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7/30/2009 1:59:49 PM EST
James Cordrey
Posted by James Cordrey
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
The percentage of children who were tested and had elevated blood lead levels in the State of Maryland decreased by one-tenth of a percentage point in 2008, the Maryland Department of the Environment said on Ju ...
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5/29/2009 1:08:38 PM EST
LexisNexis Tort Center Staff
There’s an electronic window into everyone’s lives, and through this window, millions of eyes will pry and millions of people may learn the best and worst about you. It&rsq ...
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4/30/2009 3:03:32 PM EST
LexisNexis Tort Center Staff
LexisNexis is holding two fast-paced 30-minute live sessions on Expert Witness Research for Law Firm Professionals.
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4/30/2009 11:36:47 AM EST
James Cordrey
Posted by James Cordrey
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
Five amici have filed briefs with the California Supreme Court in the public nuisance lead lawsuit filed by municipalities against the former makers of lead paint, with another eight parties seeking approval file briefs of their own.
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4/17/2009 11:55:31 AM EST
James Cordrey
Posted by James Cordrey
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
A measure which would have permitted the City of Batimore to pursue litigation against the former makers of lead-based paint on a market-share theory of liability died April 13 when the Maryland legislative session ended without action being taken on t ...
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4/17/2009 11:03:02 AM EST
James Cordrey
Posted by James Cordrey
LexisNexis Law Center Staff
A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has denied the City of Milwaukee's petition for review of the defense verdict handed down in Milwaukee Circuit Court last year.
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1/4/2009 3:42:46 PM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
It is well known that many so-called herbal or nutritional supplements have little or no scientific or medical evidence to support the many claims made for their alleged curative properties; some are in fact harmful or interfere with prescription drugs ...
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12/26/2008 4:17:21 PM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
As noted in a prior post, the Alien Tort Statute has been used in the past as a vehicle to raise environmental and toxic tort causes of action involving U.S. defendants and plaintiffs from third countries. The recent post describing a 9th Circuit case ...
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12/25/2008 11:53:07 PM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
A client's lawyer (lawyer #1) had entered into a contract with lawyer #2 to contribute services and share in a contingent fee. After the case settled, lawyer ...
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12/17/2008 1:12:50 AM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
Today is paradigm shift Tuesday [see prior post on TB]. A basic tenet of microbial ecology is that any microbial community will contain a variety of species, each specialized to grow on different nutrients. Some microbes will use nutrients found in the ...
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12/16/2008 6:24:26 PM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
Many diseases that have impacted humans for much of the last 7+ thousand years are thought to have originated with the domestication of animals; one of the p ...
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11/26/2008 6:32:17 PM EST
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Posted by Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
Several thousand human genes are linked to more than 4,000 inheritable diseases. Because traditional theory assumes that dysfunctional genes will be deleted ...
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