7/30/2009 1:59:49 PM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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5/29/2009 1:08:38 PM EST
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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/30/2009 3:03:32 PM EST LexisNexis is holding two fast-paced 30-minute live sessions on Expert Witness Research for Law Firm Professionals. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/30/2009 11:36:47 AM EST 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. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/17/2009 11:55:31 AM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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4/17/2009 11:03:02 AM EST 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. Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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1/4/2009 3:42:46 PM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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12/26/2008 4:17:21 PM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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12/25/2008 11:53:07 PM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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12/17/2008 1:12:50 AM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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12/16/2008 6:24:26 PM EST 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 ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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11/26/2008 6:32:17 PM EST Several thousand human genes are linked to more than 4,000 inheritable diseases. Because traditional theory assumes that dysfunctional genes will be deleted ... Create an account or login to post comments. | Comments (0)
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