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Authorities Subpoena Chipotle About Norovirus Outbreak

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California and the FDA are requiring Chipotle to produce documents connected to a restaurant in California that was linked to a norovirus outbreak this past summer. So reports NBC News.

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Female Attorneys Attest to Sexual Harassment at Work

Female lawyers have emailed journalists claiming they have gotten unsolicited backrubs from male partners and experienced other radically inappropriate conduct by male colleagues. So reports Above the Law.

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Woman Who Murdered Daughter Demands Longer Prison Sentence

A woman who shot her 17-year-old daughter to death agreed to plead guilty only if she could be sentenced to no less than life in prison. So reports the Orlando Sentinel.

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NY’s First Female Chief Judge Dies

Judith Kaye, the first woman to serve on New York’s seven-member Court of Appeals and the first woman to serve as New York State’s chief judge, died at 77 years old. So reports the New York Law Journal.

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DWI Charges Dropped Against Woman Who Suffers From Rare Disorder

In what a defense attorney called “one of the strangest cases [he’s] ever been involved with,” a judge dismissed driving while intoxicated charges against a woman who has a disorder that turns ordinary food into alcohol in her body. So reports The Buffalo News.

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Man May Argue Cough Syrup Made Him Kill His Partner, Son

Attorneys for the Seattle physician Louis Chen might argue that Chen killed his 29-year-old partner and their two-year-old son as a result of a psychosis caused by couch syrup. So reports The Seattle Times.

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GA Law Firm Pays $3.1M to Settle Charges of Filing Unwarranted Suits Against Consumers

Marietta, Ga.-based law firm Frederick J. Hanna & Associates PC paid $3.1 million to settle charges that the firm filed more than 350,000 credit card collection complaints against consumers who owed nothing or owed less than was claimed. So reports The Wall Street Journal.

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Legal Fight: Surrogate Refuses to Abort One of Three Fetuses

A California surrogate has gone public with her refusal to abort one of the three fetuses she is carrying despite the fetuses’ biological parents’ insistence that she do so. So reports The New York Post.

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Aussie Man Loses Job After 'Slut' Comment on Facebook

An Australian man was fired from his job as a supervisor at a hotel chain Down Under for calling the feminist writer Clementine Ford a “slut”’ on her Facebook page. So reports Mashable.

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Cosby Case: Where Public Opinion and Criminal Law Meet

Comedian Bill Cosby will stand trial in Pennsylvania for alleged sexual misconduct, but as the prosecution and defense prepare to make their arguments, the world is judging, for better or worse, Cosby’s treatment of women.

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