SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 — Nursing homes in California find themselves between a rock and several hard places, some of them potentially crushing. The rock is the economic recession, a larger, harder-to-get-past obstacle than previous financial downtur…
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September 1, 2011 — The New York Times reports that that nearly one in seven elderly nursing home residents, almost all of them with dementia, are given powerful atypical antipsychotic drugs even though the medicines increase the risk of death…
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August 29, 2011 — New York — The number of older Americans living in nursing homes continues to fall, and the proportion of residents who are black, Hispanic or Asian has climbed sharply. But don’t expect cheers from the Brown Universit…
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AUGUST 22, 2011: Because of the unethical actions of a few people out to make money, whiplash injuries may be the most misunderstood back and neck injury. When many people hear about a whiplash complaint, they assume the neck injury is a fake. But th…
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AUGUST 17, 2011 — (AP) CHICAGO – The nation’s two largest hot dog makers are taking their legal beefs Monday to federal court in Chicago, where a judge will determine whether Oscar Mayer or Ball Park franks broke false-advertising l…
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AUGUST 15, 2011 — A federal appeals court panel on Friday struck down the requirement in President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul package that virtually all Americans must carry health insurance or face penalties. The divided three-j…
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AUGUST 11, 2011 — It’s conventional wisdom among trial lawyers that you might very well be on your way to winning a case if your closing argument brings a juror to tears. So imagine what attorney Robert Mongeluzzi must have been thinking…
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April 13, 2011 — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A federal appeals court ruled Monday that former Harvard University schoolmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can’t undo their settlement over creation of the social networking site. The 9…
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January 14, 2011 — The American Bar Association, the biggest voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students in the world, is now reviewing the possibility of making the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) an optional requirement rather than…
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DECEMBER 6, 2010 (Washington, DC) The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear arguments in two closely watched challenges, one involving the largest job bias class in history, and the other, global warming. The justices directed the parties in Wa…
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