emison
Brett Emison is currently a partner at Langdon & Emison, a firm dedicated to helping injured victims across the country from their primary office near Kansas City. Mainly focusing on catastrophic injury and death cases as well as complex mass tort and dangerous drug cases, Mr. Emison often deals with automotive defects, automobile crashes, railroad crossing accidents (train accidents), trucking accidents, dangerous and defective drugs, defective medical devices.
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